Případová studie změny vnímání Ruska v české politice: Výbuch muničního skladu ve Vrběticích

Přenosilová, Pavla

MA Thesis 2025 Pavla Přenosilová (21624779) Abstract This Master thesis explores the influence of hybrid warfare on parliamentary discourse on securitization, focusing on the Czech Republic as a representative case study of democratic state subjected to repeated Russian hybrid involvement. While hybrid warfare framework has been studied operationally, its impact on political discourse remains unexplored and thus represents a gap in literature. To change this fact, the following analysis draws on the case of Vrbetice ammunition depot explosion in 2014 and subsequent revelation of its investigation in 2021 as an example of extreme hybrid aggression. The work adopts the qualitative content analysis methodology on the transcripts of Czech Chamber of Deputies sessions to identify evolving threat narratives, changing securitization patterns, mechanisms and actors through which hybrid warfare penetrates democratic parliamentary debate. The analysis revealed that hybrid war can intensify threat narrative, giving traction to counter-narratives against securitization. In Czech context, the authority of domestic security community in justification of securitization proved to be important, coupled with historical references to Russia.

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