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Emerging Security Triangle in the Asia-Pacific Region? The United States and Australia-Japan Security Relations
Zaťková, Eva ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Schneider, Jiří (referee)
This thesis concerns the development of trilateral strategic partnership between Australia, Japan and the United States and its implications for the security architecture of the Asia-Pacific region. For over half a century, the predominant means for organizing security cooperation in this region has been through the creation and maintenance of bilateral defence arrangements. In response to changing international conditions, including the rise of China and nontraditional security threats, US strategic thinking has begun to look beyond the traditional model of US-led bilateral alliances in the Asia-Pacific. The emerging Australia- Japan-US security cooperation in the form of Trilateral Security Dialogue, established in 2002 and elevated to a ministerial-level Strategic Dialogue in 2005, indicates that the three allies have strengthened their ties and expanded their cooperation to build a more integrated and cohesive trilateral response to joint regional concerns.
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US-China relationship in the field of naval security: cooperation or conflict?
Paličková, Lucie ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
Diploma thesis 'US-China Relationship in the Field of Naval Security - Cooperation or Conflict' focuses on the current phenomenon of Chinese naval rise and its implications for the relationship between China and today's leading naval power United States both in the Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean region. Using the comparative analysis, both the strategies as well as naval capacities of China and the US in both aforementioned regions are compared in order to assess the future character of their naval relationship. This thesis addresses also the evolution of Chinese navy and Chinese naval modernization on its own as well as its motives and those ideational and material factors which have a considerable impact on this modernization.
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Preventive Diplomacy and its Concept in the Region of Southeast Asia
Suchánek, Michal ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
The dissertation is devoted to the notion of preventive diplomacy. In the first part, various theoretical approaches to the term are discussed, especially regarding the position of preventive diplomacy in the cycle of conflict, and its instruments. A brief overview of regional arrangements and their role in preventive diplomacy is provided, too, since the second main part of the work focuses on the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) and its proclaimed intention to introduce preventive diplomacy in the region. Nonetheless, as the study shows, the ARF participants have not yet resorted to the development of preventive diplomacy. The objective of the dissertation is twofold: besides providing a synthesis and systemization of theoretical approaches to preventive diplomacy, it aims to identify the main obstacles hindering the ARF to implement effective measures of preventive diplomacy. In this respect, it is argued that it is both the set of norms also known as ASEAN Way and the Chinese negative stance that constitute the major reason of ARF's inability to proceed to the stage of preventive diplomacy.
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ASEAN and challenges of its external integration
Svoboda, Jan ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Hnát, Pavel (referee)
This paper is focused on an analysis of current regionalism in Asia-Pacific region and on evaluation of creation of relatively wide and relatively deep regional integration. Possible benefits of this integration concept can be exemplified by development of Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) whose member states have substantially different interests due to historic and socioeconomic reasons. However, ASEAN was able to overcome these different interests by a specific integration model which is based on mutual trust, consensual decision-making and gradual changes. As a result, natural suspicions were eliminated to some extent and member states were able to deepen their integration. Main powers in the region noticed its success and they began to strive to develop closer relations not only with ASEAN, but also with other regional powers through ASEAN structure.
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The Approach of Australia and New Zealand to Regionalism
Fedorčáková, Jana ; Hnát, Pavel (advisor) ; Krč, Jakub (referee)
The bachelor thesis is structured into two main parts. Firstly, the mutual relationship of Australia and New Zealand, which came through particular development phases and deepened, is analyzed. Currently, the integration the Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement represents one of the few examples of the deep regionalism in the world economy. This chapter is divided into subchapters, where in the first one the structure of the mutual trade is characterized and the second one is concerned with the treaty business of this trade. The conclusion of the chapter is dedicated to the perspectives of the mutual integration. In the second part of the thesis regional integrations of Australia and New Zealand with other states and regions are examined and compared. In this chapter I at first focused on foreign relations of the both countries and then on how integration tendencies express themselves in these relations in different forms, such as bilateralism, subregionalism and transregionalism, where the regional forum APEC plays the significant role in the last two mentioned processes.
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