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Reception of Strategic Economic Narratives: Case Study of the Kenyan News Discourse.
Řehák, Vilém ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee) ; Záhořík, Jan (referee)
Strategic narrative is a communicative tool for political elites to construct a shared meaning to the international politics, to articulate state's interests, to change the discursive environment, and to shape the behaviour of other actors. It has three different dynamics, which proceed simultaneously and reinforce each other: formation of the narrative within the given state, its projection in the international arena, and its reception in other states. Theory of strategic narratives fits well into the framework of new regionalism, which tries to analyse relations between the processes of globalization, globalism, regionalization, and regionalism. Until recently, such analyses were conducted from state-level and positivist perspective. As a result, the dimension of reception remained understudied. The presented thesis is an attempt to fill this gap. It analyses global political economy from the interpretivist constructivist perspective: it uses the leading local newspaper as a data sources and analyses media (news) discourse as one form of a broad societal discourse. Such an analysis can help us to analyse how local society assesses and reacts to strategic narratives and their internalization or rejection by local elites. In my thesis, I focus on narratives of the three superpowers (the US, the EU,...
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New Regionalism and Sub-Saharan Africa
Řehák, Vilém ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Lukáš, Ivan (referee)
The diploma thesis "New Regionalism and Sub-Saharan Africa" deals with the question of economic integration in Africa and its theoretical reflexion. First chapter deals with the question whether different integration theories are applicable to African reality or not. Author subsequently analyzes Pan-Africanism as a specifically African ideology, classical economic integration theories, classical theories of political science on integration and modern theories of political science, with the conclusion that neither of these theories provides explanation of speeding up African integration in recent years. Chapter two deals with the phenomenon of so-called "new regionalism" as a process in world economy, second part deals with different theoretical conceptions and theories trying to describe and theorize about this process. Chapter three briefly describes evolution of African integration from its colonial starts to the newest initiatives connected with the transformation of Organization of African Unity into African Union. Chapter four offers five case studies of integration in different regional organizations. Each case study outlines starting position in 1991 in the sense of creation of organization, its aims and evolution of integration up to signing of the Abuja Treaty creating African Economic...
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Reception of Strategic Economic Narratives: Case Study of the Kenyan News Discourse.
Řehák, Vilém ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Horáková, Hana (referee) ; Záhořík, Jan (referee)
Strategic narrative is a communicative tool for political elites to construct a shared meaning to the international politics, to articulate state's interests, to change the discursive environment, and to shape the behaviour of other actors. It has three different dynamics, which proceed simultaneously and reinforce each other: formation of the narrative within the given state, its projection in the international arena, and its reception in other states. Theory of strategic narratives fits well into the framework of new regionalism, which tries to analyse relations between the processes of globalization, globalism, regionalization, and regionalism. Until recently, such analyses were conducted from state-level and positivist perspective. As a result, the dimension of reception remained understudied. The presented thesis is an attempt to fill this gap. It analyses global political economy from the interpretivist constructivist perspective: it uses the leading local newspaper as a data sources and analyses media (news) discourse as one form of a broad societal discourse. Such an analysis can help us to analyse how local society assesses and reacts to strategic narratives and their internalization or rejection by local elites. In my thesis, I focus on narratives of the three superpowers (the US, the EU,...
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Demography and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bankóová, Valéria ; Riegl, Martin (advisor) ; Řehák, Vilém (referee)
Given the current trend of rapid population growth, especially in the global South, the question what the implications of rapid demographic change are for security should receive increased attention. The recently established field of political demography has endeavoured to explore the causal relationship between these two factors, but still relatively few studies exist which would apply political demography theory on specific empirical cases. In this thesis, I have therefore examined the case of the First Congo War, as well as selected conflict events in eastern Congo predating it. Firstly, I have looked at the security implications of population change in the colonial and later in the post-independence era, especially in the Kivu provinces located in eastern Congo. Secondly, I examined the Rwandan genocide from a political demography perspective. Finally, I enquired how the massive Rwandan refugee wave to eastern Congo in the aftermath of the genocide played a role in the eruption of the First Congo War. The selected case study approach proved to be useful in both expanding our understanding of the causes of conflict outbreak in the observed region, and further developing political demography theory by drawing attention to a number of so far largely overlooked aspects. It has highlighted the need...
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The causes of the civil war in Côte d'Ivoire
Řehák, Vilém ; Kumsa, Alemayehu (referee) ; Kropáček, Luboš (advisor)
Prakticky ve všech afrických koloniích došlo v období po druhé světové válce k výraznému nárůstu politické aktivity mezi místním obyvatelstvem. Již existující kulturní, zájmové či odborové organizace se formalizovaly a přeměnily v politické strany, které mezi sebou sváděly volební boj o místa v různých nově ustavovaných či transformovaných koloniálních shromážděních, byť tato byla povětšinou stále ovládaná kolonizátory. Obecně můžeme model těchto institucí popsat tak, že většina míst byla vyhrazena evropským zástupcům, voleným evropskými usedlíky, zatímco z masy Afričanů měl jen zlomek volební právo, a tento zlomek pak volil své zástupce. Tato shromáždění navíc měla len velmi omezené pravomoc! (v předválečném období často působila pouze jako poradní orgány, po válce získala například Územní shromáždění (Assemblée Territorial) 1 ve frankofonních koloniích pravomoci v oblasti ekonomické, respektive rozpočtové, politická rozhodnutí však nadále zůstávala v rukou francouzské administrativy). I přesto byly africké masy vtaženy do politického procesu. V padesátých letech docházelo k rozšiřování práv afrického obyvatelstva včetně práva volebního, a analogicky s tím také rostla politická aktivita nově vzniklých afrických politických stran. Koncem této dekády již bylo zřejmé, že otázka není, zda africké kolonie...
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