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International arms trade: U.S., Sweden and Russia
Štrbák, Marek ; Kopečný, Tomáš (advisor) ; Plechanovová, Běla (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of international arms trade. More particularly, it deals with the arms trade in three chosen countries - the United States, Sweden and Russia. In general, this work brings coherent data and analyzes the arms trade issue, especially in the countries chosen for this academic work. The aim is to present arms trade problematics of these three countries to the reader as well as to bring the valuable analyzes on the chosen topic and finally to compare the case countries in order to find the differences and common characteristics. The main goal of this thesis is to find the answers on the research questions. The two most important research questions are: What are the current trends and future of the international arms trade in the U.S., Sweden and Russia? How does the arms trade differ in these countries? The first research question is focused on present and future development of arms trade, on the other hand second one gives partially comparative nature to the thesis. The thesis is based on comparative case study method. Through the deep examination of this three case countries the work comes to the answers designed in the research questions. Thesis concludes the raising importance of the arms trade as the instrument of influence. In addition, growing of volume of arms...
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Legal regulation of international trade in military material and civilian weapons
Matocha, Jakub ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Ondřej, Jan (referee) ; Dolanská Bányaiová, Lucie (referee)
Legal regulation of international trade in military material and civilian weapons The thesis focuses on the comparison of regulations governing international trade with weapons of military and non-military character. The area under consideration is, given the character of the commodity traded, a specific area of international trade in which there are a number of legal norms regulating this area. The analysis and comparison of the legal standards in question is based on international, European and national legislation, with an emphasis on internal interconnection of individual legal norms in order to better understanding and relevance to the international arms trade. The thesis consists of several chapters that are thematically related. The first chapter deals with the theoretical definition of international arms trade with a focus on private international law. Particular attention is paid to the international purchase agreement and international transport agreements that will be applied in the course of the implementation of the arms trade. The second chapter focuses on defining the term "weapon" and its definition in the most important international conventions dealing with weapons. Attention is focused on distinguishing military weapons and weapons for civilian purposes. The next, third to fifth chapters...
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Russian foreign policy and eastern vector
Literáková, Adéla ; Kolenovská, Daniela (advisor) ; Svoboda, Karel (referee)
The main goal of this bachelor thesis Russian foreign policy and eastern vector is to find out how much Russian strategy in Asia contributed to fulfil stated political goal - to reduce power of the United States of America in the world. In the middle of the 1990's, the Russian foreign policy changed the direction from the western oriented policy into the multivectoral one. The most important role got the eastern vector - mainly India and People's Republic of China. Russia considered the good relations with those countries as a condition to enforce and to protect its national interests. The main political goal of Russia was to limit the power of the United Stated of America in international affairs. The first chapter presents the approach of Russian foreign policy in the 1990's and describes why Russia started to aim at eastern vector. The second chapter explains the Russian policy in Asia. The third chapter describes in detail relations between Moscow and Beijing and the cause of the growing importance of People's Republic of China in Russian foreign policy in 1990's.
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Sankční politika EU v sino-evropských vztazích
Petrová, Eliška ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Lehmannová, Zuzana (referee)
The main objective of this thesis is to assess whether the arms embargo from 1989 removal is an option for the European Union. The paper is divided into two major chapters. The first chapter introduces the theoretical framework of EU sanction policy and restrictive measures. Also, the timeline and reasons for the embargo imposition are described. The second one examines Sino-European relations in terms of political discourse and especially arms trade because both are connected with the topic of the arms embargo. The approaches towards the embargo of all actors are also discussed.
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Arms trade after year 2000
Neshoda, Jakub ; Eichler, Jan (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
This bacherol thesis deals with arms trade and transfers between years 2001 and 2015. The main objective of this thesis is to formulate possible future development of the arms trade.The first two chapters are devoted to the most important actors of arms trade and possible reasons which cause high degree of demand in selected regions. Last chapter describes possible future development of arms trade.
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Trade in military material: the Czech and Slovak law perspective
Matocha, Jakub ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Brodec, Jan (referee)
This thesis focuses on the mutual comparison of the Czech and Slovak legislation in field of international trade in military material and its purposes is to identify which one of the legislations is more arms businessmen friendly in terms of legally-administrative costingness. The paper consists of three main parts. The first part is dedicated to the theoretic frame of the legal regulations in question with emphasis on the private international law. It contains the definitions of the well-known terms such as arms, trade in arms or military material. The second part focuses on international legal basics of the issue in question with respect to the most noted international treaties or key European regulation forming core of the trade in military material. The third part of the thesis compares the acts on international trade with military material in the Czech and Slovak Republic.
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Growing Role of China in African Security
Květová, Lenka ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Werkman, Kateřina (referee)
Chinese economic expansion in Africa is a widely discussed topic, but less academic attention is being paid to the role China plays in African security. Since the late 1990s Chinese activity in Africa had been growing rapidly. Beijing's interests are predominantly economic, mostly represented by market seeking and foreign direct investments, and political, generally perceived as a mutual support in international organizations. The thesis focuses on the traditional principle of non-interference in how Chinese policy towards African security has been evolving together with growing Chinese interests on the continent. The People's Republic of China influences African security matters in four areas: diplomatic involvement, arms deals, support and financing, and military cooperation. By analyzing those areas with a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, concrete cases have been identified, when China interfered in internal affairs of particular states, thus altering its policy of non- interference towards more pragmatic and case by case based approach.
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Defence Expenditures in Western Countries: Panel Data Analysis
Sosnovec, Jan ; Gregor, Martin (advisor) ; Bobková, Božena (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine main determinants of military expenditures of NATO members and other Western countries. These determinants are identified and their relations with military expenditures analyzed using regression analysis on an unbalanced data panel of 30 countries during the period 1969-2011. "Military burden' - share of defense expenditures on country's GDP - is used as the explained variable. Explanatory variables include main economic indicators - GDP per capita, population, economic growth, indebtedness etc. - as well as several variables related to security (e.g. the level of threat posed by the Soviet Union) or politics (ideological orientation of the government). The question of behavior within a military alliance (contribution versus free-riding) is also taken into account. The main findings are that there are significant structural differences between major military powers - the US, France and the UK - and the rest of the Western world, and similar differences appear to exist between the Cold War and the post-Cold War periods. Furthermore some evidence is provided for the commonly held belief that smaller NATO members are essentially free-riding on the protection provided by few major powers (especially the US). Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Legal limits of the cross-border movement of military materials
Matocha, Jakub ; Pauknerová, Monika (advisor) ; Brodec, Jan (referee)
Legal limits of the cross-border movement of military materials The global trade with military materials is an important, however often under- researched, area of academic enquiry. Such attitude is not correct, because in fact it is a massive global industry in which also Czech companies play a significant role. Given the newspaper headlines and statements of arms dealer, it is obvious there have long been unsolved problems burdening arms dealers caused especially by an inappropriate legal framework. This theses aims to provide an analysis of legal framework in respect to cross-border movement of military materials covering especially European and Czech legislation focusing on its potential limits arising and important for arms dealers. On a global international level the Arms Trade Treaty and other relevant treaties regulating international trade with military materials are identified and described. Attention is also paid to limitations of arms trade such as embargoes or restrictive measures imposed by the UN and the EU respectively as well as to limitations resulting from domestic and European legislation or from its different interpretation. In view of different legal framework this thesis strictly distinguishes whether a movement is realized, while particular law is adequately reflected. There...
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Legal aspects of the international trade of arms
Kejzlar, Pavel ; Pomahač, Richard (referee) ; Mikule, Leoš (referee)
The aim of my rigorous thesis is to describe issue of regulation of the international trade of arms focused on the Czech legal regulation. Rigorous thesis is focused on the basic information in the field of the legal and illegal arm trafficking. First part (chapter 1, 2, 3) concerns the security risks of trade of arms, maps the development of the arm trafficking, the present state of this area and structure of the arm trafficking. The second part (chapter 4, 5, 6) describes the legal framework of the international trade of arms. It is focused on the international legal regulations including regimes of control, communitary law and country legislation. There is given the analysis of the particular field concerning the arm trafficking and at the end there is always given a part of the administrative punishment. The end of the second part does not miss the comparison of the legal regulation within the neighbouring countries. Next part (chapter 7) refers about the topic by criminally legal protection. Generally there are described facts given by Penal Code with referenc to its amend. Conclusions are drawn in the last part (chapter 8). There is summarized the findings about problems with regulation of the international trade of arms and their possible solutions.
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