Přednášející: Martin Riegl

Konzultační hodiny:

E-mail: martinriegl@email.cz

Akademický rok 2015/2016

1) Introduction

2) 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-states

Reading:

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 failure

Reading:

a) Systemic Peace database
b) 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.pdf
3, 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 failure

Reading:

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 states

Reading:
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