Thesis title: Typology of non-state and quasi state armed actors, their motivation, territorial differentiation and effect on the functioning of state institutions
Thematic research group: REGPOL
Funding: Self
Begun: March 2021
Link to your relevant web pages: https://www.amo.cz/autor/filip-sommer/
Personal website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Filip-Sommer
Qualifications:
October 2015 - July 2018: Bachelor's degree in Geography and Cartography at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
September 2018 - January 2021: Master's degree in Regional and Political Geography at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
March 2021 - now: doctoral field of Regional and Political Geography at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague
Awards and grants:
September 2018: placement of the bachelor's thesis Geopolitical Analysis of Iraqi Kurdistan in the competition of Student Scientific Papers in 3rd place.
Research:
The aim of my dissertation is to perform a typology of selected armed non-state and quasi state militias based on selected criteria and attributes and to compare individual cases. The typology will address, among other things, the following selected features and their degree: degree of loyalty to the state, degree of integration into official state armed forces, role and purpose of units, reasons, and diversification. The work will also focus on the spatial component (ie geographical differentiation) of these actors and their key involvement in the geopolitics of networks in the selected area.
Publications:
SOMMER, F. (2019): Irácký Kurdistán – věčná touha po samostatném státu, Geografické rozhledy, 29(3), 12-15.
KAVÁLEK, T., SOMMER, F. (2019): Russia’s Imprint in Iraqi Kurdistan: Rosneft’s Ascendancy. Middle East Policy, 26(4), 91-101.
Non-scientific publications:
KAVÁLEK, T., SOMMER, F. (2020): RUSSIAN ENCROACHMENT IN ARAB COUNTRIES SINCE 2011, New Direction.
External activities:
Analyst focusing on Kurdish policy and Iraq within the Association for International Affairs (AMO).