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The position of Saudi Arabia in international relations
Cimpová, Jitka ; Novotná, Yvona (advisor) ; Volenec, Otakar (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to characterize the position and significance of Saudi Arabia in current international relations on the grounds of the historical development analysis and aspects that influence both national and foreign policy; and to zoom in the background of strategic partnership with chosen countries as well as in their consequences. Four chapters make the reader familiar with the concept of islam, wahhabi orthodoxy, shari'a law and the reign of the Saudi dynasty monarchs. They depict the progress in the political sphere and the reforms of King Abdullah as well. The economic situation and orientation is presented briefly with the power structure. The principal part is formed by the analysis of foreign policy and characteristics of possible clashes of concerns in bilateral relations with neighbouring states and other strategic partners.
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Web 2.0 and its Influence on the Role of Individual in International Relations
Cvejn, Michal ; Knotková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (referee)
The thesis deals with web 2.0 and the role of individual in international relations. The first section argues in support of study of individual actor in international relation. The second section introduces web 2.0 and its applications. Based on current knowledge of impacts of web 2.0 on politics, it suggests that web 2.0 should empower individual in IR The following analysis of web 2.0 in authoritarian and democratic societies shows that the new means to organize and publish through web 2.0 constitute a threat to authoritarian regimes and that they allow individual to co-set agenda of traditional media.
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Scientific and technical development and its global political and security consequences
Nedbal, Richard ; Lehmannová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Sršeň, Radim (referee)
Despite the fact that majority of world's public presumably doesn't follow current development of problem-solving in natural sciences very closely, results of the research in these highly specialized branches of knowledge have had profound imact on everyday life of entire mankind even over the period of the last century; this thesis describes the effects of this phenomenon on the political and security level. This thesis shows that not only apparently strategic-related fields of research affect the relations within the global community, but that even the pieces of knowledge produced by seemingly strictly academic scientific disciplines have significant effects on this problematic. Thus, political and security situation is profoundly affected by discoveries in modern mathematics, by applications of contemporary findings in physics and chemistry, as well as by sciences concerned with further exploration of the planet Earth and also by those natural sciences that deepen understanding of humankind. Also, we can presume that importance of these scientific disciplines shall not grow lesser in the future; in fact, both the development of knowledge itself and its significance for the international community can be expected to bring on many challenges that will have to be dealt with by foremost scientists as well as by representatives of various countries and international organizations.
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