USESEC003 Historical and Political Geography

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2017
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Vladimír Baar, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. RNDr. Vladimír Baar, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Vladimír Baar, CSc.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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 creation of civilisation nuclear regions and peripheries, formation of power centres and modern supranational organizations. The development of central European region in context of European development and changes of its territorial composition from the 16th century are presented in detail. 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, get 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. Formation of civilisation spheres and model of nuclear areas and peripheries.
    3. Principal politico-geographical processes in Europe.
    4. Changes of political structures of central Europe and Czech lands.
    5. Geopolitical changes of the world and Europe in the 20th century.
    6. Subject and methods of political geography and geopolitics.
    7. Regions, states and dependent territories.
    8. Political map of the world.
    9. World population and international migration.
    10. Basic geopolitical concepts.
    11. Central European geopolitics in history and present day.
    12. Political effects of globalization and trans-regional zones of potential instability.
    13. International organizations and global problems solving.
Literature
    required literature
  • ORT, P. Úvod do studia politické geografie. Praha: Vysoká škola mezinárodních vztahů, 2004. info
  • IŠTOK, R. Politická geografia a geopolitika. . Prešov: Prešovská univerzita, 2003. info
  • BAAR,V. Národy na prahu 21. století. Emancipace nebo nacionalismus. Ostrava: Tilia, 2001. info
  • KREJČÍ, O. Geopolitika středoevropského prostoru. Horizonty zahraniční politiky České a Slovenské republiky. Praha: Ekopress, 2000. info
  • DANĚK, P. - JEHLIČKA, P. - TOMEŠ, J. (eds.). Stát, prostor, politika: vybrané otázky politické geografie. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 2000. 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
  • OTOK, S. Geografia polityczna. Geopolityka - Państwo - Ekopolityka. Wydanie siódme. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PW, 2002. info
  • COX, K. R. Political geography : territory, state, and society. Oxford : Blackwell, 2002. 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
  • BAAR, V. - RUMPEL, P. - ŠINDLER, P. Politická geografie. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 1996. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Encompassment of course topics and passing written exam
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019.
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