Course: JPM 734 (300) (Geopolitics of sovereignty, state failure and unrecognized states)

Lecturer: Martin Riegl
Office hours:
E-mail: martinriegl@email.cz
Academic Year 2022/2023

The class runs as a lecture and seminar.

1) Introduction - development of the world political map

2) Definitions of state, the 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

Further reading:

a) COOPER, R. (2000): Postmodern State and the World Order, Demos.
http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/thepostmodernstate

b) GLASSNER, M. I., de BLIJ, H. J. (1989): Systematic Political Geography, John Wiley & Sons, New York - Chichester - Brisbane - Toronto - Singapore. (Faculty of Science Library)

c) TILLY, C. (1975). The Formation of National States in Europe. New Jersey: Princetown University Press. Chapters 1, 2 and 9.

3) Typology of non-sovereign political entities (dependent territories, colonies, protectorates, associated states etc.)

Reading:

a) RIEGL, M., DOBOŠ, B., BEČKA, J. (2018). Independent Territories Revisited? The Concept of Partially Independent Territories (PITs) and the Role of Such Territories in the International System. Territory, Politics, Governance.

Further reading:

a) MINAHAN, J. (1996). Nations without States: A Historical Dictionary of Contemporary National Movements. Greenwood.

b) GLASSNER, M. I., de BLIJ, H. J. (1989): Systematic Political Geography, John Wiley & Sons, New York - Chichester - Brisbane - Toronto - Singapore. (Faculty of Science Library)

4) Geopolitics and typology of anomalous political units (quasi, almost, para, pseudo, failed, anarchic, ramshackle states…), typology of quasi-states

Reading:

a) 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.

5) Internal and External sovereignty after 1945

Reading:

a) BERG, E., KUUSK, E. (2010). What makes sovereignty a relative concept? Empirical approaches to international society. Political Geography. pp 40 - 49.

b) JACKSON, R.H. (1987): Quasi-states, dual regimes, and neoclassical theory: International jurisprudence and the Third World. International Organization. Pp. 519 – 549.

c) FABRY, M. (2013). Theorizing State Recognition. International Theory. Vol.5 no. 1.

d) STERIO, M. (2013). On the Right to External Self-Determination: “Selfistans,” Secession, and the Great Powers’ Rule. Minnesota Journal of International Law. Vol.19, No.1.

6) Sovereignty - situations not/derogating from sovereignty)/erosion of sovereignty/premodern, modern and post-modern World

a) CRAWFORD, J. (2006). The Creation of States in International Law (2nd edition). Oxford: Clarendon Press. (FSV Library/ e-book)

7) Civil wars and state failure, external involvement

Reading:

HERACLIDES, A. (1990). Secessionist Minorities and External Involvement. International Organization.

Further reading:

a) Systemic Peace database: https://www.systemicpeace.org/

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.

8) 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:

HERBST, J. (2000): Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control: States and Power in Africa. Princetown: Princetown University Press. ISBN: 0-691-01027-7. (maps)

9) Practice of secession and international recognition

Reading:

a) RIEGL, M., DOBOŠ, B. (2018). Power and Recognition: How (Super)Powers Decide the International Recognition Process. Politics & Policy, July 2018.

Further reading:

b) FABRY, M. (2010). Recognizing States: International Society and the Establishment of New States Since 1776. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (FSV Library)

c) RICH, R. (1993). Symposium: Recent Developments in the Practice of State Recognition.

http://www.ejil.org/pdfs/4/1/1207.pdf

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)

Further reading:

a) CAST: An Analytical Model for Early Warning and Risk Assessment of Weak and Failing States. [citováno 2009-8-11].

b) HERBST, J. (1996-1997). Responding to State Failure in Africa. In International Security. pp. 120-144.

c) 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.

d) LUTTWAK, E. N. (1999). Give a war chance. Foreign Affairs. Vol. 78, no. 4. , s. 36-44. ISSN: 0015-7120. (EBSCO)

11) 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) PEGG, S. (2017). Twenty Years of de facto State Studies: Progress, Problems, and Prospects.

c) RIEGL, M., DOBOŠ, B. et al. (2017). Unrecognized States and Secession in the 21st Century. Springer.

12) 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): https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/02/the-coming-anarchy/304670/

c) ZOHAR,E. (2016). A New Typology of Contemporary Armed NonState-Actors: Interpreting The Diversity. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism.

Further reading:

FRIEDRICH, J. (2001). The Meaning of New Medievalism. European Journal of International Relations. pp. 475 - 502. (EBSCO)