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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Political Regionaliziation of Visegrad Countries (with grant support of IVF http://visegradfund.org/)

Type of study Follow-up MasterMasterBachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 711-0308/02
Abbreviation PRVC
Course title Political Regionaliziation of Visegrad Countries (with grant support of IVF http://visegradfund.org/)
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Social Sciences
Course coordinator PhDr. Olga Gubová

Subject syllabus

1. Systematic approach to the changes of international relations after cold war.
2. The value of new regionalism in transformation of contemporary international relations.
3. Interregionalism as one of effective projects in international relations (Götteborg's school theory).
4. Visegrad Group cooperation – history, areas, objectives.
5. The roots of the common history of Central European countries - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
6. Hungarian democratic transition.
7. Current political system of Hungary. Relations of political institutions. The political structure. Limitation of democracy. Hungarian national interests.
8. Sources of Hungarian political culture. The stereotypes of Hungarian political culture, prevailing type of ideology. Nationalism as a distinctive feature of the Hungarian public life.
9. Poland development after 1989 - the evolution of Polish society. The role of Solidarity movement: its origins, leaders, influence to central-europan countries. Poland in current Europe and European Union.
10. Current political system of Poland. Relations of political institutions. The political structure. Limitation of democracy. Polish national interests.
11. Sources of Polish political culture. The stereotypes of Polish political culture, prevailing type of ideology. The religiosity of Poles as the distincitve feature of society. John Paul II as the religious and political leader and his role in Polish transformation. Track II diplomacy - focus on the issues connected with Visegrad Countries.
12. National interests of countries of the Visegrad group - common and different.
13. Cooperation and Integration of Visegrad Group countries in foreign and defense policy.

Literature

Krejčí O. Geopolitics in the Central European Region: The View from Prague and Bratislava. Bratislava: Veda, 2005
Judt, T, Snyder, T. Thinking the Twentieth Century. 2013
Söderbaum,F. New Regionalism and the European Union. Routledge 2011.
Gubová, O. Several Remarks on the theory of Regionalism and Interregionalism. ICEI 2014, pp. 182-192

Advised literature

Rothschild, J., Wingfield, N.M. Return to diversity. A political history of East Central Europe since World War II. New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 2008. (4th ed.)
Petrovic, M. The Democratic Transition of Post-Communist Europe. Palgrave-MacMillan, 2013.
Klingemann, H.D., Fuchs, D., Zielonka, J. Democracy and Political Culture in Eastern Europe. London, Routledge, 2006.
Lendvai, P. Hungary. Between democracy and authoritarianism. New York, Columbia Univ. Press, 2012.
Szczepański,M. Śliz A., The Transition from Socialist to Market Economy Privatization: the Point of View of the Polish Society, Polish Sociological Review, Issue 170, 2010
M. Kosman, Political culture-historical culture, Poznań 2009
J. Kucharczyk, J. Zbieranek, Democracy in Poland 1989-2009. Challenges for the future, Warszawa 2010
Ryniejska-Kiełdanowicz, M. Cultural Diplomacy as a form of international communication, Institute for Public Relations. Wrocław 2010