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Political Geography
JMMZ108, JMMZ175
Mondays, 11:00, J2083
PhDr. et. Mgr. Kryštof Kozák, PhD.
Consultation hours during summer semester
2011/2012: Mondays, 17:00-17:30, Fridays, 15:3016:00
Room J3080
email: [email protected]
Course Requirements:
• Active participation (15%)
• Students are required do read the
mandatory texts for each class and be
prepared to answer questions related to it
in the class. Repeated failures to answer
questions in class will lower student’s
score.
Course Requirements:
• “View from the capital” presentation (15%)
- dominant view of governing policymakers in
that particular capital about the outside world.
- first part: domestic (regional)
- second part: foreign countries
(geopolitics)
- 10-15 ppt slides, max. 15 minutes
Course Requirements:
• “View from the capital” presentation (15%)
- use maps, images, political cartoons
- attractive for the class
- sources
- last slide: 5-10 key terms or concepts for
the final exam
Course Requirements:
• “Paper based on the presentation (20%)
“Views from the capital - geography as the
determinant factor?”
• Minimum length: 6400 characters with spaces.
Course Requirements:
• Final exam (50%):
Topics from classes, mandatory readings as
well as student presentations.
Mandatory texts
Text for every class according to syllabus
Files are uploaded in the SIS system
If you have any problems accessing the file, let me
know at [email protected]
Recommended magazines:
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Antipodes
Geopolitics
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
The Economist
What is geography?
from Greek: Ge (γη) or Gaea (γαια), Earth
+ γράφειν grafein write, describe
working definiton: Geography is a science
focusing on spatial distribution of various
phenomena on Earth, their interaction and
development over time.
3 fundamental approaches in
studying the outside world:
• I. Geographical
• II. Historical
• III. Political science: influence of instituional and
power structures on observed phenomena
(Harm de Blij: Why Geography Matters, Oxford
University Press, 2005)
Combination of I. and III. -
Political geography
Co je geografie?
Oldest maps
• Ptolemy Map, cca 150 AD, reprint from 1877
Legacy of Ptolemy, 1545
Tabula Peutingeriana (4 century A.D.)
Medieval worldview in Europe
• T-O maps
Medieval worldview
• Symbolism
Antipodes
Arab cartography
• Muhammad alIdrisi
• Ordered by
Roger of Sicily,
1154
Chinese cartography
• Zheng He,
1418?
Korean cartography– 1402 AD
View from Czech Republic
• 78 000 km2
Population: 10 235 000
Hustota osídlení: 128
ob./km2
Nationalities:
90,4% Czech, 3,7% Moravian,
1,9% Slovak
• Religions:
Without any affliation: 59%,
Catholic 26,8%, Protestant
2,1%
Czech Republic
GDP (PPP):
265 mld. USD
GDP per capita (PPP):
25900 USD
State budget (income):
93 mld. USD
Government debt: 26,8%
HDP
Czech lands 1668, 1518
1747, 1847
Czechoslovakia
Czech-Polish tensions
1942
1972 (CIA)
2004
2004
Czech-Slovak tensions
Population density
Urbanization: 73%
Unemployment
Wages
Support for ODS (right)
Support for ČSSD (left)
ODS vs. ČSSD
Natality
Divorces
Religion
Rape
Tourism
Visitors and beds