Sarka Kolmasova
Biographic Data
| ID | 4397704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarka Kolmasova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarka |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolmasova |
| SIGNATURE | KOLMASOVA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Metropolitan University Prague |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2304-5995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Continuity and Change in Strategic Culture
The Czech Republic
The Czech Republic has a strong tradition of promoting human rights; starting in the 1990s it established itself as an active human rights defender, particularly in relation to priority countries such as North Korea, Belarus, Burma/Myanmar, and Cuba. Human rights and their advancement are significant focal points in Czech foreign policy, both bilaterally and within multilateral organizations like the UN Human Rights Council and the Council of Eur…
On the Politics of r2p Circulation
Norm Diffusion Beyond the West
How individuals shape informal institutions
Norm Diffusion Beyond the West
Advocacy Networks and the Responsibility to Protect
Global assemblage of the Responsibility to Protect
The article aims to contribute to ongoing debates on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and demonstrate how it became a powerful global assemblage. It challenges the existing perspectives that R2P constituted a robust international norm. In contrast to the (critical) social constructivist reading of R2P, I argue that R2P was assembled, stabilized, and revitalized through specific practices conducted within complex advocacy-knowledge-diplomacy ne…
Vulnerable women and barbaric rapists
Examining the case of Mali, this work analyses the discursive strategies utilised by key actors to legitimise the UN’s Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The analysis traces the legitimisation strategies deployed in both the official and unofficial discourses surrounding the operation. Using van Leeuwen’s conceptualisation of legitimisation, this work uncovers the subtle and not-so-subtle ways the dominant discou…
Competing Norms and Strategic Visions
Despite shared historical experience and cultural proximity, the Visegrad group (V4) struggles to institutionalise its cooperation through stable mechanisms ensuring internal cohesion and external credibility. This is especially evident in the field of security and defence, which requires a shared strategic vision, in particular, common norms regarding the legitimate use of military force. While in the 1990s the four countries exhibited solidarit…
A ‘pivot’ that never existed
This article argues that Donald Trump’s Asian strategy hardly marks a radical transformation from Barack Obama’s ‘pivot to Asia’. This is because the ‘pivot to Asia’ never really existed. Although Obama was successful in building legitimacy for the strategy through international norms, he failed to translate his lofty rhetoric into practice. Much of his original pivot components (building a constructive relationship with China, coordinating with …
Legitimizing Military Action through “Rape-as-a-Weapon” Discourse in Libya
Contemporary discourse on sexual(ized) violence in armed conflicts represents a powerful source for legitimization of highly controversial military interventions. Recent gender-responsive security studies have called for enhanced protection of women and girls from widespread and systematic sexual(ized) violence. Yet military operations reproduce the Western masculine hegemony rather than providing inclusive and apolitical assistance to victims of…
Competing Norms and Strategic Visions
Despite shared historical experience and cultural proximity, the Visegrad group (V4) struggles to institutionalise its cooperation through stable mechanisms ensuring internal cohesion and external credibility. This is especially evident in the field of security and defence, which requires a shared strategic vision, in particular, common norms regarding the legitimate use of military force. While in the 1990s the four countries exhibited solidarit…
Legitimizing Military Action through “Rape-as-a-Weapon” Discourse in Libya
Contemporary discourse on sexual(ized) violence in armed conflicts represents a powerful source for legitimization of highly controversial military interventions. Recent gender-responsive security studies have called for enhanced protection of women and girls from widespread and systematic sexual(ized) violence. Yet military operations reproduce the Western masculine hegemony rather than providing inclusive and apolitical assistance to victims of…
Global assemblage of the Responsibility to Protect
The article aims to contribute to ongoing debates on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and demonstrate how it became a powerful global assemblage. It challenges the existing perspectives that R2P constituted a robust international norm. In contrast to the (critical) social constructivist reading of R2P, I argue that R2P was assembled, stabilized, and revitalized through specific practices conducted within complex advocacy-knowledge-diplomacy ne…
Vulnerable women and barbaric rapists
Examining the case of Mali, this work analyses the discursive strategies utilised by key actors to legitimise the UN’s Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The analysis traces the legitimisation strategies deployed in both the official and unofficial discourses surrounding the operation. Using van Leeuwen’s conceptualisation of legitimisation, this work uncovers the subtle and not-so-subtle ways the dominant discou…
A ‘pivot’ that never existed
This article argues that Donald Trump’s Asian strategy hardly marks a radical transformation from Barack Obama’s ‘pivot to Asia’. This is because the ‘pivot to Asia’ never really existed. Although Obama was successful in building legitimacy for the strategy through international norms, he failed to translate his lofty rhetoric into practice. Much of his original pivot components (building a constructive relationship with China, coordinating with …
Continuity and Change in Strategic Culture
Competing Norms and Strategic Visions
Despite shared historical experience and cultural proximity, the Visegrad group (V4) struggles to institutionalise its cooperation through stable mechanisms ensuring internal cohesion and external credibility. This is especially evident in the field of security and defence, which requires a shared strategic vision, in particular, common norms regarding the legitimate use of military force. While in the 1990s the four countries exhibited solidarit…
A ‘pivot’ that never existed
This article argues that Donald Trump’s Asian strategy hardly marks a radical transformation from Barack Obama’s ‘pivot to Asia’. This is because the ‘pivot to Asia’ never really existed. Although Obama was successful in building legitimacy for the strategy through international norms, he failed to translate his lofty rhetoric into practice. Much of his original pivot components (building a constructive relationship with China, coordinating with …
Legitimizing Military Action through “Rape-as-a-Weapon” Discourse in Libya
Contemporary discourse on sexual(ized) violence in armed conflicts represents a powerful source for legitimization of highly controversial military interventions. Recent gender-responsive security studies have called for enhanced protection of women and girls from widespread and systematic sexual(ized) violence. Yet military operations reproduce the Western masculine hegemony rather than providing inclusive and apolitical assistance to victims of…
Vulnerable women and barbaric rapists
Examining the case of Mali, this work analyses the discursive strategies utilised by key actors to legitimise the UN’s Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The analysis traces the legitimisation strategies deployed in both the official and unofficial discourses surrounding the operation. Using van Leeuwen’s conceptualisation of legitimisation, this work uncovers the subtle and not-so-subtle ways the dominant discou…
Global assemblage of the Responsibility to Protect
The article aims to contribute to ongoing debates on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and demonstrate how it became a powerful global assemblage. It challenges the existing perspectives that R2P constituted a robust international norm. In contrast to the (critical) social constructivist reading of R2P, I argue that R2P was assembled, stabilized, and revitalized through specific practices conducted within complex advocacy-knowledge-diplomacy ne…
Norm Diffusion Beyond the West
How individuals shape informal institutions
Norm Diffusion Beyond the West
Advocacy Networks and the Responsibility to Protect
The Czech Republic
The Czech Republic has a strong tradition of promoting human rights; starting in the 1990s it established itself as an active human rights defender, particularly in relation to priority countries such as North Korea, Belarus, Burma/Myanmar, and Cuba. Human rights and their advancement are significant focal points in Czech foreign policy, both bilaterally and within multilateral organizations like the UN Human Rights Council and the Council of Eur…
On the Politics of r2p Circulation
Continuity and Change in Strategic Culture
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Political economy (5 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (4 works) · Human rights (3 works) · International Development and Aid (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)