Armed conflict studies 1600-SZD-SPEC-BKZ-NB
1. Epistemology of armed conflicts.- Main approaches in analyzing armed conflicts over the centuries:
a) the historical-chronicling approach (case study: Thucydides, "History of the Peloponnesian War"),
b) the strategic approach (case study: Carl von Clausewitz, "On War"),
c) the political approach (case study: Quincy Wright, „A study of war”),
d) peace studies (case study: Johan Galtung, „Violence, Peace and Peace Research"),
e) the quantitative approach (case study: The Correlates of War Project),
f) the approach oriented on non-military aspects of a war (case study: Robert Kaplan, "The Coming Anarchy").- Risks and limitations in armed conflicts studies: defining (boundaries between violent clashes and armed conflict), "the fog of war", propaganda and disinformation, over-quanitification, cognitive errors in analyzing armed conflicts.
2. "Traditional" wars.- An overview on the evolution of methods of warfare. Causes and sources of wars between states. Wars after 1945. Basic mechanisms of ius ad bellum, ius in bello and ius contra bellum. The impact of technological development on contemporary wars (on the example of the wars of the West).
3. Case study - the war in Ukraine.
4. Asymmetric conflicts.- Irregular warfare, low-intensity wars. Insurgency, guerilla warfare and the countering. The factor of "hearts and minds". Proxy wars.
5. Case study - the Chechen wars.
6. Armed conflicts over resources as new wars.- Privatization and commercialization of contemporary armed conflicts. The significance of the economic dimension in new wars. The essence of armed conflicts over resources according to the concepts of M. Kaldor, H. Munkler, M. Renner, P. Collier, M. Klare. Intensity of armed conflicts over resources. Analyzing of the resource curse and paradox of plenty phenomena. The environmental deficit (according to T. Homer-Dixon) and the resource curse in armed conflicts studies.
7. Case studies - the DRC and the Niger Delta armed conflicts.
8. Research of internationalized armed conflicts.- Low/high intensity conflicts according to SIPRI, PRIO, UCDP. The utility of PRIO, UCDP databases. Defining of internationalized armed conflicts/internationalized civil wars. The relation between internationalization of an armed conflict and its intensity. Mediatization of internationalized armed conflicts - from the CNN effect, through the Mogadishu effect, to the Al-Jazeera effect.
9. Case studies - the civil war and internationalized armed conflict in Yemen and Somalia.
Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Knowledge | The graduate knows and understands:
WG_01 - to the extent necessary for existing paradigms to be revised - a worldwide body of work, covering theoretical foundations as well as general and selected specific issues - relevant to a particular discipline
within the social sciences
WG_02 - the main development trends in the disciplines of the social sciences in which the education is provided
WG_03 - scientific research methodology in the field of the social sciences
WK_01 - fundamental dilemmas of modern civilisation from the perspective of the social sciences
Skills | The graduate is able to:
UK_05 - speaking a foreign language at B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages using the professional terminology specific to the discipline within the social sciences, to the extent enabling participation in an international scientific and professional environment
Social competences | The graduate is ready to
KO_01 - fulfilling the social obligations of researchers and creators
KO_02 - fulfilling social obligations and taking actions in the public interest, in particular in initiating actions in the public interest
KO_03 - think and acting in an entrepreneurial manner
Assessment criteria
Description of requirements related to participation in classes, including the
permitted number of explained absences: The participants work on (and present in class - including both the content of the course and own research) the agreed aspects of the armed conflicts under scrutiny. Two absences permitted.
Principles for passing the classes and the subject (including resit session): Continuous (both regarding each case study and overall) evaluation in class.
Methods for the verification of learning outcomes: Projects to be prepared and presented in class
Evaluation criteria: 1) preparing of presentations on the agreed aspects of the armed conflicts being analyzed as case studies (four in total), constituing the final grade, 2) active participation in classes proving one's knowledge of source material, 3) presence.
Practical placement
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Bibliography
Basic literature
R. Kuźniar et al., Bezpieczeństwo międzynarodowe, Wydawnictwa Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa 2020 (rozdziały IV, V, XIII, XIV).
J. Baylis, J. Wirtz, C.S. Gray, E. Cohen (red.), Strategia we współczesnym świecie. Wprowadzenie do studiów strategicznych, przeł. W. Nowicki, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2009 (rozdzały I, II, VII, XII).
P.D. Williams, Studia bezpieczeństwa, przeł. W. Nowicki, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2012 (rozdziały XI, XIV, XXVI).
R. Smith, Przydatność siły militarnej. Sztuka wojenna we współczesnym świecie, Warszawa 2010.
J. Reginia-Zacharski, Wojna w świecie współczesnym, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódz 2014.J.
S. Nye, Konflikty międzynarodowe. Wprowadzenie do teorii i historii, przeł. M. Madej, Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne, Warszawa 2009.
I. Bannon, P. Collier, Natural Resources and ConflictL What We Can Do, chapter 1 of Report Natural Resources and Conflict, World Bank 2003M. Klare, Resource Wars. The New Landscape of Global Conflict, New York 2001, pp.13-50.Bazy danych: Correlates of War, Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset (ACLED), Conflict Barometer, Global Conflict Tracker (Council on Foreign Relations), International Crisis Group, Center for Systemic Peace.
Supplementary literature
D. Deschaux-Dutard (red.), Reseach Methods in Defence Studies, Routlegde, London-New York 2020.
M.R. Sarkess, F.W. Wayman, Resort to war: A data guide to inter-state, extra-state, intra-state, and non-state wars, 1816-2007, CQ Press, Washington DC 2010.
Q. Wright, A Study of War, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1942
C. Blattman, Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace, Viking, New York 2022M.
I. Midlarsky, Handbook of War Studies III, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2009Tukidydes, Wojna Peloponeska, tłum. K. Kumaniecki, Wydawnictwo Czytelnik, Warszawa 2023
C. von Clausewitz, O wojnie, Wydawnictwo Bellona, Warszawa 2022
J. Galtung, Violence, Peace and Peace Research, "Journal of Peace Research" t. 6 Nr 3 1969, https://www2.kobe-u.ac.jp/~alexroni/IPD%202015%20readings/IPD%202015_7/Galtung_Violence,%20Peace,%20and%20Peace%20Research.pdf
T. Homer-Dixon, Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict: Evidence from Cases, "International Security" t. 19, Nr 1, 1994, https://homerdixon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Environmental-Scarcities-and-Violent-Conflict-Evidence-from-Cases.pdf
R.D. Kaplan, The Coming Anarchy, "The Atlantic" Nr 2 2004, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideastour/archive/kaplan.html
R. Thornton, Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the 21st Century, Wiley, Hoboken 2007.
A. Krieg, J-M. Rickli, Surrogate Warfare: The Transformation of War in the Twenty-First Century, Georgetown University Press, Washington D.C. 2019.A. Mumford, Proxy Warfare, Polity Press, Cambridge-Malden 2013.
M. Kaldor, New & old Wars: organized violence in a global era, Stanford University Press, Stanford 2012.
T. Barkawi, Globalization & War, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2006.
J.A. Nagl, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2005.
M. Madej (red.), Wojny Zachodu, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa 2017.Case studies:- stosowne rozdziały w kolejnych wydaniach „Rocznika Strategicznego”.- stosowne rozdziały w kolejnych wydaniach SIPRI Yearbook i The Military Balance.-
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A. Szeptycki, Ukraina wobec Rosji. Studium zależności, Warszawa 2013.-
D.R. Marples, Ukraine in Conflict. An Analytical Chronicle, Bristol 2017.- M. Marek, Operacja Ukraina. Kampanie dezinformacyjne, narracje, sposoby działania rosyjskich ośrodków propagandowych przeciwko państwu ukraińskiemu w okresie 2013–2019, Warszawa 2020.-
A. Wilk, P. Zochowski (et al.), Rok wojny w analizach Ośrodka Studiów Wschodnich, Warszawa 2023.-
A. Wilk, P. Zochowski, J. Ber (et al.), Drugi rok wojny w analizach Ośrodka Studiów Wschodnich, Warszawa 2024.-
J. Lundén (et al.), Another Rude Awakening — Making Sense of Russia’s War Against Ukraine, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm 2022.-
S. Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History, W. W. Norton & Company, London-New York 2023.- P.J.J. Welfens, Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Economic Challenges, Embargo Issues and a New Global Economic Order, Springer, Cham 2022.---
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