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Geography of Internal Conflicts - JPB242
Title: Geografie vnitropolitických konfliktů
Guaranteed by: Department of Political Science (23-KP)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 25 (25)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D.
Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D.
doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (27.10.2019)
The course covers the issue of internal conflicts after 1945 from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. It looks at contemporary as well as historical cases and introduces the most important theoretical perspectives.
Literature -
Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (31.08.2022)

Literatura povinná:


ARMED CONFLICTS 1946-2014. PETTERSSON, WALLENSTEEN (2015). Journal of Peace Research 51(4). 536-550. http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/52/4/536.full.pdf+html

BERAN, H. (1984): A Liberal Theory of Secession, In: Political Studies 32, pages 21-31.

BIRCH, Anthony H. (1984): Another Liberal Theory of Secession, In: Political Studies 32: pages 596-602.

HOFMANN, G.F. Wars in 21st century: Rise of Hybrid Wars. Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. http://www.potomacinstitute.org/images/stories/publications/potomac_hybridwar_0108.pdf

HOROWITZ, Donald L. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.

KAPLAN, R. D. (1994): The Coming Anarchy, In: The Atlantic Monthly, Vol 273, No. 2, pages 44 ? 76, February 1994.

RIEGL, M. (2013). Proměny politické mapy po roce 1945. Praha: Grada.

TOMEŠ, J., FESTA, D., NOVOTNÝ, J. (2007). Konflikt světů a svět konfliktů. Praha: P3K. ISBN 978-80-903587-6-8

Databáze vnitropolitických konfliktů: http://www.systemicpeace.org/warlist/warlist.htm

 

Literatura k seminářům (může se měnit v závislosti na aktuálním dění):

1) Úvodní přednáška - bez semináře

2) Kaplan - The Coming Anarchy?

KAPLAN, R. D. (1994): The Coming Anarchy, In: The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 273, No. 2, pages 44 - 76.

BURBACH, D. T., FETTWEIS, C. J. (2014): The Coming Stability? The Decline of Warfare in Africa and Implications for International Security, In: Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 35, No. 3, pages 421-445.

3) Luttwak - Give War a Chance

LUTTWAK, E. N. (1999): Give War a Chance, In: Foreign Affairs (July/August), pages 36-44

SANCHEZ NIETO, A. W. (2011): Give War a Chance Revisited - The Price to Pay: The Military and Terrorism in Peru, In: Defence Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3, pages 517-540

4) Externí zapojení do vnitropolitických konfliktů

HERACLIDES, A. (1990): Secessionist Minorities and External Involvement, In: International Organisations, Vol. 44, No. 3, pages 341-378.

RIEGL, M., DOBOŠ, B. (2018): Power and Recognition: How (Super)Powers Decide the Intrnational Recognition Process. In: Politics and Policy, Vol. 46, No. 3, pages 442-471.

5) Příčiny konfliktů 

KEEN, D. (2003): Greedy Elites, Dwindling Resources, Alienated Youths: The Anatomy of Protracted Violence in Sierra Leone, In: International Politics and Society, No. 2, pages 67-94

HENTZ, J. J. (2019): Toward a Structural Theory of War in Africa, In: African Security, pages 1-30.

6) Fragile States Index

http://ffp.statesindex.org/methodology
http://ffp.statesindex.org/indicators

BHUTA, N. (2015): Measuring stateness, ranking political orders:Indices of state fragility and state failure. In: Cooley, A., Snyder, J. Ranking the world: grading states as a tool of global governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pages: 85-111.

7) Typologie násilných nestátních aktérů

WILLIAMS, P. (2008): Violent Non-State Actors and National and International Security, avaliable at: http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?id=93880

BOEKE, S. (2016): Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: Terrorism, insurgency, or organized crime? In: Small Wars and Insurgencies. Vol. 27, No. 5, pages 914-936.

8) Islamistická hnutí 

AKINOLA, O. (2015): Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria: Between Islamic Fundamentalism, Politics, and Poverty, In: African Security, Vol. 8, No. 1, pages 1-29

GAKUO MWANGI, O. (2012): State Collapse, Al-Shabaab, Islamism, and Legitimacy in Somalia, In: Politics, Religion and Identity, Vol. 13, No. 4, pages 513-27

9) Složitá geografie a vnitrostátní konflikty

HERBST, J. (2000): States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pages 145-172.

N´DIAYE, B. (2021): Mauritania: Exceptionalism and Vulnerability, In: Villalón, L- A. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 109-126.

10) Afghánistán - Tálibán

AHMAD, A. (2017): Johad and Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 4.

ELIAS, B. (2022): Why rebels rely on terrorists: The persistence of the Taliban-al-Qaeda battlefield coalition in Afghanistan

11) Nestátní aktéři a rozpad státu - Somálsko

SHORTLAND, A., & PERCY, S. (2013): Governance, Naval Intervention and Piracy in Somalia. In: Peace Economics, Peace Science, & Public Policy 9, No. 2, pages 275-283.

MENKHAUS, K. & SHAPIRO, J. N. (2010): Non-state Actors and Failed States: Lessons from Al-Qa´ida´s Experiences in the Horn of Africa. In: A. L. Clunan, H. A. Trinkunas Ungoverned Spaces: Alternatives to State Authority in an Era of Softened Sovereignty. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages. 77-94.

12) Konflikty v postsovětském prostoru

O ´LOUGHLIN, J., KOLOSSOV, V., TOAL, G. (2014): Inside the post-Soviet de facto states: a comparison of attitudes in Abkhazia, Nagorny Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Transnistria, In: Eurasian Geography and Economics 55, no. 5, pages 423-456

POND, E. (2017): War in Ukraine: Is This the Way It Ends?. In: Survival, Vol. 59, No. 6, pages 143-156.

 

Literatura bude spolu s otázkami průběžně umísťována na portál moodle - odkaz a heslo bude zasláno registovaným studentům.

Web sources:
Failed State Index - www.foreignpolicy.com
Major Episodes of Political violence - www.systemicpeace.org
Doporučená literatura:

CAPLAN, R. (2002). Conditional recognition as an instrument of ethnic conflict regulation: the European Community and Yugoslavia. Nation and Nationalism. Vol. 8, no. 2, s. 157-177. ISSN 1354-5078.
Ciment, James, Hill, Kenneth: Encyclopedia of Conflicts since World War II. Deaborn, 1999.

FOLTZ, W. J. Reconstructing the State of Chad. In ZARTMANN, W. I. (ed) (1995). Collapsed States: The Desintegration and Restoration of Legitimate Authority. London: Lynne Reinner Publisher, s. 15-31. ISBN: 1555875602.

HARBOOM, L., WALLENSTEEN, P. (2007). Armed Conflict, 1989 - 2006. In: Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 44., str. 623-634.

KEITA, K. (1998). Conflict and Conflict Resolution in the Sahel: The Tuareg Insurgency. [cit. 2006-24-05]. Dostupný z WWW:
?http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB200.pdf?

KING, C. (2001). The Benefits of Ethnic War: Understanding Eurasia´s unrecognized states. World Politics. Vol. 53, no. 4, s. 524-552. ISSN: 0043-8871.

LUTTWAK, E. N. (1999). Give a war chance. Foreign Affairs. Vol. 78, no. 4. , s. 36-44. ISSN: 0015-7120.

MCALLISTER, G. (2002). Decentralisation through the Lens of the Failed State. Civil Wars. Vol. 5, no. 2, s. 122-139. ISSN: 1369-8249.

RENO, W. (1999). Warlord Politics and African States. London: Lynne Rienner Publisher.

ROPER, S. D. (2004). From frozen conflict to frozen agreement. In BACCHELI,T.; BARTMANN, B.; SREBRNIK, H. (2004): De facto States: The quest for sovereignty, London and New York, Routledge, s. 102-117. ISBN: 0-714-65476-0.

TIR, J. (2005). Keeping the Peace after Secession: Territorial Conflicts between Rump and Secessionist States. In The Journal of Conflict Resolution. Vol. 49, no. 5, s. 713-74. ISSN: 1552-8766.

SORENSEN, G. (1999). Development in Fragile/Failed States. Paper Presented at the Conference Failed States and International Security II: Sources of Prevention, Modes of Response, and Conditions of State Success and Renewal. Purdue University, West Lafayette, April 8.-11. 1999. [cit. 2009-10-10]. Dostupný z WWW:
http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/research/mstohl/failed_states/1999/papers/Sorensen.html?

STOHL, R. J.; SMITH, D. (1999). Small Arms in Failed States: A Deadly Combination. Paper Presented at the Conference Failed States and International Security II: Sources of Prevention, Modes of Response, and Conditions of State Success and Renewal. Purdue University, West Lafayette, April 8.-11. 1999. [cit. 2010-6-6]. Dostupný z WWW: ?http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/research/mstohl/failed_states/1999/papers/Stohl-Smit?

STOHL, R. J.; STOHL, M. (2001). The Failed and Failing State and the Bush
Administration: Paradoxes and Period. Paper Presented at the Conference Failed States
IV: Structures, Cases and Policies. Florence, Italy, April 11.- 14. 2001. [cit. 2009-4-12].
Dostupný z WWW:
http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/research/mstohl/failed_states/2001/papers/Stohl.pdf?

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Mgr. Bohumil Doboš, Ph.D. (27.10.2019)

Active participation on seminars and final test

Syllabus - Czech
Last update: PhDr. Petr Bednařík, Ph.D. (23.11.2021)

Kurz je veden formou kombinace přednášky a semináře. Vyžaduje se průběžná práce studenta s povinnou a doporučenou literaturou a povinná účast na seminářích.

1) Strukturální předpoklady konfliktů na politické mapě

2) Trendy a vliv proměňujícího se geopolitického prostředí na konflikty

3) Geopolitika konfliktů - external involvement in civil wars

4) Definice-přístupy-teorie-typologie

5) Příčiny konfliktů

6) Vliv socio-demografických a ekonomických faktorů na vznik konfliktů

7) Vnitrostátní boj o mocenské postavení, strategie jednotlivých aktérů

8) Vliv geografických faktorů na vznik a průběh konfliktů

9) Vnitrostátní boj o teritorium (geografie secesionistických regionů v rozvojovém světě)

10) Secesionistické konflikty v teoriích

11) Praktický průběh secesionistických konfliktů

12) Dopady a řešení konfliktů - přístup IC k vnitropolitickým konfliktům

 
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