Martina Ponížilová

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at University of West Bohemia

The strategic map of the Middle East is slowly changing, with traditional powers retreating from the regional management and with the expanding power vacuum in the region. Lately, growing attention is focused on emerging powers such as China that have capabilities and potential to increase their engagement in regional politics and conflict manageme...

Understanding the forms of regional orders in the contemporary international system requires a clear picture of its basic characteristics and the context in which the prevailing order was formed. Relationships between the actors have to be taken into account as well as the dominant behaviour patterns of the entities and institutions that created an...

To understand the current character of the Middle East region, one must have a clear picture of the context in which the prevailing order was formed. One must take into account the relationships between parties, the dominant behaviour patterns of the entities and institutions that created and shaped the regional order and interference from external...

The article deals with the delimitation of regional powers in the Middle East. Its aim is to introduce the concept of regional power and to offer a new way of measuring and comparing the power of this type of states. It also aims at discovering which states of the Middle East could be considered as regional powers from 1945 until 2007. The text sho...

Předkládaný článek se zabývá systémem rozvojové spolupráce v arabském světě. Představuje počátky rozvojové spolupráce mezi arabskými donory a příjemci jejich pomoci a popisuje hlavní faktory, které ovlivňovaly její vývoj. Text se zaměřuje na činnost několika hlavních bilaterálních donorů (jmenovitě Saúdské Arábie, Kuvajtu a SAE), stejně jako multil...

Deploying Lebanon as a case study, this work considers the concept of human development in the context of a weak and failed state to provide insights into ways of enhancing the implementation of development strategies. Lebanon serves as an example of a weak state characterised by sharp religious cleavages. Lebanon's weak statehood is examined in co...

Pohled veřejnosti, médií i některých akademiků v západních zemích na společenské postavení a práva žen v Íránské islámské republice je často velmi zjednodušující a generalizující. Téměř typické zobrazování íránských žen jako obětí patriarchálního sociálního řádu a přísných islámských zákonů předurčujících jejich podřízenou roli ve společnosti je ni...

The article presents a critical evaluation of the concepts of human development and weak statehood and outlines the relationship between them. It is argued that weak statehood has a very significant impact on the success of development strategies even if they stem from human development goals. For example, weak statehood has a direct effect on the...

This article deals with the foreign policy activities of Jordan as a small state with a special focus on the Middle Eastern region. The article explores the impacts of Jordan's "smallness," its lack of power capabilities in terms of foreign policy, and its relations with other states in the Middle East as well as with extra-regional powers such as...

Článek pojednává o vývoji událostí během tzv. Arabského jara (či domina) v Jordánsku od počátku roku 2011. Jordánsko, podobně jako mnoho dalších arabských zemí, se v minulém roce vypořádávalo s revoluční náladou inspirovanou tuniskou revolucí (od prosince 2010). V článku je vysvětleno, které skupiny jordánské populace a s jakými požadavky se zapoji...

In a contemporary multipolar (or uni-multipolar) world, powerful states in particular regions attempt to take a leading role in the region and sometimes to become a great world power. Th is is also the case of Brazil, India and Iran-three powerful states attempting to achieve the status of regional hegemony in particular subsystems (South America,...