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Nobel Peace Prize for European Union: The Analysis of Euroscepticism
Meissner, Jan ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Rovná, Lenka (referee)
The topic of the master thesis is putting together two subjects that always sharply polarize academic, but also political and public debate - euroscepticism and Nobel Peace Prize. Through an analysis of primarily negative debate that followed after awarding Nobel Peace Prize to European Union in 2012 the master thesis is aiming to answer the question to what extent it was the topics typical for euroscepticism that shaped this debate. The paper is operating with a hypothesis that it was this critical phenomenon, typical only for EU, being the main component of the negative debate overshadowing expected criticism with regard to the purpose of the award. For the second hypothesis which anticipates that the topics of euroscepticism make the EU specific laureate is necessary to compare this case with three other international organizations (and their criticism) that were recently awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize. These organizations include Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (laureate in 2013), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) and United Nations (2001). The first chapter introduces the Nobel Peace Prize and its specifications. The topics typical for euroscepticism are generated in the second part through academic debate on both party politics euroscepticism and public...
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Nobel Peace Prize for European Union: The Analysis of Euroscepticism
Meissner, Jan ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Rovná, Lenka (referee)
The topic of the master thesis is putting together two subjects that always sharply polarize academic, but also political and public debate - euroscepticism and Nobel Peace Prize. Through an analysis of primarily negative debate that followed after awarding Nobel Peace Prize to European Union in 2012 the master thesis is aiming to answer the question to what extent it was the topics typical for euroscepticism that shaped this debate. The paper is operating with a hypothesis that it was this critical phenomenon, typical only for EU, being the main component of the negative debate overshadowing expected criticism with regard to the purpose of the award. For the second hypothesis which anticipates that the topics of euroscepticism make the EU specific laureate is necessary to compare this case with three other international organizations (and their criticism) that were recently awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize. These organizations include Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (laureate in 2013), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) and United Nations (2001). The first chapter introduces the Nobel Peace Prize and its specifications. The topics typical for euroscepticism are generated in the second part through academic debate on both party politics euroscepticism and public...
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Political Development of the Latvian Pro-Soviet Communists: Alfred Rubiks and Tatyana Zhdanok
Meissner, Jan ; Švec, Luboš (advisor) ; Handl, Vladimír (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyze the political evolution of two Latvian politicians, Alfred Rubiks and Tatyana Zhdanok, both of whom are currently members of the European Parliament. Also, both of them fought actively against the Latvian independence in the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, when the USSR began to crumble. This paradox is highlighted by the fact that both of the politicians are banned by law from participating in general and local elections in Latvia. The first chapter introduces the reader to the circumstances, causes and consequences of the polarization, dividing the society and politics into two groups, the sympathizers and contestants of independence, in the former Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic in the late 1980s. Understanding of those factors is crucial to the analysis of the political biographies of the two politicians, as they affected their political evolution significantly. The following two chapters are formed by the proper analysis of the two political biographies of Rubiks and Zhdanok. They provide answers to questions: How did the socio- economic origin of the two politicians influence their political carrier? What was their position during the transformation mentioned above and what were their key arguments? In what role did they appear on the political...
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