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Security Sspects of the World Economy

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 114-0341/01
Abbreviation BASE
Course title Security Sspects of the World Economy
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Economics
Course coordinator Ing. Radomír Kaňa, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Security, security policy, security policy actors - definition of key terminology.
2. War conflicts as an integral part of the development of the world economy, security issues until the end of the 19th century.
3. Security issues from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the 1940s.
4.From US military superiority to strategic parity. NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
5. Security issues during the 1960s and 1970s, arms control negotiations.
6. Development of security situation in the 80s, end of the Cold War, development in the area of disarmament.
7. Current security situation in the world and global security problems.
8. Defense spending in the world economy, current trends in armament armament.
9.National actors in international security.
10.Regional conflicts, their development, present status. Asymmetric and Hybrid War.
11.NATO and European Union, development of relations, their role in contemporary security architecture.
12.The present situation and challenges in the EU's Common Security and Defense Policy.
13.Czech Republic in international security structures, security policy of the Czech Republic, external and internal security of our country.
14. Army of the Czech Republic - origin, development, structure, defense spending, equipment.

E-learning

Materials posted in Moodle.

Literature

HOUGH, P., MORAN, A., PILBEAM, B. a W. STOKES. International Security Studies: Theory and Practice. New York: Routledge, 2020. 540s. ISBN 978-0-367-10985-1.
MOSER, Carolyn. Accountability in EU Security and Defence: The Law and Practice of Peacebuilding. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 s. ISBN 978-0-19-884481-5 .
SCHMIDT, Julia. The European Union and the Use of Force. Leiden: Brill, 2020. 360 s. ISBN 978-90-04-35606-1 .

Advised literature

BERTELSMANN STIFTUNG. Europe's Coherence Gap in External Crisis and Conflict Management: Political Rhetoric and Institutional Practices in the EU and Its Member States. Bielefeld: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2020. 412 s. ISBN 978-3-86793-911-9 .
HERLIN-KARNELL, Ester. The Constitutional Structure of Europe’s Area of ‘Freedom, Security and Justice’ and the Right to Justification. Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. 200 s. ISBN 978-1-5099-1-2 49-0.
SCHILDE, Kaija. The Political Economy of European Security. Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-107-19843-2 .