The New Middle Age: Theory of Irregular

• Název v anglickém jazyce: The New Middle Age: Theory of Irregular
• Klíčová slova: Geopolitics, theories, failed states
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Geopolitics, theories, failed states
• Akademický rok vypsání: 2011/2012
• Typ práce: diplomová práce
• Jazyk práce: angličtina
• Ústav: Katedra politologie (23-KP)
• Vedoucí / školitel: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D.
• Řešitel: skrytý - zadáno vedoucím/školitelem
• Datum přihlášení: 03.03.2012
• Datum zadání: 12.05.2012
• Datum a čas obhajoby: 28.06.2013 00:00
• Místo konání obhajoby: IPS FSV UK, U kříže 8/661 158 00 Praha 5 – Jinonice
• Datum odevzdání elektronické podoby: 13.05.2013
• Datum proběhlé obhajoby: 28.06.2013
• Oponenti: PhDr. Michael Romancov, Ph.D.
• Konzultanti: doc. Martin Riegl, Ph.D.

Zásady pro vypracování

Aim of the work is to assess validity of the New Middle Age Theory as a tool which can be used to explain appearance and predict behaviour of the new actors competing with the state over the territorial control, as a challenge to classical state-centric view of the world.

First part of the work will be a simple gathering of the works related to the work and summarizing them. We will than find some pattern common to the concept as a whole and categorize the differences into further sub-theories. These sub-theories will be tested afterwards using four case studies which differ in the position of the state control over its territory. We will use one case from the set of the territories which are not governed by state (Somalia), one case where the role of state is significantly dropping without its approval (Pakistan), third one will be the situation similar to previous one but this time the diminishing of the state is approved by the states (the European Union) and finally the case where state structure is dominant force in the territorial control and unchallenged by other actors (People´s Democratic Republic of Korea). After describing these cases we will test our previously defined sub-theories on each of them alternating them so they are able to explain the real life examples and finally end with a coherent theory able to embrace all of the cases presented.

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Předběžná náplň práce

World politics is getting more and more complicated with the appearance of the new non-state actors making the international anarchy more unpredictable than in the past. Many theories about the outlook of the new setting of the international politics were created during the second half of the twentieth century, with one of the most ambitious as well as unsettled in the so-called New Middle Age Theory. Its ambition arises from the fact that it tries to make sense to the diminishing role of states in the international system as well as from creation of the completely new system loosely based on the power-setting during the Middle-Ages. The unsettledness is based on the fact that those authors who wrote something about the topic differed significantly in the evaluation and impacts of this concept, creating different streams with different conclusions about the outlook of the post-state world.
In this work we will try to gather available materials written on the topic and compare them, creating some basic ground for the whole concept and then present the different impacts on the international politics and the control of the territory. Later on, we will try to assess the different approaches and compare their applicability by using four different chosen case studies (Pakistan, Somalia, the European Union and People´s Democratic Republic of Korea) to test their validity. In the end we will be hopefully able to create a working fusion capable of explaining the changes observable in the contemporary world with the accent to the role, the assumed transformation based on this theory, provides to territorial control, and geopolitical setting alterations.

Předběžná náplň práce v anglickém jazyce

World politics is getting more and more complicated with the appearance of the new non-state actors making the international anarchy more unpredictable than in the past. Many theories about the outlook of the new setting of the international politics were created during the second half of the twentieth century, with one of the most ambitious as well as unsettled in the so-called New Middle Age Theory. Its ambition arises from the fact that it tries to make sense to the diminishing role of states in the international system as well as from creation of the completely new system loosely based on the power-setting during the Middle-Ages. The unsettledness is based on the fact that those authors who wrote something about the topic differed significantly in the evaluation and impacts of this concept, creating different streams with different conclusions about the outlook of the post-state world.
In this work we will try to gather available materials written on the topic and compare them, creating some basic ground for the whole concept and then present the different impacts on the international politics and the control of the territory. Later on, we will try to assess the different approaches and compare their applicability by using four different chosen case studies (Pakistan, Somalia, the European Union and People´s Democratic Republic of Korea) to test their validity. In the end we will be hopefully able to create a working fusion capable of explaining the changes observable in the contemporary world with the accent to the role, the assumed transformation based on this theory, provides to territorial control, and geopolitical setting alterations.