This article focuses on Qatar and its public diplomacy. Qatar, the oil-rich monarchy located in the Persian Gulf, uses the staging of famous sporting events as a very important diplomatic tool. The awarding of the football World Cup 2022 is one of the biggest success stories of Qatari public diplomacy. Nevertheless, this event is only one of many similar activities, which, along with other public diplomacy tools, is aimed at improving Qatar´s image in the region and also within the international community. If Qatar is successful in hosting the football World Cup, which is one of the most popular sporting events in the world, it will gain the prestige it craves in the international arena. and Jiří Zákravský.
The text analyzes the discourse on sovereignty in the Czech politics in the light of current processes of the transformation of sovereignty caused by the globalization and Europeanization. The author discusses the dispute between liberal-conservative critics of the European integration and cosmopolitan critics of the sovereign statehood and points to the limits of both positions. It is argued that the conservatives who warn against the loss of sovereignty in the ongoing process of Europeanization and who call for the protection of the Czech statehood cling to an obsolete and invalid concept of sovereignty that is no longer adequate to changing social and geopolitical conditions. Similarly, it is pointed out that the defenders of cosmopolitan Europe who take sovereignty to be an old and useless category hindering the process of democratization are unable to offer an alternative capable of responding to growing concerns regarding the democratic deficit and the loss of political autonomy. The text tries to show that both positions misconstrue the challenges of globalization and Europeanization for the state and democracy., Petra Gümplová., and Obsahuje bibliografii