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Analysing Foreign Policy Change through Political Discourse. The Case of the Attitude of France towards the Reform of the United Nations Security Council
Kabáčová, Michaela ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Tomalová, Eliška (referee)
The reform of the United Nations Security Council belongs among the most discussed topics in the field of international relations. The criticism calling for adjustments to the Council's structure arose with the transformation of the international scene during the years of the Cold War. The process of decolonisation and the subsequent growth of the UN membership along with the decline of Great Britain and France fuelled the international pressure calling for the UNSC to reflect this new situation in its composition. However, in spite of the great number of proposals, since 1963 there has not been any major change. France, a permanent member of the Security Council, continued maintaining its negative attitude towards the reform until the end of the Cold War. Nevertheless, shortly after the end of the Cold War, the position of France changed. This change was articulated through the speech of Alain Juppé at the plenary meeting of the General Assembly in 1993, where France openly supported the UNSC reform. It can therefore be said that in 1993 there was a great change in French foreign policy. This thesis analyses how this change is projected in political discourse. Its aim is examining the nature of argumentation in the abovementioned discourse along with the way it corresponds to the...
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"Analysis of the political discourse on migration in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic."
Kovalev, Ilia ; Uherek, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Hájek, Martin (referee)
CHARLES UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES Institute of Sociological Studies Department of Sociology Analysis of the political discourse on migration in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic: restrictive or liberal approach? Abstract of the Master's thesis Author: Ilia Kovalev Study programme: Sociology Supervisor: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. Year of the defence: 2021 References KOVALEV, Ilia. Analysis of the political discourse on migration in the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic: restrictive or liberal approach? Prague, 2021. 80 pages. Master's thesis (Mgr.). Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Sociological Studies. Department of Sociology. Supervisor doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. Length of the thesis: 120256 characters Abstract Most of the previous research that has examined migration in the Czech Republic has focused primarily on the development of migration flows and changes in government strategies in this area, not on how we think about this issue and how we talk about it. Therefore, the aim of this Thesis is to analyze the political discourse on migration in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. The analysis is based on the hypothesis of the existence of two consistent discourse attitudes, which represent restrictive and...
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Imperial Nostalgia? The Presence of Imperial Past in the Conservatives' Discourse on Global Britain
Stoláriková, Lenka ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
This master's thesis deals with the British political Conservative discourse on Global Britain in the years 2016-2020 and the United Kingdom's place in the post-Brexit world. After the unexpected results of the EU referendum, the British government introduced the concept of Global Britain as their new foreign policy orientation. This paper assumes that the idea of the UK opened to the whole world and embracing old friends and new allies alike is built upon the imperial nostalgia and the idealisation of their past. It focuses on the various ways in which nostalgia manifests itself in the Conservative discourse of 2016-2020, specifically in the public speeches of its key representatives and election programs. In the theoretical part, this paper explores the academic debate on Global Britain and the role of history in the post-Brexit world. It uses the memory studies and operationalisation of the concept of nostalgia as a framework for the source analysis. The empirical chapter presents the research results in two ways - based on the thematic categories and individual speakers. The former follows the various ways in which the nostalgic manifestations are used to create a vision of a post-Brexit global Britain, while the latter focuses on the individual approaches in the efforts to communicate that image.
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Is the Language of Science/Technology Manipulative?
Plichta, Lukáš ; Smutný, Milan (referee) ; Walek, Agata (advisor)
Tato bakalářská práce se zaměřuje na problematiku manipulativnosti jazyka v politickém diskurzu. Politické projevy této doby se často věnují velkému množství společenských problémů a mohou být manipulativní. Záměrem této práce je tedy zkoumat důležitost kontroly veřejného diskurzu, který je nezbytný pro reprodukci manipulace v politice. Dále se tato práce zaměřuje na odhalení cílů a prostředků manipulace. Analýza manipulativních strategií Donalda Trumpa v páté kapitole slouží jako nástroj pro úspěšnou identifikaci manipulace. Hlavním cílem této práce je zjistit, zda je jazyk politiky manipulativní a jak se taková manipulace projevuje.
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Speeches in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
Lužíková, Nicola ; Holanová, Radka (advisor) ; Hirschová, Milada (referee)
This thesis focuses on the quality of speech of Ivan Bartoš. That is being examined through three speeches, which were selected as representative for a specific type of political speech. Because of their spoken nature, the transcription of those speeches is attached, as well as a list of symboles and abbreviations used in the transcription. The key section of the thesis is linguistic analysis of the speeches, which is made on five linguistic levels. Each chapter has its relevant theoretical basis, then concrete exemples show whether the speaker adheres to the stylistic norm. In the conclusion of every analysis is a comparison of the speeches, it si a determined how the speaker adheres to the stylistic norm of rhetoric in general and whether his speech has any specifics. In the conclusion of the thesis, the findings of the research are summarized, the specifics of the speakers speech are mentioned and it's determined whether the speech of Ivan Bartoš could be considered a quality one.
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Homegrown Terrorism in the European Union: Political Discourses of France, the United Kingdom and Slovakia
Hruboňová, Anna ; Ditrych, Ondřej (advisor) ; Záhora, Jakub (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of homegrown Islamist terrorism in the European Union. The target of this research is to provide an interpretation of the homegrown terrorism in the political discourse of the EU as an entity and selected member states - France, the United Kingdom and Slovakia. Building on assumptions of social constructivism and securitisation theory, the thesis explores the patterns in the discourses during the years 2015 - 2018 and seeks to identify potential similarities and differences in the political discourses of respective countries. While studying the changes in the discourse, the thesis analyses how the issue of homegrown terrorism has been securitised, thus how the narratives of political authorities shape perception of the homegrown terrorism as a major threat for Europe. In order to organise the arguments in a more objective manner, the research uses a qualitative method of thematic analysis. Our findings suggest that themes which are of general concern in all the discourses are, among others, prevention of terrorism and radicalisation, the significant role of the internet in spreading Islamist propaganda and the problem of returning foreign fighters However, some themes were identified as state-specific, such as highlighting the homegrown nature of current terrorism...
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Holocaust in Political Discourse of Post-Communist Countries: Speeches of the Presidents of the Czech Republic and Poland
Ďurková, Michaela ; Emler, David (advisor) ; Chrobaczyński, Jacek (referee)
This thesis deals with the issue of memory and remembering in the post-communist area. In particular, it examines the form, extent and success of the Holocaust reflection and coping with the past on the example of the speeches of Czech and Polish presidents from 1993 (Václav Havel), or 1995 (Aleksander Kwaśniewski) until the access to the European Union in 2004. Author of the thesis assumes that the fall of Communism and the restoration of the democratic establishment represented a significant impetus for the countries in question to deal with their past. At the same time, they try to prove that the Holocaust memory politics of key political representatives of the Czech Republic and Poland has been one of the important factors in the creation of their post-communist democratic identity - and not only with respect to an unofficial demand of the unifying Europe to cope with the heritage of the past. Through the analysis of selected presidential speeches, the thesis identifies and evaluates the image of Holocaust created by the Czech and Polish presidents on the one hand and the weaknesses in the Holocaust memory politics of both actors on the other. After theoretical and conceptual introduction (chapter one), the experience with the Holocaust in Poland and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and...
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Laïcité in the French Political Discours in Moment of Redaction of the Law on the Separation of the Churches and the State and during the Presidential Elections 2017
Vu, Dominik ; Bauer, Paul (advisor) ; Matějka, Ondřej (referee)
Laïcité is a very strict form of religious neutrality in France created in 1905 by the law separating the church and state. It was nevertheless one of the hot topics of the French presidential elections in 2017. Nowadays France is acountry with the biggest Jewish and Muslim populations in Europe. With a demography so different from the one in 1905 France is today having a debate over the relevance of the definition of laïcité by the more than 100 years law. In this paper, the author studies whether the notion and interpretation laïcité has changed. By comparing political discourse in both 1905 and 2017, author aims to find out which presidential candidates in the 2017 election define laïcité in accordance with the its creators and with the law itself, what happened with the minority opinions that were not implemented in the law and whether they are still present in the debate and what knew opinions and interpretations exist today but not during the legislative process in 1905.
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