Regionální bezpečnostní komplex: Arabský poloostrov a roh Afriky

Bc. Blanka KŇOBORTOVÁ

Master's thesis

Regional security complex - Arabic peninsula and African Horn

Abstract:

Regional security complex theory provides analytical framework for security analysis of a certain world regions. This theory, advanced by Barry Buzan and Ole Weaver in their 2003 work Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security, is based on premise that security threats spread more easily to geografically closer territory. The thoery says that there is a security interdependence between countries that links them in to clusters, they build so called regional security complexes. The theory is influenced by social constructivism, especially through the theory of securitization. It is an intersubjectiv and socially constructed proces. It argues, that the a topic will became a security threat through the proces of securitization, that means a securitizing actor will label the topic as a threat . The aim of this study is applying the Regional security complexes theory for a case study: Arabian peninsula and Horn of Africa. In this regional security complex the economic and military-political sector of security is exemined. The analysis include the topics of piracy, terrorism, migration, trade, significant role of ports in the region. The particular states are presented with demographic, economic a historical overview (regional conflicts included) that is needed for the analysis. The work also focus on the role of weak and failed states in the region, with the subtopic of clan and tribal society as a influence on the stability of the state. The security complex is constituted by two regions, Horn of Africa and Arabian Peninsula. They have strong security interdependence in the military sector, in the economic there are relations between the countries in form of trade and investment, but no economic threats that links the countries together in a security complex.

Keywords

teorie regionálních bezpečnostních komplexů, bezpečnost, sekuritizace, Buzan, Weaver, Africký roh, Arabský poloostrov

Language used: Czech

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 29. 4. 2014

Accessible from:: 31. 12. 2999

Thesis defence

• Supervisor: PhDr. Martina Ponížilová

University of West Bohemia

Faculty of Philosophy and Arts

Master programme / field:
Political Science / Foreign Relations