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Chinese Foreign Policy in European Post- Communist States
Štancová, Adéla ; Slačálek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Šitera, Daniel (referee)
This paper analyzes China and european postcommunist states relations in Xi Jinpings era. This era is specific in chinese attemps to resolve its economic position into a international power position. This paper discuss various approaches to chinese goals and power concepts. Examines if it is a domination or hegemony concept, or a new power concept which can be described only by reconstruction of chinese traditions. Tha main issues of this paper are chinese reasons of interest in european postcommunist states, success of its foreign policy goals in this area and reasons which led to either failing or success its goals. To answer these issues will be analyzed specific methods of promoting chinese influence in 16+1 iniciative and also will be reconstructed chinese power concept. To analyse specific factors in individual states this paper includes a case study of three european postcommunist states - Czech republic, Hungary and Poland.
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Europeanization and the State in Central and Eastern Europe: Political Economy of European Structural Funds
Šitera, Daniel ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Drahokoupil, Jan (referee) ; Bohle, Dorothee (referee)
This Dissertation explores the impact of the European Union's (EU) Cohesion Policy (and its structural and investment funds) on the transnationalization and subsequent transformation of state in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The Cohesion Policy is commonly known as a redistribution framework which transfers developmental aid from the West European core to the less developed periphery of South Europe and CEE through the EU budget. The dissertation explores the impact of this core-peripheral redistribution from a critical perspective in the Comparative Capitalism (CC) scholarship. More concretely, it focuses on the so-called Visegrád states - Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia - and their dependent market economies between the EU eastern enlargement in 2004 and the mid-2010s. This generates the first main contribution by bringing the EU structural funds into the CC debates on CEE which are mostly preoccupied with the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the transnationalization of Visegrád states. The contribution is impossible without historicizing the role of Cohesion Policy in shaping the EU historical core-peripheral relations since the late 1980s. Such a historization facilitates the second main contribution when examining how the post-2004 CEE integration transforms these...
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Comparison of illiberal democratic tendencies in Poland and Hungary
Zahnová, Antonie ; Drahokoupil, Štěpán (advisor) ; Šitera, Daniel (referee)
The bachelor thesis in reaction to current European tendencies focuses on illiberal democracies in Poland and Hungary. The focus of the work will be to describe the development of illiberal tendencies in both countries and relate them to the concept of illiberal democracy as presented by authors such as Fareed Zakaria and Wolfgang Merkel. The following aim of this work is to describe the similarities and differences between both countries. In the first part of the text the author will focus on the concept of illiberal democracy and its embeddedness in the discussion about hybrid regimes. In the following part the author will describe the development of Poland under the rule of the conservative Law and Justice party and also the evolvement of the situation in Hungary since the victory of Fidesz party in the parliamentary elections of 2010. Based on what has been stated above the author will primarily focus on topics such as the independence of the judiciary, attacks on free media or limitations of the civil society. The final part will serve for the purpose of comparison of the development in both countries and the identification of their differences and similarities. Key words: Illiberal democracy, Poland, Hungary, comparison, judiciary, rule of law
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Chinese Foreign Policy in European Post- Communist States
Štancová, Adéla ; Slačálek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Šitera, Daniel (referee)
This paper analyzes China and european postcommunist states relations in Xi Jinpings era. This era is specific in chinese attemps to resolve its economic position into a international power position. This paper discuss various approaches to chinese goals and power concepts. Examines if it is a domination or hegemony concept, or a new power concept which can be described only by reconstruction of chinese traditions. Tha main issues of this paper are chinese reasons of interest in european postcommunist states, success of its foreign policy goals in this area and reasons which led to either failing or success its goals. To answer these issues will be analyzed specific methods of promoting chinese influence in 16+1 iniciative and also will be reconstructed chinese power concept. To analyse specific factors in individual states this paper includes a case study of three european postcommunist states - Czech republic, Hungary and Poland.
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Chinese Foreign Policy in European Post- Communist States
Štancová, Adéla ; Slačálek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Šitera, Daniel (referee)
This paper analyzes China and european postcommunist states relations in Xi Jinpings era. This era is specific in chinese attemps to resolve its economic position into a international power position. This paper discuss various approaches to chinese goals and power concepts. Examines if it is a domination or hegemony concept, or a new power concept which can be described only by reconstruction of chinese traditions. Tha main issues of this paper are chinese reasons of interest in european postcommunist states, success of its foreign policy goals in this area and reasons which led to either failing or success its goals. To answer these issues will be analyzed specific methods of promoting chinese influence in 16+1 iniciative and also will be reconstructed chinese power concept. To analyse specific factors in individual states this paper includes a case study of three european postcommunist states - Czech republic, Hungary and Poland.
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Comparison of the UN and EU development policy: the case of poverty reduction policies
Mavlyutova, Gulnara ; Slačálek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Šitera, Daniel (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the UN and the EU models of development cooperation, with emphasis on helping to overcome poverty. It focuses on several aspects: historical development, institutional framework, and management of development aid. It attempts to clarify what the extreme poverty is, how development policy criteria were formed, and how the intensity of the aid has changed. Most importantly is to answer the question, whether regarding development policies of these two huge international actors we could speak of social justice. Key words Development Policy, UN, EU, Social Justice, Poverty, Sub-Sahara Africa
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The Role of High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina in its Postwar Reconstruction in between 1995-2002: Closing the "Capability-Expectations Gap"
Šitera, Daniel ; Králová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Tejchman, Miroslav (referee)
Bosnia has been an international protectorate for fifteen years after the end of civil war which was ravaging the country between 1992-1995. The protectorate was to originally give way to Bosnian growing sovereignty after one year since the end of civil war. Instead, the International Community started to increase its activity in the country via an expansion of the High Representative's capabilities (financial and military resources of the protectorate, High Representative's authority to take actions against Bosnia elected representatives, etc.). High Representative was ad hoc institution which was created to administer the international protectorate in Bosnia. At the end of 1997, High Representative received the so-called Bonn Powers which gave him authority to directly impose legislation and to dismiss Bosnian elected representatives. Any such usage of Bonn powers was justified as an effort to speed up Bosnia's stabilization and facilitate thus international departure from the country. However, Bosnia is destabilized country and international protectorate even in 2011. The usage of Bonn Powers proved to be wrong, since it could establish a Bosnian state minimally suitable to the international expectations, but it has at the same time failed to establish a Bosnian state suitable to the domestic...
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