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Neo-Eurasianism: Russia's national idea or a dangerous doctrine of the 21 century?
Fetishcheva, Tatiana ; Žídková, Markéta (advisor) ; Riegl, Martin (referee)
The Thesis provides a comprehensive overview of the development and formation of the Eurasian geopolitical school of thinking in Russia. Moreover, we disclose the content of the ideas of Eurasian teaching from the end of the 19th century up to the present time. During this period, we try to explain the reasons of occurrence of Eurasianism and its further popularization. Additionally, our research focuses on the impact of ideas of Eurasianism on practical policies that Russia conducts. In particular, we see the character of concrete reforms, implemented in various politics. Finally, following the process of the Eurasian Union project's development we observe the quality of development of the ideas of Eurasianism that constitute the ideological base of the Union. Key words: Eurasianism, Neo-Eurasianism, Putin, Dugin, Gumilev, Eurasian Union, Eurasia. Bibliographical Record Fetishcheva T. (2013): Neo-Eurasianism: Russia's National Idea or a Dangerous Doctrine for the 21st century? (Master thesis). Prague. Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Geopolitical Studies. 79 pages. Supervisor: Mgr. Markéta Žídková, Ph.D., M.A
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Putin's Historical Narrative: Problems of Russian Post-Soviet Identity and the Role of History during Putin's Presidency 2000-2008
Knappová, Barbora ; Svoboda, Karel (advisor) ; Kolenovská, Daniela (referee)
The thesis focuses on a historical narrative promoted by president Putin during his first two terms in office during the years 2000 - 2008. Furthermore it aims to analyse the consequences of Putin's uses of history on the domestic and the international level. First, theoretical aspects of political use of history are drafted since they are essential to understand the role history plays in a nation-building process. Consequently, tools used to promote a certain historical narrative are mentioned. The work describes main problems related to the formation of Russian post-Soviet identity and analyses causes of Yeltsin's failure in this task. Subsequently, Putin's political visions such as a need of strong Russia and restoration of great power status are presented. The work also identifies how Putin's political goals project into his view of history. The main characteristics of Putin's historical narrative are analysed on a basis of secondary literature and Putin's speeches. The thesis focuses separately on Putin's use of symbols of three Russian historical époques - the Tsarist Russia, the Soviet Union and the Yeltsin era. Emphasis is put on Putin's attitude towards the Soviet past since his Second World War narrative and his view of Stalin represent a major source of controversies. The consequences of...
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Old master, new neighbor : Putin's Russia in the Czech foreign policy discourse
Beauduin, Adrien ; Vykoukal, Jiří (advisor) ; Kolenovská, Daniela (referee)
BEAUDUIN, Adrien. Old Master, New Neighbour: Putin's Russia in the Czech Foreign Policy Discourse. Master thesis. Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Insitute of International Studies. Supervisor Dr.Jiří Vykoukal, 2013. Abstract The return to democracy in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE) and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 did not mean that CEE-Russian relations could start anew. This dissertation uses post-structuralist discourse analysis and takes the case of the Czech Republic to examine the development of the Czech official foreign policy discourse towards Russia between 2001 and 2009. Looking at the history of opinions on Russia in the Czech lands and analyzing five events or periods of the 2000s, the present works tracks the evolution of the Russia's identity as constructed by the official Czech discourse. On the official level, the influence of Russia's image on the construction of the Czech identity is also analyzed. The results showed a worsening of relations after 2006 and suggest that the image of the 'Russian threat' has not disappeared from the political discourse in the Czech Republic. Moreover, the Czech official foreign policy discourse constructed the image of the Czech Republic as anchored in its Euroatlantic and European orientation.
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US and Russia: resetting relations : nternational cooperation from geopolitical perspective
Honzík, Jakub ; Žídková, Markéta (advisor) ; Romancov, Michael (referee)
This work aims to provide an analysis of the potential for international cooperation between the United States and Russian Federation. It will employ analytical and empirical approach and will introduce a geopolitical perspective on bi-lateral relations between the two nations. It will include an analysis of geopolitical objectives and strategies of the two nations and identify areas where their respective interests converge as well as those where they diverge. Then, it will provide an in-depth analysis of the development of mutual relations during the era of Bush-Putin presidencies and during the era of Obama-Medvedev presidencies, in order to determine the various strategies that these two nations employ in bilateral relations with one another, as well as results of such strategies. This work will focus on the different impact of various policies on relations between the countries from a geopolitical perspective and will refer to geopolitical thinking, strategies and objectives of these two nations while analyzing various political initiatives. The overall purpose will then be to evaluate the potential for international cooperation as well as main obstacles to it. It will also assess the impact of leadership composition on the ability of these two nations to overcome differences in their approach...
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Party of power in the Russian government and party system
Příhoda, David ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Romancov, Michael (referee)
This work deals with parties of power in the Russian government and party system. There is supposed that the executive branch, namely president, is most significant part of the Russian government. Parties of power are established by executive with aim to reach places enough in State Duma to posses majority of seats. They are set down from above. The work is divided into three parts. The first one is focused on executive branch. Here are described power of president and government and relationships among other executive bodies. The second part deals with political parties and party system. First, there are introduced the reasons why political parties are so weak. Periodization of party system and performance of party families follow. The third part is focused on parties of power. First of all, we try to define this concept. The attantion is than turned to the parties established during Yeltsin era. Parties established during Putin era follow. Putin and Yeltsin differ in their attitude to the party of power.
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Comparative analysis of the Russian presidential and parliamentary elections since 1993 till 2008 from the perspective of hybrid regime theory
Radová, Ivana ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Romancov, Michael (referee)
This master's thesis Comparative Analysis of Russian presidential elections 1996 - 2008 from the perspective of hybrid regime theory analyses four presidential elections in the above mentioned period and subsequently applies theoretical models of the hybrid regime theory. Such an application will allow to answer questions not only about the character of the elections - whether they can be considered democratic and competitive or not - but also about the character of the Russian regime as such. In this regard the analysis of parliamentary elections has to be also included as these take place only a few months before the presidential elections thus having a significant impact on the presidential electoral process and often on the result as well.
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Vladimir Putin - Russian President and Politician
VÁLEČKOVÁ, Sonia
The aim of my Bachelor´s thesis is to describe the life of the sitting Russian president and politician Vladimir Putin. The beginning of the thesis concentrates on the period from Putin´s birth to the beginning of his career as a president. There are noticed his initial problems in school in this part as well as his decision about the future and his determination and stamina ensuring his numerous professional advancements. In the second part I concentrate on the results of his government in Russia. These results are divided into two contrary groups. On one hand, there are negative machinations practiced by the Kremlin. One of the main themes in this part is the murder of Anna Politkovska and unexplained death of Alexander Litvinenko. On the other hand there are mainly economic successes which raised the standard of living of the Russian population. At the end of the work, I present my opinions on problems between the United States of America and the Russian Federation supported by several articles. This thesis includes photos of Vladimir Putin.
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Development of Russia economy under Putin governance
Pernikář, Petr ; Žamberský, Pavel (advisor) ; Suchá, Tereza (referee)
The goal of my Bachelor thesis is to describe the development of Russia economy under governance of president Vladimir Putin. Analyze the causes of recent economic development and indentify potential problems. First chapter describes the development after collapse of the Soviet union till Putin appointment. In second chapter GDP, unemployment and inflation is shown. Third chapter is oriented on foreign trade. Balance of payment, FDI and exchange rate are describes in fourth chapter. Fifth chapter characterized development during current economic crisis. In the last chapter production gap is estimated using Hodrick-Prescott filter.
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