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Nuclear Security Studies Scholarship: A Social Network Analysis
Kučmáš, Kryštof ; Smetana, Michal (advisor) ; Plechanovová, Běla (referee)
Nuclear Security research is an established subdiscipline in security studies. According to some authors is this field of research currently split into two groups of scientists - the "political scientists" and "historians" - who employ widely different approaches to research of the subject and communicate with each other on a minimal basis. This master thesis uses tools of bibliometric citational analysis to validate the existence of this gap on the level of academic citations. The author analyses this phenomenon on the dataset based on the data from the database Scopus. Results of the research bring new insights into the citational structure of set subdiscipline, which shows that the presumed gap between two supposedly not communicating groups does not appear on the level citations.
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Nuclear Security Studies Scholarship: A Social Network Analysis
Kučmáš, Kryštof ; Smetana, Michal (advisor) ; Plechanovová, Běla (referee)
CHARLES UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Institute of Political Studies Department of security studies Nuclear Security Studies Scholarship: A Social Network Analysis Master's thesis Author: Kryštof Kučmáš Study programme: Security Studies Supervisor: PhDr. Michal Smetana, Ph.D. Year of the defence: 2020 Declaration 1. I hereby declare that I have compiled this thesis using the listed literature and resources only. 2. I hereby declare that my thesis has not been used to gain any other academic title. 3. I fully agree to my work being used for study and scientific purposes. In Prague on 5. 1. Kryštof Kučmáš References KUČMÁŠ, Kryštof. Nuclear Security Studies Scholarship: A Social Network Analysis. Praha, 2020. Master's thesis (Mgr.) Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science. Department of Security Studies. Supervisor PhDr. Michal Smetana, Ph.D. Length of the thesis: 46382 char Abstract The nuclear security scholarship is as influential as varied. The thesis Nuclear Security Studies Scholarship: A Social Network Analysis tries to provide a different angle of literature analysis. Author compiled a high amount of citational data in the field of nuclear security studies and then analyzed it with the tools provided by Social Network Analysis and Citational Analysis....
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The Conundrum of Cybersecurity: Concepts, Modalities and Threat Framing of the European Union
Rozsypal, Jakub ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Schmidt, Nikola (referee)
This thesis deals with the complex issue of cyber security in international relations, specifics of cyber realm due to its technical nature and particular circumstances of its development as well as with the way how the EU deals with information and communication technologies. Even though cyber security as a category appears with increasing frequency and intensity in the thinking on security and related political debate in the past twenty years, some of its basic tenets are still insufficiently understood. First part of the thesis deals with cyber realm and its specifics as such with effort to pinpoint some of the inherent contradictions between the traditional Westphalian nation states and the fluid character of the digital world. Through analysis of selected relevant incidents as well convincing absence of the "digital- doom" scenarios the peculiar expectation-reality discrepancy will be analysed. The overarching method departs from intersubjective securitization framework. In the last part analysing the EU it is the concept of threat framing that is applied to study and trace the narrative of the EU in these matters. Here a gradual construction of a narrative termed ICT as "fundamental societal building block" reveals itself with cyber related issues making its way into top policy levels through...
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