Katerina Zenkova Rudincova

University of Ostrava · Department of Human Geography and Regional Development

. Turkey's engagement in Africa is connected to the ideological shift of Turkish government during the era of Justice and Development Party and its redirection from the Western-centred to the more diversified foreign policy. Turkish policy in Africa has two dimensions: first one is promoted by the official representation of the State, and the secon...

De facto states constitute an interesting anomaly in the international system of sovereign states. No matter how successful and efficient they are in the administration of their territories, they fail to achieve international recognition. The main priority is given to maintaining their existence and to an effort to convince domestic and internation...

The paper deals with the foreign policy of Ethiopia toward Somalia and issues connected to the informal relations with Somaliland and its possible international recognition in particular. Somaliland is de facto state which declared its independence unilaterally as a response to the outbreak of the Somali civil war in 1991. Even though it managed to...

De facto states need external support to advance their national interests. Many of them depend on their patron’s assistance, thus becoming their clients. In turn, patronless de facto states derive certain benefits from engaging with various external actors. This study proposes including a new category of actors in this group, namely quasi-patrons,...

The present article discusses the role of celebrities in the conflict resolution processes presented by the case study of George Clooney's engagement in South Sudan. Methodologically, it is a critical discourse analysis of published articles in selected media. The main argument of the article is that the role of celebrities in conflict resolution p...

We aimed to explain the spatial distribution of information and communication technology (ICT) firms in the city of Ostrava as an example of a medium-sized, shrinking, polycentric industrial city. The primary research question was to what extent micro-geographic location factors affect the current spatial clustering of ICT firms in polycentric citi...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a central African country which is rich in natural resources with long-term economic ties with China. The China´s presence in Africa is well-known, however, it is an open question whether it is based on a mutually beneficial partnership or neocolonial strategies to gain profit. The main aim of the article i...

The article deals with the concept of responsibility to protect, applied on the case study of South Sudan. The introductory part of the paper discusses the con-cept itself, its emergence and inclusion in relevant international law documents. The second part is dedicated to the analysis of African Union’s documents which enshrine responsibility to p...

Executive Summary: The Czech foreign policy towards Sub-Saharan Africa can be characterised as continuous with aims of deepening the relations with traditional African partners in the fields of economy, defence, security and agriculture, and establishing new partnerships mainly with the Sahel countries. Similarly to the previous year, none of the t...

At the end of the nineteenth century, Somali-inhabited territories were partitioned between the colonial powers, Great Britain, Italy, France, and Ethiopia. However, these colonies in the Horn of Africa had never been perceived as crucial by all the colonialist countries because of the physical conditions in Somali-inhabited territories which are t...

The Lake Chad basin is one of the most unstable regions in Africa. The lake itself has shrunk and nowadays it covers less than 10 % of its area in 1960. These environmental changes have wider geopolitical consequences in the whole region, which encompasses countries such as Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Therefore, it seems that environmental t...

South Sudan declared its independence after the long-term civil war in 2011, a move which was welcomed both by its inhabitants and the international community and widely support- ed by the African Union. However, a new civil war broke out a few years later, bringing old ethnic and power rivalries back to light. This article focuses on the causes be...

Tento článek popisuje trojstranný přeshraniční project Prameny spojují/Quellen verbinden, zahájený v roce 2016 a koordinovaný Technickou univerzitou v Liberci. Záměrem projektu je komplexní hydrochemické, hydrobiologické, hydrologické, geologické a humánně geografické zhodnocení souboru asi 40 pramenů v oblasti Liberec-Zittau, a to cestou vzdělávac...

The contribution deals with the topic of the African Union’s approach to South Sudan and Somaliland as examples of the secessionist movements in the Horn of Africa. The main scope of the contribution is to answer the question of why South Sudan has been supported by the African Union in its struggle for self-determination culminating in secession,...

This article deals with the problem of the maintenance of colonial borders in contemporary Africa through reference to a case study of South Sudan. Even though South Sudan had been part of the Anglo-Egyptian condominium, it was de facto administered separately from northern Sudan. As a consequence, it went through a unique process of political, eco...

Somalia is perceived to be, especially by the US and Ethiopian Governments, a safe haven for various global Islamist networks. Nevertheless, at the same time, collapsed states seem to be not so much suitable for these global Islamic organizations, because of the lack of infrastructure, for example. In Somalia, there are also some local Islamic orga...