FVP:USESE0003 Historical and Political Geogr - Course Information

USESE0003 Historical and Political Geography

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Guaranteed by

prof. RNDr. Vladimír Baar, CSc.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava

Prerequisites (in Czech)

žádné

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The aim of the course is to provide the students with rudiments of historical and political geography as cross-discipline disciplines, with their development, structure and main methods, approaches and theories regarding political organization of the area in modern history as well as present day. The tuition is with regard to other political and historical courses conceived in two larger blocks. The block of historical geography is aimed at description of more general geographical and geopolitical factors conditioning the development of European and central European region in particular and the changes of its territorial composition from the 16th century, whereas the attention will be paid to so called environmental history. The focus of the course lays in the block of political geography and geopolitics which introduces the development, structure methodology of political geography together with main geopolitical concepts of the world and central Europe. The attention will be paid to political organization of the area, the changes of political map of the world, current global issues (increase of the world´s population, migration problems, ethnic and religious conflicts, wars and terrorism) as well as international organizations and their activities The graduates will know the principal terms, theories and concepts of historical and political geography and geopolitics as its part, are able to orient in historical and political maps as well as spatially political units, their structures and relations between them, become familiar with main current global issues and their influence in central and eastern Europe. They will use this knowledge in further study (International political and administrative regions) and later in practice when solving the questions of international and trans-boundary cooperation on various levels.

Syllabus

• 1. Historical geography and environmental history as cross-discipline disciplines (development, structures, methods, approaches).
  2. Principal historico-geographical processes in Europe and central European region.
  3. Physico-geographical characteristics, territorial and administrative development of central Europe and Czech lands.
  4. Development of settlement and transport network in central Europe and Czech lands.
  5. Subject and methods of political geography and geopolitics, development of political geography.
  6. Regions, sovereign states and dependent territories.
  7. Political map of the world.
  8. World population and international migration.
  9. Basic geopolitical concepts
  10. Central European geopolitics in history and present day.
  11. Political effects of globalization and trans-regional zones of potential instability.
  12. International organizations and global problems solving.
  

Literature

required literature
• ORT, P. Úvod do studia politické geografie. Praha: Vysoká škola mezinárodních vztahů, 2004. info
• OTOK, S. Geografia polityczna. Geopolityka - Państwo - Ekopolityka. Wydanie siódme. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PW, 2002. info
• BAAR, V. Národy na prahu 21. století. Emancipace nebo nacionalismus? Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita; Šenov u Ostravy:, 2002. ISBN 80-86101-66-5. info
• KREJČÍ, O. Geopolitika středoevropského prostoru. Praha: Ekopress, 2000. ISBN 80-86119-29-7. info
• DANĚK, P. - JEHLIČKA, P. - TOMEŠ, J. (eds.). Stát, prostor, politika: vybrané otázky politické geografie. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 2000. info
• SEMOTANOVÁ, E. Historická geografie českých zemí. Praha: Historický ústav AVČR, 1998. info
• JELEČEK, L. Nová historiografie? Enviromentální dějiny v USA: vývoj, metodologie, výsledky. Český časopis historický 92. Praha, 1994. info

recommended literature
• GURŇÁK, D. - BLAŽÍK, T. - LAUKO. V. Úvod do politickej a regionálnej geografie. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2005. info
• DRULÁK, P. Teorie mezinárodních vztahů. Praha, 2003. ISBN 80-7178-725-6. info
• COX, K. R. Political geography : territory, state, and society. Oxford : Blackwell, 2002. info
• WOLKERSDORFER, R. Politische Geographie und Geopolitik zwischen Moderne und Postmoderne. Heidelberg : Geographisches Institut der Univers, 2001. info
• AGNEW, J. A. Making political geography. London: Arnold, 2000. info
• TAYLOR, P.J. - FLINT, C. Political geography: world-economy, nation-state and locality. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 2000. info
• BRZEZINSKI, Z. Velká šachovnice. K čemu Ameriku zavazuje její globální převaha. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1999. info
• EHLERS. E. (Hrsg.). Deutschland und Europa : historische, politische und geographische Aspekte : Festschrift zum 51. Deutschen Geographentag Bonn 1997 "Europa in einer Welt im Wandel". Bonn : Ferd. Dümmler, 1997. info
• BARTOŠ, J. Historie a ekologie. In: Návraty do dějin. Dissertationes historicae 5. Hradec Králové, 1996. info
• BAAR, V. - RUMPEL, P. - ŠINDLER, P. Politická geografie. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 1996. info
• VAMPILOVA, L. B. (Red.). Istoričeskaja geografija: tendencii i perspektivy. Sankt Peterburg, 1995. info
• HNÍZDO, B. Mezinárodní perspektivy politických regionů. Praha: ISE, 1995. info
• WORSTER, D. The ends of earth: perspectives on modern enviromental history. Cambridge - New York, 1991. info
• POUNDS, N. J. G. An historical geography on Europe. Cambridge, 1990. info
• KAŠPAR J. Vybrané kapitoly z historické geografie českých zemí a z nauky o mapách. Praha, 1990. info

Teaching methods

Interactive lecture

Assessment methods

Written exam

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

Teacher's information

Oral exam aimed at testing the theoretical knowledge (terminology, chronology, methodology, concept, principal processes and events) as well as practical skills (work with maps).

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