Geography of Globalization and European Integration for PhD students - MPGS0102

• Title: Geografie globalizace a evropské integrace pro PGS
• Czech title: Geografie globalizace a evropské integrace pro PGS
• Guaranteed by: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development (31-340)
• Faculty: Faculty of Science
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 0
• Hours per week, examination: 0/0, Ex [HS]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: Czech, English
• Note: course is intended for doctoral students only; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: prof. Petr Dostál, M.A., Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: prof. Petr Dostál, M.A., Ph.D. (16.10.2020)

Global economic processes, global political preocesses, global cultural orientations.
Historical succession of hegemons of global trade, stages of global financial sytem, problems of so-called thrd wave of democratisation in the global system.
Cultural shift from authoritarian-conservative values and attitudes of people to social-liberal values and attitudes and electoral processes.
European integration as reaction to on economic globalisation.
Deepening and widening of the EU as historical stages of supra-national integration processes. Covod-19 pamdemic and geopoliticall changes in the EU and in the global system. Foreign relations of the EU and the NATO.
Key problems of european integration – democratic deficit- multi-speed integration processes – forms of Euroscepticism. Basic regional-economic typology of soci-economic differentiation of the EU.

Czech

Last update: Mgr. Jan Kabrda, Ph.D. (31.03.2015)

Globalizační ekonomické procesy, globalizační politické procesy, globalizované kulturní orientace
Historická posloupnost hegemonů celosvětového obchodu, fáze globalizace finančního systému, problematika třetí demokratizační vlny globálního systému
Kulturní posun k postmaterialismu v globálním systému.
Evropská integrace jako součást ekonomické globalizace - měnící se pozice EU v rámci globálního systému
Základní procesy evropské integrace - prohlubování a rozšiřování EU, hlavní fáze evropských integračních procesů od druhé světové války do současnosti
Současné hlavní problémy evropské integrace - demokratický deficit - vícerychlostní charakter evropské integrace - formy euroskepticismu
Základní ekonomicko-geografická typologie ekonomické diferenciace EU
Zahraniční politika EU a vztahy k NATO

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Jan Kabrda, Ph.D. (31.03.2015)

BECK, U., GRANDE, E. (2007): Cosmopolitan Europe. Polity Press, Cambridge.

BOLDWIN, R., WYPLOSZ (2010): The Economics of European Integration. McGraw Hill, Maidenhead.

DINAN, D. (2007): Ever Closer Union. An Introduction to European Integration. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

DOSTÁL, P. (2013): Multi-speed European Union: The Schengen Agreement and Perceptions of its Spatiality in Central Europe. In: Mitteilungen der Osterreichisschen Geographischen Gesellschaft, 155, s. 27 - 44.

DOSTÁL, P. (2010a): Risk of a Stalemate in the European Union. A Macro-Geography of Current Public Opinion. Editorial Series Geographica, 5, Czech Geographical Society, Praha.

DOSTÁL, P. (2010b): Multi-speed European Union: Differentiated Integration and Spatial Development in Public Opinion. Česká geografická společnost, Geographica Series, č. 6, 122 s.

DOSTÁL P., HAMPL, M. (2000): Globalization: integration or multi-polarisation? Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Geographica, 35, 1, s. 5- 20.

GIDDENS, A. (2007): Europe in the Global Age. Polity Press, Cambridge.

HELD, D. at al (2005): Global Transformations. Politics, Economics and Culture. Polity Press, Cambridge.

HIX, S. (2005): The Political System of the European Union. Palgrave, London. 490 s.

HUNTINGTON, S. (1991): The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. Oklahoma University Press, Norman.

JÖNSSON, C. at al (2000): Organizing European Space. Sage Publications, London.

MOREVCSIK, A. (1998): The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power. Cornell University Press, Ithaca.

MORGAN, G. (2005): The Idea of a European Superstate. Public Justification and European Integration. Princeton University Press, Princeton.

MUSIL, J. (1994): Europe between integration and disintegration. Czech Sociological Review, 2, 1, s. 5 - 19.

TAYLOR, P.J. (2003). World city network: a global urban analysis. Routledge, London.

ZIELONKA, J. (2006): Europe as Empire. The Nature of the Enlarged European Union. Oxford University Press, Oxford.