Aleš Karmazin
Amitav Acharya je jednou z hlavních postav, které se ve své kariéře
snažily ukázat limity západocentrického vnímání mezinárodních vztahů
(jako akademické disciplíny i jako zkoumaného pole) a přinést do nich
nezápadní pohledy. Podobně jako jeho pomyslný předchůdce Mohammed Ayoob se
i Acharya zabývá vztahem konstituce státu v postkoloniálních
podmínkách, institucí (normami, praktikami) suverenity a bezpečnostními
otázkami, k čemuž však přidává […]
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22nd January 2015, section Reviews
Jakub Drmola
Gabriella Coleman is already a well-known and respected scholar in the field
of cyberculture and hacking. She has published numerous articles on the subject
and her book on Anonymous was eagerly expected for quite some time. Finally, it
came out in November 2014 and portrays Anonymous since their inception in the
Internet’s underbelly all the way to […]
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22nd November 2014, section Reviews
Jakub Drmola
The ever-growing interest in cybersecurity has spawned a large number of
books and articles dealing with the deluge of issues stemming from the rising
importance of cyberspace. Many of them, including some already reviewed on this
website, focus on particular aspects of cybersecurity – it might be
cybercrime, social engineering, law of cyberwar, cyberterrorism and
many […]
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28th May 2014, section Reviews
Roman Pačka
In this age, cyberspace is perceived by many authors as a battlefield you
cannot see, a hidden space where a cyber-war takes place. So it is obvious that
this so-called fifth dimension of warfare gains importance and starts to
resemble conventional warfare. However, conventional war has its legal
regulations which cyber-war does not. Due to […]
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25th January 2014, section Reviews
Markéta Bartoníčková
Druhá kniha dvojice autorů Oldřich Krpec a Vladan Hodulák Evropa ve
světové ekonomice s podtitulem Historická perspektiva se, jak již z názvu
vyplývá, věnuje historickému vývoji světové ekonomiky od raného
středověku až po současnost. Autoři se zaměřují převážně na samotnou
Evropu, ale pro pochopení jednotlivých událostí a proměn je zasazují do
širokého kontextu vývoje nejprve islámského světa, […]
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9th October 2013, section Reviews
Lukas Buric
Bývalý barmský diktátor Than Šwei dlouhou dobu unikal pozornosti
autorů, přestože se množstvím spáchaných zločinů vyrovná takovým,
jako je Miloševič, Pinochet či Omar al-Bashir. Roku 2010 se konečně
dočkal vlastní v tomto článku recenzované biografie s názvem Than Shwe:
Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant. Jeho život v knize zachycují autoři Benedict
Rogers a Jeremy Woodrum s cílem poskytnout podrobné informace o jednom
z nejkrutějších tyranů […]
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7th April 2013, section Reviews
Peter Stevkov
The United States has always been a nation, in which religion has played an
important role. The relationship between religion and internal American politics
has long been a subject of interest for many scholars, but how did the religion
influence US foreign policy? What role did it play in the decisions of US
presidents whether […]
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26th February 2013, section Reviews
Richard Turcsányi
There is a fundamental question whenever the topic of China is raised in a
conversation – ‘What it will look like in the future’? While some
scholars choose to present a sensational picture of a “well based scenario”,
others play the ‘ostrich tactic’ and ignore the question completely, quite
likely for its complexity and fear of […]
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13th January 2013, section Reviews
Roman Pačka
The drug war among the Mexican state and drug cartels is still escalating.
Some observers and analysts have even expressed doubts about the state stability
and the Mexican government's ability to solve this crucial issue. According
to some analysts the main cause of this inability lies in the lack of
understanding of the roots of the […]
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2nd January 2013, section Reviews
