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The possibilities and limits of human rights support in DPRK in the 21st century - the bilateral role of the USA
Jurečková, Daniela ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Machoň, Miloslav (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the 21st century. The aim of the thesis is to define the main limits and possibilities of human rights support in the DPRK; main focus is put on the bilateral role of the United States of America. The USA has been active on the Korean Peninsula for more than sixty years and their activities are also connected to the human rights situation. The thesis discusses activities of American foreign policy that are meant for the human rights support in DPRK and their limits. These activities include legislative measures, economic sanctions and food support.
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UN Free&Equal campaign and its impact on position of sexual minorities
Vítková, Zuzana ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Melounová, Irena (referee)
This bachelor´s thesis is dealing with the problematic of sexual orientation and gender identity. The main point of the thesis is particularly the United Nations campaign Free&Equal and its strategies which uses on state actors as well as the world society in order to impact the public opinion. Also it is focusing on the regional cooperation that enables better campaing working, the example is Russian LGBT Network which operates in Russian Federation.
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Child marriage in the context of international rights of the child
Jetelinová, Denisa ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Trávníčková, Zuzana (referee)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the child marriages that occur mainly in the developing countries and their various causes and consequences. During such ceremonies is one or both of the betrothed is less than 18 years old. This work is divided into three chapters and its aim is to answer the question of whether or not children's weddings ultimately violate international standards to protect the rights of the child or not. The theoretical part provides the most important international declarations and conventions containing the rights of the child, published in the 20th century. The second chapter is devoted directly to discussing marriages of children; contained therein is their definition, and then further clarification of where they occur and what leads parents or guardians of children to marry them. The third chapter deals with the analysis of violations of international standards to protect the rights of the child, either directly or in connection with the impacts of weddings of teenagers on their lives.
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Nation Branding as an Element of Economic Diplomacy - Spanish Experience
Šmahelová, Kateřina ; Peterková, Jana (advisor) ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with nation branding in the context of economic diplomacy and puts a special emphasis on Spain. The main purpose is to provide an answer to the following question: "Is the Spanish reputation-building project Marca Espaňa launched in 2013 beneficial for country's performance in economic diplomacy area and is it possible to observe any results despite a relatively short time period?" Chapter one concentrates on theoretical issues and apart from defining relevant basic terms it provides a theoretical relationship between the concepts of economic diplomacy and nation branding. Chapter two examines the Spanish system of economic diplomacy and nation branding and underlines their interconnection on the practical level. Chapter three analyses the contribution of the Marca Espaňa project to Spain's economic diplomacy and examines Spain's performance in nation branding, overall economic competitiveness and exports through a detailed analysis of various international ranking and official statistical data.
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Zvláštní procedury OSN: nejkontroverznější mandáty
Krejčová, Anna ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Trávníčková, Zuzana (referee)
Kofi Annan called the Special Procedures 'crown jewel' of the United Nations Human Rights mechanisms. The thesis examines the work of the Special Procedures and their position within the United Nations and the Human Rights Council. Further, an analysis identifying the most controversial mandates among the Special Procedures is conducted based on the voting records in the Human Rights Council. Those mandates are further analyzed and the arguments in favour of the existence of the mandates and critiques are explained.
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British Commercial Diplomacy: Is Cameron’s strategy competitive
Hátleová, Tereza ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (referee)
The thesis is focusing on commercial diplomacy in the United Kingdom of Great Britain during the coalition government of David Cameron between 2010 - 2015. In globalized world, where the commercial diplomacy is done by not only state actors but also private ones, management of commercial diplomacy as well as priorities and strategies play crucial role. The Thesis analyses structure of the system and includes case study of British commercial diplomacy in the Czech Republic. Based on theoretical acknowledgments we can evaluate the of British Commercial Diplomacy in the reporting period which was affected by economic crisis.
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Limits and Opportunities of the Czech Cultural Diplomacy
Dudková, Tereza ; Peterková, Jana (advisor) ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (referee)
Limits and opportunities of the Czech cultural diplomacy are analyzed in this master thesis on three different levels. The first one is theoretical, speaking about cultural diplomacy of small states. Both insights from traditional field of international relations and other, less traditional fields are used. The second level is practical, analyzing the situation of Czech Republic as the active part of cultural diplomatic activities. The third part puts the Czech cultural diplomacy in a specific foreign environment, analyzing the limits and opportunities of the Czech cultural diplomacy in Sweden. The chapter presents Swedish cultural values, habits, infrastructure and financing, mentioning the actual position of Czech culture in Sweden. Last chapter seeks to prove, if cultural diplomacy of small states can be efficient, despite limited resources. An extensive survey was conducted, building on a long-lasting project of Czech cultural diplomacy in the Swedish town of Katrineholm.
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The foreign policy strategy of small states – case study of the Czech Republic
Stehlíková, Jana ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (referee)
Foreign policy strategy of small states does differ significantly from the strategy of superpowers. The first chapter of this bachelor thesis analyses the different strategies present in foreign policy of small states. Strategies of the Czech Republic are identified in the second chapter, and then the attention is focused on the analysis of niche strategy itself in its form of human rights and transition policy. The aim of this work is, with the use of critical analysis, to compare the declared strategy concept of the human rights agenda with its fulfilling by Czech representatives, assess how the fulfilment of this strategy reflects in the view of other countries towards the Czech Republic, and finally to analyse the potential of the niche diplomacy towards building a good reputation of the Czech Republic on the international platform.
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Priorities of Czech Council of EU Presidency: Case study
Kotík, Jan ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Kuchařová, Alžběta (referee)
In the 21st century the significance of the EU energy agenda has been growing constantly. The European Union tried to overcome energy crises actively by creating European Security Strategy. The energy agenda has two major parts -- energy security and climate protection. The 2009 Czech EU presidency chose as one of its priorities energy policy. In particular, it promoted support of nuclear energy, deepening of the European neighbourhood policy by creating its own project Eastern Partnership and developed a discussion about Southern Corridor and its main project gas pipeline Nabucco. The aim of this thesis is to show, whether the Czech presidency was pursuing its own national interests by promoting energy policy, or the interests of the whole Union. The structure of this thesis consists of three parts. In the first one, the Council of European Union is described, as well as its functions, possibilities of agenda setting and its evaluation. In the second part, the European energy policy is specified together with the influencing factors for choosing energy policy as one of the Czech priorities. In the last chapter, functions of the Czech presidency are examined and the presidency is evaluated according to criteria mentioned in the first chapter.
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Current changes in orientation of the German economic diplomacy
Dírerová, Daniela ; Peterková, Jana (advisor) ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (referee)
Diplomacy is a unique tool of foreign policy for enforcing its interests among other actors in the international system. However, this means is not in an existential vacuum and thus has to react on dynamic changes in international environment for its effective functioning. Raising interest of international trade liberalization and growing importance of private sector in creation of foreign policy forms further development of the diplomacy. Thus, the economic diplomacy is becoming more important with an aim to implement country's vision in economic area. This topic is the main subject of the presented bachelor thesis. In 2012, German government published document "Shaping Globalization - Expanding Partnership - Sharing Responsibility". The primary aim of the thesis is to examine the influence of this new strategy on the German economic diplomacy. The key part of the thesis is dedicated to the strategy itself and is divided into multilateral (macro) and bilateral (mikro) objectives. First aspect pursues economic priorities on a level of international organizations. Bilateral part analyses reasons why Germany decided to orient economically on so called new players, why is Germany interested in their mutual commercial relations and which challenges result from it for the economic diplomacy. The secondary aim is to explain the structure, tasks and decision making process of the German economic diplomacy, because this information is not provided in detail by neither Czech nor Slovak scholar publications.
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