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The European Union as a Foreign Policy Actor on the Sanctions Scene: The Case of Burma
Růžičková, Jana ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Hyniová, Andrea (referee)
In connection with its foreign policy, the European Union was until 2003 often seen as an actor lacking basically any "hard" power and it was often labeled as a "normative" power, "civilian" power etc. However, a group of scholars led by Ian Manners has been claiming that in connection with the adoption of the European Security Strategy in December 2003 the EU has lost its "soft" characteristics and has moved closer towards a traditional military actor. The master thesis deals with this issue of the alleged militarization of the Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) after 2003/2004 while focusing on one particular area of the CFSP - the policy of restrictive measures or sanctions. This area is unique because of its special characteristic: on one hand, sanctions as such represent a "hard", coercive foreign policy tool and on the other, the EU has been autonomously using them already since the 1980s. The question therefore is what the frequent use of sanctions implies about the character of the EU and whether does the policy of restrictive measures stand, as a matter of principle, in opposition to being a "soft" power. By means of discourse analysis of the official EU sanction documents and by using the case of Burma (which represents a "typical case"), the thesis attempts to demonstrate,...
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European Neighborhood Policy in the context of the Eastern Dimension and EU-Russia relations
Loskotová, Lucie ; Urban, Luděk (advisor) ; Hyniová, Andrea (referee) ; Rak, Jiří (referee)
Dissertation "European Neighbourhood Policy in the context of Eastern Dimension and EU-Russia Relations" deals with one of the present priorities of the EU's external relations - policy towards the neighbour countries of the European Union. The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was developed in the context of the adhesion of the Central and Eastern European countries to the EU with the objective of avoiding the emergence of new dividing lines between the enlarged EU and its neighbours and instead strengthening the stability, prosperity and security in the countries concerned. Dissertation focuses on the eastern neighbours of the enlarged Union in the framework of the neighbourhood policy - Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the South Caucasus' countries Georgia, Armenia and Azerbajdzan. The first part provides more general outlook on the European Neighbourhood Policy, its objectives, principles and instruments. The second part focuses on the eastern neighbours, their relations with the EU and membership aspirations. This part deals with the role of Poland in highlighting the eastern dimension in the EU's external relations and with the latest European Commission's initiative to strengthen the ENP. The last part examines the possible reasons of the Russian's rejection to join the ENP and it focuses on the...
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The European Union as a Foreign Policy Actor on the Sanctions Scene: The Case of Burma
Růžičková, Jana ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Hyniová, Andrea (referee)
In connection with its foreign policy, the European Union was until 2003 often seen as an actor lacking basically any "hard" power and it was often labeled as a "normative" power, "civilian" power etc. However, a group of scholars led by Ian Manners has been claiming that in connection with the adoption of the European Security Strategy in December 2003 the EU has lost its "soft" characteristics and has moved closer towards a traditional military actor. The master thesis deals with this issue of the alleged militarization of the Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) after 2003/2004 while focusing on one particular area of the CFSP - the policy of restrictive measures or sanctions. This area is unique because of its special characteristic: on one hand, sanctions as such represent a "hard", coercive foreign policy tool and on the other, the EU has been autonomously using them already since the 1980s. The question therefore is what the frequent use of sanctions implies about the character of the EU and whether does the policy of restrictive measures stand, as a matter of principle, in opposition to being a "soft" power. By means of discourse analysis of the official EU sanction documents and by using the case of Burma (which represents a "typical case"), the thesis attempts to demonstrate,...
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European Neighbourhood Policy in the context of Eastern Dimension and EU-Russia Relations
Loskotová, Lucie ; Urban, Luděk (advisor) ; Hyniová, Andrea (referee)
Diploma thesis "European Neighbourhood Policy in the context of Eastern Dimension and EU-Russia Relations" deals with one of the present priorities of the EU's external relations - policy towards the neighbour countries of the European Union. The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was developed in the context of the adhesion of the Central and Eastern European countries to the EU with the objective of avoiding the emergence of new dividing lines between the enlarged EU and its neighbours and instead strengthening the stability, prosperity and security in the countries concerned. Thesis focuses on the eastern neighbours of the enlarged Union in the framework of the neighbourhood policy - Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the South Caucasus' countries Georgia, Armenia and Azerbajdzan. The first part provides more general outlook on the European Neighbourhood Policy, its objectives, principles and instruments. The second part focuses on the eastern neighbours, their relations with the EU and membership aspirations. This part deals with the role of Poland in highlighting the eastern dimension in the EU's external relations and with the latest European Commission's initiative to strengthen the ENP. The last part examines the possible reasons of the Russian's rejection to join the ENP and it focuses on the problems...
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