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State security threats and international relations

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 060-0024/01
Abbreviation BHSMV
Course title State security threats and international relations
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Security Services
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Ing. Radomír Ščurek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Repertory of current security threats, categorization, legal opinions, the position of the Czech Republic in the international structure and security strategy.
2. State security policy and international political relations of the Czech Republic. Categorization of international political relations. International political integration and attitudes of the Czech Republic to global and regional threats and conflicts, organized crime and migration.
3. Typology of security threats, asymmetric threats and hybrid (information) wars and the impact on the resilience of the Czech Republic; foreign power, propaganda and disinformation.
4. Socially dangerous phenomena, current social aberrations and deviations, normality, morality, delinquency, deprivants, hostility, aggression, crime, bullying, homelessness, vandalism, ageism, prostitution, the spread of pornography and domestic violence.
5. Methods, division, definition, development and typology of terrorism, its strategy and strategy of EU states.
6. The threat of contemporary religious fundamentalist terrorism, the foundations and goals of ideologies.
7. The threat of ethnically national terrorism, irredentism; stratification, methods, history, latent and current problems.
8. Threats of other terrorist and radical ideologies in a globalized world, groups and their goals (single-issue terrorism, Single-issue)
9. Comparison of significers of terrorism, extremism, crime and organized crime. Vigilantism in security, its pros and cons in the conditions of the Czech Republic.
10. Extremism as a threat to the stability of the EU and the Czech Republic, stratification, the influence of political radicalism on society, environmental and sports radicalism.
11. Threats arising from the activities of religious sects and radical religious societies in the Czech Republic, legal anchoring, state supervision, competence, ideology, recruitment,
12. Social threat of behavioral habits and addictions, division and treatment,
13. Social threat of substance (drug) addictions, typology and their minimization,

E-learning

Study materials are stored in the LMS system of VŠB TU Ostrava and are also available for download at the link: study materials department 060.

Literature

SAYLE Timothy Andrews Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order, Cornell University Press, 2019, ISBN 1501735519 , 9781501735516, 360 s
ŘEHKA, K.: Informační válka, Academia Praha, 978-80-200-2770-2, brožovaná, 224 stran, česky, 2017.
KOŘÁN, M., NEČAS, P., Österreicher, J., Pernica, B. Šedivý, J. Štal, P, Vondra, A.: Česká republika ve společné bezpečnostní a obranné politice EU: audit a perspektivy, Centrum transatlantických vztahu, CERVO Praha, 2015.
Hybridní válka jako nový fenomén v bezpečnostním prostředí Evropy. 1. vydání. Praha, Ostrava: Pro Informační centrum o NATO, Jagello 2000, 2015
SMETANA, M., ŠČUREK R.: Základy boje proti terorismu. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7368-823-3 .

Advised literature

CHMELÍK, J.,: Extremismus a jeho právní a sociologické aspekty, Praha: Linde, 2001 - 172 s. ISBN 80-7201-265-7
ŠČUREK, R.: Sociální patologie II. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita Ostrava, Lékařská fakulta, 2011. 141 s., ISBN: 978-80-7368-825-7 
Ústavní zákon č. 1/1993 Sb., Ústava České republiky.
Ústavní zákon č. 110/1998 Sb., o bezpečnosti České republiky.