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The course will focus on U.S. foreign policy in the context of the current state and future prospects of transatlantic security relations, in light of the war in Ukraine and the results of the 2024 US presidential elections. It will be taught by Prof. David Haglund, a guest lecturer from the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. Poslední úprava: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (22.01.2025)
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This week-long course explores the current state and future prospects of transatlantic relations, in the wake of the return to the White House of Donald J. Trump. We will focus upon three issues in particular. First will be the American debate regarding “strategic autonomy,” a goal that has usually, in American foreign policy lore, borne the label of “isolationism.” Second (and closely related to the first) is the implication of the new administration for the current war in Ukraine. Trump himself has expressed less than rhetorical solidarity with Kyiv, and he has never hesitated to proclaim his goal to be that of putting “America first,” a slogan usually associated with the powerful isolationist forces that figured so largely in the debates of the period just prior to America’s entry into the Second World War. At the minimum, “America first” is assumed to mean that the United States will, under a second Trump administration, be taking a much more critical assessment of the value of its alliances than has been the case for all administrations since NATO was formed in 1949, not excluding even his first administration. And this brings us to the third issue upon which we will be spending time: Sino-American relations. It is inconceivable, despite what some alarmed observers will tell you, that the US will leave NATO. Just as inconceivable, however, is the prospect of the European allies and the US adopting radically divergent policies toward China without, in so doing, exacerbating “turbulence across the sea.” So China, if it has not already done so, can be expected to emerge as the big “issue” in transatlantic relations, whether or not Beijing actually gambles on a cross-strait invasion of Taiwan during the next few years. Of interest to students in Prague will be the positioning of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) allies in respect of the strategic competition between Washington and Beijing. The case of Hungary will be of particular significance, on the one hand because the current rightward shift in the political orientations of many allied member-states may be expected to enhance the status of Budapest in an era increasingly seen to be one of “illiberal democracy,” but on the other hand because even and especially under the new Trump administration, it can be assumed that the Orban government’s preference for “economic neutrality” (viz., as between Washington and Beijing) will clash with the US desire to have all of its allies singing from the same geostrategic songbook. Poslední úprava: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (22.01.2025)
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Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above. Poslední úprava: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (22.01.2025)
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Poslední úprava: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (07.02.2025)
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Seminar 1: The World of Trump 2.0 Required readings: Hew Strachan, “The Return of Great Power Competition: From Strategy to Geopolitics,” Turbulence Across the Sea, pp. 1-21. Margaret MacMillan, “Stress Test: Can a Troubled Order Survive a Disruptive Leader?” Foreign Affairs 104: 1 (January/February 2025): 8-16. [Hereafter FA 104: 1.] Bilahari Kausikan, “Who’s Afraid of America First? What Asia Can Teach the World About Adapting to Trump,” FA 104: 1, pp. 32-40.
Seminar 2: Cold War Redux Required readings: Elie Baranets and Andrew R. Novo, “Coping with Strategic Competition,” Turbulence Across the Sea, pp. 25-36. Carolyne V. Davidson, “Stuck in the Middle with You: A Historical Perspective on NATO and Great Power Competition,” Turbulence Across the Sea, pp. 58-76. Niall Ferguson, “How to Win the New Cold War: To Compete With China, Trump Should Learn From Reagan, “ FA 104: 1, pp. 24-32.
Seminar 3: Economic Statecraft Revisited: Does Handel Bring Wandel? Required readings: Stephen Miran, “A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System,” Hudson Bay Capital, November 2024. David M. Rowe, “The Tragedy of Liberalism: How Globalization Caused the First World War,” Security Studies 14 (July-September 2005): 407-47. David G. Haglund and Dylan F. S. Spence, “The Return of ‘Techno-Nationalism’ and Its Implications for the Transatlantic Allies: The Case of Huawei 5G Networks and Canada,” Turbulence Across the Sea, pp. 228-45.
Seminar 4: Power Transition Theory Updated Required readings: Andrew R. Novo, “What’s New under the Sun? Evolving and Eternal Elements in Great Power Competition,” Turbulence Across the Sea, pp. 39-57. Norrin M. Ripsman, “Globalization, Deglobalization and Great Power Politics,” International Affairs 97 (September 2021): 1317-33. Michael Beckley, “The Strange Triumph of a Broken America: Why Power Abroad Comes With Dysfunction at Home,” FA 104: 1, pp. 50-71.
Seminar 5: A New “Populist Atlanticism”? Required readings: Douglas Lute and Nicholas Burns, NATO at Seventy: An Alliance in Crisis, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship (Cambridge, MA: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs/Harvard Kennedy School, February 2019). Elie Baranets, “What Is Europe Caught in the Middle Of? A Theoretical Look at the US-China Competition,” Turbulence Across the Sea, pp. 77-93. David G. Haglund, Jennie L. Schulze, and Ognen Vangelov, “Hungary’s Slide toward Autocracy: Domestic and External Impediments to Locking-In Democratic Reforms,” Political Science Quarterly 137 (Winter 2022-23): 675-713. Poslední úprava: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (22.01.2025)
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The course will consist of five 80-minute teaching sessions, which will take the form of what I like to call “hot-seat” discussions. In putting this outline together, I am operating on the assumption that there will be between ten and fifteen students enrolled. Accordingly, I have assigned enough readings to give each student a chance to be the introducer once during the week. What being an “introducer” entails is this: I fire two or three questions at you (usually open-ended ones) and you respond. Others join in the discussion. YOBL (for Ye Olde Bottome Line): while you are only required to read the week’s chapter or article for which you have the introducer’s chores, I encourage you (time permitting) to familiarize yourself with the contents of all the articles. The chapters assigned for discussion will be drawn from Turbulence Across the Sea: Transatlantic Relations and Strategic Competition, edited by Elie Baranets and Andrew Novo (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024). The articles are from a smattering of journals, listed below, digitized versions of which will be made available to seminar members. Poslední úprava: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (22.01.2025)
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The Code of Study and Examination of Charles University in Prague provides the general framework of study rules at the university. According to art. 6, par. 17 of this Code, “a student may not take any examination in any subject entered in his study plan more than three times, i.e. he shall have the right to two resit dates; no extraordinary resit date shall be permitted. (…) If a student fails to appear for an examination on the date for which he has enrolled without duly excusing himself, he shall not be marked; the provision of neither this nor of the first sentence shall constitute the right to arrange for a special examination date.” Any written assignment composed by the student shall be an original piece. The practices of plagiarism, defined by the Dean’s Provision no. 18/2015, are seen as “a major violation of the rules of academic ethics” and “will be penalized in accordance with Disciplinarian Regulations of the faculty.” Poslední úprava: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (22.01.2025)
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Seminar 1: The World of Trump 2.0 Seminar 2: Cold War Redux Seminar 3: Economic Statecraft Revisited: Does Handel Bring Wandel? Seminar 4: Power Transition Theory Updated Seminar 5: A New “Populist Atlanticism”?
Poslední úprava: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (22.01.2025)
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Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above. Poslední úprava: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (22.01.2025)
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Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above. Poslední úprava: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (22.01.2025)
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Viz výše soubor se sylabem kurzu / See the file containing the course syllabus above. Poslední úprava: Karásek Tomáš, PhDr. JUDr., Ph.D. (22.01.2025)
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