Study guide
Lecturer: Jakub Fučík, Ph.D., Richard Stojar, Ph.D.
Introduction:
The events that took place at the end of the 20th century in connection with the end of the Cold War fundamentally changed the geopolitical situation not only in the European region, but also had an immediate impact on the overall perception of state security and the concepts of its provision. With the demise of bipolarity and the collapse of the USSR, the old system of international relations quickly collapsed, creating a vast space without the necessary security structures. The loosening of the bipolar world order and the limitation of the influence of the superpowers have opened up space for the revival of existing or the emergence of new security organizations and the overall reconfiguration of the security architecture in Europe. In addition to the hitherto dominant concept of collective defense, more and more attention is being paid to complementary projects of cooperative and collective security.
The development of the European security architecture is of fundamental importance for the institutional provision of the security of the Czech Republic. The purpose of the topic is to provide students with contextual information of a more general nature concerning the basic characteristics, elements and development phases of the current security architecture. The topic is an introduction to the following topics, which focus specifically and in more detail on individual international security organizations (UN, OSCE, NATO, EU).
Objectives:
- Explain to students the concept of security architecture,
- Outline the basic stages of security architecture development and describe the links of its key elements,
- Generalize the consequences of the development and current state of the security environment.
Tasks:
Become familiar with the content of the required sources
Required sources:
STOJAR, Richard. International System and Security Architecture (presentation)
COHEN, Richard. From Individual Security to International Stability. In Cooperative Security. Richard Cohen, Michael Mihalka. Garmisch-Partenkirchen: George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, 2001, s. 3-28. Available here.
Additional sources:
CHARAP, Samuel; SHAPIRO, Jeremy. A New European Security Order: The Ukraine Crisis and the Missing Post-Cold War Bargain. La Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique. Note 5/2014. Available at: https://www.frstrategie.org/sites/default/files/documents/publications/notes/2014/201415.pdf