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Second Lebanon War vs. Gaza War
Hájek, Jan ; Makariusová, Radana (advisor) ; Fuxa, Filip (referee)
Diploma thesis: Second Lebanon war versus the Gaza war-comparison of Israeli approach is focused on the last two wars Israel waged. In 2006, Israel waged a war against Hezbollah and in 2008/2009 against Hamas. This thesis is primarily focused on the Israeli side and is supposed to find out the main reason to its failure in Lebanon and its success in the Gaza strip. Out of three examined reasons: Israeli political and military decision-making, readiness of the Israeli army and preparations of both Hamas and Hezbollah for potential conflict. Effect based theory is used as a theoretical background in this thesis and helps to understand reasons to the Israeli failure in Lebanon
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Firearms in the Middle East. Beginnings, Production and Use.
Beran, Pavel ; Bouzek, Jan (advisor)
This thesis deals with the development of the hand-held firearms in the Middle East with an emphasis on the period from the 15th to the end of the 18th century. In some passages it also marginally mentions the early 19th century. The first part of the thesis concentrates on the development of firearms in a historical context. The focus is primarily on the Ottoman Empire and partially on Egypt. Among other topics it also analyses the practical use of firearms and the related military tactics including the presence of firearms in major battles, as shown on contemporary paintings and miniatures. In the second part the author deals with the technical development of hand-held firearms. This section focuses mostly on the components of firearms and their development. This section also in some degree deals with the artistic aspects of the preserved firearms. The supplements consist of numerous photographs of the preserved exhibits in Czech and foreign collections and also of other visual materials. Keywords firearms, gunpowder, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Mamluks, Egypt, flintlock, matchlock, miquelet, stock, barrel, decoration, miniatures
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Barack Obama and Middle East
Černý, Ondřej ; Anděl, Petr (advisor) ; Raška, Francis (referee)
The thesis named Barack Obama and Middle East analyzes American foreign policy to-wards the countries of the Middle East region - Iraq, Iran and Israel. After two con-secutive terms of George W. Bush, new policies of the Obama administration are de-fined with the Middle East still in its centre. This paper answers three basic questions: What is Obama's desirable Middle East policy? In what aspects it is different from the steps of his predecessor? To what extent are the pre-election promises fulfilled? The commitments are defined from Obama's speeches and articles made during the peri-od of his candidacy and also from the recommendations of his advisors. The differen-ces between this planned foreign policy and the steps of George Bush are recapitula-ted in the next part. The third part explores the fulfilment of Obama's promises.
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UN sanctions against Iran
Hulvejová, Jana ; Bříza, Vlastislav (advisor) ; Pulgret, Miroslav (referee)
The bachelor thesis UN sanctions against Iran deals with the issue of proliferation and international sanctions - an element in the strategy to prevent proliferation in the Middle East. In order to halt Iran's efforts to become a nuclear state, the UN Security Council adopted several rounds of sanctions targeting mainly Iran's nuclear programme, its trade and finances. However, Iran's continuous defiance of international isolation and political pressure and its refusal to give up the nuclear programme raise the inevitable question of the sanctions' efficacy. The first part of the thesis constitutes an introduction to the issue of international sanctions, it presents the history of Iranian nuclear programme and also the response of the international community not only in the form of sanctions, but also negotiations. It attempts to analyse the security threat posed by Iran, its defending arguments and probable motives. The second and third part of the thesis deal with the sanction measures imposed on Iran. The author examines the individual UNSC Resolutions and their subsequent implementation, gradually moving towards the assessment of the effectivity of sanction measures with an emphasis on economic and psychological impact and how it affects the nuclear programme. The thesis attempts to analyse the...
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United States and Israel: A Special Relationship? US Foreign Policy towards Israel, 1956-73
Strýčková, Katarína ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Bečka, Jan (referee)
The B.A. thesis "United States and Israel: A Special Relationship?, U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Israel in 1956-73" analyses the development of U.S.-Israeli relationship on the background of the regional development in the Middle East in 1956-73. The thesis focuses mainly on the American-Israeli military cooperation, more particularly on the American arms supply to Israel. It analyses the emergence, development and the intensity of the special relationship between Washington and Jerusalem through the key events of the Arab-Israeli conflict, such as the Suez Crisis, the Six Day War and the Jomkippur War, and other regional crisis in the Middle East. The relationship had a crucial significance for the United States. It helped to stabilize the region, to prevent further soviet influence in this area and thus protect American geostrategic interests.
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The Final Externalization of the Others and its Consequences for the Turkish Foreign Policy
Chvátal, Viktor ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on the analysis of Turkish Foreign Policy (TFP) towards the sub- regions of Central Eurasia (the Middle East and Central Asia) in the period between 1991 and 2010. Theoretically, this thesis combines a modified version of social constructivism with the assumptions of critical geopolitics. Interconnecting social constructivism with the Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA), this thesis targets the domestic level of analysis. Therefore, the ideational background of the decision-makers is examined. Although, the potential impact of the identity variable on the TFP articulation is investigated after 1991 only, the genesis of the long-term identity conflict within the Turkish (Ottoman) society is also included in the analyses. Given the geopolitical part, this thesis draws upon the basic critical insight that the geopolitical argumentation is based on discursive rather than material factors. The aim is to identify the geopolitical metaphors which had been, in the examined period, applied while dealing with the above mentioned sub-regions. At this stage, the theoretical approaches are logically synthetized and the genesis and usage of the geopolitical metaphors is examined in relation to the identity of those who formulated them. This diploma thesis proves that the identity conflict...
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The picture of Middle Eastern affairs in 2012-2015 on the German press
PECKOVÁ, Tereza Lýdie
This thesis deals with the situation in the Middle East in 2012-2015. Furthermore, it deals with migration and integration situation in Germany. The aim was to outline the situation in Germany, then to show the picture of Middle Eastern affairs in the German newspaper Die Zeit and FAZ. The first part of this thesis was created by studying of literature Czech and German. Another part of this thesis is the research of the the German press Die Zeit and FAZ for the year 2012-2015. This thesis was created to unify and organize an enormous deal of information that flows through the world of mass media. The attitude of the federal German governments towards events in the Middle East has never been described before.
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Změna zahraniční politiky Egypta - Mírový proces na Blízkém východě
Grégrová, Romana
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to compare foreign policies of two Egyptian presidents Gamal Nasser and Anwar as-Sadat especially towards the Arab-Israeli conflict. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part, literary research, describes conflict theories, international relations and foreign policy theories and demography in the context of security. The second part of the thesis analyses presidents' Gamal Nasser and Anwar as-Sadat foreign policies, brief Egypt's development since the 80's and Egypt's and Israel's attitudes to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Attention is focused here also on the economic development and cooperation and the demographic development and its influence on security. The proposal part identifies current region's threats like the Islamic state and the demographic structure of the population and predicts their future headings.
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Komparace dopadů britského a francouzského mandátu pro vývoj států na Blízkém východě: Komparace případových studiá Iráku a Sýrie
Mrázek, Tomáš
The goal of this comparative case study is to evaluate the form of government during the French mandate in Syria and the British mandate in Iraq. The government is based on state powers - executive, legislative and judicial. I will describe the institutional system of the three branches of government during the mandate and in the following 20 years horizon. The end of the colonial period also applies to the two mentioned countries. These countries were seeking a way how to autonomous administration across complex political situation and sought to ensure political stability and effective state administration on the territory of these countries after their decolonization. In the practical part I will describe the development of branches of government in the countries compared to each other. Specific features will be presented in cases of mutual relations. An evaluation of the British and French colonial system of governance and their implications will be presented in the conclusion.
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