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Security policy dimension of arms exports - the cases of the Helmut Kohl and the Gerhad Schröder governments 1989-2005
Kufčák, Jakub ; Handl, Vladimír (advisor) ; Novotný, Lukáš (referee)
This thesis addressed the arms export control in the Federal Republic of Germany during the tenure of chancellor Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder between 1989 and 2005. To this end this thesis elaborated an analytical framework, which analyses this phenomenon thought government arms export policy. Due to lack of preceding research in this area it was necessary to devote significant space for conceptual definition of the arms export policy and contextualization of analytical framework. It was argued that arms export policy of the Federal Republic of Germany should be analyzed as a passive sub-category within security policy. Analytical framework employed to analyze the period between 1989 and 2005 thus reflected four factors or standpoints that exert influence on arms export policy (foreign pressures, security policy, European coordination and legislative and institutional framework). This thesis designed as disciplined interpretive case study posited two hypothesis based on concepts that have been partially applied to arms export phenomenon in different context and time period. First hypothesis concerns the nature of change of arms exports control, which was supposed to change between periods restriction and relaxation of export control. Second hypothesis postulates the nature of change of arms exports...
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Security policy dimension of arms exports - the cases of the Helmut Kohl and the Gerhad Schröder governments 1989-2005
Kufčák, Jakub ; Handl, Vladimír (advisor) ; Novotný, Lukáš (referee)
This thesis addressed the arms export control in the Federal Republic of Germany during the tenure of chancellor Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder between 1989 and 2005. To this end this thesis elaborated an analytical framework, which analyses this phenomenon thought government arms export policy. Due to lack of preceding research in this area it was necessary to devote significant space for conceptual definition of the arms export policy and contextualization of analytical framework. It was argued that arms export policy of the Federal Republic of Germany should be analyzed as a passive sub-category within security policy. Analytical framework employed to analyze the period between 1989 and 2005 thus reflected four factors or standpoints that exert influence on arms export policy (foreign pressures, security policy, European coordination and legislative and institutional framework). This thesis designed as disciplined interpretive case study posited two hypothesis based on concepts that have been partially applied to arms export phenomenon in different context and time period. First hypothesis concerns the nature of change of arms exports control, which was supposed to change between periods restriction and relaxation of export control. Second hypothesis postulates the nature of change of arms exports...
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Prohibited means and ways of conducting armed conflicts
Boušková, Klára ; Ondřej, Jan (advisor) ; Honusková, Věra (referee)
Resumé Prohibited means and ways of conducting armed conflicts - conventional weapons The theme of this thesis is "Prohibited means and ways of conducting armed conflicts - conventional weapons". Given that it is a very broad topic, this thesis focuses on restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons. Conventional weapons are all weapon systems which cannot be included among the weapons of massive destruction. The first part is focuses on the historical development of the law of war - it is one of the oldest international public law at all. The following section discusses its basic principles which are, in fact, the very base of all prohibitions applied. It is the principle of humanity, the principle of military necessity, the principle of prohibition of non- discrimination, the principle of proportionality and the principle of prohibition of causing excessive injuries and unnecessary suffering. The next section deals with the various conventions prohibiting or restricting use of certain conventional weapons, those which were adopted at the turn of the 20th century. Attention is paid to the St. Petersburg Declaration (1868), being the first international document prohibiting the use of one particular type of conventional weapons, and then to some documents adopted at the 1st and the 2nd Hague...
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