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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Seminar on Current Security Issues

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 050-0007/01
Abbreviation SABO
Course title Seminar on Current Security Issues
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Civil Protection
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Karol Balog, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The seminar is divided into the following areas:
1st Intelligence Service of the Czech Republic, their organization, managed and constructed in
security system in the Czech Republic. In addition, students learn about the issue:
Intelligence services and state ordinance. Control of Intelligence Services.
The methods of collecting intelligence information. International cooperation news
services. Intelligence operative work. Why are the Secret Intelligence Service.
2nd The issue of international terrorist activities in the European space and
European activities of terrorist groups (IRA, ETA and others), but also
activities in the Middle East aimed against Israel and the USA.
Will be analyzed group of countries in Latin America. Discussed will also action
directed against Israel and Turkey from Syria and support for Islamic Holy War,
Taliban and international activities. Students at the seminar will deal with
status of Cuba and the DPRK in the anti-terrorist
fight will be decommissioned and the issue of protection of pipelines passing through
disposing territories.
3rd Basic information on nuclear safety in connection with the operation of nuclear
plants. Detail touches the construction of reactors used in the country. It will
check out the fission chain reaction, provision of protective barriers,
deterministic and probabilistic approach to the evaluation of nuclear safety.
4th The basic rules for provision of humanitarian assistance in the country. Contents humanitarian
assistance (material, financial, spiritual, counseling). Tasks and activities of public
administration, humanitarian, religious and charitable organization, CO facility.
Receipt of humanitarian aid. Humanitarian assistance to foreign countries (CZ,
EU, NATO, UN). Humanitarian assistance as part of emergency measures survival
civil emergencies.
5th Basic overview of political science theory. The purpose of this field is completed and
systematize the general knowledge about politics and organization of society.

Literature

Clarke, Richard A. Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It. Ecco, 2012, 320 p. ISBN 978-0061962240 

Advised literature

Jarmon, Jack A. The New Era in U.S. National Security: An Introduction to Emerging Threats and Challenges. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014, 312 p. ISBN 978-1442224117