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Russian Eurasianism: Geopolitical plan to conquer the world?
Rédrová, Natálie ; Riegl, Martin (advisor) ; Kazharski, Aliaksei (referee)
Eurasianism emerged more than hundred years ago as an intellectual emigre movement after the First World War, mainly as a theory of national values and traditions. In my thesis, I examine how did this politico-philosophical ideology evolved into its Neo-Eurasian version which is popular under the current Russian system. As most of the Eurasian papers were never translated into English and the available; contemporary literature tends to be critical about Eurasian ideology without being examined properly, I decided to translate and evaluate the original texts too. In my bachelor thesis I focused on topics of Eurasian geopolitics. I compared the main classic works of the western geopolitical analysts to the Neo-Eurasian writings and explained the historical background of this land. I analysed into what extend is the Kremlin following the (Neo)Eurasian Doctrine after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Also, how Russian Federation incline towards the eastern states after conflicts and misunderstanding with the western states. I collected and compared the information from the official documents, historical writings of the Russian and foreign authors and the geopolitical predictions of the past century. This paper might be of a value for western researchers without a knowledge of Russian language and...
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Rusko-čínské ekonomické vztahy a jejich vliv na Rusko
Lapenko, Aleksei ; Žamberský, Pavel (advisor) ; Jedlinský, Jakub (referee)
The establishment of first diplomatic and economic relations between Russia and China has relatively short historical roots despite its geographic proximity. Nevertheless, the substantial growth of trade and investment cooperation between countries gained momentum in the modern time after the fall of the Soviet Union. The increased Russian production of oil and gas together with rise in its prices and rapid development of Chinese economy facilitated their economic interaction over the last decade. However, within last years, Russia faced with the external challenges in terms of slumping oil prices and geopolitical and economic isolation by the Western countries after the annexation of the Crimea peninsula. In this way, Russian government took a decision to make an Asian pivot towards the largest economy in the world - China and, thus, intensifying the already established economic ties. The further progress of Russian-Chinese partnership is going to be dependent on the implementation of the planned strategic initiatives and various external political and economic factors.
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Review of the phylogenetic hypotheses of Cobitoidea
Dvořák, Tomáš ; Ráb, Petr (advisor) ; Musilová, Zuzana (referee)
Phylogenetics is a field of systematic biology which aims to uncover the evolutionary relations betweenll species on the principle of finding their common ancestor. Phylogeny can be applied on many diferent markers, but among the most common are genetic and morphological ones. The results of the phylogenetic analyses can be applied in many other fields of research. We can use them e.g. in answering questions concerning geological events (when using fishes as model, most often in some river flow changes). Cobitoidea is a superfamily of fishes, which belongs to cypriniformes - the biggest group of primary freshwater fishes. Cobitoidea contain 10 families - Gyrinocheilidae, Cobitidae, Balitoridae, Botiidae, Vaillantellidae, Ellopostomatidae, Barbuccidae, Serpenticobitidae, Nemacheilidae, Gastromyzontidae, and the Catostomidae might be considered as belonging into Cobitoidea as 11th family. The distribution area of Cobitoidea covers almoust whole Europe and Asia and that of Catostomidae also North America. There is no major river system in whole Eurasia that would not be inhabited by loaches. Every major river basin contains one to tens of loach species, therefore loaches can be considered one of the most characteristic element of the Eurasian freshwater fauna. In Cobitoidea, we can also find many...
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Geopolitical affiliation of Russia in contemporary Russian discourse
Kalinová, Olga ; Voráček, Emil (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
The question of Russia's geopolitical affiliation has been a cause of centuries long debate, whether Russia belongs to Europe or to Asia. From the geographical point of view, Russia is predominantly situated in Asia. From cultural and civilisational points of view, Russian people tend to lean towards Europe, even though they capture elements of both civilizations. By examination of the most prominent Russian schools of thought, mainly of geopolitical nature (Slavophilism, Westernism, Atlantisms, Eurasianism, etc.) the work seeks to systemize the answers to this question. At the same time, it seeks to determine through analysis of the contemporary Russian foreign policy, which of these ideological leanings plays a dominant role in foreign policy discourse in Russia since 2000. Thanks to identification of this priority direction and by determining the primary orientation of Russian foreign policy in a particular region, the aim of this work is finally to answer the following question: What is Russia: Europe, Asia, or a separate continent of Eurasia?
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