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Regional powers going abroad: Extra-regional geoeconomic strategies of India, Türkiye, and the EU in the Horn of Africa
Teufel, Adam ; Ludvík, Jan (vedoucí práce) ; Machold, Rhys (oponent)
Since the end of the cold war, scholars have been debating the concept of geoeconomics as an alternative to geopolitics for an international system in which the significance of military power is supposedly superseded by economic power. However, while a clear definition and conceptualisation of geoeconomics continues to be absent, its relevance for global dynamics has become undeniable in the context of great power competition, and beyond. Whether called regional, middle, or emerging powers, countries like India or Türkiye are playing an increasingly important role, particularly in the economic domain, in which they leverage economic power for both political and economic gain. However, while much research and theoretic framework exist concerning regional powers' geoeconomic statecraft in their respective regions, their increasingly extra-regional engagement, although evident, remains under-conceptualised. This thesis will therefore assess the utility of a framework to analyse and characterise regional powers' extra-regional geoeconomic strategies. This thesis proposes the use of Wigell's (2016) ideal-type framework for regional powers' geoeconomic strategies to be compatible with the analysis of extra-regional engagement. Through a plausibility probe case study, it will give insight into the utility and...
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Nuclear Governance and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Irvine, Caitlin ; Hynek, Nikola (vedoucí práce) ; Machold, Rhys (oponent) ; Murphy, Karl (oponent)
On the 7th July 2017, the United Nations adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) by a vote of 122-1-1. The TPNW has been widely credited with opening a new chapter on nuclear governance norms with the potential to disrupt the current order. Therefore, studying this contemporary treaty is important topical piece of research. Due to the frequently expressed normative value of the TPNW, two theoretical frameworks have been used to evaluate the normative progress of this treaty. This research project studies not only the TPNW, but two other treaties that are commonly grouped into Humanitarian Disarmament. The Mine Ban Treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and the TPNW have been analysed in order to study their linguistic similarities through the methodological approach of discourse analysis in order to consider the salient aspects of the Humanitarian Disarmament trend. The results of this project suggest that the TPNW has opened up new room for debate in the typically state centric field of nuclear governance but the TPNW has not yet become a widespread norm. Instead, it remains at the "tipping point" and more time is required to see if it will cascade across international relations or fail. The treaty is still contested by Nuclear Weapon States (NWS) and supported by...
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