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Changing perception of peace in post-war Japan
Nguyen, Dieu Thuy ; Kolmaš, Michal (advisor) ; Soukup, Jaromír (referee)
The thesis aims to illustrate the changing perception of peace in Japan. The development of Japan after the World War II has been an interesting object of study in the field of international relations. The main theme of Japan's foreign and security policy during the postwar period has been its pacifist identity. However, it is possible to observe changing attitude of Japanese towards peace and pacifist identity. What aspects contribute to changing identity of a state? What caused the changing perception of peace in Japan? The work examines approaches of conventional constructivism and poststructuralism. It will be shown, that these approaches are not able to sufficiently explain the identity formation. Therefore, thesis introduces theory of sedimentation of identity layers, which combines aforementioned approaches and adds another feature - the operation of identity entrepreneurs. It will be shown that these actors play a significant role in the changing perception of peace in Japan. Keywords Japan, pacifism, peace, identity
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Geopolitical Imagination and Security Perception in Japan
Sosna, Petr ; Hynek, Nikola (advisor) ; Kolmaš, Michal (referee)
This thesis deals with Japanese foreign and security policy through the optics of critical geopolitics, specifically the "geopolitics as culture" notion developed by Gearóid Ó Tuathail. Using this notion as an analytical framework, the development of Japan's foreign and security policy from the establishment of a modern Japanese state till present days is analyzed, with three main concepts being addressed: (1) foreign policy traditions; (2) geopolitical and geostrategic discourses; (3) and strategic and geopolitical culture. For reasons of narrowing the topic down and applying the concept more consistently, one specific element of Japanese foreign and security policy is at the centre of attention: Japan's "maritime identity". The goal of the thesis is to identify and characterize Japan's geopolitical imagination and attempt to determine if and how has this imagination been expressed in the country's security policy with regard to the maritime identity. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Discourse on multilateralism: USA, EU and Japan
Kolmaš, Michal ; Drulák, Petr (advisor) ; Karlas, Jan (referee) ; Beneš, Vít (referee)
The aim of this dissertation, titled "Multilateralism in discourse: USA, EU and Japan" is to pinpoint differences in perceptions of basic policy concepts across various intellectual traditions. The dissertation is based in the presumption that cultural,intellectual and language context are inseparable parts of our perception of reality and terms, through which we describe it. For the interpretation of these cultural differences, the thesis chose three actors with different cultural, historical and language traditions. In their respective discourses, the thesis interpreted the perception of a basic term of international relations - multilateralism. The discursive perception of multilateralism was connected to a theoretical typology of motivation for the priority for multilateralism over other forms of foreign policy behavior - instrumental, moral and social. This typology was tested against the interpretation of multilateralism on two case studies: the War on Terror and the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. By doing so, the thesis found out that although there is a single shared definition of multilateralism, individual perceptions on the concept's value and role are significantly differing. The United States prefer instrumental logic, the European Union prefers moral logic and Japan oscillates between...
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Futenma - a challenge for the U.S.-Japanese alliance
Kraus, Lukáš ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kolmaš, Michal (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the crisis of two important allies, Japan and the US, which began in relation to the negotiation during the rule of the Prime Minister Hatoyama about the relocation of the controversial Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, which is located on the Okinawa Island. This thesis firstly reconstructs the historical context of the U.S.-Japan alliance and the role of the bases in it. The importance of the peace movement, which is still a vocal player of the Okinawa events today, is also mentioned. Then this paper examines the feature of the bases, especially of the Futenma Air Station. Another key part of the paper is made by description of the processes, which targeted reducing of the burden of Okinawa people, caused by the presence of the bases on Japanese ground. The Futenma became the main symbolof these negotiations. In it main part, based on the level of analysis concept, this thesis provides the analysis of the negotiations of the three actors of the 2009-2010 crisis - the Prime Minister Hatoyama and his cabinet, who came out of the elections with the programme of changing the government system (seiken kōtai) and the revision of the former Futenma Henoko relocation plan; the Obama administration, which persisted on the Henoko plan; and the people of Okinawa, who are...
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