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Attitudes to the UK membership in the European Union (1993-2016)
Vavrušková, Barbora ; Soukup, Jaromír (advisor) ; Plechanovová, Běla (referee)
The aim of master's thesis "Attitudes to the UK membership in the European Union (1993- 2016)" is to analyse the individual theoretical and political attitudes towards the UK membership in the European Union. In particular, the thesis focuses on the period after the adoption of the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, during the governments of Conservative Prime Minister John Major (1990-1997), Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair (1997-2005) and Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron (2010-2016), who called a referendum on "Brexit" in 2016. Since the beginning of its membership in the EU, the United Kingdom has been more inclined towards an intergovernmental approach and worried about the delegation of power to supranational authorities as well as federalist tendencies. Due to the large number of approaches and theories related to the European integration, the thesis will focus in detail on federalism theory, to which the United Kingdom has always strongly defined itself, contrary to the model of multilevel governance that characterizes the current political system in Britain. In the past, the British political system was based on the so-called Westminster model, however, since the 1980s it has gradually transformed into a model of multilevel governance. The core of the thesis is to classify the relations...
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Comparison of non-european immigration policy of the United Kingdom during the premierships of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in 1997-2010
Šatrová, Tereza ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
The Bachelor's thesis "Comparison of non-European immigration policy of the United Kingdom during the premierships of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in 1997-2010" is a comparative case study which deals with the outputs of immigration policy, especially the legislation and governmental papers published since the New Labour won the general election in the United Kingdom in 1997 until 2010, when the New Labour lost. The two compared cases are delimited by the years 1997 and 2007 for the premiership of Tony Blair, and years 2007 and 2010 for the premiership of Gordon Brown. The thesis'goal is to discover if and how did the main focus of the immigration policy towards non-European immigrants has changed, in spite of the same party in charge and if the restrictiveness or openness of the country towards non- European immigration has changed as well. There are three research criteria, regulations of entry, control mechanisms and naturalisation, which are used for determining this in the thesis. Based on the analysis and comparison of data in both cases, it can be determined that the immigration policy focus has changed partially, and the restrictiveness has been growing since Gordon Brown has become the Prime Minister. These differences between the two Prime Ministers seem to be caused by the socioeconomic...
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Translation with Commentary: Marr, Andrew: A History of Modern Britain
Tichá, Kateřina ; Šťastná, Zuzana (advisor) ; Tobrmanová, Šárka (referee)
The core of this bachelor's thesis is a translation of an extract from the book A History of Modern Britain by the British journalist Andrew Marr. The first part of this thesis consists of the translated text. The selected chapters are dealing with the situation in Britain at the turn of the millennium and the last years of the New Labour government. The second part consists of a commentary of the translation. There is an analysis of the original text in terms of the extratextual and intratextual factors, then typology of translation problems with examples of solutions, a summary of translation shifts and a description of the translation method.
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Ideational framework of British foreign policy under New Labour.
Váška, Jan ; Pešek, Jiří (advisor) ; Říchová, Blanka (referee) ; Fiala, Vlastimil (referee)
This doctoral thesis explores the ideational framework of British foreign and European policy in the era of New Labour governments (1997-2010). Drawing from social constructivism and the "linguistic turn" in social sciences, and using discourse analysis as its primary tool, it analyses a set of major foreign and European policy speeches by prime ministers and foreign secretaries, and Labour Party general election manifestos, to reconstruct the ideational structure in which empirical British foreign policy was embedded. It identifies conceptual ideas about the nature and rules governing the international order, distribution of power in the international system, hierarchy of issues in contemporary international agenda, international identity and role of the United Kingdom, its key international relationships, its power resources, and interests and values shaping British foreign policy, as held by the leading government figures of the era. Established changes and transformations of these governing ideas are contextualised in the empirical development in the international arena. While confirming the pro-stability and self-reproduction bias of ideational structures, via their constitution of agency and organization of the actors' discursive practices, the thesis identifies six events which sparked...
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Analysis of September 11, 2001 terrorist attact impacts on the United Kingdom foreign policy
Plesníková, Markéta ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
Main theme of submitted thesis is the analysis of the impact of terroristic attacks 9/11 on the foreign policy of the United Kingdom. The impact is evaluated in three fields. The first one is the "special telationship" with the United States and how it changed with the accession of the prezident George W. Bush and followinf "war on terror". The second area of focus is the relationship of the UK with the rest of continental Europe. The last one is the so called ethical dimension of New Labour's foreign policy and the intervencionism. The events of 9/11testified the importance of foreign policy even for the Great Britain, in that time embodied in the figure of prime minister Tony Blair. Tony Blair is certainly one of the most influential politics in British history since Second World War. His worldviews and ideas shaped the direction of British foreign policy. Blair lived with notion of his country serving as an imaginary bridge connecting both the Europe and the USA. However the later geopolitical development prove this idea unreal. The main reason was the Iraq. The invasion also showed that the special relationship between the UK and the USA does not exist anymore and that Britain has to search for a new place in the post-cold war world.
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The Analysis of Tony Blair's Foreign Policy towards Sierra Leone
Hájková, Zuzana ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
The main goal of this bachelor thesis is to analyse process of British foreign policy towards Sierra Leone in period since 1997 to 2000. This paperwork particularly answers the question if British approach to Sierra Leone was in harmony with new rhetoric of the Labour Party, which wanted to build a foreign policy on "ethical dimension". Sierra Leone has been locked in civil war since 1991, in which Great Britain officially supported legally elected president Kabbah, whose governance was threaten by the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front. Great Britain intervened in May 2000, when the capital city of Sierra Leone was directly endangered. The paperwork explores in detail, which factors and which participants influenced Blair's policy towards Sierra Leone.
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Soft power in practice - a study of British public diplomacy between 1997 and 2007
Davidová, Kateřina ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Tomalová, Eliška (referee)
This bachelor thesis examines the issue of public diplomacy as a means through which the state can exercise its soft power. It draws from the particular example of public diplomacy developments in the United Kingdom between 1997 and 2007, i.e. during the premiership of Tony Blair. At first, a theoretical debate concerning the concept of public diplomacy is introduced, including its advantages and pitfalls. Afterwards, the working system of public diplomacy within the UK is characterised, as well as the main changes that have occurred in its organisational structure during the studied period. Furthermore, the two key British institutions of public diplomacy are presented; BBC World Service and British Council. Finally, the thesis analyses some of the actual public diplomacy campaigns and strategies that Britain put in place between 1997 and 2007. The main emphasis is placed on the comparison of the strategies before and after 2001, when major changes happened, and the analysis of the causes of these changes. The thesis concludes that causes that influenced the formation of British public diplomacy were of internal and external character, while it was the external impulses that triggered the most radical changes.
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The Phenomenon of Underage Pregnancy in the UK
Haklová, Pavlína ; Higgins, Bernadette (advisor) ; Matuchová, Klára (referee)
This bachelor thesis explores the phenomenon of underage and teenage pregnancy in the context of British culture, focusing on factors such as its historical evolution, starting with the phenomenon of the Fallen Woman. It analyses the twentieth century political rhetoric of Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair and explores the cultural influences of the chav phenomenon and class hatred, evaluating the significant media impact of the Little Britain (British comedy television show) character Vicky Pollard on the perception of the phenomenon of underage and teenage pregnancy.
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New Labour and the Devolution of the United Kingdom in the 1990s
Stejskal, Leoš ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Soukup, Jaromír (referee)
(english) This work focuses on the development devolution questions in the second half of the 20th century and the final implementation of the 90's 20th century policy of New Labour. It seeks to analyze the main assumptions and circumstances leading to the creation of a new institutional framework of the constitutional British Union. The subjects of the research are various political actors and their strategies to attain certain goals, but the focus is on New Labour as the main actor of the period and political phenomenon of essential social processes of the late 20th century. The object of analysis is the connection between the first unsuccessful attempt to devolution in the 70th years and 90 years, with a focus on social, economic and political development. This development enabled the establishment of a just political success of New Labour and devolution enforcement policy, in its specific form as such.
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The Special relationship, the ESDP and the British national interest at the turn of the new millennium
Kunertová, Dominika ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
The Master's Thesis "The Special Relationship, the ESDP and the British National Interest at the Turn of the New Millenium" analyses the relationship of the United Kingdom to both the United States and the European Union during the premiership of Tony Blair. By using critical discourse analysis and applying three criteria within the framework of the procedural concept of national interest, the work seeks to determine whether the creation and further development of the European Security and Defence Policy was in the British national interest and whether it was compatible with the close UK-US relationship. After having examined the British public political discourse of three main political parties on security and defence, this thesis arrives at the conclusion that for Britain it was essential to keep NATO at the centre of its security, to maintain the close relationship with the US and to improve Britain's position in Europe. The core attitudes of the British political elite remained unchanged in the respected period. On the discourse level, the ESDP was in the British national interest as it was presented as an effort to strengthen the European pillar within NATO. Predicate and metaphor analysis of Blair's speeches unveiled that the British Prime Minister, considered as the initiator of a more...
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