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Normative power as a Source of EU Peacebuilding: Diffusion of Normative Power Europe in the Western Balkans
Petrlová, Eva ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
This thesis aims to interconnect a theory of normative power Europe with the activities of the EU and its affect on the Western Balkans. The theoretical concept of normative power is based on the assumption of the EU as a normative actor who is able through its norms, values and principles to become a major civilian actor in international relations, especially in the area of conflict management. The theoretical part of the paper therefore focuses on the concept of normative power EU (NPE) as it is presented by Ian Manners, and how its normative character is reflected in the common security and defense policy. It is analysed how the NPE is diffused in selected countries of the Western Balkans through four chosen transfer mechanisms by Manners that comprise the operationalization of the thesis at the same time. Therefore the aim of this work is to contribute to the further broadening the debate over the EU's role in the international system, but also to find out how the norms and values are transmitted in selected countries of the near neighborhood - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo. All of this with regard to democracy, human and minority rights, peaceful settlement of disputes, good governance etc., which encompass the basic values of the EU. The selected operationalization has allowed...
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NATO Transformation and the Capability Gap
Ruml, Ken ; Plechanovová, Běla (advisor) ; Karlas, Jan (referee)
The present Master Thesis is a macro-level comparative case study that addresses the problem of most member states' lack of adequate motivation to acquire innovative military capabilities and contribute them to the North Atlantic Alliance. There has been a significant gap between NATO's ambition and its military capability since at least the 1999 Kosovo Crisis. Even today, a couple of years after the adoption of the longawaited new Strategic Concept, which confirmed NATO's role in crisis management beyond its borders, the evaluations of the recent NATO operation in Libya hint to fact that the gap persists. The question is: what factors play the most significant role in shaping state behaviour within NATO and what can be done to stimulate the member states' proactive attitude? The problem is addressed through the prism of Neorealism, which emphasizes structural constraints of state behaviour, and Constructivism, which, for its part, highlights the importance of domestic factors, namely state identity. Based on the results of the fuzzy-set analysis, it is argued that the harmonization of NATO's and EU's capability development initiatives, as well as the eventual military integration of lower-capability NATO member states is most likely to reset the balance between the Alliance's ambition and available...
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The Development of EU's Security Policy after 2014
Kříž, Zdeněk ; Ditrych, Ondřej (advisor) ; Plechanovová, Běla (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on the development of the common EU security policy between the years 2014-2019. Its aim is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the rapid progress of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) in recent years, as well as to an explanation of their current functioning. The work seeks to achieve this through the three dominant strands of new institutionalism (historical, rationalist and sociological), which have already proven to be the theories able to clarify the European integration process. The thesis examines the process of EU security integration and its strengthening through the creation of new tools in the security-political dimension. Each theoretical variant focuses on different issues and different part of reality, this way the thesis leads to a more comprehensive explanations. The basic research question set out is as follows: How can we explain the unprecedented development of a common EU security policy using the dominant strands of new institutionalism in the period 2014-2019? From a methodological point of view, it is conducted as a one-case qualitative study.
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European Strategic Autonomy - chances and challenges for Europe
Cemus, Victor Peter Corrado ; Handl, Vladimír (advisor) ; Riegl, Martin (referee)
The thesis explores the use of the term European Strategic Autonomy in the Common Security and Defence Policy (CFSP) of the European Union. The security environment around Europe has become increasingly unstable in the last 15 years. The EU Commission has tried to take account of the deteriorating geopolitical landscape by publishing an EU Global Strategy document in 2016 to share its vision for a stronger Europe. The document calls for strategic autonomy without properly defining it. Since then, many policy papers have captured the term and used it as a popular buzzword. Because it has not been properly defined on the political level, European Strategy Autonomy (ESA) was subject to speculations and national interpretations which did not help to advance the debate. Based on an extensive literature review the paper provides a comprehensive understanding by giving an historic overview and presenting different configurations of ESA in the contemporary context. A comparative case study, including France, Germany, and the Czech Republic has been conducted to assess their interpretation of the notion. The result of the case studies showed inherently different perceptions underlaid by different motivations and identifies the political layer to be the biggest challenge for moving forward with the topic....
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Redefinition of Sweden's security policy at the turn of millennium
Malina, Václav ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
This thesis verifies a statement that the specific Swedish security policy of military non- alignment, reformulated from a policy of neutrality after the end of the Cold War, was compatible with Sweden's involvement in the European integration structures between 1990 and 2009. Compatibility is assessed based on a definition of military non-alignment, consisting of a general condition of non-participation in military alliances, or in other words the non- existence of mutual security guarantees, as well as two specific Swedish conditions, independent foreign policy and resistance to common defence. Regarding independent foreign policy, EU's CFSP retained unanimous decisions about basic outline and did not violate Sweden's independence in this field. Concerning resistance to common defence, CSDP did not lead to mutual security guarantees or a unified army. Even further away from this is NATO's Partnership for Peace programme. Solidarity Declaration and Lisbon Treaty constituted a threat to Sweden's military non-alignment, yet the country insisted it decided about the military assistance to other countries on its own. Nordic and Nordic-Baltic defence cooperation did not endanger Sweden's specific policy. Instead, it proved that the functional approach to security policy, applied by Nordic countries, is...
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EU's Imperialism: Contemporary CSDP Missions
Šmardová, Martina ; Ditrych, Ondřej (advisor) ; Parízek, Michal (referee)
The thesis focuses on the contemporary CSDP missions of the European Union from the point of view of critical literatures on imperialism, state-building and capacity-building. State-building and capacity-building gradually became dominant approaches towards weak and failing states which are associated with the exercise of power and influence in the critical literature, e.g. in David Chandler on whose argument this thesis draws on. The thesis develops Chandler's argument by means of analysis of intervention practices in the selected cases.
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Approaches and attitudes of Germany and the United Kingdom towards Common Security and Defence Policy
Marešová, Tereza ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kofroň, Jan (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to compare and contrast the approaches and attitudes of the United Kingdom and Germany towards the development of Common Security and Defence Policy of the EU (CSDP). Its main objective is to describe national strategic cultures of both states and to answer the question how NATO affects the approches of both countries to CSDP and how this approaches are expressed in military mission EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in police mission EUPOL Afghanistan. Based on an analysis and comparison of the approches and attitudes towards national both British and German strategic cultures the author concludes that the United Kingdom preferes cooperation within the frame of NATO and it supports participation in mission EUFOR Althea beyond police mission EUPOL Afghanistan. While Germany cooperates with both organisations EU and NATO and it prefers participation in police mission EUPOL Afghanistan because of humanitarian element. The author also concludes that German concept of civilian power is partially passed because the state seeks possible solutions within military forces and projection of power which is historically rejected by German public opinion.
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Normative power as a Source of EU Peacebuilding: Diffusion of Normative Power Europe in the Western Balkans
Petrlová, Eva ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
This thesis aims to interconnect a theory of normative power Europe with the activities of the EU and its affect on the Western Balkans. The theoretical concept of normative power is based on the assumption of the EU as a normative actor who is able through its norms, values and principles to become a major civilian actor in international relations, especially in the area of conflict management. The theoretical part of the paper therefore focuses on the concept of normative power EU (NPE) as it is presented by Ian Manners, and how its normative character is reflected in the common security and defense policy. It is analysed how the NPE is diffused in selected countries of the Western Balkans through four chosen transfer mechanisms by Manners that comprise the operationalization of the thesis at the same time. Therefore the aim of this work is to contribute to the further broadening the debate over the EU's role in the international system, but also to find out how the norms and values are transmitted in selected countries of the near neighborhood - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo. All of this with regard to democracy, human and minority rights, peaceful settlement of disputes, good governance etc., which encompass the basic values of the EU. The selected operationalization has allowed...
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The structural shortcomings of the Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Union in the context of the libyan crisis
Molnárová, Karina ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
The Bachelor thesis deals with the Common Security and Defence Policy of the European Union and the structural aspects of this policy that has been long criticized by numerous academicians, politicians and other international actors. According to these critics, these structural aspects contribute to the inefficiency of the security policy in critical situations. The paper tries to analyze these structural problems and to show how they were demonstrated during the spring of 2011 and the Libyan Crisis. This structural organization is compared with the one of the NATO, which dispatched a military mission to Libya in March 2011. However, the mission itself is not analyzed in this work. The progress of the talks in the European Union and also in the NATO is also included together with the crisis management of both organisations. Afterwards the paper focuses on two heavily criticized aspects of the security policy: the overcomplicated structure and the lack of power and authority of the institutions, and the financing of the CSDP, which is considered to be insufficient. The conclusion then analyzes the situation of the security policy after the Libyan crisis, if the structure was changed and how, if at all, the European Union dealt with consequences of this situation.
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Multilateralism in German Forreign and Security Policy 1999-2011
Schwarzová, Petra ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Jeřábek, Martin (referee)
Resumé Studie transformace německého multilateralismu v zahraniční politice pomocí jednotlivých případových studií ukázala, že se pro jednotlivá období dají vysledovat jasné tendence, které odpovídají jednotlivým konceptualizacím multilateralismu. Ačkoli se změnily zahraničněpolitické priority a multilateralismus získal nové rozměry, nelze mluvit o hegemonizaci či unilateralizaci německé politiky. V devadesátých letech se Německo pomalu normalizovalo a prolomilo některá tabu typická pro minulá desetiletí. Zahraniční a bezpečnostní politika však byla stále postavená na desítky let replikované identitě a na pacifistických hodnotách. Tato tendence odpovídá reflexivnímu multilateralismu. V dalším období se německá vláda emancipovala tím, že začala zdůrazňovat své vlastní zájmy, nezalekla se odmítnout účast na operaci, jež neměla souhlas OSN, ani izolace. Vztah vůči USA ochladl a SRN kladla důraz na bilaterální spojenectví s Francií. Evropská integrace již nebyla povinností, ale stala se spíše dobrovolnou záležitostí. Toto naplňování nově nalezených zájmů svědčí o instrumentálním pojetí multilateralismu. V dalším období se nová vláda velké koalice snažila obnovit důvěru v SRN a oživit evropský integrační projekt. Vláda se účastnila mise v Kongu, kde převzala dokonce velení, a postupně plnila své závazky v rámci...
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