In September 2019 launched the third stage (or third year) of the project of the International Visegrad Fund was launched to implement the course «The Comparative Study of Democratization: Transition Politics in V4 countries and Ukraine» for students of the specialty «Political Science» of the Department of Political Science and National Security of the National University «Ostroh Academy». The third stage (or year) of the project will be from September 2, 2019 to June 30, 2020. Implementation of the learning process in discipline «The Comparative Study of Democratization: Transition Politics in V4 countries and Ukraine» for students of the Department of Political Science and National Security of the National University «Ostroh Academy» is carried out according to the curriculum of the specialty «Political Science» for the 2019-2020 academic year.  

Schedule of the Course:

The Comparative Study of Democratization: Transition Politics in V4 countries and Ukraine

Academic year 2019-2020

Date

Course Topics

Lecturer/Teacher

Lecture/Seminar

17.09.19

Visegrad Four: From Idea to Successful Project

Vitalii Lebediuk

 

Lecture

19.09.19

Theories of Modernization and Democratic Transit

Dmytro Shevchuk

Lecture

24.09.19

Elections, the electoral process and participation in V4 countries and Ukraine

Vitalii Lebediuk

Lecture

26.09.19

How Do We Study Political Changes V4 countries and Ukraine?

Dmytro Shevchuk

Seminar

01.10.19

Passive and Active Leverages of EU: the cases of V4 countries

Vitalii Lebediuk

Lecture

03.10.19

Political transition and the state of democracy in Ukraine: between hopes and disillusions

Dmytro Shevchuk

Lecture

08.10.19

Elections, the electoral process and participation in V4 countries and Ukraine

Vitalii Lebediuk

Seminar

10.10.19

The specific of transition in Hungary

 

Dmytro Shevchuk

Lecture

15.10.19

Socio-cultural aspects of transition in V4 countries

Vitalii Lebediuk

Seminar

17.10.19

V4 countries’ security issues and Ukrainian-Russian Crisis

Vitalii Lebediuk

Lecture

22.10.19

Civic education and promoting the democratic values in V4 countries: lessons for Ukraine

Dmytro Shevchuk

Lecture

31.10.19

V4 countries’ security issues and Ukrainian-Russian Crisis

Vitalii Lebediuk

Seminar

05.11.19

Civic education and promoting the democratic values in V4 countries: lessons for Ukraine

Dmytro Shevchuk

Seminar

12.11.19

 

The specific of transition in Hungary

 

Dmytro Shevchuk

Seminar

21.11.19

The Czech Parliamentary Regime After 1989: Origins, Developments and Challenges

Miloš Brunclík (Charles University)

Lecture

21.11.19

Constitutional making in the Czech Republic and constitutional amendments

Miloš Brunclík (Charles University)

Lecture

22.11.19

Current problems and challenges of the Czech political system

Miloš Brunclík (Charles University)

Lecture

26.11.19

Passive and Active Leverages of EU: the cases of V4 countries

Vitalii Lebediuk

Seminar

05.12.19

Slovakia as a New Country in Central Europe

 

Peter Terem

(Matej Bel University)

Lecture

05.12.19

The Transformation Processes in Central Europe – Slovakia

 

Peter Terem

(Matej Bel University)

Lecture

05.12.19

Struggle for Democracy, Economic Prosperity and Emancipation in International Relations – Slovakia

Peter Terem

(Matej Bel University)

Lecture

10.12.19

Ukrainian Euromaidan: receptions in V4 countries

Dmytro Shevchuk

Lecture

21.12.19

Process of institution building in Poland

Tomasz Stępniewski (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)

Lecture

21.12.19

“Shock” and “Therapy” as parts of transformation in Poland

Tomasz Stępniewski (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)

Lecture

21.12.19

Ukrainian Crisis in the Conditions of Transformation of Central and Eastern European Countries

Tomasz Stępniewski (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)

Lecture

23.12.19

“Shock” and “Therapy” as parts of transformation in Poland

Dmytro Shevchuk

Seminar

24.12.19

Consultations before final Assesment

 

Dmytro Shevchuk

Vitalii Lebediuk

 

26.12.19

Exam

Dmytro Shevchuk

Vitalii Lebediuk

 

 

In the course «The Comparative Study of Democratization: Transition Politics in V4 countries and Ukraine» for students of the specialty «Political Science» of the Department of Political Science and National Security of the National University «Ostroh Academy» in 2019-2020, 33 students take part. List of enrolled students in the course can be downloaded here.​​​​​​​
The brochure about the project within the framework of the Visegrad Grant for University Study and the Eastern Partnership Program of the International Visegrad Fund aimed at implementing the course «The Comparative Study of Democratization: Transition Politics in V4 countries and Ukraine» for students of the specialty «Political Science» of the Department of Political Science and National Security of the National University «Ostroh Academy» in 2019-2020 can be downloaded here.