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This course examines Soviet and Russian foreign policy from the perspective of a variety of concepts: political, philosophical, religious, historiographical, socio-economic, foreign policy, military-strategic, and others. The Russian/Soviet Union foreign policy is analysed in the context of the influence of various political and philosophical movements, e.g. liberalism (we will consider how the totalitarian Soviet and later Russian authoritarian policy reacted to such concepts as freedom, democracy, secularism, equality, civil rights, human rights and what alternative concepts it offered to them; we will also try to answer the question whether there was/is a chance for Russian foreign policy to adopt the above concepts as an alternative); realism (focusing on the problematics of power and national interests) – an approach that was widespread during the Cold War and also underpins Russia's contemporary foreign policy strategy; we will further examine Russian foreign policy through the prism of conservatism, constructivism, Marxism/post-Marxism, globalisation, colonialism/post-colonialism versus imperialism/post-imperialism, nationalism/supranationalism. In addition, we will examine Soviet and Russian foreign policy from the standpoint of ideology, attitudes towards religious groups (e.g. the key factor of Islam), and morality. From the position of historiographical concepts, we will talk about the interpretation of foreign policy within the framework of totalitarianism/post-totalitarianism, modernism, social history, and revisionism. Further in course, Russian/Soviet foreign policy will be examined in terms of political and foreign policy concepts and strategies: multilateralism, unilateralism, balance of power, defensive Soviet model, as well as theories: Huntington's clash of civilisations, Fukuyama's end of history, etc. We will also focus on the role of such factors as economics, trade, and military (especially nuclear weapons), which had and still have a significant impact on Russian and Soviet foreign policy. Poslední úprava: Tumis Stanislav, PhDr., M.A., Ph.D. (13.09.2024)
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H. – Nadkarni, V.: The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests, London and New York 2018. Dmitrichin, V. – Cox, F. J.: The Soviet Union and the Middle East: a documentary record of Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, 1917–1985. Princeton (N.J.) 1987. East, M. A. – Salmore, S. A. - Hermann, C. F.: Why nations act: theoretical perspectives for comparative foreign policy studies, London 1978. Fortmann, M. – Wirtz, J. J. – Paul, T. V.: Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century, Stanford 2004. Gvosdev, N. K. – Marsh, C.: Russian Foreign Policy: Interests, Vectors, and Sectors, Washington, DC 2014. Fukuyama, F.: Gorbachev and the Third World, in: Foreign Affairs, 64/4, 1986, pp. 715–731. Fukuyama, F.: The End of History and the Last Man, New York 1992. Hudson, V. M.: Foreign policy analysis: classic and contemporary theory, Lanham 2007. Hudson, V. M.: Culture & foreign policy, Boulder 1997. Huseynov, V.: Geopolitical Rivalries in the „Common Neighbourhood“ Russia’s Conflict with the West, Soft Power, and Neoclassical Realism, Stuttgart 2019. Huntington, S.: The clash of civilizations, New York 1986. Jervis, R.: Perception and misperception in international politics, Princeton – Oxford 2017. Jonsson, O.: The Russian Understanding of War. Blurring the Lines between War and Peace, Washington 2019. Kanet, R. E. (ed.): Routledge Handbook of Russian Security, London and New York 2019. Katzenstein, P. J.: The Culture of national security: norms and identity in world politics. New York 1996. Keohane, R.: Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World, New York 2002. Kubálková, V.: Foreign Policy in a Constructed World, London 2015. Lapid, Y. – Kratochwil, F.: The Return of culture and identity in international relations theory, Londres 1996. Legvold, R.: Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century and the Shadow of the Past, New York 2007. Lucas, E.: The New Cold War. Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West, Basingstoke 2009. Mankoff, J.: Russian Foreign Policy: The Return of Great Power Politics, Lanham 2011. Miller, B. States, nations, and the great powers: the sources of the regional war and peace, Cambridge – New York 2007. Morgenthau, H. J.: Politics among nations; the struggle for power and peace, New York 1967. Morozov, V.: Russia’s Postcolonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in Eurocentric World (Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations, New York – London 2015. Neumann, Iver B.: Russian and the Idea of Europe. A Study in Identity and International Relations, London – New York 2017. Partlett, W.: The Post-Soviet as Postcolonial. A New Paradigm for Understanding Constitutional Dynamics in the Former Soviet Empire, London 2022. Renz, B.: Russia’s Military Revival, Cambridge 2018. Ruggie, J. G.: Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalisation, New York 1998. Sakwa, R. (ed.): Russian Politics and Society, London 2008. Satter, D.: The unsolved mystery behind the act of terror that brought Putin to Power, National Review, 2016. Schoen, D. E. – Kaylan, M.: The Russia-China axis: the new cold war and America‘s crisis of leadership, New York – London 2014. Stoner, K. E.: Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order, Oxford 2021. Trenin, D. V., Pierre, A. J.: Russia in the world arms trade. Washington, D.C. 1997. Tsipis, S.: Soviet and Contemporary Russian Foreign Policy Comparative Perspective, Bonn 2022. Tsygankov, A. P.: Russia’s Foreign Policy: Change and Continuity in National Identity, Lanham 2019. Tsygankov, A. P.: Russian Realism: Defending „Derzhava“ in International Relations, London – New York 2022. Tsygankov, A. P. (ed.): Routledge Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy, London 2018. Wallander, C. A. (ed.): The Sources of Russian Foreign Policy After the Cold War, London – New York 2019. 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Арбатов, А. Г.: Стратегическая стабильность – оружие и дипломатия, Москва 2021. Мешков, А. Ю., Стратегическое планирование внешнеполитической деятельности Российской Федерации в интеграционных процессах, Москва 2019. Неймарк, М. А., Эволюция внешнеполитической стратегии России, Москва 2020. Poslední úprava: Tumis Stanislav, PhDr., M.A., Ph.D. (14.09.2024)
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Examination: Activity in discussions over the required readings will be assessed up to 30 % of the final mark + Final Paper 2.000 words long (quality of final paper will be assessed up to 70 % of the final mark) Poslední úprava: Tumis Stanislav, PhDr., M.A., Ph.D. (14.09.2024)
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1. International norms and identity: constructivism 2. Structuralism and post-structuralism in global foreign policy 3. Power and national security concepts in the Soviet/Russian foreign policy approaches: realism 4. Geopolitics: key aspect of Soviet/Russian foreign policy 5. Ideology and Society in the Late Soviet Union (doc. Michal Pullmann) 6. Foreign policy of/in the Brezhnev Era (doc. Michal Pullmann) 7. Nationalism in Soviet/Russian foreign policy 8. Economic aspects of Soviet/Russian foreign policy: petropolitics 9. Basic principles of Soviet/Russian diplomacy: role of media and public diplomacy 10. Role of intelligence services, military and cyber power in Soviet/Russian foreign policy 11. Religious factors of Soviet/Russian foreign policy 12. Foreign policy strategies and theories: uni/bi/multilateralism, balance of power, Huntington and Fukuyama 13. Historiographical concepts and their views on Soviet/Russian foreign policy Poslední úprava: Tumis Stanislav, PhDr., M.A., Ph.D. (22.11.2024)
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