The Gradual Changes of the Attitude of Czechoslovak Diplomacy toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict during the 1948–1967 Period
subject: Arab-Israeli conflict
subject: Six-Day War
subject: Czechoslovakia
subject: Middle East
subject: Cold War
subject: Czechoslovak diplomacy
description: This study examines the evolution of Czechoslovak foreign policy towardsselected actors of Arab-Israeli conflict in 1948–1967. Once very friendlyrelations of Czechoslovakia with Israel were soon replaced by a graduallydeveloping cooperation with some Arab actors. However, even thispartnership encountered several diffcult moments. Despite long-termideological disputes with Arab nationalist leaders, Czechoslovakiademonstrated unconditional support for the Arab coalition in the Six-DayWar (1967), and the pro-Arab orientation had become the unquestionableline of Czechoslovak Middle East policy in the Cold War. Since the article isbased on the New Cold War History approach, in addition to the previouslyunpublished information from the archival documents it also aims to offer apartial interpretation of Czechoslovakia’s diplomatic position as a satellitestate of the Soviet Union with regard to its foreign policy strategies towardsselected Middle Eastern Third world countries in the first two decades ofthe Cold War.
creator: Taterová, Eva
source: Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 57 No. 1 (2022); 43-77
source: 2788-2993
source: 2788-2985
source: 10.32422/mv-cjir.57.1
publisher: Institute of International Relations Prague
date: 2022-03-01
rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
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language: eng
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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type: Research Articles

Blanka Knotková-Čapková, Aleš Karmazin a kol. Asijské hierarchie v postkoloniálním kontextu. Politické, sociální a kulturní dimenze.
description: The present book reveals and compares the ways in which hierarchies ofpower are created in postcolonial societies. At the same time, it tries todeconstruct these hierarchies, ie to reveal their initial assumptions andconsequences. Thus, it shows that the postcolonial context is still a relevantfactor that co-shapes events in Asian countries.The book specifically focuses on case studies on China, India, Japan, CentralAsia and Madagascar as entities with strong Asian influences. Although thebook is primarily rooted in Asian studies, its approach is interdisciplinary. Inthe analysis, it uses perspectives based on political science andinternational relations, anthropology, media studies or cultural and literarystudies. The key categories for the analysis of hierarchies and theirpractices and discourses are (real and symbolic) boundaries,(intersubjectively formed) identity and (political and social) norms.
creator: Kyselová, Zdeňka P.
source: Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 57 No. 1 (2022); 81-87
source: 2788-2993
source: 2788-2985
source: 10.32422/mv-cjir.57.1
publisher: Institute of International Relations Prague
date: 2022-03-01
rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
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language: eng
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type: book review

Jan Hornát – Lucie Kýrová ed.: America First: Příčiny a kontext volebního vítězství Donalda Trumpa
description: A non-traditional candidate, an unprecedented president? Why didAmericans elect such a controversial figure as the head of their country?What were the causes and context for electing Donald Trump as theAmerican president and which strategies and topics gained him votersupport? This book aims to describe and analyze the steps Donald Trumptook to exploit the fissures in the socio-economic and cultural cohesion ofAmericans in order to win the elections. The deeper, contextualunderstanding and the chessboard of the 2016 election backgroundpresented in this book make it easier for the Czech readership tounderstand Trump’s steps more deeply than as flashed through his mediaportrait.
creator: Himmer, Michal
source: Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 57 No. 1 (2022); 89-94
source: 2788-2993
source: 2788-2985
source: 10.32422/mv-cjir.57.1
publisher: Institute of International Relations Prague
date: 2022-03-01
rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
type: book review

Ivan Krastev: Už je zítra? Aneb jak pandemie mění Evropu
description: Jak bude vypadat svět po koronavirové pandemii? A nežijeme v něm jižnějakou dobu? Neučinila pandemie jen zřejmějšími dlouhodobé trendy? Jakby se měly na ekonomickou krizi v době deglobalizace připravit národnístáty a jak Evropská unie? Ivan Krastev vyvolal na vrcholu koronavirové krizecelosvětový zájem svým článkem o vlivu pandemie na budoucí společenskézměny. Nyní navazuje esejí, ve které zkoumá politické a kulturní důsledkyCovidu-19 jako laboratorního sociálního experimentu. Brilantně aprovokativně analyzuje sociální dopady karanténní dystopie, návratvládních intervencí, uzavírání hranic národních států, roli odborníků akrizového řízení v demokratických a autoritářských státech (big datagovernment), etické otázky zdravotnických a ekonomických opatření,mezigenerační a mezinárodní solidaritu. Politologické analýzy a data zvýzkumů historických pandemií kombinuje s příklady literárních zpracováníči filozofických pojednání a ukazuje paradoxy proměněného světa, projehož obyvatele je pandemie základní společnou zkušenost.
creator: Jágr, David
source: Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 57 No. 1 (2022); 95-101
source: 2788-2993
source: 2788-2985
source: 10.32422/mv-cjir.57.1
publisher: Institute of International Relations Prague
date: 2022-03-01
rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
type: book review

NATO between Exclusivity and Inclusivity: Measuring NATO’s Partnerships
subject: NATO
subject: partnerships
subject: international relations
subject: regression analysis
subject: power
subject: democracy
description: Building on an original dataset, this article focuses on the interactions between NATO and its declared worldwide partners. It argues that the analysis of these interactions can reveal NATO’s strategic approach to partnerships, but it can also provide a tool for its classification as an organisation that is either exclusive – defined by the focus on defence of its members, or inclusive – emphasising the global protection of democracies and human rights. The relationship between types of interactions and NATO categorisation is estimated using an unconditional negative binomial regression with fixed effects as well as a within-between (hybrid) model. Furthermore, they are illustrated on two brief case studies of Sweden and Japan. The results of the study suggest that NATO engages primarily with countries that are powerful relative to their neighbourhood, even though they are not the most powerful among the partners. The given country’s level of democracy, integration into the international institutions, and stability, do not seem to play any overarching role here.
creator: Mičko, Branislav
source: Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 56 No. 4 (2021); 7-40
source: 2788-2993
source: 2788-2985
publisher: Institute of International Relations Prague
date: 2021-12-01
rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
type: Research Articles

Framing as a Social Movement’s Transnational Strategy: The Gülen Movement’s EU-Turkey Discourses in the Post-2016 Online Media
subject: Gülen movement
subject: transnational
subject: social movement
subject: AKP
subject: Erdoğan
subject: media
subject: framing
description: This paper focuses on framing as a social movement’s transnationalstrategy. Applying the cultural approach to framing analysis, it investigateshow the Gülen movement, as a social group with restricted access tonational gatekeepers, uses discourse to internationalise a domestic powerstruggle with a powerful opponent. Moving the struggle to theinternational arena presents a discursive opportunity that determineswhich ideas become visible and legitimate both internationally andnationally. The importance of such internationalization increases in times ofconflict and the media play a vital role in this process. The paper arguesthat the editors of the pro-Gülen movement foreign online platformsestablished after the movement was forced into exile following the failed2016 coup, use strategic framing to tailor their frames for the host contextand culture. That increases the resonance of their frames and the potentialof the discursive opportunity. The article confirms the previous findings thatmedia are a crucial resource for transnational social movements becausepolicymakers are sensitive to public opinion, which is shaped by mediaframes.
creator: Tungul, Lucie
source: Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 56 No. 4 (2021); 41-47
source: 2788-2993
source: 2788-2985
publisher: Institute of International Relations Prague
date: 2021-12-01
rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
type: Research Articles

Rethinking the Infodemic: Global Health Security and Information Disorder
subject: infodemic
subject: disinformation
subject: vaccine diplomacy
subject: global health
subject: security
subject: covid-19
description: The discourse on the infodemic constructs the combination of thepandemic and disinformation as a new source of insecurity on a globalscale. How can we make sense – analytically and politically– of this newlypoliticized nexus of public health, information management, and globalsecurity? This article proposes approaching the phenomenon of theinfodemic as an intersecting securitization of information disorder andhealth governance. Specifically, it argues that there are two distinct framesof security mobilized in the context of infodemic governance: informationas a disease and information as a weapon. Drawing on literatures on globalhealth and the emerging research on disinformation, the paper situates thetwo framings of the infodemic in broader discourses on the medicalizationof security, and securitization of information disorder, respectively. Thearticle critically reflects on each framing and offers some preliminarythoughts on how to approach the entanglements of health, security, andinformation disorder in contemporary global politics.
creator: Rychnovská, Dagmar
source: Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 56 No. 4 (2021); 77-90
source: 2788-2993
source: 2788-2985
publisher: Institute of International Relations Prague
date: 2021-12-01
rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Democratic Erosion and Democratic Resilience in Central Europe during COVID-19
subject: pandemic
subject: democratic resilience
subject: CEE
subject: Czech Republic
subject: Hungary
subject: Poland
subject: Slovakia
description: What are the effects of populists in power on democracy during apandemic? The paper seeks to distinguish the extent to which the COVID-19pandemic can (not) be traced to democratic erosion and democraticresilience. Are the changes in the quality of democracy resulting frompolitical leaders' actions or rather a path-dependent continuation ofprevious trends? This contribution focuses on two paths – democraticerosion and democratic resilience – in the Visegrad Four countries (theCzech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia), which are all governed bypopulist leaders. It builds on previous literature that focused principally onthe first wave of the pandemic by focusing on institutional guardrails andaccountability (vertical, horizontal, and diagonal) during the 18 months ofthe pandemic. It seeks to answer the following question: What conditionsare necessary and sufficient to prevent democratic erosion?
creator: Guasti, Petra
source: Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 56 No. 4 (2021); 91-104
source: 2788-2993
source: 2788-2985
publisher: Institute of International Relations Prague
date: 2021-12-01
rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Long-term Prescription? Digital Surveillance is Here to Stay
subject: digital surveillance
subject: covid-19
subject: pandemic
subject: privacy
subject: human rights
subject: surveillance capitalism
description: An emerging literature has shown concerns about the impact of thepandemic on the proliferation of digital surveillance. Contributing to thesedebates, in this paper we demonstrate how the pandemic facilitates digitalsurveillance in three ways: (1) By shifting everyday communication to digitalmeans it contributes to the generation of extensive amounts of datasusceptible to surveillance. (2) It motivates the development of new digitalsurveillance tools. (3) The pandemic serves as a perfect justification forgovernments to prolong digital surveillance. We provide empiricalanecdotes for these three effects by examining reports by the Global DigitalPolicy Incubator at Stanford University. Building on our argument, weconclude that we might be on the verge of a dangerous normalization ofdigital surveillance. Thus, we call on scholars to consider the full effects ofpublic health crises on politics and suggest scrutinizing sources of digitaldata and the complex relationships between the state, corporate actors,and the sub-contractors behind digital surveillance.
creator: Maati, Ahmed
creator: Švedkauskas, Žilvinas
source: Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 56 No. 4 (2021); 105-118
source: 2788-2993
source: 2788-2985
publisher: Institute of International Relations Prague
date: 2021-12-01
rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

On the Forms of Vulnerability and Ungrievability in the Pandemic
subject: COVID-19
subject: vulnerability
subject: precarity
subject: grievability
subject: pandemic politics
description: This contribution reviews and comments on recent scholarship on thepolitics of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on how vulnerability wasconstructed and studied. We reflect on the various meanings ofvulnerability and suggest political science should go beyond individualizedand identity-based approaches and see the pandemic conditions as sharedand embedded within the already existing social, political, and economicstructures. We also examine how our previously identified discursive framesof science and security work in the context of the later pandemic stagesand the vaccination rollout and note how these frames continue to rendercertain lives ungrievable. Our contribution is intended to add to thegrowing interest in using the concepts of vulnerability, precariousness, andprecarity in studies of politics and international relations, as well as incritical studies of public health and the coronavirus pandemic.
creator: Hardoš, Pavol
creator: Maďarová, Zuzana
source: Czech Journal of International Relations; Vol. 56 No. 4 (2021); 119-130
source: 2788-2993
source: 2788-2985
publisher: Institute of International Relations Prague
date: 2021-12-01
rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
format: application/pdf
language: eng
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion