Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Institute of Historical Studies
- Code
- BA-ERA-IHS-S-1
- Title
- Central Europe in a globalized world
- Usual semester
- Both
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 6
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- Educational objectives (cél): The course provides students with an insight into the global position of Central and Eastern Europe. Always wanting to grow beyond its borders, the region is regularly cut back and annexed to local or global power alliances. Students should explore the geopolitics of Central and Eastern Europe and get to grips with the factors that act as driving forces behind the region and its motivations. The impacts of globalisation on this vital region should be apprehended. This should help students to see how the region will cope with new players such as China, a country which is keen to shape the world order. Students get a deeper insight into the matrix of regional and global relations and world politics. The course will introduce students to key concepts and theoretical frameworks for the Central and Eastern European region; it also provides a useful picture of inter-regional relations and their system of relations. The course also provides geopolitical analysis to decipher structural crises and conflicts in the region. The student knows the place of Central Europe in European history, the changes in the relationship between the region and the great powers, the threads connecting and separating the region, the peculiarities of the region, the differences in development, and why.
- Course content
- Content of the subject (Tartalom) 1. Introduction: The challenges facing Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) 2. Is Max Weber’s conceptual world relevant to CEE? 3. Central and Eastern Europe in world institutions 4. The economic weight and influence of CEE in the world 5. Can CEE have an ideological influence on world affairs? 6. Globalism and feudalism in CEE 7. Is CEE a sub-region? 8. Is the European Union the wrong hegemon for CEE? 9. Is the CEE the new Balkans or New Europe? 10. The geopolitical positioning of CEE: strengths and weaknesses. 11. American strategic needs in CEE 12. CCE: Russia’s no man’s land or vital sphere of influence 13. Is China the new imperial power in Central and Eastern Europe
- Assessment method
- Accountability and assessment system (Számonkérés) Continuous evaluation of participation in seminar discussions and topic presentations.
- Bibliography
- Compulsory literature / Recommended reading (Irodalom): Max Weber: Economy and Society, Harvard University Press, London, 2019 / ISBN: 0674916549, 9780674916548 Zbigniew Brzezinski: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives, Basic Books, New York, 1998 / ISBN: 0465027261,9780465027262 Andrew C. Janos: East Central Europe in the Modern World: The Small States of the Borderlands from Pre- To Postcommunism, Stanford University Press, Year: 2000 / ISBN: 0804737436,9780804737432 Roger E. Kanet (Editor): The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the Third World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987 Francois Bafoil: Resilient States from a Comparative Regional Perspective: Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia, World Scientific Publishing Company, London, 2013 / ISBN: 9814417467,9789814417464 Joseph Rotschild: History of East Central Europe Vol. 9, University of Washington Press, London, 1974 / ISBN: 0295953578 Grzegorz W. Kolodko: Globalization and catching-up in transition economies, University of Rochester Press, Rochester - USA , 2002 / ISBN: 9781580460507,158046050X Jan Drahokoupil: Globalization and the State in Central and Eastern Europe: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment , Routledge, London, 2008 / ISBN: 0203892089,0415466032,9780415466035,9780203892084 Attila Melegh: On the East West Slope: Globalization, Nationalism, Racism and Discources on Eastern Europe, Central European University Press, New York, 2006 / ISBN: 9637326243,9789637326240 Ken Morita, Yun Chen: Transition, Regional Development And Globalization: China and Central Europe, London, 2010 / ISBN: 9812833447,9789812833440 Elsa Tulmets: East Central European Foreign Policy Identity in Perspective: Back to Europe and the EU’s Neighbourhood, Palgrave Macmillan UK, Basingstoke, 2014, ISBN: 978-1-349-33195-6,978-1-137-31576-2 Lonnie R. Johnson: Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996 / ISBN: 0195100719,9780195100716 Andrew Cottey: East-Central Europe After the Cold War: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary in Search of Security, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 1995 / ISBN: 0333639294,9780333639290