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The Origin and Early Development of The Oil Industry in Libya
Čvančara, Michal ; Soukup, Jaromír (advisor) ; Valkoun, Jaroslav (referee)
(in English): This work discusses about the origin and early development of the oil industry in Libya that could be set from 1951 to 1970. The author determined the time period of 60's as a main subject period because there was an incredibly rapid boom of petroleum in Libya, which resulted in the almost total orientation of the country's export to the oil industry. Text is primarily divided into five main chapters, some of which are further divided into smaller subsections from reaseon of better clarity. The individual chapters are devoted to historical and political background of Libyan oil extraction, mining and actual proceeding of oil companies in Libya, to legislative process which related to the oil industry and social conditions affected by new economic focus of Libya. In conclusion, the author focuses on the impact of Muammar Gaddafi's coup d'etat to the oil industry in Libya.
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The Way Czech Media Interpreted Northafrican Dictators Before and After the Revolutions of the Arab Spring
Hartman, Matouš ; Němcová Tejkalová, Alice (advisor) ; Láb, Filip (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on three North African dictators who were overthrown in revolution of so called Arab Spring in 2011. These dictators are Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia; Hosni Mubarak, Egypt, and Muammar Gaddafí, Libya. These three dictators were chosen because of their importance in the Arab Spring movement. In Ben Ali's ruled Tunisia the revolution started, Libya went through a civil war that ended with Gaddafi's death giving chance to the people to change the regime. Egypt is considered to be politically the most important Arab country and during Mubarak's rule it used to be a stable state. The revolution disclaimed this hypothesis. The thesis aims at comparing the way that two Czech weekly magazines Respekt and Týden wrote about the dictators. If we compare the pre-revoltuion era (from 2007 until early 2011) and the revolution year 2011, we can see the increase in the number of the texts published and that the way of speaking about the dictators has partically changed. We cannot leave without notice the scepticism which the magazines expressed to the upcoming elites after the falls of the dictators. The year 2011 witnessed the change and in case of Gaddafi, also the dictator's death. The dictators were presented by media as the guarantors of the stability in the region. Then in...
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Relation between the concept of humanitarian intervention and regime change: the case of Libya
Hanzal, Jaromír ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Hynek, Nikola (referee)
Diploma thesis Relation between the concepts of humanitarian intervention and regime change: the case of Libya is concerned with the study of military interventions after 1989 in the context of current theoretical discourse. It's main goal is assessing the 2011 NATO operation Unified Protector. The key question of thesis is, whether the intervention, due to the extensive reading of UNSC Resolution 1973, mandate still can be described in the terms of humanitarian intervention concept (in accordance with international law paradigm of R2P), or whether it rather had been a regime change. Based on primary data analysis, the paper shows that actors (most significantly the USA, France and Great Britain) contributing with a theoretically impartial military force, despite the immediate positive humanitarian outcome, helped significantly to overthrow the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. Due to the specifics of the operation, it can rather be described as a hidden regime change - a definition is also offered in the thesis. Based on the theoretical framework created by Michael Reisman, the author also assesses legitimacy of such deeds. The text is divided into three main chapters. Chapter one gives an account of broader context of just war theories, humanitarian intervention and regime change concepts. In the second...
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Gaddafis Regime: Example of Sultanism?
Jansová, Kateřina ; Buben, Radek (advisor) ; Drahokoupil, Štěpán (referee)
(anglicky): This final thesis work analyzes sultanistic regimes in the concept of Juan Linz. Specifically, it focuses on the Gaddafi regime in Libya. The main aim of the work is answering the question whether the Gaddafi regime belongs to sultanistic regimes. To answer this question it is necessary to characterize the term of sultanistic regimes. In particular, it is necessary to point out aspects of sultanistic regimes such as: absolute rule of one person, the removal of undesirable people for the regime, malfunction of laws or election, the absence of institutions, disrespect the autonomy of other power centres. It studies the development of Gaddafi regime, Gaddafi's efforts on the emergence of "ideology" and the design of institutions at the time in Libya. The period of the Gaddafi regime is divided into four main stages: the beginning of the Gaddafi regime 1969-1973, the Green Book's stateless society 1973-1986, the limits of the revolution 1986-2000 and Libya in the twenty-first century. There are some of the features of sultanisms in each period, but the most sultanistic elements were the period between 1973 and 1986.
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Democratisation proces in Libya and its reflections
Horáčková, Zuzana ; Černý, Karel (advisor) ; Německý, Marek (referee)
This work examines relevancy of theoretical aproaches on the subject of democratization processes presented by Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington and Fareed Zakaria, and it discusses a level of relevancy of their theoretical concepts and theses in comparison to the democratization process in Libya, which started in spring 2011. First, the theoretical part of this work presents specific historical, sociocultural, political, religious and economic contexts of Libya from a historical-sociology perspective with a focus on the democratization and liberalization processes in Libya. It discusses democratization factors and reasons, which are applied on the situation in Libya. The empirical part of this work presents reflections and perspectives of the democratization process in Libya from an emical perspective of a Libyan citizen. These reflections are confronted with the theoretical approaches presented in the first part, especially with Huntington's Third Wave. The empirical part reflects the processes of the previous non- democratic regime of Muammar Kaddafi, then the fall of the regime and the revolution situation in Libya, a new democratic regime and finally, the perspectives of consolidation of democracy in Libya.
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Death of Muammar Gaddafi and its international legal and political circumstances
Vokálek, Martin ; Rolenc, Jan Martin (advisor) ; Hlavsová, Aneta (referee)
The thesis deals with the events that predated the death of Muammar Gaddafi and particularly examines whether the subsequent reactions of the persons involved were in accordance with international law. The essence of a war crime and its definition in terms of international law is researched in the theoretical part of the thesis. Further tackled is the perspective of both the main actors of the conflict and the main institutions active in the field of international law, such as the UN or the International Criminal Court. The author subsequently describes and analyses the main circumstances in which the long-time leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi died. On the basis of prior examination of the issue the thesis tries to answer the question of whether this case can be described as a war crime for which punishment should fall. The third part examines the reactions of the main actors who were influenced in the Libyan civil war. Of importanance is also the subsequent analysis of how was this incident reported in the media.
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