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Cuban Missile Crisis and its influence on JFK's and Chruscov's career
Kopková, Ivana ; Bříza, Vlastislav (advisor) ; Soukup, Jaromír (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the Caribbean Crisis and its impact on the political career of the US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev. The case study examines the political careers of both representatives of the Great Powers and compares their development before and after the Caribbean crisis. The thesis is divided into eight chapters; at first outlines the issue of the Missile Crisis and then the personality of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. The aim of this work is to evaluate the effects of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The crisis outcomes and impacts were reflected on different level of influence and public perception of its two main actors.
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UN sanctions against Iran
Hulvejová, Jana ; Bříza, Vlastislav (advisor) ; Pulgret, Miroslav (referee)
The bachelor thesis UN sanctions against Iran deals with the issue of proliferation and international sanctions - an element in the strategy to prevent proliferation in the Middle East. In order to halt Iran's efforts to become a nuclear state, the UN Security Council adopted several rounds of sanctions targeting mainly Iran's nuclear programme, its trade and finances. However, Iran's continuous defiance of international isolation and political pressure and its refusal to give up the nuclear programme raise the inevitable question of the sanctions' efficacy. The first part of the thesis constitutes an introduction to the issue of international sanctions, it presents the history of Iranian nuclear programme and also the response of the international community not only in the form of sanctions, but also negotiations. It attempts to analyse the security threat posed by Iran, its defending arguments and probable motives. The second and third part of the thesis deal with the sanction measures imposed on Iran. The author examines the individual UNSC Resolutions and their subsequent implementation, gradually moving towards the assessment of the effectivity of sanction measures with an emphasis on economic and psychological impact and how it affects the nuclear programme. The thesis attempts to analyse the...
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Russian-American bilateral strategic arms control treaties after the Cold war
Vavreková, Katarína ; Bříza, Vlastislav (advisor) ; Hays II, George (referee)
The thesis Russian-American bilateral strategic arms control treaties after the Cold war analyses specific aspects of arms control treaties between the Russian Federation and the United States of America after 1989, and deals with the question of future of nuclear disarmament. It focuses on three main aspects of treaties: quantitative, economic and political. The first part of the thesis analyses the background of the arms control treaties. In the beginning, it defines the framework of disarmament and introduces the basic security principle of treaties. Thesis follows with brief history of arms control initiatives and bilateral treaties signed until the end of the Cold war. In the next part, the thesis clarifies the role of the United States and the Russian Federation with regard to immediate changes in international system after this era. The last part deals with the role of the nuclear weapons in foreign-security concepts of both countries. The second part of the thesis focuses solely on the bilateral arms control treaties and the future of nuclear disarmament process. It begins with the brief information section on arms control treaties and continues with analysis of quantitative limits of each one of the treaties. Then, the thesis deals with economic and politic aspects regarding arms control treaties....
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Dynamics of the nuclear weapons proliferation in countries beside the original group of five
Kejlová, Tamara ; Střítecký, Vít (advisor) ; Bříza, Vlastislav (referee)
Bachelor thesis "The Dynamics of Nuclear Proliferation in Countries outside of the Original Nuclear Five" deals with nuclear programs in countries that have not signed the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The theoretical framework is based on the proliferation debate and in particular with focus on Scott Sagan's explanatory models. By application of Sagan's models on three case studies of countries which have not signed the NPT (India, Pakistan, Israel) and two case studies of countries that renounced possession of nuclear weapons (South Africa and Ukraine), the thesis concludes, that the nature of proliferation incentives is in most cases multidimensional and the classic realistic paradigm itself is frequently insufficient to explain the causes of proliferation.
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Nuclear arms control, regulation and nuclear disarmament
Bříza, Vlastislav ; Ondřej, Jan (advisor) ; Šturma, Pavel (referee) ; Kozák, Kryštof (referee)
The dissertation concludes with the main points of the research and analyses in the above mentioned four pillars and also assesses the status of the efforts for nuclear arms control and nuclear disarmament in its whole history. However, the overall picture is a mixture of successes and failures and suggests that the only way to reach nuclear disarmament in a long way through step-by-step process that would also lead to reaching higher level of world peace and stability. However, even the idea of the world without nuclear weapons has its drawbacks as the dissertation tries to show. Especially with respect to change in the US administration in the early 2009 and its approach to nuclear disarmament, there also still remain many unanswered questions that are left for further research.
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