060-0024/01 – State security threats and international relations (BHSMV)
Gurantor department | Department of Security Services | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Mgr. Ing. Radomír Ščurek, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Mgr. Ing. Radomír Ščurek, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 1 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2022/2023 | Year of cancellation | |
Intended for the faculties | FBI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the issues and development trends of current security threats resulting from illegal actions of persons. The course deals with the issue of asymmetric threats, respectively terrorism, irredentism, but also extremism and organized crime, including possible scenarios for their solution in the Czech Republic and abroad, especially in EU and NATO countries, but also in other regions based on existing and historical international positions and relations, including the effects of the ongoing hybrid war. In the next part of the course, students will be acquainted with current types of addictions and the social pathological scene in connection with finding means to minimize the effects and consequences of these phenomena.
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Summary
During the study, the student will gain theoretical knowledge that allows him to analyze and synthesize current security threats in the Czech Republic in relation to international political relations and their assessment and application to specific entities in practice.
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Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
participation in seminars 80%, semester project, final test, combined exam.
E-learning
Other requirements
Presentation and seminar work in the form of an essay on a background. self-study of the recommended literature
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Repertory of current security threats, categorization, legal opinions, the position of the Czech Republic in the international structure and security strategy.
2. State security policy and international political relations of the Czech Republic. Categorization of international political relations. International political integration and attitudes of the Czech Republic to global and regional threats and conflicts, organized crime and migration.
3. Typology of security threats, asymmetric threats and hybrid (information) wars and the impact on the resilience of the Czech Republic; foreign power, propaganda and disinformation.
4. Socially dangerous phenomena, current social aberrations and deviations, normality, morality, delinquency, deprivants, hostility, aggression, crime, bullying, homelessness, vandalism, ageism, prostitution, the spread of pornography and domestic violence.
5. Methods, division, definition, development and typology of terrorism, its strategy and strategy of EU states.
6. The threat of contemporary religious fundamentalist terrorism, the foundations and goals of ideologies.
7. The threat of ethnically national terrorism, irredentism; stratification, methods, history, latent and current problems.
8. Threats of other terrorist and radical ideologies in a globalized world, groups and their goals (single-issue terrorism, Single-issue)
9. Comparison of significers of terrorism, extremism, crime and organized crime. Vigilantism in security, its pros and cons in the conditions of the Czech Republic.
10. Extremism as a threat to the stability of the EU and the Czech Republic, stratification, the influence of political radicalism on society, environmental and sports radicalism.
11. Threats arising from the activities of religious sects and radical religious societies in the Czech Republic, legal anchoring, state supervision, competence, ideology, recruitment,
12. Social threat of behavioral habits and addictions, division and treatment,
13. Social threat of substance (drug) addictions, typology and their minimization,
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