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Lecturer(s)
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Filipec Ondřej, Mgr. et Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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I. Environmental and energy security in a theoretical context II. The position of the EU in a globalized world: policies and instruments III. Environmental aspects of migration IV. Conflicts over water and water resources V. Food security and hunger in the context of international security VI. The issue of mineral resources in international security VII. Environmental Terrorism: Ideology and Actors VIII. Nuclear Power Safety Dilemmas: Problem Actors IX. Oil and gas in the context of wars and geopolitics X. Raw material and energy security of the Czech Republic XI. EU energy policy XII. Energy Security Actors: USA and Russia XIII. Energy Security Actors: China, Africa and Other Actors
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Group work
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Learning outcomes
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The one-semester course is focused on the external dimension of environmental and energy security in the context of globalization. The course will help graduates understand the political and international relations contexts of energy and environmental security. In addition to the theoretical basis, the course also offers an overview of current conflicts and dilemmas that accompany environmental and energy security. The subject is focused on the current development of topics that will fundamentally determine sustainability in the 21st century. Links to the SDGs: The course focuses in particular on the international security dimension of selected problems, including energy security. Therefore, it is dominantly linked to two SDGs. These are SDG 16: promoting peace and inclusive societies to achieve sustainable development, providing access to justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels; and also SDG 7: ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy sources for all. Due to the coverage of the issue of access to water resources and conflicts over water or the inclusion of the topic of food security, it also partially touches on SDG 6: clean water and sanitation and SDG 2: no hunger - end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and spread sustainable agriculture.
Due to the content focus, the course mainly develops global learning competence in aspects such as global self-awareness, cultural (and geographical) differences, understanding global systems, applying knowledge in a global context or taking positions on complex, global issues. The problems discussed in the course also have their ethical level, which stimulates students to think about ethics, justice and human rights, or the functional level, referring to the solution of problems, at the international level in their overall complexity (functioning and powers of institutions, the role of individual actors , critical points of individual policies and instruments, etc.).
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Prerequisites
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The completion of this course is not conditioned upon completion of any other courses.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
Delivering presentation and 3 tasks during the course
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Recommended literature
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Art, Robert J. and Jervis, Robert. (2016). International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues.. Pearson Publishing.
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Baylis, John, Smith, Steve and Owens, Patricia (Eds.). (2017). The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to the International Relations.. Oxford University Press.
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Collier, Paul. (2009). Miliarda nejchudších. Vyšehrad.
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Environment policy: general principles and basic framework. Available at: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/71/environment-policy-general-principles-and-basic-framework (26. 11. 2024). Environment policy: general principles and basic framework. Available at: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/en/sheet/71/environment-policy-general-principles-and-basic-framework (26. 11. 2024)..
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European Energy Policy. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/european-energy-policy (26. 11. 2024). European Energy Policy. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/european-energy-policy (26. 11. 2024)..
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Ionesco, Dina. (2016). The Atlas of Environmental Migration. Taylor and Francis.
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Kiyaei, Emad, Robinson, Tony and Dolev, Sharon. Weapons of Mass Destruction: Non-Proliferation and Regional Cooperation in the Middle East.. Brown Journal of World Affairs, 27. Vol.
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Spadaro, Andrea Paola. (2020). Climate Change, Environmental Terrorism, Eco-Terrorism and Emerging Threats.. Journal of Strategic Security.
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Wach, Krzystof, Glodowska, Agnieszka, Maciejewski, Marek and Sieja, Marek. (2020). MarekEuropeanization Processes of the EU Energy Policy in Visegrad Countries in the Years 2015-2018. Energies.
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Winterová, Barbora. Konflikt o vodu ve Střední Asii. Obrana a strategie, vol. 1, no. 1, s. 51-68.
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