120-0303/03 – Theory of Integration Processes (TIP)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of International Economic RelationsCredits4
Subject guarantorIng. Radomír Kaňa, Ph.D.Subject version guarantorIng. Radomír Kaňa, Ph.D.
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementChoice-compulsory type B
Year1Semestersummer
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2019/2020Year of cancellation
Intended for the facultiesEKFIntended for study typesFollow-up Master
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KAN03 Ing. Radomír Kaňa, Ph.D.
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Full-time Credit and Examination 2+1

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

1.To analyse the main theoretical aspects of the present international economic integration processes. 2.To appraise the development of the integration processes on the theoretical knowledge basis. 3.To synthetise partial findings for the creation of the comprehensive opinion. 4.To evaluate the EU´s integration stage position on the acquired knowledge basis.

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Summary

The aim of this subject is to give the students a comprehensive overview of the content and development of current major theoretical approaches to the processes of international economic integration with a view to European integration. The subject provides skilled information on all types (stages) of economic integration – from free trade area to economic and political union.

Compulsory literature:

BALDWIN, Robert a Charles WYPLOSZ. The Economics of European Integration. 6th edition. McGraw-Hill Education, 2021. 400 s. ISBN 978-1526847218. BRADFORD, Anu. The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 424 s. ISBN 9780190088583. WIENER, Antje. European Integration Theory. 3rd edition. New York: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 360 s. ISBN 978-0-19-108591-8.

Recommended literature:

GILBERT, Mark. European Integration: A Political History. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021. 358 s. ISBN 9781538106822. HAZAKIS, Konstantinos. European Union Political Economy: Theory and Policy. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 366 s. ISBN‎ 978-1498560054. MOSER, Carolyn. Accountability in EU Security and Defence: The Law and Practice of Peacebuilding. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 336 s. ISBN 978-0-19-884481-5.

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

Credit - active participation in seminars (preparation of news, discussion), seminar work and its presentation, credit test, obligatory attendance at seminars. Exam - written exam.

E-learning

Materials posted in Moodle.

Other requirements

Additional demands are not required.

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. Basic concepts and aspects of regional and global integration in the current world economy, their driving forces. The nature of contemporary integration processes in relation to security and security policy. 2. Realization forms and degrees of economic integration. Application of theoretical knowledge on real integration in the world economy. Security Union as part of the political union. 3. Mainstream currents in integration theory - selected theoretical concepts, differences in conception and evaluation of integration. Hypothetical models of integration (paradigms). Protectionism and liberalism in integration theory. 4. Barriers to the integration process. Anti-integration forces of economic and non-economic nature in world economy and politics. World War Conflicts and their Influence on the Development of the World Economy. 5. Specific features of integration processes in developing countries. The momentum of integration. Obstacles to effective integration of objective and subjective character. 6. Regional conflicts, their development and influence on developing economies. Asymmetric and Hybrid War. 7. Small economies and their position in the world economy and in integration processes. Advantages and disadvantages compared to large economies. 8. The position of small member countries in the European Union, their role in the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy. 9. Basics of economics of preferential liberalization - preferential business arrangement, analysis of customs union. 10. Static model of customs union, effects of "creating" and "deviating" trade. 11. Dynamic model of customs union - selected aspects related to economies of scale and size of the market. Individual types of market structure, BE-COMP model in closed economy, process of liberalization. 12. Factoring markets - their integration and growth effects. Economic integration and labor markets. Macroeconomics of Monetary Integration - Selected Aspects. 13. Globalization of the world economy, global security problems, current security situation in the world. 14. Czech Republic in international security structures, security policy of the Czech Republic.

Conditions for subject completion

Full-time form (validity from: 2019/2020 Summer semester)
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Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Credit and Examination Credit and Examination 100 (100) 51
        Credit Credit 35  18
        Examination Examination 65  16 3
Mandatory attendence participation: Credit - active participation in seminars (preparation of news, discussion), seminar work and its presentation, credit test, obligatory attendance at seminars. Exam - written exam.

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Conditions for subject completion and attendance at the exercises within ISP: By individual agreement with the student. Compulsory participation in seminars 50%.

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Occurrence in study plans

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2024/2025 (N0311A050012) Applied economics (S01) International Economic Relations P Czech Ostrava 1 Choice-compulsory type B study plan
2023/2024 (N0311A050012) Applied economics (S01) International Economic Relations P Czech Ostrava 1 Choice-compulsory type B study plan
2022/2023 (N0311A050012) Applied economics (S01) International Economic Relations P Czech Ostrava 1 Choice-compulsory type B study plan
2021/2022 (N0311A050012) Applied economics (S01) International Economic Relations P Czech Ostrava 1 Choice-compulsory type B study plan
2020/2021 (N0311A050012) Applied economics (S01) International Economic Relations P Czech Ostrava 1 Choice-compulsory type B study plan
2019/2020 (N0311A050012) Applied economics (S01) International Economic Relations P Czech Ostrava 1 Choice-compulsory type B study plan

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2022/2023 Summer
2020/2021 Summer