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Programme N0312A200031: International Security Studies

Academic year 2021/2022

Master in International Security provides students with a complex guide through security, conflict, strategic studies, and intelligence. Responding to the pressing agendas of the current security environment the program is administered by the team of young scholars of the Department of Security Studies.

Students will obtain theoretical and methodological training allowing them to address security issues that range from conventional conflicts and wars to unconventional agendas associated with virtual or space domains.

Academic supervisor: doc. PhDr. Běla Plechanovová, CSc.

Language of instruction: English

The program structure offers 4 specialisation routes and 1 cross-specialisation route:

Security, Technology, and Society Concentration
Strategic and War Studies Concentration
Peace and Conflict Studies Concentration
Global and Regional Security Concentration
Cross-Concentration Program Route

To successfully complete the degree students will the major theoretical and methodological courses and compulsory courses introducing each concentration. Based on their preference they will further choose among the elective and optional courses. Within the cross-concentration program route students are required to pass two elective courses from each concentration (4*12 ECTS). In case students opt for one of the concentrations they must pass 5 electives (30 ECTS) in their concentration and one elective course in each of the remaining three concentrations (3*6 ECTS).

Course structure

TOTAL CREDITS	120 credits
Compulsory courses (incl. dissertation)	60 credits
Elective courses	48 credits
Optional courses (Crisis Games, Internship, Languages, Courses from the whole university)	12 credits

Master state examination

The final state examination will consist of an oral and a written part. In the oral part, the defence of the diploma thesis will take place before an academic committee. In the written part, students answer one question from the compulsory subjects, which is designed as a theoretical and conceptual. The second question will reflect the opted specialisation.

(JDIP01) Thesis Defence (oral)
(JSZ670) Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations of Security Studies (written)
Specialisation part (written):
1. (JSZ671) Security Policies, Issues, and Threats (cross-specialisation)
2. (JSZ672) Strategic and War Studies (specialisation)
3. (JSZ673) Global and Regional Security (specialisation)
4. (JSZ674) Security, Technology, and Society (specialisation)
5. (JSZ675) Peace and Conflict Studies (specialisation)

Compulsory courses for all specializations

Group J#0240

Code	Course title	Course leader	Semester	Hours per week	Course assessment	ECTS credit points
JPM561	Security in Euroatlantic Area and Global Regions	Halás	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM628	Researching International Politics: Quantitative Methods	Parízek	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM629	Researching International Politics: Qualitative Methods	Střítecký	SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM693	Traditional and Critical Concepts in Security Studies	Střítecký Weinfurter	WS/SS	2/0	Examination	6
JPM694	Strategic Studies	Hynek Suchanová	WS/SS	2/0	Examination	6
JPM699	Security and Technology	Střítecký	WS/SS	2/0	Examination	6
JPM704	Approaches to Conflict and Violence	Karásek	WS/SS	2/0	Examination	6
JPM709	Diploma Thesis	Střítecký	WS/SS	0/8	Course credit	12
JPM935	Theories of International Relations (for Security Studies)	Střítecký Kazharski	SS	2/0	Examination	6

Total credits: 60

Prerequisites, corequisites, alternative and incompatible courses

Code	Course title	Pre-requisite	Co-requisite	Interchangeability	Incompatibility
JPM628	Researching International Politics: Quantitative Methods				JPM157
JPM935	Theories of International Relations (for Security Studies)				JPM314

Elective courses Strategic and War Studies

Group J#0241 (6), J#0242 (12) , J#0243 (30)

Code	Course title	Course leader	Semester	Hours per week	Course assessment	ECTS credit points
JPM390	Hybrid Warfare	Střítecký	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM595	Arms Control and Disarmament	Hynek Suchanová	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM613	Armed Forces and Society	Kučera	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM656	Technology and Warfare	Kučera Bahenský	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM695	War Studies	Hays II	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM696	Economic Warfare	Ludvík	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM712	Insurgency and Counterinsurgency	Aslan Ludvík	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM998	Health and Security	Boštíková	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6

Minimum credits: 30 for students of Strategic and War Studies specialization, 6 for students of other specialization, 12 for students without specialization

Prerequisites, corequisites, alternative and incompatible courses

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Interchangeability

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Elective courses Global and Regional Security

Group J#0244 (6), J#0245 (12), J#0246 (30)

Code	Course title	Course leader	Semester	Hours per week	Course assessment	ECTS credit points
JPM697	Asia Security	Kolmaš	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM698	Middle East Security	Weinfurter	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM702	NATO and EU in Crisis Management	Ludvík	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM711	Russian and Post-Soviet Security	Aslan Laryš	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM772	Latin American Security	Březinová	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM773	Migration and Security	Březinová	WS	1/1	Examination	6

Minimum credits: 30 for students of Global and Regional Security specialization, 6 for students of other specialization, 12 for students without specialization

Prerequisites, corequisites, alternative and incompatible courses

Code	Course title	Pre-requisite	Co-requisite	Interchangeability	Incompatibility
JPM697	Asia Security				JPM644
JPM711	Russian and Post-Soviet Security				JMM065

Elective courses Security, Technology and Society

Group J#0247 (6), J#0248 (12), J#0249 (30)

Code	Course title	Course leader	Semester	Hours per week	Course assessment	ECTS credit points
JPM076	The Far-Right Today	Aslan Collins	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM611	Cyber Security	Střítecký Erkomaishvili	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM650	Intelligence	Michálek	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM700	Space Security	Doboš Pražák	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM923	Artificial Intelligence and Security	Špelda	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM925	Human-Artificial Intelligence Nexus	Špelda	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM926	Sociology of Technology	Vostal	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM999	Technoscientific Imaginaries & Futures	Vostal	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6

Minimum credits: 30 for students of Security, Technology and Society specialization, 6 for students of other specialization, 12 for students without specialization

Prerequisites, corequisites, alternative and incompatible courses

Code	Course title	Pre-requisite	Co-requisite	Interchangeability	Incompatibility
JPM700	Space Security				JPM632

Elective courses Approaches to Conflict and Violence

Group J#0250 (6), J#0251 (12), J#0252 (30)

Code	Course title	Course leader	Semester	Hours per week	Course assessment	ECTS credit points
JPM705	Human Security	Hynek Suchanová	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM706	Terrorism and Counterterrorism	Bureš Kazharski	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM707	Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding	Bureš	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM708	Ethics and Violence	Karásek Kučera	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM710	Radicalization and Deradicalization	Aslan	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM774	Gender and Security	Nisbet	WS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM924	Territorial Violent Non-State Actors	Ludvík	WS/SS	1/1	Examination	6

Minimum credits: 30 for students of Approaches to Conflicts and Violence specialization, 6 for students of other specialization, 12 for students without specialization

Prerequisites, corequisites, alternative and incompatible courses

Code	Course title	Pre-requisite	Co-requisite	Interchangeability	Incompatibility
JPM705	Human Security				JPM559
JPM706	Terrorism and Counterterrorism			JPM554	JPM554

Recommended optional courses for all specializations

Group J#0253

Code	Course title	Course leader	Semester	Hours per week	Course assessment	ECTS credit points
JPM660	Internship	Střítecký	WS/SS	0/1	Jiné	3
JPM808	Understanding Israeli Security Policy: Territory, Occupations and Withdrawals	Kalhousová	SS	2/0	Examination	4
JPM814	Statecraft and Grand Strategy	Kalhousová	SS	1/1	Examination	4
JPM822	Energy Security in Israel and the Middle East	Kalhousová	WS	1/1	Examination	4
JPM831	Visual Biopolitics	Kazharski	SS	1/1	Examination	6
JPM833	The Ghost that Never Vanishes: The War in Ukraine and the Renewal of the American Debate on 'Isolationism'	Karásek	SS	1/1	Examination	4
JPM835	Extremism and Radicalization: Trends and Prevention	Kocmanová	SS	1/1	Examination	4
JPM836	Radicalisation in a Radical Europe: Critical Approaches to Contemporary (Counter)Extremism	Kocmanová	SS	1/1	Examination	4
JPM838	Energy Geopolitics and Security and Israeli-Arab Relations	Kalhousová	SS	1/1	Examination	4
JPM857	Extremism and Hooliganism in the Western Balkans	Kocmanová	SS	0/1	Examination	4
JPM858	Middle-East Terrorists and Revolutionaries	Kalhousová	SS	0/1	Examination	4
JPM859	American Jews and Israel: Judaism and Jewish Responses to Israel in contemporary US	Kalhousová	SS	0/1	Examination	4