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The Concept of Politics in the Realist Tradition of the Theory of Intenational Relations
Laššuth, Juraj ; Znoj, Milan (advisor) ; Lánský, Ondřej (referee) ; Barša, Pavel (referee)
The Concept of Politics in the Realist Tradition of the Theory of International Relations. Juraj Laššuth Abstract: Aim of this thesis is a reconstruction of the notion of politics in the school of classical realism in Theory of International Relations, using the texts of Hans Morgenthau primarily. This aim is followed in four steps - four chapters. First chapter describes relation between antropological/moral background of Morgenthau's political thinking and political sphere. Four images of the relations between anthropology and the evaluation of political sphere are identified and compared ("emacipation", "gay politics", "katechon" and "circles and antinomies") - the final one will be shown as connected with the notion of Hans Morgenthau's realism. Morgenthau's work, built up on tradition of the Pauline epistles, treats evil (defined by lust for power) as inherently present, indispensable from any human acts. Political sphere, defined according "the second principle of realism" by interest defined in terms of power, is a place, where morally ambivalent logic of power stands as the reason of acting. Second chapter addresses Morgenthau's notion of political science by comparing it with the project of Weberian social science, analyses its reason, ethos, complicated relations with its subject, dilemmas which...
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Politization and depolitization in European integration
Laššuth, Juraj ; Znoj, Milan (advisor) ; Bíba, Jan (referee)
European Union is a challenge for political sciences in these days, because of difficulties in its description in the terms of classical theories of political sciences. These difficulties are even greater, when we want to unravel the political entity of EU and find attributes of the politics and political praxis in it. The inherited tradition of political theory is tightly connected with the phenomenon of state. But EU goes beyond the state as a basic political structure. Nevertheless, there is an intuition, that there is some kind of politics and political praxis in the structures of EU. The question is, where we can find the praxis and how it looks like. Firstly, a characteristics of the political were found, according to the works of the classical theoreticians of political praxis, which were compared with governance in EU. Consequently, a tendency in politization of institutions an topics in European level was found, on the basis of the reflection on debates about democratic deficit in EU (which is also about deficit of politics in EU). Signs of political behavior were found in politization of European Parliament - in creation of robust political parties, party politics and system of parties, whose main axis of cleavage is leftist-rightist one. This cleavege has implication on choosing president of the...
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Obama's Foreign Policy towards BRIC(s) in first functional term (2009-2012)
Kučerová, Petra ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Laššuth, Juraj (referee)
Thesis deals with the foreign policy of Barack Obama's in first term 2009 - 2012. The aim is evaluate the U. S. foreign policy towards to BRIC(S) in this term. To acronym BRIC(S) partnership brings together world powers Russia and China and regional powers Brasil, India and South Africa. Introduction is dedicated to the characteristics of the main actors, the USA, president Obama and BRIC(S). The next section presents the assumptions of the U. S. foreign policy, factors and its limits. Finally anlyzes the foreign policy of Barack Obama. The analyses showed the different approach in its foreign policy toward superpowers China and Russia on one hand and regional powers Brazil, India and South Africa on the other.
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