Syllabus
Introductory lesson (1.10.)
Lesson A/ Transatlantic security consensus: reality or mirage? (8.10.)
Lesson B/ Strategic culture: an evolution of the concept (15.10.)
Lesson C/ U.S. strategic culture: current developments and their determinants (22.10.)
Lesson D/ Strategic cultures in Europe (Britain, France, Germany, Poland) (29.10.)
Lesson E/ EU and defence: towards a European strategic culture? (5.11.)
Lesson F/ Peacekeeping, stabilization operations, expeditionary warfare etc.: mapping the conceptual boundaries of expeditionary warfare (12.11.)
Lesson G/ Out-of-area conflict management in transatlantic strategic culture post-Cold War (panel discussion) (19.11.)
Lesson H/ From Galula to Petraeus: the evolution of the concept of counterinsurgency (3.12.)
Lesson I/ Case-study I: U.S. counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq (10.12.)
Lesson J/ Case-study II: NATO and counterinsurgency in Afghanistan (17.12.)
Annotation
The course examines recent developments in the security and defence policy of the Euro-Atlantic community. It focuses on the issue of counterinsurgency as one of the approaches to crisis management.
This issue is explained in the context of strategic culture as an overarching concept for understanding societal and ideational impulses shaping decision-making with military implications.