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The relationship of the Federal Republic of Germany to the intervention in Libya
Janatková, Karolína ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Ludvík, Jan (referee)
The topic of this master thesis is the Relationship of the Federal Republic of Germany to the intervention in Libya. The aim of this master thesis is to answer the research question: "Why did not Germany support the intervention in Libya?". After the abstention on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, Germany was for not continuing human rights protection. The decision, to reject the intervention, has confirmed that Germany is still very skeptical regarding the involvement of its military personnel and assets abroad. The decision of the Security Council is not only a milestone in German history, but also a milestone for the international community. For the first time has the United Nations Security Council agreed to use military forces against a functioning state with the aim of protecting civilian population. This master thesis is a single case study; through which the author examines a very specific situation when Germany decided not to participate in the voting process regarding the intervention in Libya. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on the constructivist theory, furthermore the thesis focuses also on the concepts of civilian power, multilateralism, culture of restraint, and the protection of human rights. All these terms have significant influence on German foreign...
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Dispute over the deployment of German military forces in the First Gulf War
Vondrovicová, Adéla ; Handl, Vladimír (advisor) ; Konrád, Ota (referee)
The First Gulf War initiated the re-opening of the internal political debate in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) about the deployment of armed forces abroad and represented a culmination point that challenged the existing course of German foreign and security policy. This bachelor thesis reconstructs the process of German government decision making, concerning the form of the German contribution to the solution of the Iraqi-Kuwait crisis using the theoretical concept of two-level game introduced by Robert Putnam. The thesis focuses on the following questions: which factors and to what extent formed the final German position and how did the final decision influence the international position of Germany and the course of its foreign and security policy? Finding itself in a difficult political situation at the time (unification process), the FRG decided, in spite of its foreign legal commitments and the expectations of international allies, to pursue a strategy of military abstention and supported the operation through financial and material means. The final German position was formed especially by the internal specifics: cognitive factors (culture of restraint), normative factors (restrictions given by the Basic Law), institutional factors (form of the internal ratification process and...
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