Security and Integration in Europe

Vyučující: JUDr. PhDr. Tomáš Karásek, PhD
Kancelář: J3011, 3087
Email: tomkarasek@volny.cz
Osobní www stránka: http://instituty.fsv.cuni.cz/~karasek
Konzultace: Čt 16:00 - 18:00, místnost J3087

Credit requirements

1. active participation in class discussions, class presentation (10 minutes) - 10%
2. essay (10 pages) - 50%
3. oral exam - 40%

Course objectives

The aim of the subject is to acquaint students with the history and present state of transatlantic and European security and defence arrangements. Students are expected to read relevant documents and selected literature, as the course relies on their active involvement in the lessons. After completing the subject, students should be able to understand the historical context, institutions and strategic concepts of the transatlantic and European security problematic. Besides that, part of each lesson is to be devoted to current issues in the security and defence policy in Europe.

Outline

Part I. Atlantic Alliance during the Cold War

• Lesson A - From the end of World War II to the beginnings of Cold War: Founding NATO
• Lesson B - From „Treaty“ to „Organisation“: NATO institutional set-up, military capabilities and initial strategic doctrine
• Lesson C - Fighting the Cold War, keeping a fragile peace: From „massive retaliation“ to „flexible response“
• Lesson D - Winning the Cold War, searching for a new role: From the „dual-track decision" to the new Strategic Concept

Part II. New NATO: Through 1990s towards a new millennium

• Lesson E - Moving eastwards: The process of enlargement
• Lesson F - New conflicts, new strategies: NATO in the Balkans

Part III. Not just American Allies: European security and defence cooperation

• Lesson G - Rejecting the supranational approach: the failure of European Defence Community
• Lesson H - Western European Union: a useless organisation?
• Lesson I - From European Political Cooperation to Common Foreign and Security Policy
• Lesson J - Showing teeth? EU’s Security and Defence Policy after Saint-Malo summit

Part IV. European security after 9/11/2001

• Lesson K - Global terrorism: a common enemy?
• Lesson L - Europe and America, NATO and EU: still compatible?

Literature

• AYBET, Gülnur: A European Security Architecture after the Cold War: Questions of Legitimacy. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000.
• DANČÁK, Břetislav: Summit NATO v Praze 2002. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2002.
• DEIGHTON, Anne [ed.]: Western European Union 1954 – 1997: Defence, Security, Integration. Oxford, 1997.
• DUIGNAN, Peter: NATO: its past, present, and future. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2000.
• FIDLER, Jiří – MAREŠ, Petr: Dějiny NATO. Praha - Litomyšl: Paseka, 1997.
• HAM, Peter van: Europe's new defense ambitions. Garmisch-Partenkirchen: George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, 2000.
• HAM, Peter van: Western unity and the transatlantic security challenge. Garmisch-Partenkirchen: George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, 2002.
• HOWORTH, Jolyon – KEELER, John T. S. [ed.]: Defending Europe : The EU, NATO and the Quest for European Autonomy. London: Palgrave, 2003.
• HOWORTH, Jolyon: European Integration and Defence: The Ultimate Challenge?. Paris: Institute for Security Studies, 2000.
• HUNTER, Robert: The European Security and Defense Policy: NATO's Commpanion -or Competitor? Santa Monica: Rand, 2002.
• KHOL, Radek: Evropská bezpečnostní a obranná politika: národní perspektivy. Praha: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, 2002.
• LUŇÁK, Petr: Západ. Spojené státy a Západní Evropa ve studené válce. Praha, 1997.
• NATO Handbook. Brussels: NATO Office of Information and Press, 2001.
• SCHMIDT, Gustav: A history of NATO. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.
• SOLOMON, Gerald B. H.: The NATO enlargement debate, 1990-1997. Westport: Praeger, 1998.

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