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Intelligence evaluation of the war activities of Czechoslovak paratroopers
Špitálník, Zdeněk ; Pondělíček, Jiří (advisor) ; Smetana, Vít (referee)
Part of the archival material of the Intelligence Service, stored in the Military Historical Archive in Prague, are dozens of protocols with Czechoslovak parachutists, taken in the summer of 1945, immediately after the end of their combat activities. This is quite unique material suitable for a comparative study. From the protocols it is possible, for example, to evaluate matters of a technical nature, such as the equipment of individual groups, their rations, the quality of false documents, the amount of funds, as well as the length and type of training. At the core of the accounts, then, were extensive descriptions of combat activity. An interesting and innovative perspective is the comparison of the differences between parachutists from the West and those who were dropped from the USSR, moreover confronted with the Gestapo's point of view. The aim of the thesis is, based on the same questions of a selected sample of parachutists, to compare selected aspects of special operations, tracing here some phenomena and specificities.
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Evolution of Open Source Intelligence
Pozan, Brian ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Pondělíček, Jiří (referee)
This thesis explores the evolution of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), a method of intelligence gathering that is becoming increasingly relevant in the digital age. The thesis explores the historical evolution of OSINT, from its humble beginnings as a tool used to monitor foreign propaganda and for military purposes, to its current role as a key tool in many fields such as cybersecurity, marketing, business, social sciences, law, and sports. The thesis will explain that it is not only new technologies such as radio, television and the Internet that have contributed to the development of OSINT, but also security challenges such as World War II and the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001. The paper will also show what challenges OSINT has faced since its inception and how these challenges have changed. Furthermore, the thesis will show, through several case studies, how OSINT has worked in different periods. In the conclusion of the thesis, I will evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of OSINT and explain in which direction OSINT will continue to develop in the light of the ever-increasing volume of publicly available data.
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Impartiality in the U.S. Supreme Court: Navigating Judicial Values in a Political Arena
Doskočil, Jan ; Pondělíček, Jiří (advisor) ; Kozák, Kryštof Přemysl (referee)
Impartiality is an important theoretical concept that determines the ability of judges to provide both parties of litigation with a fair trial. Despite this, judicial impartiality is relatively unexplored in academic writings. This thesis aims to correct this discrepancy by delving into varying interpretations of impartiality and the occurrence of impartiality debates in the context of the Supreme Court confirmation hearings. The thesis seeks to answer the question of whether impartiality plays an important role in the appointment of new justices and whether impartiality concerns are overshadowed by political concerns. Furthermore, the thesis explores possible avenues for changes that would ameliorate impartiality discussions, both with respect to theoretical interpretations of impartiality and practical reforms of the confirmation process. Through an analysis of recent confirmation hearings, the thesis concludes that while impartiality is important in considerations of judicial candidates, the problem lies in its competing interpretations, which are mostly divided along the lines of partisan affiliation. Moreover, impartiality is at the core of all kinds of judicial philosophy, which complicates its theoretical separation from various schools of legal thought. This interpretational ambiguity,...
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Democratic Party's Foreign Policy Voting: A Network Analysis
Mulica, David Robert ; Pondělíček, Jiří (advisor) ; Raška, Francis (referee)
This paper analyzes the voting behavior of Democratic Party members in the 117th Congress. Specifically, it examines roll call votes related to U.S. foreign policy. Namely, it examines votes on funding allocations for the two major policy departments of the executive branch - the Department of State and the Department of Defense, votes on resolutions, and other legislative actions in which Congress has jurisdiction over U.S. foreign policy. More particularly, this study is interested in the voting behavior of members of the so-called "Congressional Progressive Caucus" (CPC), one of the ideological caucuses in the U.S. Congress that has been gaining political strength, especially in recent years. The aim of the study is to show whether the "Progressive Caucus" has developed to be a political force that is already showing tendencies to vote differently from the rest of the Democratic Party, or which specific members of Congress are potentially in positions to mediate between the "CPC" and the rest of the party on foreign policy issues. The study uses the social network analysis methodology to process and project data on the voting patterns of individual members of Congress.
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Cancel Culture in the United States Related to the Covid-19 Pandemics 2020-2022
Viták, Jakub ; Pondělíček, Jiří (advisor) ; Szobi, Pavel (referee)
Cancel culture is a relatively new and very significant phenomenon, which origin is traced back to the African-American hip-hop subculture. It is also contains some modern movements and ideologies. However, signs of a similar atmosphere in the United States's society can be traced back to the period after the Second World War. Analyze of the history and influences included in the topic of research, the work compares the perception and use of this phenomenon by the conservative and liberal-minded voters during the ongoing waves of the COVID-19 disease. Thesis is whether the cancel culture methods are able to be applied also to liberal voters under the influence of the ongoing pandemic. The work confirms this question and adds that it depends more on the inclination of its audience or voters towards a conservative or liberal mindset than on the boycotted subject or the methods of boycott. The work shows that on the case of successful podcaster Joe Rogan, who questioned the effectiveness of vaccines during the pandemic and faced several calls for a boycott. But as a result, these causes helped him gain more listeners.
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Impacts of the Pearl Harbor Attack on the Japanese Americans in the USA
Kaiser, Vojtěch ; Pondělíček, Jiří (advisor) ; Fiřtová, Magdalena (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the impacts of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Japanese Americans living in the United States during World War II. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the individual aspects that led to the widespread internment of Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor. To achieve this goal, the historical context of American-Japanese relations is briefly mentioned in the introductory part of the thesis, followed by an analysis of the public opinion of American society towards Japanese Americans and the issue of their internment. The thesis also discusses Executive Order 9066 and related processes leading to relocation to internment camps. In the second half of the thesis, exceptions to internment in the form of Japanese Americans living in Hawaii and their service in the U.S. Army are analyzed. For a better understanding of the effects of Pearl Harbor on Japanese Americans, these effects are compared in the last chapter of the thesis with the effects on German Americans, who were the second most significant group of immigrants in the context of the Second World War and in the context of public discussion in the U.S.
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Reagen-Gorbachev Summits and Their Impact
Kalousek, Robin ; Pondělíček, Jiří (advisor) ; Perutka, Lukáš (referee)
My thesis will be dealing with the last yet very important chapter of the Cold war. In the theoretical part I will focus on importance of the summits. There are two major approaches concerning the summits, I will shortly describe each one of them. After that, I will shortly mention the political career of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, their political views and goals respectively. After that I will shift my attention to the core of my thesis, therefore bilateral intermediate range ballistic missiles treaty and summits between two statesmen that took place in Geneva, Reykjavik, Moscow and Washington D.C. In the final part, there will be summary and my views on the given issue. At the very end, there will be sources and attachments.
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