Recording of the lecture from the series Fridays from 16/02/2024 on the topic: Great powers yesterday, today and tomorrow. In the lecture and subsequent discussion, we will try to answer the following questions: Political definition of the term great power. Great powers of modern times operating in the global system of international relations. How much power must a great power have and how much power is created. The Problem of Disaffected Great Powers. Who will (not) make it to the superpower league? Lecturer: PhDr. Michael Romancov, Ph.D. (1969), graduate of the Faculty of Education, Charles University and the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. He works at the Institute of Political Studies of the FSV of the UK and at the Metropolitan University of Prague. He specializes in political geography, geopolitics and Russia. (Annotation and cv source: Pátěčníci.net) Link to stream recording and discussion on Pátěkníci channel: • Michael Romancov: Velmoci včera, dnes... Further information: https://www.romancov.cz/ / michaelromancov www.patecnici. net / patecnici.cyklus Current information about other lectures: From 6 May 2022, the regular lectures Fridays - Sisyphus will be running again live, i.e. publicly with a debater audience in the PřF UK auditorium - from October 2023 until further notice in Krajinova auditorium B14 in Benátská 2, on the second mezzanine (until then, these lectures were Viničné 7, B3 on the ground floor on the left - the same as Biological Thursdays, or B7 on the second floor opposite the staircase ). In addition to recording, there should also be an online stream, information will be available on the unchanged links on FB address: / patecnici.cyklus and YouTube channel: / páteknici sisyfos tinyurl.com/YtPatecnici Support for the Páteknici project: https://www.startovac .cz/patron/vasi-... --- Note on automatically inserted unsolicited advertising content on YouTube during playback: Dear friends, the LLionTV YouTube channel has been founded in 2013 non-monetized and thus without any financial contribution from the YouTube community e.g. for the number of views or viewing time. He has always followed this ethical principle and has a strong will to keep it that way, not only out of respect for the presenters and performers, who are the main creators of the content, but also out of a higher moral principle. Until recently, the channel operated in this way was hosted on YouTube without added ads, and when this policy changed, I at least hoped that if the profit generated in this way was attributed only to a third party, i.e. the administrator / owner of this medium, the amount of unintentionally uploaded content would be at a reasonable and acceptable level . Unfortunately, this is not the case, and I'm afraid that no distinction is even made between paid and non-paid channels. So far I don't even know of any way to avoid embedded ads in any acceptable way or at least reduce them to an acceptable level. I definitely don't want to support this paradigm, that's why I don't even encourage you to subscribe to a service, e.g. YouTube Premium (CZK 179 / month), which allows you to watch videos without ads. If anyone can think of a reasonable solution, I would be very happy for any advice, e.g. to the email listed in the LLionTV end log of most of this creator's videos.