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(Not)Making Autonomy: Activities of Silesian Autonomy Movement on the Platform of the Polish Parliament
Hamatová, Kateřina ; Vykoukal, Jiří (advisor) ; Kubát, Michal (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on activities of the Silesian Autonomy Movement (RAŚ) on the platform on the Polish Parliament, while using theoretical concepts advocacy coalition and agenda setting. In the first part of my thesis, I will define goals of RAŚ and identify three most important ones, which will create the core of my research: Silesian language statute, minority statute of Silesians and problem of Upper Silesian autonomy. Then, I will define political subsystems, which reflect the three already mentioned main topics. Within each political subsystem, I will define two competing advocacy coalitions. In the next chapter I will analyse respective political subsystems and discussions, which is taking place among competing advocacy coalitions. I will stress the importance on the process of policy agenda setting. As a parameter of success I will seek for the existence of legislative proposals, proposed by advocacy coalitions. Then, I will analyse processes within respective political subsystems since 2005. In the final part of my thesis, I will strive to answer my research questions and compare the results with my hypotheses. Thanks to my research, I will be able to better understand activities of RAŚ, and of advocacy coalitions respectively, on national level.
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Poland and the Eastern Pact
Hamatová, Kateřina ; Vykoukal, Jiří (advisor) ; Smetana, Vít (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Poland and Eastern Pact" deals with the question of collective security in Eastern Europe between 1925 and 1934. Its main subject is the attitude of Poland towards the concept of "Eastern Locarno", respectively Eastern Pact. Polish efforts to implement "eastern Locarno" in 1925 were, during only one decade, replaced by a negative attitude towards the same issue. Poland was than striving for preservation of geopolitical status quo through concluding bilateral agreements, not by joining multilateral pacts. The main goal of this thesis is to find out why Poland refused to sign the Eastern Pact in 1934 in the focus of the development of its foreign policy. Stepwise the thesis deals with international relations between Poland and primarily France, Germany and the Soviet Union. On the basis of their development between 1925 and 1935 my thesis tries to find prevailing tendencies. Subsequently thesis focuses on the project of the Eastern Pact, as it was presented by France in 1934, and on Polish arguments for refusal of the pact. In the end the thesis summarizes motives why the second Polish republic adopted negative attitude and how significant this refusal was for the failure of the whole project.
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