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The aim of the course is to present the last four decades of development of the Eurasian world in a historical-sociological perspective, especially the end of the Cold War, the post-communist transformation, the advent of neoliberalism and globalization, the conflicts in the Middle East and the crisis of the Western world since 2008 in the context of civilizational changes (the advent of information technology, environmental crisis, postmodern culture, demographic change). Poslední úprava: Holubec Stanislav, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. et Ph.D. (17.02.2025)
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*Requirements Active participation at the class, regular reading, passing the written exam.
Classes: 1) The Last Decade of the Cold War: The Crisis of the Soviet Bloc 2) The rise of neoliberalism in the West 3) Attempt to reform Soviet systems: Deng Xiaoping and Mikhail Gorbachev 4) The crisis of governance in the Middle East: the rise of Islamism 5) The collapse of the Soviet system in Eastern Europe 7) The collapse of federations in post-Soviet countries (CSFR, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia) 8) Civil wars in post-Soviet countries (Yugoslavia, Caucasus) 9) The 1990s in the West: European integration, the end of history, globalization and the clash of civilizations 10) Integration of Central Europe into Western structures, shift of post-Soviet countries towards authoritarianism, oligarchization, privatization 11) The information revolution of the 1990s and 1990s, global warming and cultural cooling 12) The economic crisis of 2008 and the rise of populism 13) Crisis in the Middle East and Ukraine after 2011/2014 14) EU disintegration (Greek crisis, migration crisis, Brexit), rise of China and Y2K
*Required reading: Readings of cc 20 pages will be sent electronically for each seccion. Carl Benedikt Frey, The technology trap: capital, labor, and power in the age of automation, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. Thomas Piketty, A brief history of equality, Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
*Recommended reading: Does capitalism have a future? Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Gorgi Derluguian and Craig Calhoun, New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Martin Malia, The Soviet tragedy: a history of socialism in Russia, 1917-1991, New York: Free Press, 1996. Boris Kagarlitsky, Empire of the periphery: Russia and the world system, London: Pluto Press, 2008. Mark Fisher, Capitalist realism : is there no alternative? Winchester, UK; Washington, USA: Zero Books, [2009]. Katherine Verdery, What was socialism, and what comes next? Princeton University Press, 1996. Tony Judt, Ill fares the land: a treatise on our present discontents, London : Penguin Books, 2011. Clive Ponting, A new green history of the world : the environment and the collapse of great civilizations, New York : Penguin Books, 2007. Glenn Diesen, The Ukraine war & the Eurasian world order, Atlanta: Clarity Press, Inc., 2024. Minqi Li, China and the Twenty-First-Century Crisis, London: Pluto Press, 2016. Worth, Owen; Moore, Phoebe V. -Globalization and the "new" semi-peripheries, Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Hanson, Philip, The rise and fall of the Soviet economy: an economic history of the USSR from 1945, London [u.a.]: Routledge, 2014. Georgi Derluguian, The Post-Soviet Recoil to Periphery, In: Aftermath : A New Global Economic Order? Calhoun, Craig J.; Derluguian, Georgi M. New York, NY : New York University Press, 2011. Vladimir Shlapentokh, Contemporary Russia as a feudal society: a new perspective on the post-Soviet era, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Poslední úprava: Holubec Stanislav, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. et Ph.D. (17.02.2025)
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