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Hybrid Governance in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Voloskyi, Glib Artemovich ; Berg, Julie (advisor) ; Kazharski, Aliaksei (referee) ; Dowd, Caitriona (referee)
The hybrid governance theory has facilitated the shift beyond the state-centric perspective on security governance. Yet the theory has never been tested under the conditions absent from an active or recent military conflict. It tends to neglect the relations between the state and non- state security actors and superfluously praises non-state and hybrid security orders. The paper elaborates on these academic gaps. Based on secondary data, it investigates hybrid security governance in South Africa. The paper demonstrates that hybrid security governance can exist in a non-conflict setting. It discusses the patterns of the emergence of non-state security actors, their relations with the population and the state. The findings are found to be consistent with the hybrid governance theory, though there are a number of peculiar features. Additional studies on hybrid governance in a non-conflict setting will help to distinguish the features of South African hybrid security from the general logic of hybrid security governance in a non-conflict setting.
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The Study of Use of Heavy Armoured Vehicles by Non-State Actors in Syria Conflict
Kotrbáček, Adam ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Rosendorf, Ondřej (referee)
The use of heavy weaponry - such as tanks - in recent and current military conflicts has been overlooked, as were the principles of conventional warfare in general. With relation to armed conflict, attention has been given especially to the questions of conflict prevention and deconfliction. The thesis focuses on the ongoing conventional conflict in Syria, with the emphasis on the tactics of use of heavy armoured vehicles by non-state actors. The thesis takes advantage of volume of accessible primary sources concerning the topic to establish distinct modes of use of heavy weapons - the patterns of deployment, to analyse how the heavy weapons itself and the environment affecting their usage. On the two chosen case studies, these patterns of deployment are operationalised into an independent variable to assess whether the use of heavy armoured vehicles by insurgents in north-western Syria could be causally link with the outcome of military operations.
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Czech non-governmental organisations and EU climate change policy
Stuchlíková, Zuzana ; Najšlová, Lucia (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
The thesis aims to analyse the relations of non-governmental organisations towards the European integration process, which creates an additional platform for their interest representation. This case study focuses on how Czech non-profit organisations, which are dealing in long term with the topic of climate change, try to use the instruments and channels available at the EU level to promote their idea of the 2030 Climate and Energy Framework targets and how the EU climate action policy translates to their understanding of the topic. The thesis is based on the Europeanization theory that assumes that non-state actors are adjusting their behaviour to the existence of another platform of decision making and interest representation. I, therefore, assume, that the selected sample of Czech ecological NGOs tries to actively use the opportunity to participate in the EU decision making - especially because a climate policy is decided mostly at the EU level and therefore the outcomes, such as the 2030 Framework, present another tool to achieve change in the climate policy of the Czech Republic. I conclude that from the perspective of selected NGOs the European climate policy is perceived as an important driver behind the development in this field in both Czech Republic and global negotiations - even though...
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The main actors of the economic diplomacy in the Czech Republic - dynamics of change
Frišaufová, Tereza ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Peterková, Jana (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with economic diplomacy of the Czech Republic, particularly it deals with its main actors -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Industry and Trade -- and dynamics of changes of their relationship. The aim of the thesis is an analysis of crucial interaction between these two actors thus the essential part of the paper is focused on three fundamental events of ministerial interaction. The turns of the year 1998/1999, 2010/2011 and the year 2014, which is a key component of the thesis since it covers current situation between actors and contemporary condition of the Czech economic diplomacy
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State versus Violent Non-State Actors
Eisnerová, Tereza ; Rolenc, Jan Martin (advisor) ; Kochan, Jan (referee)
This diploma thesis is focusing on the problem of violent non-state actors and their relationship with a state. Firstly, a non-state actor is seen with the optics of the theories of international relations. Non state actors are classified in line with existing theoretical research about their behavior. Secondly, they are viewed from the perspective of international law. Furthermore, the thesis deals with a state and the options the state has for a combat against those violent non-state actors. Afterwards, four case studies are presented. They illustrate the behavior of state and non-state actors, each example represents one of the categories determined in the theoretical part of the thesis. The aim of the case studies is to categorize the instruments which might be used by the state against non-state actors and to systematize the violent non-state actor's classification as the theoretical research on this field is still being overlooked and is lacking coherence.
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