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Humanitarian interventions in Sierra Leone
Fojtíková, Jitka ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Plechanovová, Běla (referee)
This thesis demonstrates the general change of theoretical concept of sovereignty. During the cold war sovereignty was conceived as control over certain territory (authority), after the end of the cold war this concept changed into sovereignty as responsibility (respect for a minimum standard of human rights). With this idea is coincided the concept of non-interference which was changed too and is giving the new and broader extension of humanitarian interventions. These ones should be carried out in cases of serious violations of human rights, what is under responsibility of international community. However, humanitarian interventions are from merits of the case related with limitations; these are lack of unity of international community, economic and geostrategic interests, lack of lead state/ alliance of humanitarian mission and political and economic limitations of interventions. The starting-point for this work is thesis that these limitations were crucial for beginning and duration of intervention UNAMSIL in Sierra Leone.
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"The Nervature of Past Life": Spatiotemporal Constructions of Post-National Politics in the Struggle for European Legitimacy
Castille, Sarah ; Drulák, Petr (advisor) ; Plechanovová, Běla (referee)
In this thesis paper, I propose an alternative means of studying post-national politics through the integration of aesthetics into the discipline of political studies. I argue that traditional methods of studying politics perpetuate an exclusionary, homogenizing national bias that renders them inappropriate tools of understanding the experience of political subjects in a global environment. I argue that to circumvent these processes of exclusion, we must find a means of taking the experience of the political subject into account in our studies of political conditions. Following Jacques Rancière, I argue that both the political and the aesthetic are types of experience that emerge through a distribution of common sensory experience, or le partage du sensible. I propose the use of Michal Bakhtin's chronotope as a means of considering the connections between the sensory experience of the individual and larger political conditions, in particular as it relates to the development of state legitimacy. In the last two sections of the paper, I apply the chronotope to the study of two different types of political structures: the traditional nation-state and the European Union. In doing so, I attempt to uncover the ways in which both entities perpetuate similar notions of time and space, ultimately engaging in similar...
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