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Regionální mocnosti na výpravě do zahraničí: Extra-regionální geoekonomické strategie Indie, Turecka a EU v Africkém rohu
No full textSince the end of the cold war, scholars have been debating the concept of geoeconomics as an alternative to geopolitics for an international system in which the significance of military power is supposedly superseded by economic power. However, while a clear definition and conceptualisation of geoeconomics continues to be absent, its relevance for global dynamics has become undeniable in the context of great power competition, and beyond. Whether called regional, middle, or emerging powers, countries like India or Türkiye are playing an increasingly important role, particularly in the economic domain, in which they leverage economic power for both political and economic gain. However, while much research and theoretic framework exist concerning regional powers' geoeconomic statecraft in their respective regions, their increasingly extra-regional engagement, although evident, remains under-conceptualised. This thesis will therefore assess the utility of a framework to analyse and characterise regional powers' extra-regional geoeconomic strategies. This thesis proposes the use of Wigell's (2016) ideal-type framework for regional powers' geoeconomic strategies to be compatible with the analysis of extra-regional engagement. Through a plausibility probe case study, it will give insight into the utility and...Department of Security StudiesKatedra bezpečnostních studiíFaculty of Social SciencesFakulta sociálních vě
Refusing police power:resistances and ambivalences to state violence
No full textIn this forum, we take popular critiques from the majority world as our starting point for critically interrogating assumptions that police power and state violence are or should be the basis of ‘normal’ statecraft or ‘good order’. We ruminate on questions about policing’s actually-existing and future legitimacy through a transnational frame by foregrounding various refusals of it. In doing so, the forum raises new questions about how people imagine and work toward abolitionist futures in practice across diverse histories and geographic contexts
Regional powers going abroad: Extra-regional geoeconomic strategies of India, Türkiye, and the EU in the Horn of Africa
No full textSince the end of the cold war, scholars have been debating the concept of geoeconomics as an alternative to geopolitics for an international system in which the significance of military power is supposedly superseded by economic power. However, while a clear definition and conceptualisation of geoeconomics continues to be absent, its relevance for global dynamics has become undeniable in the context of great power competition, and beyond. Whether called regional, middle, or emerging powers, countries like India or Türkiye are playing an increasingly important role, particularly in the economic domain, in which they leverage economic power for both political and economic gain. However, while much research and theoretic framework exist concerning regional powers' geoeconomic statecraft in their respective regions, their increasingly extra-regional engagement, although evident, remains under-conceptualised. This thesis will therefore assess the utility of a framework to analyse and characterise regional powers' extra-regional geoeconomic strategies. This thesis proposes the use of Wigell's (2016) ideal-type framework for regional powers' geoeconomic strategies to be compatible with the analysis of extra-regional engagement. Through a plausibility probe case study, it will give insight into the utility and..
Jaderná správa a smlouva o zákazu jaderných zbraní
No full textOn the 7th July 2017, the United Nations adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) by a vote of 122-1-1. The TPNW has been widely credited with opening a new chapter on nuclear governance norms with the potential to disrupt the current order. Therefore, studying this contemporary treaty is important topical piece of research. Due to the frequently expressed normative value of the TPNW, two theoretical frameworks have been used to evaluate the normative progress of this treaty. This research project studies not only the TPNW, but two other treaties that are commonly grouped into Humanitarian Disarmament. The Mine Ban Treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and the TPNW have been analysed in order to study their linguistic similarities through the methodological approach of discourse analysis in order to consider the salient aspects of the Humanitarian Disarmament trend. The results of this project suggest that the TPNW has opened up new room for debate in the typically state centric field of nuclear governance but the TPNW has not yet become a widespread norm. Instead, it remains at the "tipping point" and more time is required to see if it will cascade across international relations or fail. The treaty is still contested by Nuclear Weapon States (NWS) and supported by...Department of Security StudiesKatedra bezpečnostních studiíFakulta sociálních vědFaculty of Social Science
Militarising Mumbai? The ‘politics’ of response
Full text linkThis article focuses on how urban security has been governed in Mumbai in the aftermath of the 2008 terrorist attacks (26/11). The event was widely cited as a major turning point in the securitisation and militarisation of Indian cities. It also produced significant political upheaval, which in turn generated calls for a major institutional overhaul of the governmental architecture for handling terrorism. This article takes the political and policy repercussions of 26/11 as an intervention into critical debates about the (para-)militarisation of policing and the politics of urban security. Here I shift the focus from the disciplinary and divisive effects of policies towards an emphasis on their spectacular and theatrical dimensions. If we are to make sense of the ‘militarised’ focus of the policy response to 26/11, I argue, we need to take seriously its populist, aspirational qualities
Nuclear Governance and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
No full textOn the 7th July 2017, the United Nations adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) by a vote of 122-1-1. The TPNW has been widely credited with opening a new chapter on nuclear governance norms with the potential to disrupt the current order. Therefore, studying this contemporary treaty is important topical piece of research. Due to the frequently expressed normative value of the TPNW, two theoretical frameworks have been used to evaluate the normative progress of this treaty. This research project studies not only the TPNW, but two other treaties that are commonly grouped into Humanitarian Disarmament. The Mine Ban Treaty, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, and the TPNW have been analysed in order to study their linguistic similarities through the methodological approach of discourse analysis in order to consider the salient aspects of the Humanitarian Disarmament trend. The results of this project suggest that the TPNW has opened up new room for debate in the typically state centric field of nuclear governance but the TPNW has not yet become a widespread norm. Instead, it remains at the "tipping point" and more time is required to see if it will cascade across international relations or fail. The treaty is still contested by Nuclear Weapon States (NWS) and supported by..
Security Preparedness in European Cities. Is it really time to learn from Israel?
No full textAs part of European policy debates on counterterrorism, there have been increasing calls to draw on Israeli expertise in protecting European cities. While transnational collaboration is, in essence, neither positive nor negative, European policymakers need to consider the full range of costs and consequences it is likely to have
The Privatization of Israeli Security By Shir Hever. London: Pluto Press, 2018. 256 pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-7453-3720-3
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Learning from Israel? ‘26/11’ and the anti-politics of urban security governance
Full text linkThis article calls for a greater emphasis on issues of politics and anti-politics within critical debates about transnational security governance in the metropolis. While scholars have documented the growing popularity of policy ‘models’ and ‘best practices’ in policing and urban security planning, we know little about what makes these schemes attractive to the officials who enroll in them. I take the government of Maharashtra’s decision to ‘learn from Israel’ following the 2008 Mumbai attacks (26/11) as an invitation to re-evaluate the relationships among policymaking, politics, and depoliticization. Focusing on references to Israeli security know-how as a ‘best practice’ by Maharashtra state officials, I explore how an association with Israel was used to negotiate the conflicts and controversies that followed 26/11. The article has two aims: first, it addresses how transnational policy schemes work anti-politically within particular local contexts. Second, it locates counter-terrorism policy as a form of performative politics, which is generative of policy problems. In doing so, the article helps to reclaim the political contingency of policy responses to terroristic violence and addresses the agency of policy actors in the global South
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