The Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Balkans & Caucasus and the Struggle for Global Superpower

Vistula University, Warsaw, Poland

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The Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Balkans & Caucasus and the Struggle for Global Superpower aims to provide students with the fundamental tools essential to building a broader understanding of the post-Cold War global power architecture from theoretical and analytical perspectives. It is dedicated to students interested in current affairs, security studies, and leading approaches to violent conflict after 1991: The Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Balkans & Caucasus, and the Struggle for Global Superpower Hegemony. Our primary research area will be approached from geopolitics, security studies, and humanitarian perspectives. During the classes, we try to approach the new world order in statu nascendi from the perspective of various ongoing conflicts and humanitarian emergencies

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COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING

 

There are no prerequisites for this course. It will consist of a series of seminar sessions with pre-assigned readings and pre-recorded materials. We will utilize all resources available, both academic publications and the resources provided by governments, international organizations, various think tanks, and nonprofit organizations. Students are expected to do all the readings and watch all asynchronous content prior to each session, as well as attend and participate in all sessions. The sessions will focus on critically discussing the assigned readings.

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