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Models of data flow governance and their followers: Why do countries adopt one framework over another?
Dubravčíková, Klára ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Mazač, Jan (referee)
DUBRAVČÍKOVÁ, Klára. Models of cross-border data flow governance and their followers: Why do countries adopt one framework over another? Praha, 2022. 119 pages. Master's thesis (Mgr.). Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science. Department of International Relations. Supervisors Dr. rer. pol. Michal Parízek, M.Sc., Ph.D. & Junprof. Dr. Jan Vogler. Abstract Currently, there are three different regulatory models of cross-border data flow, produced by three dominant actors in the international system - the United States of America, the European Union, and the People's Republic of China. As all three actively convey their model to other countries, posing new challenges to the global economy associated with the models' incompatibility, other countries face a policy-choice dilemma on what model to adopt. Consequently, the issue of mapping how the three approaches to data governance spread across the globe and exploring the rationales of states that adopt one of the three models arises. The thesis turns to this question and uses logistic regression analysis to find a correlation between the adoption of a specific cross-border data flow governance model and three sets of predictors that characterise the economic, social, and power relations between proponent-adopter pairs....
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Global governance and an analogy with domestic political systems - the impact of income inequality in a society on governance quality
Pašek, Roman ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Dopita, Tomáš (referee)
This paper discusses the issue of global governance, in particular the possibility of the establishment of an institutionalized form of a global government, whose field of action would be determined by global and supranational problems of today's world. One of the obstructions of a quality functioning of such world government could be the measure of income inequality in the world. Hence the submitted paper ponders the question, whether a high measure of income inequality would necessarily thwart the establishment of a global government and it's quality functioning, on the basis of a research of a representative sample of states and the impact of such inequality on the quality of functioning of these domestic systems. Implications for the possible establishment of a global government are then analogically deduced from the conclusions of the aformentioned analysis. These conclusions will help us find out, whether income inequality has a negative or a positive impact on governance quality, or whether there is such a clearly demonstrable connection between these variables at all. The analysis of these variables is possible thanks to the quantifiability of the data that this paper works with and their availability thanks to the research activity of renowned international organizations. Hence the first part of...
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The Inception of a Global Issue: Administration's Approach to Obesity in WHO
Maňásková, Martina ; Doležal, Tomáš (advisor) ; Lehmannová, Zuzana (referee)
The concept of global governance is nowadays commonly used for studying international relations. The goal of this thesis is to analyze the nature of global governance in health sector, to discover how the main participants involved in international relations react to new challenges that arise, specifically how they react to the case of obesity. Global governance occurs on multiple levels; WHO occurs at the global level whereas individual national states occur at the lower level. This thesis answers the questions to topics such as: how the global health governance's politics are made, whether obesity represents a threat and how various participants that are involved in international relations coordinate their steps towards fighting obesity, on which levels they coordinate their agenda and for whom they are working for when fighting obesity.
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Differences and similarities between business and environmental constituencies within UN climate negotiations
Henley, Morgan ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Karlas, Jan (referee)
The leader of the climate change regime is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which hosts the international climate change negotiations at the annual Conference of Parties (COP). In addition to official parties which represent nations in the UNFCCC, businesses and environmental groups are also playing a role in the negotiations as observers, which are grouped together in constituencies. This research will look at the two largest and original constituencies, the Business NGOs (BINGOs) and the Environmental NGOs (ENGOs) which represent business and environmental groups respectively. Both constituencies have a focal point for their members with the UNFCCC Secretariat, which for BINGOs is the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the Climate Action Network (CAN) for ENGOs. Specifically, this paper compares the ICC and CAN and finds similarities and differences between their functioning within the UNFCCC in regards to their ability to build coherent policies between their members and how transparent they are in their activities. It was predicted that businesses groups have a harder time working together and are less transparent than the environmental groups which the research indeed confirmed. A series of interviews with various actors in the climate negotiations...
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The problematics of social cohesion
Havran, Mikuláš ; Hrubec, Marek (advisor) ; Barša, Pavel (referee) ; Jüptner, Jan (referee)
S U M M A R Y This submitted dissertation thesis deals with the problematics of social cohesion through effects analysis of cultural values on the development of social and political relations in a society as such. The efforts of the thesis are not only directed towards articulation of Rawls's principals of justice, but they also reveal the desire to connect with the topic of the basic human rights from which questions of a suitable concept of societies derive. It actually means that the suitable concept in which it would be possible to achieve, from the point of view of intersubjective relations, a sufficient level of social cohesion and that way to strengthen an important factor for sustainability of social relations in societies as such. From the point of view of methodology, these thesis are for sufficient review as well as easier orientation in the whole work divided into 4 parts, which split further into 5 chapters. Before the four parts, the INTRODUCTION comes and it tries to be not only practical, but also academic in style to provide an introductory beginning of my work. Then, it is possible to say that every part of the four in my thesis deals with a research area of social sciences that is related to politological research as such. Nevertheless, my intention is to persuade readers that there is a...
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India as an economic superpower and its development since the end of the Cold War
Hradecký, Jiří ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Parízek, Michal (referee)
This work discusses the change in Indian position in international relations during the Cold War. It is a qualitative case study, which is also dedicated to finding influences that caused the change in the Indian position. Work includes the following sections. The first part describes the theory of international relations relevant to the study of the Indian position within the great power relations. Next part analyzes India's economic development and historical development of India's foreign policy and relations with the most important global actors. The final chapter is a study of global governance institutions and policies of BRICS and its position to the institutions of global governance.
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Democratic Legitimacy of Global Economic Institutions (World Bank, IMF, WTO)
Krajník, Jan ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Romancov, Michael (referee)
This paper addresses democratic legitimacy of the global economic institutions - The International Monetary Fund, The World Bank and The World Trade Organization. Considering formal aspects one of the main differences among them is the way of decision making. The WTO voting is based on country one, one vote principle whereas the IMF and the Bank represents weighted voting derived from the economic power. It is generally considered, that the egalitarian principle of the WTO is more democratic and brings better legitimacy. There are used three models of democracy to conceptualize what is meant by democracy a how is legitimacy gained. These are classical Athens democracy, Schumpeter's model competition of elites and modern concept of cosmopolitan democracy. With growing importance of these international organizations dealing with issues of monetary stability, economic development and international trade it is necessary to focus on them from the perspective of an individual citizen. For this reason, the Banzhaf index of power for each country related to its population is used to measure influence of individual citizen in these organizations. And from this perspective the WTO voting yields bigger disparities among citizens of different countries. Nevertheless different types of voting are not the key...
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Global governance and an analogy with domestic political systems - the impact of income inequality in a society on governance quality
Pašek, Roman ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Dopita, Tomáš (referee)
This paper discusses the issue of global governance, in particular the possibility of the establishment of an institutionalized form of a global government, whose field of action would be determined by global and supranational problems of today's world. One of the obstructions of a quality functioning of such world government could be the measure of income inequality in the world. Hence the submitted paper ponders the question, whether a high measure of income inequality would necessarily thwart the establishment of a global government and it's quality functioning, on the basis of a research of a representative sample of states and the impact of such inequality on the quality of functioning of these domestic systems. Implications for the possible establishment of a global government are then analogically deduced from the conclusions of the aformentioned analysis. These conclusions will help us find out, whether income inequality has a negative or a positive impact on governance quality, or whether there is such a clearly demonstrable connection between these variables at all. The analysis of these variables is possible thanks to the quantifiability of the data that this paper works with and their availability thanks to the research activity of renowned international organizations. Hence the first part of...
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Global Witness´s influence on forming of conflict mineral legislation
Lukeš, Jakub ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Trávníčková, Zuzana (referee)
The thesis concers the issue of conflict minerals in the Democratic republic of Congo. The situation in the country has been monitored by the NGO Global Witness for decades. Human rights violation, illicit trade followed by exporting of minerals out of the country, have been supervised by militaristic rebel groups. As a result these groups have been indirectly founded by international corporations.The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the performance of Global Witness at the agenda setting of conflict minerals, including a critical assessment of legislative measures.
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