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Mexican Drug War
Jančík, Jan ; Krausz Hladká, Malvína (advisor) ; Svitková, Katarína (referee)
This Bachelor's thesis is focused on description of situation which occurred after presidential elections in Mexico in 2006 when newly elected president Felipe Calderón launched massive operation targeted on eradicating drug cartels using both police and military capacities. This operation however meant huge upheaval and rise of violence caused not only by clashes of cartels with government but also by fights among warring cartels struggling for power and territory. The main aim of this thesis is to provide basic summary of this six years era considering all the main players, their territories and shifting of power and also to find out if the surging death rate after the year 2006 was primarily caused by Calderón's decision to deploy armed forces to fight drug cartels.
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The role of private security companies in peace-building in Africa
Volencová, Ivana ; Werkman, Kateřina (advisor) ; Svitková, Katarína (referee)
This thesis concentrates on the topic of private military and security companies in the relation to their activities within peacebuilding efforts in three african countries - Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. The main goal of this thesis is to chart their activities in these countries and evaluate the level of their influence on the quality of the security, and to draw the attention to risks related to their engagement. This paper postulates the thesis that after proper regulation of their activities, private military and security companies could play an important role in peacebuilding in Africa. This thesis tries to vindicate this claim by technical texts analysing along with collected data. Furthermore, this thesis evaluates the state of current research in this area and look on the opinions of specialists on the engagement of private military and security companies in peacebuilding efforts. Keywords security, private military and security companies, privatization, peacebuilding
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The Conflict between the Zapatistas and the Mexican Government in the Perspective of the Human Needs Theory: The Role of Identity
Saitlová, Martina ; Oberpfalzerová, Hana (advisor) ; Svitková, Katarína (referee)
UNIVERZITA KARLOVA V PRAZE FAKULTA SOCIÁLNÍCH VĚD Institut politologických studií Martina Saitlová Konflikt mezi zapatisty a mexickou vládou z hlediska teorie lidských potřeb: role identity Bakalářská práce Praha 2016 Autor práce: Martina Saitlová Vedoucí práce: Mgr. Hana Oberpfalzerová Rok obhajoby: 2016 Bibliografický záznam SAITLOVÁ, Martina. Konflikt mezi zapatisty a mexickou vládou z hlediska teorie lidských potřeb: role identity. Praha, 2016. 65s. Bakalářská práce (Bc.) Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut politologických studií. Katedra mezinárodních vztahů. Vedoucí bakalářské práce Mgr. Hana Oberpfalzerová. Abstract This thesis focuses on the zapatista conflict with the Mexican government, which culminated in 1994 in the Mexican state of Chiapas. The aim of this conflict was to highlight the human rights violations of indigenous people and express disagreement with the Mexican political system that caused many burdens of the ethnic mainly due to neoliberal reforms. The attention is focused especially on the causes of the conflict, which are reflected in the background of theory of human needs. The aim of the thesis is to answer the research questions, which are the following: Does the Mexican government fulfill the need of identity of the Mexican indigenous people? What aims does the...
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Dual Securitization of Public Space in Relation to Sport Mega Events
Svitková, Katarína ; Hynek, Nikola (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
The objective of this study is to examine security measures in cities hosting sports mega events. Using International political sociology as a theoretical background, I argue that city spaces undergo what I refer to as dual securitization. I identify four principal characteristics of security measures which have become globally standardized and which I consider illiberal: exceptionalism, surveillance, militarization and urban restrictions. In the case studies, I explore how these measures were justified and employed during the Olympic Games or the FIFA World Cup in Beijing, South Africa, London and Rio de Janeiro. Despite some differences which are due to local realities, I argue that the approaches of the principal stakeholders in the four cities are very much alike. Regardless of the type of political regime or the degree of socio-economic development, exceptionality of mega events serves as an impetus for wide-scale and profound surveillance and militarization of contemporary cities. In the process, securing public spaces and urbanites comes at the expense of individual liberties.
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Comparison of Nuclear Policy: Administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama
Svitková, Katarína ; Ulík, Karel (advisor) ; Raška, Francis (referee)
Bibliografický záznam SVITKOVÁ, Katarína. Porovnanie jadrovej politiky posledných dvoch amerických administratív. George W. Bush a Barack Obama. Praha, 2011. 57 s. Bakalárska práca (Bc.) Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut mezinárodních studií. 2011. Vedúci bakalárskej práce Mgr. Karel Ulík. Abstract The topic of the bachelor thesis is a comparison of George W. Bush and Barack Obama`s approaches to nuclear policy issues. The principal argument is based on a presumption that although there are partial differences between the two in terms of rhetoric and instruments used, the two administration`s primary goals are identical, just as the security threats they are based on. A brief characterization of new security environment is followed by a chapter dedicated to President George W. Bush with an evaluation of his nuclear policy steps like international agreements and the relationship with countries which refuse to comply with international norms. The focus is also on the issue of weapons of mass destruction as a pretext to military interventions abroad. The next chapter analyzes the current President Barack Obama`s nuclear policy measures such as the New START Treaty, prevention of fissile material proliferation and, equally as the previous chapter, the approach towards North Korea and Iran....
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Essays on Philanthropy
Svítková, Katarína ; Ortmann, Andreas (advisor) ; Bekkers, René (referee) ; Bilodeau, Marc (referee)
The basic concern of any empirical work is to employ statistical data that correspond to the notion of the theoretical variables in the model. The problems and economic consequences connected with the measurement of selected economic variables are the focus of this thesis. It consists of three chapters that in succession analyze the issues associated with the measurement of economic growth, multi-factor productivity and capital input into production. The first chapter looks into the differences among the growth rates of GDP per capita based on data from the three most commonly used databases, namely International Financial Statistics, World Development Indicators and Penn World Table. Using a wide international dataset, we find significant differences in the growth rates that are mainly due to the adjustment for cross-country comparability of GDP per capita levels. Importantly, these differences are correlated with the level of development. We replicate six recent studies of growth determinants and find their results sensitive to the choice of data. The second chapter analyses the sensitivity of calculated multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth to assumptions of growth accounting, concentrating on the measurement of quantity, composition and the respective shares of labor and capital inputs, and...
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Korporátní filantropie v České a Slovenské republice
Svítková, Katarína
This study explores the characteristics of corporate charitable behavior in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is the first quantitative study for transition economies, analyzing data from surveys for 577 and 162 firms over three (2001-2003) and five (2001-2005) years in the Czech Republic, and for 152 firms over four years (2001-2004) in Slovakia, and the first study that distinguishes different channels of support, namely, sponsoring and giving.
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