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Unpacking Hungary's and Czechia's strategic profiles amid the Russian aggression against Ukraine
Vozovych, Anastasiia ; Snitar, Corina (vedoucí práce) ; Střítecký, Vít (oponent)
This dissertation attends to the strategic profiles of Hungary and Czechia amid the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine. The dissertation unpacks the similarities and differences of Hungary's and Czechia's strategic outlooks referring to their experience of Soviet occupation in 1956 and 1968, respectively. The author argues that different stances on the Russia-Ukraine war cannot be explored without attending to Hungary's and Czechia's strategic cultures. In this dissertation the author points out the interrelation between strategic culture and foreign policy decision-making to flag the interplay between strategic culture and strategic behaviour. The author presents a set of three hypotheses related to the correlation between the strategic culture and decision-making process, Hungary's memory of the Soviet occupation and its ramifications on the current stance on the Russia-Ukraine war as well as Czechia's memory of the Soviet occupation and its implications on the Czech strategic choices. The author outlines the main features of Hungary's and Czechia's strategic culture, their commemorative practices, and tools for framing the reactions towards the past and present security matters.
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Beyond Gender Norms and Role Expectations: Revising Counterterrorism Strategies in Iraq and Jordan
Martinelli, Sofia ; Snitar, Corina (vedoucí práce) ; Leonard, Sarah (oponent)
This dissertation will analyse the phenomenon of female terrorism in Arab Muslim societies, and the consequent national strategies aimed at countering it. Scholars have recently focused on the gendered aspects of jihadi terrorist organisations, looking at both the motivations behind women's radicalisation and their operational roles, particularly as suicide bombers. Yet, little attention has been paid to the operativity of gendered norms in informing female terrorists' identity and agency, leading toward biased and partial understandings of the issue at hand. As such, this study will first focus on examining female jihadi terrorism from a gender- based and context-sensitive perspective, and it will then check national counterterrorism efforts against those findings. The purpose of this research is to highlight the modalities and the extent to which gendered norms informing female behaviour have been integrated into counterterrorism apporaches. A qualitative research design will be adopted, analysing terrorist women's first-hand accounts and lived experiences and evaluating Iraq's and Jordan's National Action Plans on Women Peace and Security. Findings will show that female terrorism has been evolving in the past two decades, not distancing itself from gendered religious values, but rather...
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Implausible deniability of covert actions in the Middle East
Tosin, Eleonora ; Kučera, Tomáš (vedoucí práce) ; Snitar, Corina (oponent)
Covert action is a popular and fruitful tactic employed in the Middle East, yet it has little common grounds with covert operations that were popularised by the United States or the Soviet Union. This dissertation offers a new perspective on covert action and attached plausible deniability, by taking into consideration the Middle Eastern region today and its specific characteristics. The need for secrecy, a key aspect of the traditional portrayal of covert actions, is replaced by the urge to assert and project power over this contested region, while all parties involved carefully seek to avoid engaging in conventional armed conflict. Middle Eastern countries are characterised by the ability to navigate conflict through grey zone tactics, covert action being a prominent one, due to the strong imbalance of military capabilities and due to the intricate, yet fragile, network of alliances and partnerships. This study explores the reasons why implausible deniability is a more appropriate term to describe the modern covert actions in the Middle East are carried out, rather than plausible deniability. Namely, implausible deniability, which is described as the more open acknowledgment of sponsorship in covert actions, is not merely imposed by a technologically interconnected society, which in the last two...
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