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Kolonialita jako druhá tvář modernity: k současné latinskoamerické postkoloniální kritice modernity
In: Historická sociologie / Historical Sociology, Heft 1-2, S. 75-94
The paper focuses on the Latin American perspective on modernity, especially on the Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano's notion of coloniality. Coloniality is explained as a theoret- ical framework for critical reflection of modernity with an emphasis on the forms of knowledge (episteme) and on non-Western, more specifically Latin American historical experiences and perspectives. The aim is to introduce some Latin American efforts to critically understand coloniality as the other face of modernity and to develop a distinctive critique of capitalism, globalisation and Eurocentrism in their historical dynamics, In the first part, the paper briefly introduces Latin America as a geocultural place and a object of social research in a historical perspective. Special attention is paid to the question of racial classification and authenticity. In the second part, the paper focuses on the notion of coloniality as it was conceptualised by A. Quijano and by other Latin American authors. In the third and fourth parts, the paper deals with the problem of coloniality in wider epistemic contexts of modern social sciences and in relation to the notion of alterity and to the question of decolonisation of social scientific thinking. The final discussion addresses some of inspirational and problematic points of this conception such as problems of decolonisation, intellectual dependency and critique, and the problem of conceptualisation of differences in scientific discourses.
Českoslovenští uprchlíci ve studené válce: dějiny American Fund for Czechoslovak Refugees
In: Prameny a studie k dějinám československého exilu 1948-1989 sv. 8
America Against the World. How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked
In: Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 164-168
The Post-American World
In: Mezinárodní vztahy: Czech journal of international relations, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 127
ISSN: 0543-7989, 0323-1844
Recenze: Wuthnow, Robert: After the Baby Boomers - How Twenty- and Thirty-somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion
In: Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 451-454
Nový svět: zpravý Amerického fondu pro Čs. Uprchlíky, Evropská kancelář = New world
Dva soudobé koncepty rasismu ve Spojených státech amerických: Laissez-faire rasismus a koncept privilegia bílých
In: Historická sociologie / Historical Sociology, Heft 1, S. 101-117
The current article introduces the issue of race and racism in the United States of America with focus on two specific contemporary concepts that have a big attention and have formed the discussion in the last years. The first one is laissez-faire racism from Lawrence D. Bobo who stresses the reluctance of government and political parties to engage in racial questions. The second one is concept of white privilege of Peggy McIntosh who points at advantages and privileges of white race. Both concepts attempt to raise awareness about still present racial discrimination in the United States of America, although in the last years this topic has begun to be perceived as clichet and for some the problem is considered to be solved.
Modely nové keynesovské ekonomie: struktura, problémy, perspektivy (The New Keynesian Economics Models: Structure, Disadvantages and Perspectives)
In: Politická ekonomie: teorie, modelování, aplikace, Band 61, Heft 2, S. 274-296
ISSN: 0032-3233
Bezpecnostni dilemma americke protiraketove obrany
In: Mezinárodní vztahy: Czech journal of international relations, Band 48, Heft 2, S. 27-50
ISSN: 0543-7989, 0323-1844
The article deals with the former US President Bush's plan for the so-called third pillar of the American missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic in the context of American-Iranian and American-Russian relations. We assess the explanatory power of different but interconnected (neo)realist conceptualizations of security dilemma and deterrence. Specifically, the study evaluates the relative importance of classical security dilemma versus imperialist security dilemma and the explanatory power of three different modalities of deterrence. The paper further shows how Iran and Russia balanced the United States. We also argue that the American missile defense system was not primarily motivated by defensive realist worries about security, but rather by an offensive realist struggle for power and gains at the expense of others. Adapted from the source document.
The Philadelphia Negro - zapomenutý počátek empirické sociologie ve Spojených státech amerických
In: Historická sociologie / Historical Sociology, Heft 1, S. 55-73
This paper focuses on "The Philadelphia Negro": a community study that stands at the start of American social research. This somewhat forgotten empirical study from 1899 describes the historical conditions and the economic and social causes and circumstances behind the formation and existence of the "Seventh Ward", a slum neighbourhood in Philadelphia inhabited by African-Americans. The study used survey and other methods of observation and analysis of historical, economic and social data. The study was written by the erudite Harvard University graduate William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, an African-American, and an economist, historian and sociologist. Using primary and secondary literature and archive sources this paper shows that Du Bois was the author of the first empirical social research study in the United States. It looks at his life, his research, and his opinions on racial issues. He created a programme of research on the African-American population and from 1898 to 1910 he headed the first school of sociology on the American continent at the University of Atlanta. He published the results of scientific analyses of the lives of African-Americans in the south of the United States in sixteen volumes of the Atlanta University Studies. Racial prejudices among the American sociological elites prevented both Du Bois and his work from receiving the attention they rightly deserve.
Trendy vyvoje verejne diplomacie v dnesni zahranicni politice
In: Politologický časopis, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 65-79
ISSN: 1211-3247
The aim of this study is to analyze the current use of public diplomacy in foreign relations. It attempts to show how necessary public diplomacy strategy is for the formation of diplomatic relations. The first part of the study focuses on the analysis of changes in political communication in international relations. Presented are factors such as the transnationalisation or medialisation of foreign policy and the role of soft power in international relations. Then it presents a three dimensional model of public diplomacy that takes into account short-term and long-term goals. The main part of the text presents a change in the operation of today's foreign policy actors. This mainly concerns classical diplomacy, which has transformed its role, primarily by heavily engaging professional public affairs agencies and non-state actors in foreign policy. The article also cites examples from Europe and the United States of America of successful and unsuccessful strategies of public diplomacy. Adapted from the source document.
Spojene staty a evropska integrace Priklad strategie regionalni hegemonie
In: Mezinárodní vztahy: Czech journal of international relations, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 5-29
ISSN: 0543-7989, 0323-1844
The United States have been an important actor in the debate on the nature of the European integration process since the beginning of the process. Washington's policy, however, has always seemed equivocal: on one hand it actively supported and encouraged the process, but on the other hand it tried to contain some specific European ambitions and steer the process in a desirable direction. The objective of this article is to offer a possible explanation of the long-term US policy towards the European integration process. In the first part, it presents the theoretical concept of the US "regional hegemony strategy" and identifies four goals of the grand strategy within the limits of the concept. In the second part, it tests the validity of the concept on six historical case studies by confronting the intentions of the US policy in each case with the four identified strategic goals. The analysis shows that even though the focus of the American policy towards the European integration changes according to different historical context, the American policy follows the general tenets of the regional hegemony strategy. Adapted from the source document.