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Is it neccessary to reform Czech intelligence services?
Bulan, Jiří ; Šándor, Andor (advisor) ; Balabán, Miloš (referee)
Bulan, Jiří. Je třeba reformovat české zpravodajské služby? Praha, 2011. 101 s. Diplomová práce (Mgr.) Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních věd, Institut politologických studií. Katedra mezinárodních vztahů. Vedoucí diplomové práce Gen. Ing. Andor Šándor. Abstract The thesis is a comparative analysis of the Czech intelligence system. It is trying to answer how and whether or not to reform the Czech intelligence services on the basis of scholarly articles and especially interviews with current and former intelligence officials and particular politicians. It turned out that among some of the Czech intelligence services and even within those services prevails the tense atmosphere, which had been caused by various personal failings. All the cases were the individual personal excesses, not the system errors. Representatives of the services assesses the ability to detect security threats very critically. The services miss particularly tight government management as well as the independent overview of the service operations. How to improve the intelligence services work? The intelligence community must establish a common vision that will emerge from a deeper internal discussion only. It is not possible to reform the system without it.
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Decision-making within the public policy shown on the foreign operations of the Czech Republic
Šanc, Filip ; Balabán, Miloš (advisor) ; Stejskal, Libor (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with a decision-making within the public policy shown on the approving of dispatching of military troops to Afghanistan by the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The paper uses the theory of historical institutionalism for explaining the decision- making. The historical institutionalism is a theory, which accents the influence of institutions on the decision-making. It also recognises the influence of other variables: context and actors. It is recommended to explore the history to learn which variables are the most important ones. The paper is written on the basis of this point of view. It deals with the history of engagement of the Czech Republic within the foreign military operations, the development of the situation in Afghanistan and reactions of international organizations. It also explores the influence of the main Czech actors on the decision-making.
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Russian Security Policy towards Muslim Autonomous Republics in the North Caucasus
Jindřich, Jan ; Balabán, Miloš (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to answer the question why the crisis caused by the Chechen struggle for independence gradually escalated into war, while the rest of North Caucasus remained relatively calm, despite the predictions of many authors. Also to determine to whether extend the repetition of Chechen scenario is nowadays possible. Or in other words what are the odds that a new ethnopolitical conflict will erupt in some other Muslim autonomous republic in the North Caucasus. The answers to these questions are sought via factors causing the emergence of ethnic conflict, as were defined by Svante E. Cornell in his book Autonomy and Conflict: Ethnoterritoriality and Separatism in the South Caucasus - Cases in Georgia. These factors are continually confronted with empirical data, which are provided by the case study of Chechen conflict in the first part of the thesis. Presence or absence of those factors in other Muslim autonomous republics is examined by method of Process Tracing. The data obtained are then processed quantitatively, in the way that presence or absence of the factor in question by a certain score.
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