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Rulers of the Beautiful Game: State as a Main Actor of Football Instrumentalisation in Russia after 2000
Raiman, Vojtěch ; Aslan, Emil (advisor) ; Svoboda, Karel (referee)
This essay deals with the phenomenon of using football in order to exert influence over the domestic policy on the particular case of Russia after Vladimir Putin assumed the office of the president in 2000. Football in the Soviet Union and Russia developed in close interaction with politics almost through its entire history. However, the form of instrumentalization and the key players who had a chance to intervene into the football world were changing along with the changes of political and economic environment. The ascension of Vladimir Putin into the presidential office and his intervention into the existing power of oligarchs meant a major shift towards a stronger and active role of the Kremlin also in the process of using of football clubs. The analysis of particular cases along with the fact that most of the Russian professional clubs are currently owned directly by the state make the author of this essay to formulate the concluding thesis that after the consolidation of Putin's regime it is Kremlin who became the main player also in respect to the instrumentalization of football. This perspective means a shift in the research into the interaction of Russian football and the politics in which the stress was laid primarily on the role of oligarchs (process of "Berlusconization") so far. The...
"The Return of the King?" Restoration attempts of Charles Habsburg in Hungary in 1921 in the context of international relationships in Europe
Raiman, Vojtěch ; Irmanová, Eva (advisor) ; Rak, Jiří (referee)
The restoration attempts of Charles Habsburg in Hungary presented one of the last efforts to restore the "former order" in Central Europe after the First World War. In the time of relative pacification the restoration attempts caused crisis among Hungary, successor states and the Entente and brought the middle Europe on the brink of an armed conflict. The bachelor work The Return of the King? is a case study with elements of comparison, the goal of which is to analyse the attitude of foreign policy towards the question of the Habsburg restoration in Hungary and to describe reaction of the Little Entente and the Allies: the United Kingdom, France and Italy. The changes of the system of government in Hungary made the ex-king hope that his attempts could succeed. Charles simultaneously hoped in a support of the Entente. However the restoration attempts were sharply opposed by the states of the Little Entente, which believed the return of the Habsburg dynasty on the throne of Hungary would be a threat to their own sovereignty. In case of a successful restoration the Little Entente threatened with a military intervention. The danger of the restoration attempts catalysed cooperation of the Little Entente and helped the completion of the alliance. The Allies had to intervene in order to maintain peace in central...

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