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Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation in the Islamic World from the Perspective of Western Countries and Their Foreign Policy
Scheiner, Miroslav ; Havlová, Radka (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
This Master's thesis deals with conspiracy theories and disinformation, a topic received with insufficient attention in the field of international relations. The phenomenon constitutes one of the most distinctive features of the Islamic world; therefore, it has significant importance for the Western foreign policy towards the region. The thesis is divided into four chapters and aims to provide Western countries with a set of foreign-policy recommendations in relation to the phenomenon of conspiracy theories and disinformation in the Islamic world. The thesis does so on the basis of a thorough analysis of the general mechanisms of conspiracy theories (1st chapter), and the specific conditions and circumstances of their emergence and dissemination in the Islamic world (2nd chapter). The study of the case of Aafia Siddiqui (3rd chapter) leads to the conclusion that the implication of conspiracy theories and disinformation in the activities of Islamic extremist groups represents a serious security threat for the Western countries, which the current policy leaves with no adequate response (4th chapter). As an outcome, the thesis proposes ten basic principles which should serve to the Western countries as a guideline for their approach to conspiracy theories and disinformation in the Islamic world. The main import of this thesis lies in it being one of the first attempts with regard to the researched topic to perform a comprehensive analysis with practical outcomes.
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Right-wing extremism in the context of democracy
ŠLEMENDOVÁ, Barbora
The thesis deals with right-wing extremism in the context of democracy. In the first part, democracy, its development and basic values are characterised. The following part describes extremism and its rudimentary typology, historical roots of right-wing extremism and its strategy. The final part focuses on the fight of democracy against extremism. In this part, possible anti-extremist measures are proposed, including critical reflections on the principles of right-wing extremism. Furthermore, a concept of so-called militant democracy is introduced, along with the analysis of its application in the Czech Republic and its critical reflection.
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Role of the Far Right in Political System of the Czech Republic
ZOFALL, Karel
The bachelor thesis deals with issue of Extrem-right politics and Far-right politics. It analyzes role of those parties in political system in the Czech Republic. The bachelor thesis focuses on Workers' Party and its successsor Workers' Party of Social Justice. The first part of bachelor thesis describes a comprehensive characteristic of extremism and radicalism. The characteristic is distributed according to various social disciplines followed with explaining of terms Far-right politics, Far-left politics and with analysis of Workers' Partys predecessors. The main part will be the analysis of Workers' Party and Workers' Party of Social Justice Party, their programs, political events, electoral successes etc.. In the work, there will be introduce a militant democracy draft and primarily militant democracy instruments, which will be applied to Workers' Party or to Workers' Party of Social Justice Party.
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The radical right wing in the political system of the Czech Republic
TLUSTÁ, Eva
The presented graduation thesis deals with radical right wing parties in the political system of the Czech republic. The far-right wing parties occured in the area of the present Czech republic in the second half of 19th century. In the following years their number and importance fluctuated. In the last twenty years the Dělnická strana appeared. This party was the most important far-right wing party since 1989 until present days. Dělnická strana was founded in 2002 and cancelled was by the Supreme Administrative Court eight years later. Many far-right wing parties acted in Czech republic besides this one after 1989. None of them, including Dělnická strana sociální spravedlnosti, which is the successor party of Dělnická strana, had ever achieved such popularity and elective results.
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Political extremism in the town, the region
DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Tereza
The theoretical part of the thesis is divided into individual chapters that define the basic terminology associated with political extremism . In particular, it focuses on the concepts of extremism , radicalism and Anti-Gypsyism . Defined the concepts of political extremism , right-wing and left-wing political extremism , far right and far left, legal and illegal political parties and political movements in the Czech Republic and the law against extremism. The practical part of the thesis focuses on the socio-economic characteristics of the Šluknovsko and the city Varnsdorf. Analyzed the individual factors that contribute to the development of political extremism in the region. It is a factor of unemployment, crime, ethnic composition of the population and socially excluded localities. The practical part of the thesis is a survey that aimed to determine whether they are residents of the city Varnsdorf satisfied with life in Šluknovsko. Also felt that the presence of political extremism in the region. The questionnaire is evaluated at the end .
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Political extremism, its occurrence in the Pilsen region and ways of prevention.
DUCHEK, Ondřej
In this work, I´ve focused on the extremism in the Czech Republic, specifically in the Pilsen Region. Because of the Czech Republic being a part of the European culture, I worked the topic of extremism in the context of Western Europe in the theoretical part. It is also important because the Czech right - wing and left - wing extremist scene sources more or less from the Western European roots of right - wing and left - wing extremism. In the theoretical part I introduce the reasons of the extremism presence in the society, what roots it comes from, I define basic terms and historical development within Europe in the past decades. I also refer to the extremism in Czech Republic after the year 1989 till present. In the practical part I worked on the topic of extremism in Pilsen Region specifically. This is based on the information received from policemen responsible for extremist crimes investigations. In the end of the practical part the readers may learn the survey results. I explored the high school youth and its relationship with various extremist movements in the country. At last I attemted to prepare the educational materials suitable for the primary prevention in the high schools.
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The issue of extremism at high schools in the District of Prachatice and subsequent preventive measures.
MARTÍŠKOVÁ, Petra
This bachelor?s thesis addresses the issue of extremism in the secondary schools in the Prachatice District and the preventative programmes that the schools implement in order to combat this social phenomenon. The objective of the thesis is to identify the attitudes and opinions of the secondary school students in Prachatice about the issue of extremism and to find out how much information the students have about this issue. The thesis also aims to determine whether there are any differences between the attitudes of male and female students with regard to extremist behaviour in society, either positive or negative. In addition, the thesis explores any differences, if any, in the knowledge and attitudes held by students about this social phenomenon on the basis of the type of secondary school they attend, specifically grammar schools vs. vocational schools. The thesis includes a description and evaluation of the effectiveness of the preventative programmes that have been implemented in the secondary schools. These programmes are evaluated both from the perspective of the secondary school students as well as from that of the non-profit organisations that prepare these programmes for the schools. The results from the research and the evaluation of the findings are presented in the conclusion of the thesis.
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Extremist movements - risk factor for contemporary youth.
ŠINDELÍŘ, Petr
The bachelor thesis concerns the problem of extremism in the society and especially its influence on youth. The firts part of the thesis defines the term extremism, describes its division and main streams and the most common social manifestations. It shows its manifestations in violencing both moral and juridical laws. Young people are among the most endangered groups in population in context of age and education, but also due to the influence of family situation. The influence of psychical, biological and social aspects is also considered. The source of informations is literature as well as statistical data from population. In the conclusions section, I tried to find possible concept of solving this problem
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Influence of unemployment to electoral results of extremistic parties: Southern Europe vs. Central Europe
Zoul, Zdeněk ; Rod, Aleš (advisor) ; Čermáková, Klára (referee)
Thesis examines influence of unemployment on the electoral results of extremistic and radical parties in parliamentary elections in several European countries from 2000 to 2010. By using fixed effects model on panel data collected on regional level it was found that in Czech Republic, Hungary and Spain higher levels of unemployment lead to higher elactoral success of radical and extremistic parties. However in Greece and Slovakia such a influence turned out as insignificant. Also hypothesis of typical voter of such parties was tested. It is commonly accepted that typical voter of extremistic parties is young man with lower education. This hypothesis can't be confirmed in any of examined countries.
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