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Development of Japanese Strategic Culture after the Cold War
Šelepová, Adéla ; Ditrych, Ondřej (advisor) ; Kolmaš, Michal (referee)
Recently, the volatile developments in Northeast Asia have put Japanese assertive policies on the spotlight and revived the necessity to understand the state's pacifist conduct that had been studied by scholars aiming to grasp its projection into foreign and security policies ever since the end of the Second World War. The academic debate between neorealism and constructivism gained momentum with the dissolution of the bipolar world order following the end of the Cold War. Yet, the examination of their respective approaches proved the inappropriateness of the rigid adherence to either of the IR stream when scrutinizing the Japanese case. Hence, the thesis expands in the field of analytical eclecticism by reconciling the outputs of the academic debate and consequently maps Japanese post-Cold War evolution through synthesis of concepts emanating from neoclassical realism and strategic culture. The thesis thereby acknowledges the crucial role of the system and its structure and, at the same time, understands the peaceful and antimilitarist principles as a driving force behind Japanese decision-making embedded in the state's strategic culture. Against the backdrop of the complex theoretical and methodological research design, the thesis examines the relevant empirical data within the timespan of almost...
The Development of the Middle East Security Complex after the Iran Revolution (1979)
Šelepová, Adéla ; Ditrych, Ondřej (advisor) ; Riegl, Martin (referee)
The Bachelor's thesis The Development of the Middle East Security Complex after the Iran Revolution (1979) maps changes in the Middle East, which then are analyzed by theoretical concepts of security complexes and balance of threat. The Middle East went through enormous shocks in the terms of interstate relations especially after the Iran revolution, to which is given a historic and analytic outlook in the thesis. The thesis analyzes historic events in the range of the Iran revolution and the Arab spring, including. The aim of the thesis is to track the perspective of the alliances and the pattern of amity and enmity with the main focus on Iran and its perception by Gulf states and also by superpowers. Conflict situation in the Middle East has an escalating tendency, therefore the understanding of alliance making and interstate relations of its particular states has a key importance. The work's theoretical basis consists of Classic theory of security complexes by Barry Buzan and also of the Stephen M. Walt's concept balance of threat that is a causal aspect of alliance making. In the second part of the thesis there is an analysis itself, made every time after the historical overview of selected events. In result the thesis comes to the crucial role of the Iran revolution and to successive...

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