Latin American Security - JPM772

• Title: Latin American Security
• Guaranteed by: Department of Security Studies (23-KBS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 6
• Hours per week, examination: 1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:19 / 14 (18); summer:unknown / unknown (18)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: Mgr. Kateřina Březinová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): prof. PhDr. Emil Aslan, Ph.D.; Mgr. Kateřina Březinová, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

Last update: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (14.10.2019)

The course focuses on Latin America as a region from a specific perspective of security and conflict studies. A region which on the one hand reverberates in academic, political and public debates due to specific issues and challenges (coups, insurgencies, terrorism, environmental risks), while on the other hand remains relatively distant from the European perspective, Latin America represents a special case worth studying and dissecting. For this purpose, the course first establishes the historical and conceptual boundaries of the region, including the formative period of Cold War. Subsequently, key thematic issues, with relevance across the region, are analysed: interstate wars, autocracy, civil wars and insurgencies, production of and trade with illegal drugs and influence of external state actors. In the final part, the course focuses on four selected countries in which the aforementioned issues are demonstrated, typically in a mutually overlapping manner.

Descriptors

Last update: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (07.09.2021)

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (07.09.2021)

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Literature

Last update: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (14.10.2019)

• Arias, Enrique: Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Arias, Enrique D. - Goldstein, Daniel M. (eds.): Violent Democracies in Latin America (The Cultures and Practice of Violence). Duke University Press Books, 2010
• Denoon, David B. (ed.): China, The United States, and the Future of Latin America: U.S.-China Relations, Volume III. NYU Press, 2017.
• Ellis, Evan R.: Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: From Evolving Threats and Responses to Integrated, Adaptive Solutions. Lexington Books, 2018.
• Esparza, Marcia - Huttenbach, Henry R. et al.: State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: The Cold War Years. Routledge, 2009.
• Fonseca, Brian - Gamarra, Eduardo A. (eds.): Culture and National Security in the Americas. Lexington Books, 2017. 
• O'Toole, Gavin: Environmental Security in Latin America. Routledge, 2017.
• Rosen, Jonathan D. et al.: Violence in the Americas (Security in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century). Lexington Books, 2018.
• Uildriks, Niels (ed.): Policing Insecurity: Police Reform, Security, and Human Rights in Latin America. Lexington Books, 2009.
• Yashar, Deborah J.: Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Teaching methods

Last update: Mgr. Kateřina Březinová, Ph.D. (01.02.2024)

INSTRUCTION:

Wednesdays 14:00-15:20 

ROOM No. B316 Jinonice

Office hours

Wednesdays February 28, March 20, and April 17/2024 from 15:30-16:30, room B 319. Else by appointment.

 

Structure of the course:

Please note that this course starts on February 28, 2024.  We will make up the missing class by participating in the relevant external event during the semester. Students will be informed about these opportunities in our weekly sessions.

 

Requirements to the exam

Last update: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (07.09.2021)

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (14.10.2019)

1. Latin America as a region - conceptual and historical introduction

2. From U.S. backyard to superpower battlefield: Latin America during Cold War

3. Missing in picture? On Latin American interstate wars

4. (De)constructing democracy: Latin America between autocracy and democratic rejuvenation

5. Insurgency and counterinsurgency: theory and practice

6. New menace? War on drugs and its effects

7. Environmental challenges and security in Latin America

8. Back in vogue? Latin America and new global powers

9. Current challenges: Brazil

10. Current challenges: Colombia

11. Current challenges: Venezuela

12. Current challenges: Peru

Entry requirements

Last update: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (07.09.2021)

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Registration requirements

Last update: PhDr. JUDr. Tomáš Karásek, Ph.D. (07.09.2021)

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above

Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above