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Reforms and modernization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Ondráček, Dušan ; Hesová, Zora (advisor) ; Barša, Pavel (referee)
(anglicky) This thesis aims to analyze the primary goal and analyze the trends in the Saudi modern kingdom, which is perceived as a Puritan and traditionally writing country in which reforms are doomed to failure, while answering the research question "Can the theory be applied to modern The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? " The hypothesis of the thesis is the thesis that the above view is not only distorted, but to some extent erroneous. Since its founding in 1932, the kingdom has undergone and continues to undergo modernization, in many areas, most of which will be disabled in its dissertation. However, for a comprehensive understanding of the topic, it is necessary to describe in detail the concept of modernization, and also to describe the concept of modernization, what is the legitimacy of the ruling Saudi family, what aspects affect their governance and who makes up Saudi society. For this reason, this work has as its secondary goal to introduce readers to these areas.
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Implementation of the state of emergency in the Czech Republic during the coronavirus pandemic
Zitková, Martina ; Hesová, Zora (advisor) ; Wintr, Jan (referee)
4 Implementation of the state of emergency in the Czech Republic during the coronavirus pandemic Abstrakt The thesis entitled "The application of the state of emergency in the Czech Republic in the context of the coronavirus pandemic" responds to the current events surrounding the Covid- 19 pandemic. The thesis provides insight into the background of the pandemic in the Czech Republic. The thesis examines the application of the state of emergency as a tool to tackle the pandemic situation and how the legitimacy of this state of emergency and the restrictive measures taken along with it are assessed by society. The thesis focuses on the factors that have fundamentally influenced the people's perception of the restrictive measures taken by the government. Indeed, trust in the anti-pandemic measures themselves are an important part of their effectiveness. Key Words: state of emergency, pandemic, Covid-19, coronavirus, legitimacy, legality, government, Czech Republic
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French Secularism and Islam
Svobodová, Eva ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Hesová, Zora (referee)
In my thesis I try to describe transformation of French secularism/laicité from the 1980 and how the function and meaning of this principle has changed. My work is based on hypothesis that the change of laicité is not influenced just by arrival of more Muslims but that is result of deep changes in french politics and society around the turn of the milénium. The first part concentrates on discourse changes denoting Arabs/Muslim. The third part focuses on the changes in french policy on the axis laicité/politics/Muslims. Finally, I analyze the law from 2021 on the so-called separatism of President Emmanuel Macron and policicies related and I put them into overal transformation political use of the principle od laicité.
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Anti-terrorist laws and human rights
Danovská, Krista ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Hesová, Zora (referee)
The content of the master these sis case study of counter-terrorism measures in th UK and their impact on human rights. The work detaily monitors the development of the counter-terrorist measureas after the 11th of September attacks in the USA. To uderstand the adoption of the legislative measures are used the optics of moral panic which intensify the fear of another attacks. The work analyzes in detail how the measures developed and what is their impact on human rights. It Appears there is consensus on the political spectrum about the aim of the counter-terrorism laws. In addition there are showed law suits presenting the real life struggle about the human rights. Since the UK was not long ago part of the EU text provides short examples on how i tis in other EU countries
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Perception of physicians in the Czech society
Kolenčík, Drahomír ; Slačálek, Ondřej (advisor) ; Hesová, Zora (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with a perception of physicians in the Czech society. It is investigated with the use of critical discourse analysis. The thesis begins with an Introduction and Methods. The third chapter offers a basic overview of the structure of the Czech health care system, which eventually provides summary of important political factors influencing the health care. The fourth chapter analyzes a union strike Děkujeme, odcházíme, the most important doctors' protest since nineties. The fifth chapter investigates position of female physicians in the Czech Republic, their perception inside the medical community and how this perception contributes to power asymmetry between men and women in health care. Last chapter analyses statements of medical experts during COVID crisis. The point of this chapter to demonstrate how medical experts use their expertise to involve themselves into the broad social debate and how the public perception limits their involvement. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Max Weber on the relation of protestant ethic and capitalism
Svita, Maksim ; Znoj, Milan (advisor) ; Hesová, Zora (referee)
This article will focus on a Weber 's theory of modernization, which is based on the thesis of the connection between Protestant ethics and capitalism, as explained in his book "Protesntat ethic and the spirit of capitalism". In Weber 's theory of modernization culture becomes a determining factor in economic and political development; the so-called "Protestant ethics" was, according to Weber, one of the most important causes of the rapid development of capitalism in the states of Western Europe. This ethic is based on the Lutheran understanding of "vocation" and Calvinism, which is based on a specific interpretation of the concept of inner worldly ascetism. Weber's vision of modernization has provoked a lot of controversy and criticism, mostly because it was limited to the cultural conditions of Western Europe and did not take into account development in other non-European countries. In my bachelor thesis i will gradually discuss the different critique of Weber's understanding of the modernization proces and on the relationship between capitalism and Protestant ethics. As the method for this research was chosen to analyze various texts, book sources and other modern critical writings pointing to a freer and more diverse relationship of the process of modernization with cultural and value patterns of...
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Egyptian foreign policy and The "Arab spring": A Case study of Egyptian policy before and after Arab Spring toward Turkey and Palestine.
Salaheldin, Abderahman ; Riegl, Martin (advisor) ; Gombár, Eduard (referee) ; Hesová, Zora (referee)
The main focus of the dissertation is to examine the interactions between Egyptian foreign policy and the domestic, regional and international dramatic changes that shaped the environment in which that foreign policy was made and operated during the Arab Spring in Egypt from January 2011 to June 2013. The goal is to explore whether domestic, regional and international changes during the Arab Spring had resulted in a substantial change of Egyptian foreign policy in those three years regarding most foreign policy issues especially toward Turkey and Palestine. The dissertation's analysis, while rather qualitative and inductive in nature, employed the neoclassical realism as its theoretical framework. It allowed the researcher to identify major domestic players and issues such as ideology, strategic culture, political religion and the ability to mobilize national resources and study their impact on the foreign policy decision makers. The researcher concluded that the Egyptian foreign policy made several major changes during the Arab Spring especially toward Turkey and Palestine/Israel. These changes were due to domestic and regional variables more than to international systemic order's signals. Neoclassical realism proved to be ideal for the researcher's analysis. It helped him easily identify key...
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Africa in the Attentiveness of Great Powers: Development and Partnership
Nalejvač, Tomáš ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Hesová, Zora (referee)
The aim of the Master's thesis is to analyze the growing interest of the global economic system centers in the region of developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa with the account on weakening position of the West in relation to this region. The thesis will be structured into two sections. The first part will focus on the relationship between the West and countries of the African continent and the circumstances allowing not only the access of new challengers, but also alternative development models. In this respect the thesis will use the theoretical works of Adrian Leftwich and Claus Offe dealing with the issues of democratization and economic development and their mutual incompatibility. The second part of the thesis will analyze relations with these emerging, non-western power centers and their alternative development models. The research question of the thesis is formulated whether these alternative centers of the global economic system in the region of sub-Saharan Africa propagate their own conception of development models, with proclaimed respect for local conditions, as a challenger to the Western concept of development policy. The hypothesis assumes a certain degree of autonomy in case of developing countries in choosing "their" partner center. These centers are forced to offer certain...
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Attitudes of political parties elected to the lower chamber of the Parliament of the Czech Republic regarding low representation of women in the Chamber of Deputies
Faltys, Marcel ; Drahokoupil, Štěpán (advisor) ; Hesová, Zora (referee)
Attitudes of political parties elected to the lower chamber of the Parliament of the Czech Republic regarding low representation of women in the Chamber of Deputies Abstract This thesis analyses the stance of Czech parliamentary political parties towards the low representation of women in the Czech parliament. This text is divided into two parts, the first one is theoretical and describes various types of representation and is mainly based on the theory of Hannah Pitkin and her book The Concept of Representation. In the theoretical portion, I also describe the most common causes of low representation of women in politics. The second, empirical part examines the stance of nine political parties through interviews with Czech female politicians. This part also looks into the history of these parties and their politics towards women. Key words Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies, representation, women, quotas
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