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USA as a Global Superpower and its Position in the 21th Century
Wurstová, Adéla ; Sršeň, Radim (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
This thesis is dealing with the analysis of American attributes of power which formed the USA as a superpower and has influenced the world politics in the 21st century. Hypothesis that the USA is still a superpower on the beginning of the 21st century was confirmed in six chapters. The first part of the diploma thesis presents theoretical and methodological bases, history and development of the United States and its rise to superpower status after the Second World War. The second part of the thesis, the last three chapters which are dealing with current American foreign policy and its relations with other important states and regions, proved the expected results of the hypothesis. Therefore the result of the thesis is that the United States still maintains its leading position of the global superpower despite of its relative political and economic weakness in the recent years.
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Trends and Tendencies of Contemplation about UN Reform
Dvořáková, Lucie ; Drhlík, Alois (advisor)
Práce se zabývá reformním úsilím po skončení studené války. Krátce zmiňuje i předchozí reformní kroky, ale jejím hlavním cílem je zhodnocení reforem generálních tajemníků Butruse-Butruse Ghálího a Kofiho Ananna. Práce se snaží sledovat, jak tito generální tajemníci reagovali na novou situaci v souvislostech po skončení studené války, jak byli v implementaci svých reforem úspěšní a nakolik dosáhli vytyčených cílů.
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Which political regime produces better sports results - capitalism, or socialism
Janoušek, Filip ; Lahvička, Jiří (advisor) ; Čermáková, Klára (referee)
The main aim of my paper is to investigate the influence of the political system on sports achievements. I examine the difference between medal achievements of athletes from so called socialist countries with one ruling party and command economy and those from democratic countries with market economy in the following 5 major sport events in the period from 1949 to 2009: The Summer Olympic games, The Winter Olympic games, The World Championships in Athletics, The World Swimming Championships, The World Gymnastics Championships. In order to determine this influence, two models are used. The first is the basic model, which is similar to models widely used in existing works on this topic. The second is the model with dummy for countries, which uses fixed effects. This paper performs a detailed analysis of wide range of sports which makes it different from existing research. Using the two above mentioned models, the comparison of countries with similar GDP per capita shows, that socialist countries athletes obtained more medals that those from democratic countries. The difference was 1.8 -- 3.7 percentage points from the total number of medals awarded for analyzed period of time.
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Media Presentation of International Relations in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War in the Czechoslovak Television
Kadlecová, Gabriela ; Veselý, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Krines, Vlastimil (referee)
The diploma thesis with the title "Media Presentation of International Relations in Czechoslovakia during the Cold War in the Czechoslovak Television" uses selected events in the defined period to show how much foreign policy of the Soviet Union influenced the Czechoslovak Television news. First, both Czechoslovak and Soviet foreign policies as well as media policy of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia are described, followed by a brief history of the Czechoslovak Television. The core part of this diploma thesis lies in the third chapter, where specific reports from the news of the Czechoslovak television are analyzed.
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The Development of the Federal Dept in the USA in 1980´s
Rybáček, Miroslav ; Tajovský, Ladislav (advisor) ; Johnson, Zdenka (referee)
This thesis deals with the influence of foreign policy of Ronald Reagan on his budget policy. The foreign policy is studied in relation to the USSR. First stage of this thesis is devoted to economic development in the USA before Ronald Reagan era with focusing on 1970's. There are also crucial aspects, which affected economic development within the Ronald Reagan era and his decisions. The goal of main part of the thesis is an analysis of impacts of foreign policy on the federal dept in the USA in 1980's with focusing on the relationship between USA a USSR. The thesis analyzes the impact of military spending and Strategic Defense Initiative on the growing federal dept as a consequence of the relationship between USA and USSR. In this stage of the thesis is descriped Reagan's budget program as well as the reasons why the program was unsuccessful. At the end of the thesis is emphasized the influence of Ronald Reagan on the dissolution of the USSR and summarizes the knowledges about the relationship between the budget and foreign policy in the USA in 1980's.
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The Transformation of Austrian neutrality
Pastrňáková, Zuzana ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Kochan, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with the transformation of Austrian neutrality. Austria became neutral in 1955 because neutrality was seen as the most appropriate option for Austria to become an independent state. Austria has always appreciated its neutrality because it enabled an undisturbed development during the period of the Cold War. Only the European integration remained during this time a sensitive issue. After the Cold War, Austria started to redefine its neutrality to be able to join the European Union. It also started to participate in the Partnership for Peace. The decision to join NATO was finally not made. The end of this thesis assesses the impacts of the Treaty of Lisbon on the Austrian neutrality and shows the possible development of the neutral status of Austria.
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Marshall Plan and Czechoslovakia
Pazdera, Lukáš ; Soběhart, Radek (advisor) ; Stellner, František (referee)
This Bachelor Essay considers the topic of Czechoslovakia and The Marshall Plan. Its hypothesis is that it's one of the most important event of 20th century Czechoslovakian history, which influenced postwar development and heralded the coming to power of the communists in 1948. Another important element is the change in international politics, which was the beginning of the Cold War's emergence of bad relations between the two great powers, the United States of America and the Soviet Union. Important roles were also played by other changes in the postwar development of Czechoslovakia, such as the expulsion of the Germans, land and currency reform, or the election in 1946. The main conclusion of the essay is that Czechoslovakia was not prepared with a clear concept of foreign policy and that negotiations about the Marshall Plan were only at the political level and lacked economic analysis. The key factor of the rejection of the Marshall Plan is considered to be the excessive trust in the foreign policies of the Soviet Union and the Czechoslovakian alliance with it.
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