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Actors' behaviour and the militarization of space: Cooperation vs. conflict
Gréková, Lenka ; Doboš, Bohumil (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
The thesis deals with the question of militarization and weaponization of the outer space and it analyse the actor's behaviour regarding space militarization and weaponization. The aim of the thesis is to find out whether the key actors cooperate or not in dealing with the use of the outer space. The relations between the key actors are analysed from the perspective of the game theory, particularly with the two models of behaviour: prisoner's dilemma and the tragedy of the commons. These models are used based on the assumption that they best describe the relations between actors in international relations as either cooperative or competitive. The aim is to evaluate whether these two models are valid in researching the behaviour of the key actors in the question of militarization of space. The analysed actors are the United States, Russia and China, as these are the three most important and successful space-faring nations with the biggest potential in the future of space exploration. Analysing their relations, the thesis attempts to evaluate whether the two models of the game theory are valid or not. For evaluating the prisoner's dilemma, bilateral relations are analysed, for the tragedy of the commons, their multilateral relations are analysed. What we learn from the analysis is that both models...
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Legal regime of natural resources of celestial bodies
Pepřík, Šimon ; Pelikánová Urbanová, Kristýna (referee)
1 Legal regime of natural resources of celestial bodies Abstract The aim of this thesis is to describe the legal regime of the natural resources of celestial bodies. In recent months and years, there has been an increase in debates regarding mining on the moon and asteroids and this thesis dedicates its seven parts to the legal regime of such activities. In particular, whether such activities are possible from the point of view of international law, how are they regulated and what are the potential future developments in this area. In order to understand the legal regime governing the natural resources of celestial bodies, it is necessary to first become acquainted with the essential concepts of space law, including outer space, celestial bodies and outer space resources, whose definition is the subject of the first part of the thesis. The second part describes the development of international space law, from the first mentions in legal commentary to the creation of two important international documents in this area, the Outer Space Treaty and the Moon Agreement. Both international treaties are analysed and compared in individual chapters both in terms of their international acceptance and in terms of the regulation of activities in the field of outer space resources. Subsequently, their possible future...
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Legal regime of natural resources o f celestial bodies
Pepřík, Šimon ; Hofmannová, Mahulena (advisor) ; Ondřej, Jan (referee)
1 Legal regime of natural resources of celestial bodies Abstract The aim of this thesis is to describe the legal regime of the natural resources of celestial bodies. In recent months and years, there has been an increase in debates regarding mining on the moon and asteroids and this thesis dedicates its seven parts to the legal regime of such activities. In particular, whether such activities are possible from the point of view of international law, how are they regulated and what are the potential future developments in this area. In order to understand the legal regime governing the natural resources of celestial bodies, it is necessary to first become acquainted with the essential concepts of space law, including outer space, celestial bodies and outer space resources, whose definition is the subject of the first part of the thesis. The second part describes the development of international space law, from the first mentions in legal commentary to the creation of two important international documents in this area, the Outer Space Treaty and the Moon Agreement. Both international treaties are analysed and compared in individual chapters both in terms of their international acceptance and in terms of the regulation of activities in the field of outer space resources. Subsequently, their possible future...
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The concept of security dilemma in the environment of outer space: the case of the Galileo system
Němečková, Marie ; Doboš, Bohumil (advisor) ; Špelda, Petr (referee)
This diploma thesis applies the well-established concept of security dilemma to the relatively new domain of outer space. It constructs a comprehensive modification of the concept for the outer space - the space security dilemma - and establishes criteria for the assessment of it while also discussing previous approaches. The thesis then applies this concept and established criteria, to the issue of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). More specifically, it focuses on the case of the European GNSS called Galileo and assesses the intentions behind its creation. Through this assessment, the thesis focuses on determining whether the European Union became a space security dilemma initiator by the development of the Galileo system. In order to confront the theoretical conclusions with praxis, the thesis then focuses on the case of the United States of America and the confrontation between GPS and Galileo. In its last chapter, the thesis replicates this approach on the cases of the Russian Federation (and its GLONASS) and the People's Republic of China (and its BeiDou/COMPASS).
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Actors' behaviour and the militarization of space: Cooperation vs. conflict
Gréková, Lenka ; Doboš, Bohumil (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
The thesis deals with the question of militarization and weaponization of the outer space and it analyse the actor's behaviour regarding space militarization and weaponization. The aim of the thesis is to find out whether the key actors cooperate or not in dealing with the use of the outer space. The relations between the key actors are analysed from the perspective of the game theory, particularly with the two models of behaviour: prisoner's dilemma and the tragedy of the commons. These models are used based on the assumption that they best describe the relations between actors in international relations as either cooperative or competitive. The aim is to evaluate whether these two models are valid in researching the behaviour of the key actors in the question of militarization of space. The analysed actors are the United States, Russia and China, as these are the three most important and successful space-faring nations with the biggest potential in the future of space exploration. Analysing their relations, the thesis attempts to evaluate whether the two models of the game theory are valid or not. For evaluating the prisoner's dilemma, bilateral relations are analysed, for the tragedy of the commons, their multilateral relations are analysed. What we learn from the analysis is that both models...
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Non-militarization of the final frontier tracing the evolution of norms in outer space
Mráz, Pavel ; Hynek, Nikola (advisor) ; Karásek, Tomáš (referee)
This diploma thesis critically examines traditional positivist interpretations concerning the birth of four core norms of the current legal regime governing activities of states in Outer Space: a) non-militarization, b) peaceful use, c) non- appropriation, and d) freedom of access. Traditional interpretations often explicate the emergence of the aforementioned principles in static terms, either as a result of universal aspirations of mankind to peaceful explore the final frontier, or alternatively as a product of rational calculations of self-interested states. Analysis of the first decade of the space age through the lens of post-structural genealogical method proposed by Richard Price reveals a much more complex picture. Application of critical genealogical approach indicates that the emergence of the four norms in question was contingent on the presence of particular historical circumstances and cognitive structures of the Cold War: a) fear of nuclear weapons, b) policy of containment, c) trauma of the Second World War, and d) highly politicized outer space discourse due to the presence of the space race. The findings also indicate that without the presence of the particular historical circumstances and cognitive structures that necessitated their emergence, the four principles in question are...
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