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Empathy, Local Knowledge and the Construction of Suffering: an Analysis of the Epistemological Limitations of the US Militaries Approach to Civilian Harm Mitigation and Reporting
Smith, Alice ; Cheskin, Ammon (vedoucí práce) ; Hynek, Nikola (oponent)
Civilian harm mitigation and reporting is a mechanism which is used by liberal democracies to illustrate they have taken all measures to prevent harm to civilians during conflict, and therefore abide to principles of Just War theory. However, vast amounts of civilian suffering continue to take place, with no repercussion to the governments at fault, regardless of these technologies. Using the case of the US military during Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and Iraq from 2014-2018, this research seeks to address this puzzle. In doing so it will attempt to bridge the gap between the work of the US military, and that of non-profit organisations who represent local experiences. This research will make the case that the US militaries failure to construct suffering adequately due to the association of suffering with femininity and the use of masculinised language during conflict. Furthermore, it will illustrate how local knowledge is rejected on the basis of its foundation in emotion and subjectivities which are also associated with femininity. This contradicts the militaries own subjectivities in their decision making found through this research. All in all, this will challenge the ability for the US military to hold the responsibility of mitigating and reporting civilian harm. Making the case that,...
The Russian Hybrid-Gambit and Baltic Countermoves: Hybrid War, Grand Strategy, and Whole-of Society Defense
McDonell, Rory Joseph ; Hynek, Nikola (vedoucí práce) ; Anceschi, Luca (oponent)
This study explores hybrid warfare as a strategic choice for states under geopolitical pressure. This form of warfare, often covert and non-military, is not a new concept; history's prominent military theorists have long advocated for achieving political objectives through subversion and coercion rather than overt conflict. While not new, technology and a changing geopolitical landscape are making these tactics more prevalent, and the very nature of open democratic societies can make them vulnerable to hybrid attacks. Russia's strategic challenges, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, exemplify the conditions that stimulate the application of hybrid warfare. The loss of control over critical geographical invasion points, combined with Western encroachment on its borders, has led to Russia employing hybrid warfare in an attempt to regain strategic influence over former Soviet territories. The Baltics have responded by implementing whole-of-society defence, a strategy that encourages integrated comprehensive societal participation for national defence. This research aims to understand and explore these opposing strategic dynamics. This study is guided by two key research questions: first, what is the role of hybrid warfare in grand strategy and how effective is it in accomplishing...
Scotland's ethical paradiplomacy as strategic narratives
White, Kenneth ; Paterson, Ian (vedoucí práce) ; Hynek, Nikola (oponent)
This dissertation seeks to interrogate Scotland's upcoming publication of a feminist approach to international relations, announced in 2021 - situating it within a growing cohort of states. It assumes the position that Scotland's international activities - conceptualised as paradiplomacy - are already feminist. In conducting this argument, it will explore questions as to why Scotland adopts a feminist foreign policy and as to how this policy might look. The analytical frameworks necessary to answer these questions are conjured through feminist theory, soft power, and strategic narratives. Building on these concepts, content analysis is utilised in relation to Scottish Government communications through the years of Scotland's 'good global citizenship' from 2016 until the present. From this approach, an array of interesting feminist strategic narratives are gleaned and harnessed to better understand how Scotland approaches gender within its paradiplomacy.
Vox Populi, Vox Dei? The Politicisation of Abortion in the United States
Pazos Puig, Paula ; Hynek, Nikola (vedoucí práce) ; Bujnoch, Louis (oponent)
The Supreme Court's recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, and with it the constitutional right of abortion, has sparked a debate on the limits of state interference with certain fundamental and private rights. This thesis aims to explore the legal and theoretical framework that allows putting certain fundamental rights, and more specifically that of abortion, up for a vote, and analyses the particularities of the abortion debate through liberalism's political conceptions of justice as fairness. In addition, a conceptualisation of abortion as a human security matter than can be incorporated into the security agenda is provided, which allows for the protection of abortion as a fundamental right.
Understanding Violence and Conflict: Greenland as a Theory-Building Case Study
Guidoboni, Luca ; Hynek, Nikola (vedoucí práce) ; Kilroy, Walt (oponent)
Greenland is a land where unresolved conundrums and fast-paced emerging threats intersect. If not properly addressed, these could worsen the critical rates of suicide (one of the highest in the world and 6-7 times higher than the other Nordic countries), multigenerational trauma, and other forms of abuse. By developing and applying a renewed conceptualization of violent conflicts aimed at unravelling their roots, this study recognises that there are precise violent phenomena and conflictual dimensions that curb Greenlandic development across human security and international relations. The study confirms that the Danish 'benign' colonisation, by constituting a discriminatory relationship, provoked frustration among the Inuit, fostering the psychological push factors to self-destruction and violence against other fragile individuals, while environmental conditions and contextual phenomena limited violence at the micro-level. More broadly, the case study demonstrates that discrimination in its wider sense is the main source of violent conflicts and that the redistribution of the ownership of resources is the main way to prevent large and organised violent phenomena. In fact, Greenland currently needs a multi-agency psychosocial healing programme that addresses households and individual therapy....
Fenomén hybridního působení státních i nestátních aktérů
Havlík, Martin ; Hynek, Nikola (vedoucí práce) ; Ludvík, Jan (oponent)
Rigorózní práce se zabývá problematikou hybridního působení státních a nestátních aktérů využívajících široké spektrum nástrojů moci k prosazování vlastních zájmů. Primárním záměrem je vztažení obsahu ke konceptu bezpečnosti podle Kodaňské školy, která jako jedna z nejvýznamnějších přispěla ve druhé polovině 20. století po rozpadu bipolárního uspořádání světa k rozšíření sledovaných dimenzí bezpečnosti a také k novému širšímu pojetí souvisejících referenčních objektů. Vymezení nosných konceptů bezpečnosti je dále rozšířeno o CLAUSEWITZOVO pojetí války a americký koncept Theory of Victory. Na úvodní teorie navazuje analýza klíčových teoretických aparátů významných západních, ruských a čínských bezpečnostních expertů, které jsou následně porovnány ve vztahu k podstatným faktorům jednotlivých hybridních přístupů. Práce dále zevrubně popisuje signifikantní kategorie nástrojů moci typu soft power, hard power, smart power a sharp power. Důležitou součástí práce je také analýza státních, nestátních a proxy-státních aktérů, jakožto hlavních nositelů, uživatelů a reprezentantů hybridního působení. V této souvislosti je klíčovým determinantem zvolený referenční objekt v podobě České republiky. Pro doplnění problematiky je v práci zařazena také související oblast čelení hybridním hrozbám a hybridnímu působení...
Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and the metaphysics of security communities: perspectives from Tlatelolco and Bangkok
Canola, Vanessa ; Hynek, Nikola (vedoucí práce) ; Solovyeva, Anzhelika (oponent)
š é á š ě ě ů ž ý ů ě í č ý ř ž š á í á ří á ý ó á ě ó ý í é ěř ú ě á í ž í ř ž ý ý í ě ší á ů í í é š ů á í ě ě á á é é ů é ý ří š š í í é ř í ě č í řá á í á í á í í é ě č í ří ž ý ý ř ěř ů čí í ý č é š ž ř áší ěží řístup k "akademické" diskusi. Pro odpověď á í í ý é á š ích "one elites interviews" a vybrala dvě ě í í ří é é ě ý í Asii: "Do jaké í ř í ě š é "bezpeč í komunity", koncept vytvoř ý ě ý Adlerem a Barnettem?", "Můž ř é á í í í í í ývojovou cestu: "mladá", "vzestupná" nebo "zralá" č í komunita?", "Jakou roli hrají í í é š ř ř á í á í á í á ích stran?". Vý ž ž í "tří ň ého" modelu a analý ý ý ří ý í ůž ž ý í ě é č í é "zralé" fá é ě á í é é ář á č á á í í ý ě ž ý ý í é ý č é ú
Russian threat through the prism of British competitive liberalism
Samborskyi, Artem ; Riegl, Martin (vedoucí práce) ; Hynek, Nikola (oponent)
1 CHARLES UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Institute of Political Studies Department of Security Studies Master's Thesis 2023 Artem Samborskyi 2 CHARLES UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Institute of Political Studies Department of Security Studies Russian threat through the prism of British competitive liberalism Master's thesis Author: Artem Samborskyi Study programme: International Security Studies Supervisor: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D. Year of the defence: 2023 3 Abstract The thesis is aimed at addressing the existing lack of academic understanding of the United Kingdom's foreign policy towards the Russian Federation, which stems from insufficient conceptualization of the current posture of Britain on the international stage and lack of in- depth research of the reasons behind the apparent animosity between London and Moscow. Specifically, the work answers the question of why the Russian Federation is designated the most acute direct threat to the United Kingdom and its "most urgent" foreign policy priority. The thesis is comprised of three major parts, each dedicated to a specific source of explanations of the mentioned research problem. Namely, the first two chapters constitute a document analysis of governmental, publicly available British thinking on the matter and academic literature...
Inside the Dictator's Panopticon: Unveiling Digital Authoritarianism in Belarus
Yaromich, Kathrin ; Solovyeva, Anzhelika (vedoucí práce) ; Hynek, Nikola (oponent)
Title: Inside the Dictator's Panopticon: Unveiling Digital Authoritarianism in Belarus Název práce: Uvnitř diktátorova panoptika: Odhalování digitálního autoritarismu v Bělorusku. Abstract: The following research presents the first-ever empirical case study of digital authoritarianism in Belarus. While Belarusian propaganda has created an atmosphere of omnipresent surveillance with citizens always feeling watched, there is pervasive secrecy surrounding existing surveillance practices and their functioning. The following research aims to unravel the techniques of digital repression employed by the Belarusian government, as well as to evaluate them in line with the conceptual framework of the usage of digital technologies to the strategic ends of authoritarian regimes and the transformational political effects of such new technologies. In addition to establishing distinct features of Belarusian digital authoritarianism, the research also determines the extent to which Belarusian authoritarianism is digital as well as the role of private actors. Given the lack of academic literature relating to the specific case study, interviews with experts in the field were carried out and consequently utilized in the qualitative analysis along with secondary data. The findings suggest Lukashenka's government effectively...
The French Nuclear Deterrence Adaptation to the Post-World War II Strategic Environment
Guitard, Gaëlle ; Hynek, Nikola (vedoucí práce) ; Střítecký, Vít (oponent)
1 CHARLES UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Institute of Political Studies Department of Political Science The French nuclear deterrence adaptation to the post 2nd World War strategic environment Master's thesis Author: Gaëlle Guitard Study program: Security Studies Supervisor: prof. Ph.D. RNDr. Nikola Hynek, PhD, MA and Mgr. Anzhelika Solovyeva, PhD. Year of the defense: 2023 2 References GUITARD, Gaëlle. The French nuclear deterrence adaptation to the post-2nd World War strategic environment. Praha, 2023. 118 pages. Master's thesis (Mgr.). Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Sciences. Department of Security Studies. Supervisor Prof. Ph.D. RNDr. Nikola Hynek, PhD, MA and Mgr. Anzhelika Solovyeva, PhD. Length of the thesis: 223 852 characters with spaces 3 Abstrakt Od konce druhé světové války došlo k vývoji mezinárodního dynamického zúčtování, které vyústilo v posun rovnováhy moci a zpochybnění již existujících vztahů mezi mocnostmi. Tuto drastickou změnu lze připsat příchodu bezprecedentní zbraně, která hluboce proměnila základní vztah mocností mezi národy. Po jaderném bombardování Hirošimy a Nagasaki nebyl svět nikdy stejný. následně státy získaly soubor protokolů, programů a držení této nejvyšší zbraně za účelem získání pozice, která má takové zbraně k dispozici....

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