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Comparison of approaches of the European Union and the United States of America towards the security threat of Islamic State
Stejskalová, Kristýna ; Eichler, Jan (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
The diploma thesis presents comparison of security and strategic culture's approaches of the European Union and the United States of America towards the threat of Islamic state. Comparison is based on two separated analyses of complex strategy and particular steps of both subjects from different methodological points of view. Each analysis consists of security and strategic culture in the light of historical milestones, factors of engagement in fight against Islamic state, complex counter-terrorism strategy and particular steps taken against the Islamic state. Based on comparative analysis both approaches will be compared and the thesis aims to answer the questions, how did both the USA and the EU challenged the threat of Islamic state, how these approaches differ and also what exactly stands behind these concrete steps.
Russian reactions over Ukraine crisis
Galčenko, Andrej ; Eichler, Jan (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
The text analyzes the reaction of the Russian Federation over the Ukrainian crisis and simultaneously confronts internal sources and causes of these reactions with own mental model and security and strategic culture of the Russian Federation. Given the application of theoretical and methodological concept, the work is divided into three chapters in order to acheive stated goals. The first chapter deals with the security paradigm of the Russian Federation. In this section, the main goal is to point out the fundamental historical factors that influenced the transformation of the security order in Eastern Europe and the implications of these factors on the foreign policy of the Russian Federation. The second chapter is focused on the reactions of the Russian state, which are examined in detail in terms of approaches and positions over the Ukrainian crisis. The third chapter agruse over the elements of hard and soft power, and determine cooperative or conflictual mental model along the lines of political and economic responses to the Ukrainian crisis.

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