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Warfare and Institutional Communication on Social Media in 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Kopečný, Ondřej ; Ludvík, Jan (advisor) ; Parízek, Michal (referee)
The thesis concerns with communication of Armenian and Azerbaijani Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Ministries of Defence on Facebook in relation to 2020 Nagorno Karabakh conflict. The official institutional accounts were used to bolster one sided narratives of the conflict, often by emotional appeals and misinformation targeting international and domestic audence. By analyzing FB communication of the named institutions, it aims to identify the key narrative-building tools utilized by state institutions in communication practice and how these tools are used prior to and during wartime. It also aims at comparing the communication practice across the institutions and in between the countries by analyzing Facebook posts of named ministries over period of 100 days using a dataset generated via Crowdtangle.
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The Diffusion of the Circular Economy Awareness Across the World
Špačková, Ivana ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Kučerová, Irah (referee)
This master's thesis aims to provide an outlook on the diffusion of circular economy (CE) awareness across the world and reveal the factors influencing its intensity. The awareness is assessed for a group of 122 countries by using their media data acquired from the Factiva database for the period 2000 - 2019. From the theoretical point of view, the work is framed by the Diffusion of innovation and Transnational diffusion of norms, ideas and policies' theories. According to the results of descriptive analysis, a cumulative distribution of aware countries has followed the S-shaped curve over time traditionally associated with the diffusion processes. Among the leaders in the CE awareness are China, Italy, Japan, and Spain for example. During the later years, however, one of the highest values were also measured for Rwanda or Eswatini. On the other hand, Russia was identified as the biggest laggard from the group. Regarding the individual factors whose effect was assessed via the OLS method, it is argued that the CE awareness is higher in the countries which are more embedded in the networks of intergovernmental organizations. Contrary to the expectations the systematic influence of the other economic, political or environmental factors was not proved. This idiosyncrasy could be caused by the novelty...
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Countries' Representation in Professional Staff of the World Health Organization
Slámková, Eliška ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Tesař, Jakub (referee)
My thesis is focused on the composition and countries' representation in the professional staff of the World Health Organization. The thesis will analyse the overrepresentation and underrepresentation of the WHO's member states and explain possible patterns in the staff. The thesis will focus on the relationship between the number of Member State's professional staff in the WHO and the state's GDP growth, expenditure on education and population size. My thesis aims to research the characteristics of staff's composition in the WHO. I will analyse professional staff structure and apply the Principal-Agent theoretical framework. The research will show how the state's representation of member states changed over time and see also the gender composition of the Secretariat. The timeline of this work is from 1999 till 2019. The thesis works with official documents from human resources of the WHO and datasets of the World Bank. Analysis of data is provided by the statistical programme SPSS and Microsoft Excel. Key words World Health Organization, representation, professional staff, principal-agent theory, correlation coefficients, regression analysis
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Classification of instruments in approved United Nations Security Council resolutions in 1991-2019
Novotná, Barbora ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Karlas, Jan (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to contribute to the debate concerning the rise of authority of International organizations (IOs) since the end of the cold war. This thesis works with the concepts of authority, "pooling" and "delegation" - these concepts describe how member states of IOs transmit their powers and competences to international organizations. This thesis deals with the study of state sovereignty and intrusiveness into state sovereignty as with the rise of globalization the importance of state territory decreases. State and non-state actors more and more with or without the consent of state actors interfere with state sovereignty of others. This work attempts to show this phenomenon on a study of approved United Nations Security Council resolutions between 1992 and 2019. From these resolutions were collected and categorized instruments according to how the Security Council interferes with state sovereignty by which it exercises its authority in the international system. A dataset was created consisting of approximately the third of all approved resolutions in this period (616 resolutions from 1778). In this dataset we can find almost 12 000 instruments categorized in 83 categories on the scale of index i from 0 to 5 according to how these instruments interfere with state sovereignty....
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The Pedagogical Potential of the School Club at the Dobřichovice Elementary School
Dvořáková, Lenka ; Pařízek, Michal (advisor) ; Kaplánek, Michal (referee)
Bachelor's thesis refers the issue of leisure time for pupils of first - degree primary school in a school club. The aim of work is to focus on an annual plan of the "School Club" at Primary School in Dobřichovice, for pupils of grade 4 and 5.This place represents a temporary safe place. Pupils should learn how to manage their leisure time in the afternoon before going to the second level of school. The work is divided into two main parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part deals with theoretical starting points of time from the point of view of philosophy, as well as the concept of leisure time in the life of pupils of younger school age. It deals with the interest activities and stated educational objectives in the leisure time of pupils. The practical part of the work contains a summary of the various activities of the annual plan and other activities in the school club. The annexes contain both the annual plan as well as the individual projects and activities divided into individual monthly units. Keywords School club, Annual plan, leisure education, relaxation, safe place.
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Chinese Media Discourse on the Trade War with the United States
Dvořáková, Dobromila ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Kučerová, Irah (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is to provide an overview of Chinese domestic political discourse through an analysis of the Chinese domestic media narrative surrounding the recent trade war with the United States. Using a mixed method of quantitative analysis of keywords and qualitative analysis of headline emotivity from media articles published by three big Chinese domestic news outlets, we were able to explore the language and emotions of their narrative. The results of keyword analysis identified the prevalence of politically motivated discourse, which was dominant throughout majority of this conflict. Themes such as strong self- identification, Chinese victim self-portrayal and American aggression were very strongly mentioned in the discourse of this population. Meanwhile, the interest of Chinese media in global economy and multilateral trading system was very little, with only few mentions in comparison to the political aspects of the discourse. Additionally, publishing volumes over the course of the conflict showed that despite the Chinese media reporting escalatory developments of the trade conflict more, the qualitative headline emotivity analysis discovered a general preference for the usage of rather neutral language and appeasing rhetoric.
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Russia as a rising power in multilateral institutions
Ananyeva, Ekaterina ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Karlas, Jan (referee) ; Stephen, Matthew D. (referee)
Russia as a rising power in multilateral institutions looks at the Russian attitude towards all institutions this country participated in 2001-2015. I address the questions of what is the attitude of Moscow and what determines the country's choice of attitude patterns. Drawing from the works of those specializing in rising powers and Russian foreign policy, I seek answers to my research questions and contribute to both strings of literature. The parsimonious hypothesis suggests that Russia's attitude depends on its position within the institution. In cases when Moscow holds a strong position in an institution, the country develops a supportive attitude; Russia's weak position within an institution translates into a challenger attitude. I endorse the existing studies by arguing and further supporting with data that Russia tends to be a revisionist in West-led hard-issue institutions it joined after the end of the Cold War. The data points at the supportive attitude pattern also in situations when Russia holds a strong position in institutions it co-founded as a rising power status in the last two decades. The primary data source for the dissertation is the recently released online archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Analyzed with the sentiment analysis software, the...
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Washington Consensus in Latin America
Volfová, Kateřina ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Parízek, Michal (referee)
In order to restart economic growth in Latin America after the so-called "lost decade," most countries in the late 1980s began implementing neoliberal reforms aimed at economic transformation. The most important economic rules, which were summarized by John Williamson and named Washington consensus, aimed at providing macroeconomic stability and much needed economic growth. At first, the transition to market economy seemed successful. After years of economic stagnation, the economy began to grow again, inflation was reduced, privatization provided much needed funds to the state treasuries and the attention of foreign investors turned towards the region. However, the initial success did not last long. Economic growth was far smaller, than what was originally expected, and many countries were failing in dealing with unemployment, poverty, and growing income inequality. Growing scepticism was then fuelled by a series of economic crises in the second half of the 1990s. Comparing the impact of neoliberal reforms on the economies of individual countries is problematic because the way in which they were carried out has differed in many countries. Countries have undergone reforms at different time, different speed and with different intensity. The scope of the implemented reforms also differed. In the...
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Negotiation analysis of the third economic adjustment program for Greece: Greek strategy explained
Kult, Jakub ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Plechanovová, Běla (referee)
Thesis title reveals a lot about its intentions and objectives. Its research target is to explain the behavior and strategy of Greece in negotiations prior to agreement on the third economic adjustment program. Thesis asks what the key characteristic of the Greek bargaining strategy was. Negotiation analysis approach is employed as the theoretical/methodological framework. It leads us to examination of following factors. Actors' interests and preferences have to be understood and distinguished from positions. Next, alternatives to negotiated agreement, creating and claiming value techniques, and actions to change the game constitute the remaining basis of negotiation analysis. Moreover, the element of bargaining power is added as a relevant concept to research bargaining strategy. That leads us also to commitment tactic, use of threats, and commitment through domestic audiences and audience costs. Last but not least, two-level games factor is considered as well. Hypothesis and further explanation of analytical technique is followed by three chapters that provide historical context of the negotiations. Then finally empirical analysis is done based on theoretical framework mentioned above. My research shows mixed results. Greek strategy was significantly inconsistent and therefore I cannot consider...
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