USESEA050 International Crises Management in Post-conflict Areas in Central-East Europe

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Winter 2013
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. Dr. Ivan Halász, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Dr. Ivan Halász, PhD.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Prerequisites
Special knowledge:
The course graduates will gain knowledge on the subject, will be able to orient themselves in different forms of peace operations in the future and can be also partly prepared for participation in such missions. They will get acquainted with the structure of such actions, their financing, internal control mechanisms, the problem of mandates, cooperation of individual components, etc.
Special skills:
Although the course is primarily theoretical, its graduates should learn to apply the obtained knowledge in organisational activities, especially in the analysis of events and missions in response to them. Successful mastering of the material of the course also requires at least partial knowledge of foreign languages.
General abilities (skills):
Students should acquire analytical, comparative and partly also organisational skills.
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 objective of the course is to familiarize the students with the history and the present of international crisis management and post-conflict reconstruction with a special focus on the Balkan region. This issue is still of greater importance also for our own region, which is still more often involved in various peace missions and actions. The situation in the Balkans is also important for the Central European countries.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to the topic and terminology. Peace operations and their classification.
    2. International crisis management in the past. Intervention in Macedonia 1903-1908. Its characteristics before and after the founding of the League of Nations and UN.
    3. UN and attempts at managing crisis areas before the war in former Yugoslavia.
    4. The background and solution of the conflict in the former Yugoslavian area after 1991.
    5. Dayton Peace Agreement and the structure of international administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    6. The dynamics of development in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the EU's role in this process. Organizational and political lessons learned.
    7. The UNTAES mission in Eastern Slavonia.
    8. Crisis in Kosovo and its solution. Origin and structure of the UNMIK mission.
    9. Cooperation of individual international and pan-European organisations in Kosovo.
    10. Creation of an independent Kosovo. EULEX mission in Kosovo and its goals.
    11. Comparison of the Kosovo solution with the solution model in East Timor and elsewhere in the world.
    12. General structural questions and problems of achieving peace and building a stable statehood in post-conflict areas.
Literature
    required literature
  • Halász, Ivan. Medzinárodná správa a vzniko nových ústav v Bosne a Hercegovine a v Kosove. In: Instytucje prawa konstytucyjnego w dobie integracji Europejskej. Red.: Wawrzyniak, Jan - Laskowska, Marzena. Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, Warszawa, 2009. info
  • Waisová, Šárka. Řešení konfliktů v mezinárodních vztazích. Portál, 2005. info
    recommended literature
  • Chandler, David. Empire in Denial. The Politics of State-building. Pluto-Press, London - Ann Arbor MI, 2006. info
  • Chesterman, Simon. You The People. The United Nations, Transitional Administration and State-Buliding. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. 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
Active participation at lessons
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019.
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