Syllabus
Lecturer: Martin Riegl
Office hours:
E-mail: martinriegl@email.cz
Academic Year 2010/2011 1) Introduction2) Definitions of state, mythology of statehood, criteria of the sovereign state, territorial and governmental legitimacy
Reading: a) Montevideo convention: http://caselawofeu.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Montevideo-Convention-on-the-Rights-and-Duties-of-States.pdf b) GLASSNER, M. I., de BLIJ, H. J. (1989): Systematic Political Geography, John Wiley & Sons, New York - Chichester - Brisbane - Toronto - Singapore. 3) Typology of non-sovereign political entities (dependent territories, colonies, protectorates, associated states etc.)
Reading: a) GLASSNER, M. I., de BLIJ, H. J. (1989): Systematic Political Geography, John Wiley & Sons, New York - Chichester - Brisbane - Toronto - Singapore. 4) Typology of anomalous political units (quasi, almost, para, pseudo, failed, anarchic, ramshackle states…), typology of quasi-statesReading:a) KOLSTØ, P. (2006). The Sustainability and Future of Unrecognized Quasi-States. Journal of Peace Research. Vol. 43, no. 6, s. 723-740. ISSN: 0022-3433.b) PEŁCZYŃSKA-NAŁĘCZ, K.; STRACHOTA, K; FALKOWSKI, M. (2008). Para-States in the Post-Soviet Area from 1991 to 2007, s. 370-387. In STANISLAWSKI, B. H. (2008). Para States, Quasi-states, and Black Spots: Perhaps Not States, But Not "Ungoverned Territories", Either. International Studies Review. Vol. 10, no. 2, s.366-396. ISSN: 1521-9488. c) STANISLAWSKI, B. H. (2008). Para States, Quasi-states, and Black Spots: Perhaps Not States, But Not "Ungoverned Territories", Either. International Studies Review. Vol. 10, no. 2, s. 366-396. ISSN:1521-9488. (EBSCO)d) CRAWFORD, J. (2006). The Creation of States in International Law (2nd edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN: 0-19-826002-4. (List of states)5) The Emergence of territorial state (development of state system in the World)Reading:a) TILLY, C. (1975). The Formation of National States in Europe. New Jersey: Princetown University Press. Chapter 1, 2 and 9. b) PHILPOTT, W. (1999) Westphalia, Authority and International Society. (EBSCO)6) External (international recognition) and Internal sovereignty after 1945 Reading:a) WALLACE, W. (1999). The Sharing of Sovereignty: the European Paradox. Political Studies. Vol. 47, s. 503-521. ISSN: 0032-3217. (EBSCO)b) COOPER, R. (2000). The postmodern state and the world order. London: Demos, The Foreign Policy Centre. ‹http://www.demos.co.uk/files/postmodernstate.pdf›c) JACKSON, R. H. (1999b). Sovereignty in World Politics: a Glance at the Conceptual and Historical Landscape. Political Studies. Vol. 47, s. 431-456. ISSN: 0032-3217. (EBSCO)7) Situations not/derogating from sovereignty)/erosion of sovereignty/premodern, modern and post-modern World.
Further reading:
Berg, E., Kuusk, E. (2010). What makes sovereignty a relative concept? Empirical approaches to international society. Political Geography. pp 40 - 49. 8) Civil wars and state failureReading:a) Systemic Peace databaseb) MCCOLL, R. W. (1969). The Insurgent States: Territorial Bases of Revolution. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Vol. 59, no. 4, s. 61-63. ISSN: 0004-5608.
Further reading:
COLLIER, P.; HOEFFLER, A. (2000). Greed and Greivance in Civil war. The World Bank Development Research Group. Policy Research Working Paper 2355. ‹http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2000/06/17/000094946_00060205420011/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf›9) The New Middle Ages
Reading: a) WILLIAMS, P. (2008): From the New Middle Ages to a New Dark Age: the Decline of the State and U.S. Strategy: http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub867.pdf b) KAPLAN, R.D. (1994). The Coming Anarchy. The Atlantic Monthly (February). ISSN: 1072-7825. (on-line): http://sobek.colorado.edu/~blimes/Kaplan%20-%20The%20COming%20Anarchy.pdf3, s. 120-144. ISSN: 0162-2889.
Further reading:
FRIEDRICH, J. (2001). The Meaning of New Medievalism. European Journal of International Relations. pp. 475 - 502. 10) Theories of state failure/Fragile, Failed, Collapsed States - Case studies (DRC, Rwanda, Nigeria, Sudan)
Reading: a) GROS, J. G. (1996). Towards a taxonomy of failed states in the New World Order: decaying Somalia, Liberia, Rwanda and Haiti. Third World Quarterly. Vol. 17, no. 3, s. 455-471. ISSN: 0143-6597. (EBSCO) b) HERBST, J. (1996-1997). Responding to State Failure in Africa. In International Security. p. 120-144.
Further reading:
CAST: An Analytical Model for Early Warning and Risk Assessment of Weak and Failing States. [citováno 2009-8-11]. HERBST, J. (1996-1997). Responding to State Failure in Africa. International Security. Vol. 21, no.
ROTBERG, R. I. (2004). Weak and Failing States: Critical New Security Issues. Turkish Policy Quarterly. Vol. 3, no. 2, s. 57-69. ISSN: 1773-0546.
LUTTWAK, E. N. (1999). Give a war chance. Foreign Affairs. Vol. 78, no. 4. , s. 36-44. ISSN: 0015-7120. (EBSCO) 11) Theory of secession/Geographic aspect of state failureReading:a) BERAN, H. (1984). A Liberal Theory of Secession. Political Studies. Vol. 32, no. 1, s. 21-31. ISSN: 0032-3217 . (EBSCO)b) BIRCH, A. H. (1984). Another Liberal Theory of Secession. Political Studies. Vol. 32, no. 3, s. 596-602. ISSN: 0032-3217. (EBSCO)
Further reading:
COUR, J-M.; SNRECH, S. (eds.), (1998). Club de Sahel, Preparing for the Future: A vision of West Africa in the Year 2020. (Paris: Club de Sahel, 1995). ‹http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/50/17/38512525.pdf›
HERBST, J. (2000): Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control: States and Power in Africa. Princetown: Princetown University Press. ISBN: 0-691-01027-7. (maps) 12) Unrecognized states/divided statesReading:a) PEGG, S. (1998). De Facto States in the International System. Institute of International Relations. The University of British Columbia, Working Paper No. 21.b) KOLSTØ, P.; BLAKKISRUD, H. (2008). Living with Non-recognition: State- and Nation-building in South Caucasian Quasi-states. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 60, no. 3, s. 483-509. ISSN: 0966-8136. (EBSCO) c) KOLSTØ, P. (2012). 13) Case study Bougainville/TRNC/Somaliland
Annotation
This course explains post-Second War world in terms of division between parts of the world, without fully functioning states, sovereign states, concerned with territorial sovereignty and post-modern states, in which sovereignty is not based on absolute control over territory. The aim of this course is to provide students with a basic knowledge of the geographic criteria for statehood, functions of the state, the positive and negative sovereignty, international recognition and erosion of sovereignty.
Students should gain skills enabling them to understand the real shape of the world political map and geopolitical factors shaping it.