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Limits of Conflict Transformation by International Administrations: Eastern Slavonia as the Exceptional Case
Savkovic, Mirko ; Visoka, Gëzim (vedoucí práce) ; Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir (oponent) ; Karásek, Tomáš (oponent)
This study contributes to the literature on the long term local effects of the United Nations transitional administrations. In a transitional administration mission the UN undertakes administrative, governmental and legal functions over a certain territory. By focusing on the case study of Eastern Slavonia, first and understudied among the three UN transitional administrations initiated in the second half of 1990's, the dissertation brings new and confirms some existing findings. Study finds that in the post-Rwanda and post-Bosnia context the UNTAES mission played important role in justification of liberal peace projects focused on issues beyond state concerns. It was therefore provided with disproportionate resources and commitments, which went beyond existing needs in Eastern Slavonia, making it an interesting successful example for long term effects studies. Study analyses long-term post-conflict narratives of local political elites as presented in Croatian and Serbian newspapers from the town of Vukovar. Analysis focuses on direct references to UNTAES, narratives of cooperation and liberal values, and on narratives of division. Relevant texts are translated into English, quoted as a speech act of local political elites, and commented from the critical point of view. Despite the success of the...
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The Puzzle in the Turkish Foreign Policy Decision-Making Process: Beyond the Nexus of Continuities and Changes
Kiousi, Dimitra ; McDonagh, Ken (vedoucí práce) ; Kučera, Tomáš (oponent) ; Unkovski-Korica, Vladimir (oponent)
The puzzle in the Turkish Foreign Policy decision-making process: Beyond the nexus of continuities and changes July 2020 International Master in Security, Intelligence, and Strategic Studies This dissertation analyses the puzzle over the nexus of continuity and change in the Turkish foreign policy decision-making process. It aims to demonstrate that in Turkey's case what seems to best explain the changing patterns in the country's foreign orientations are the so-called adjustment changes in its foreign policy outlook. This study seeks to address two interrelated research questions. The first research question is highly related to the complexity behind the nexus of consistency and inconsistency and to what extent changes in the country's foreign policy direction are radical or a product of adjustment changes. The second research question is related to how an interplay of interrelated variables can provide an insightful explanation regarding Turkey's convergences and divergences with states in high and low political salience issues. This study uses two decision models, the prominent 'Two-Level Games' introduced by Putnam, and a more recent model, the very well-known Poliheuristic theory introduced by Mintz, to demonstrate how the interplay of the individual, domestic and international component acts...
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