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The role of Mikhail Gorbachev in the process of Reunification of Germany
Karnitskaya, Helena ; Šmidrkal, Václav (advisor) ; Handl, Vladimír (referee)
The bachelor thesis "The role of Mikhail Gorbachev in the process of reunification of Germany" aims to analyze the position of the last Soviet leader in the negotiations towards eliminating the division of Germany into two German states - Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and German Democratic Republic (GDR). The work analyzes the changes in the Soviet-German relations after the election of Gorbachev as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This thesis focuses on the foreign policy of the Soviet leader inspired by the concept of the "New Thinking" and its influence on the fate of divided Germany. The greatest attention is paid to the attitudes of the last Soviet statesman in several aspects: the possibility of a German reunification, NATO-membership of the reunited state and the conditions of withdrawal of the Soviet troops from the GDR territory. The last part of the thesis is a reflection of the negotiations on the reunification of Germany in the Czechoslovak press (Lidové noviny).
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The Impact of the Fall of the Berlin Wall on RAF
Matějková, Nikola ; Renner, Tomáš (advisor) ; Daňková, Šárka (referee)
The terrorist group Red Army Fraction ("RAF"), which jeopardized the public security with their attacks in West Germany since the seventies and killed more than three thousand people, issued a statement of official closure on April 20, 1998 after 28 years of its activity. This thesis tries to answer the question whether the fall of the Berlin Wall brought the final dissolution of the group. In addition to geopolitical changes it is also necessary to take into account the instruments of the national security policy and the split of opinion within the group. The geopolitical reversal in 1989 had two negative impacts on the RAF. Firstly it meant a devastating ideological defeat for them, even though the former GDR or any other Eastern Bloc country did not respond fully to their expectations. Another shock for them was the arrest of ten former RAF-members who were hiding in the GDR under a false identity. They eventually filed an extensive testimony, so that their sentences could be commuted. Federal Republic of Germany, which had not been too successful in the fight against terrorism up to this time, used the internal weakness of the RAF caused by political circumstances and it finally introduced new instruments to further destabilize the group and led to a rift between prisoners and members at large....
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Ostpolitik at the Example of the Treaty on Mutual Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Kabátová, Martina ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Handl, Vladimír (referee)
My bachelor thesis "Ostpolitik at the Example of the Treaty on Mutual Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic " submits overview on a new east policy (Ostpolitik) of Federal Republic of Germany under rule of Willy Brandt and Walter Scheel in correlation with context of signing of the Treaty on Mutual Relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1974. The study is aimed at both domestic and east policy of FRG at the turn of the 60s and 70s, as well as historical contextual background of examined time period. It offers also principles and positions of both participants of the Treaty. Moreover in the thesis is described content of the Treaty and assessed its significancy.
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Trends and settings of fertility behaviour in former GDR and FRG
Babková, Eliška ; Kocourková, Jiřina (referee) ; Rychtaříková, Jitka (advisor)
Trends and settings of fertility behaviour in former GDR and FRG Abstract The objective of the study is to analyse fertility trends in the former GDR and FRG after 1952 to the present and to examine the population attitudes towards parenthood. Fertility analysis is concentrated on investigating trends in marital and extramarital live births, total fertility rate, mean age at childbirth and fertility rates by age. Reproductive behaviour in GDR and FRG was different and after unification Germany (3 October 1990) has preserved its specifics. Another part of the study deals with the attitudes of the population of FRG to parenthood and their expectations regarding family policy. The results show that children aren't a major life value for Germans and the demands related to family policy measures are there excessive. The main findings of this study are summarized in the conclusion.
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Role of the chancellor in the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany: Angela Merkel
Farská, Kateřina ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
This master thesis is concerned with the role of the chancellor in the foreign policy with respect to the institutional possibilities that the German political system provides him, and also with respect to the personality of the chancellor - it strives to answer the question, if it is possible to identify the personality impact in the chancellor foreign policy positions. As the case example the current chancellor Angela Merkel has been chosen, who serves for a period long enough to carry out the research and who is at the same time well-respected personality abroad. The thesis comes to the conclusion that the chancellor has the rights to intervene in the foreign policy and uses those rights. By means of the discourse and content analysis of chancellor's speeches it has been possible to identify foreign policy preferences of the chancellor which can be associated with her personal life experience.
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