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National Security Strategy of the United States of America 2002: Imperial Grand Strategy?
Ludvík, Jan ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Anděl, Petr (referee)
This paper offers a thorough examination of the United States 2002 National Security Strategy. The document is explored in its broader context, which allows us to understand it in its uniqueness and therefore offer sufficient interpretation. Special attention is devoted to the decision making process of the U.S. National Security Council due to primary responsibility of NSC for coordination of American security policy. Further attention is paid to three particular problem- related parts that are often considered to be the most revolutionary issues of this document. Preemption, unilateralism and U.S. support for the spread of democracy are examined in the broader context of the U.S. foreign policy tradition, American identity and historical development. On the basis of thorough research, the paper supposes that all major parts of this particular document are rather compatible with the development of U.S. security policy and they represent rather the outcome of developments than a fundamental change or reformulation of the strategy. The role of strategic documents is implicitly examined as well, while the study suggests that it should be perceived as a product of bureaucratic politics as summarized in a model by Graham Allison.
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George W. Bush's Administrative Unilateral Approach to Promote the American System of Missile Defense
Rouček, Martin ; Anděl, Petr (advisor) ; Calda, Miloš (referee)
The focus of the BA thesis is the concept of American unilateralism. The analysis studies the approach of the Bush administration to negotiations with other parties involved in international relations in the matter of the US plan to build missile defense sites in central Europe. The present thesis is a case study aiming to confirm the hypothesis of the US unilateral approach to the parties in international relations, which played crucial roles in the plan to build the missile defense system, i.e. European countries, Russia and China in this particular case. The roles of the European countries are analyzed from the perspective of individual countries, NATO and the EU. One of the decisions of unilateral character made by the Bush administration in relation to the missile defense system was, for instance, the unilateral withdrawal from the ABM Treaty signed between the USA and the USSR in 1972. Moreover, it was one of the most important treaties on nuclear arms control, banning the development of missile defense systems. The US was further criticized for making little effort to negotiate with European countries and the great powers Russia and Chine about its plan to construct a missile defense system. Last but not least, the US did not seem to be much interested in negotiating the missile defense...
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Multi level economic governance: the example of Southeast Asia
Wagnerová, Markéta ; Hnát, Pavel (advisor) ; Bič, Josef (referee)
This thesis examines characteristics of the economic governance, its levels and changes that were made in response to events in Southeast Asia in 1997/1998. it describes in detail the role of levels of the economic governance during the solution of the asian financial crisis, that exposed its vulnerabilities. In response to the crisis many changes took place. In the region of Southeast Asia these changes were designed to reform the International Monetary Fund, the origin of regional cooperation in the area and reforms in particular countries of the region. The thesis also contains the evaluation of the development of the economic governance in particilar states of Southeast Asia regarding world governance indicators WGI.
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