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China as a member of the BRIC countries
Gandalovičová, Linda ; Jiránková, Martina (advisor) ; Zapletal, Petr (referee)
Countries referred to as "emerging countries" are on the rise at the expense of western powers in recent decades. In this regard, the BRIC countries draw the most attention. BRIC is a group of four countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China, countries with great potential to become the new world powers in the near future. The objective of this bachelor's thesis is to examine, with an emphasis on China, whether these states are capable of creating a new modern economic and political platform. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter focuses on the basic information about the BRIC group. The second chapter analyzes the position of individual BRIC countries, and the group as a whole, in the world order using key economic indicators such as GDP, export and import. The third chapter describes the position of China, the economically strongest member of the BRIC group, since I consider her to be the determinant of success of the whole group. The chapter examines the current position of the country considering different areas if its economy.
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Islamism today and the influence of the civil war in Syria on its spread
Havlíčková, Blanka ; Volenec, Otakar (advisor) ; Novotná, Yvona (referee)
This diploma thesis analyzes the ideological basis of islamism and deals with the reasons, why this political ideology is becomimg more and more popular in the Middle East and the West. The thesis also analyzes the phenomenon of globalization, in other words the interconnection between islamists in today's world. The last chapter summarizes the facts about the civil war in Syria, where both - islamists from the Middle East, as well as islamists from the West, are involved. The main objective of this thesis was to prove that the civil war in Syria will have an influence on the spread of the political ideology of islamism.
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The Kurdish Minority in Turkey: Problems and Perspectives
Netopilová, Eliška ; Zemanová, Štěpánka (advisor) ; Trávníčková, Zuzana (referee)
The treatment of minorities by different states gains scholarly attention in the recent years. This thesis attempts to define the necessary criteria for a state to have in order for its treatment of minorities to be acceptable by the international society. There are three major parts of the thesis. It starts with a thorough investigation of legal dimension of minority rights. The thesis formulates the criteria that a state should meet in the field of national and international law regarding minority rights. The second part investigates the political dimension of the issue. The analysis of political dimension describes the interaction of governments with minorities and the factors influencing the success of minorities in achieving their demands. In the final part of the thesis, the criteria formulated in legal and political dimensions are applied to the case of the Kurdish minority in Turkey. The position of Kurdish minority in the society is unique because of the Turkish state's assimilationist policies towards ethnic minorities till very recent years. The minority rights defined by international society were, therefore, not recognized in Turkey. However, the situation has recently changed. The current government ruled by Justice and Development Party has applied numerous democratization reforms that normalize the position of minorities. The Kurdish minority is not discriminated against as much as it was in the past. In addition to the analysis of the current state of minority rights in Turkey, the thesis proposes opportunities for improvement in the future.
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Zaměření na ŠKODU na Ukrajině: řízení podnikatelské udržitelnosti na klíčových silných stránkách
Paleta, Vojtěch ; Kovář, František (advisor) ; Kroupa, Miroslav (referee)
The global world has been strongly changed and year 2013 - was for automotive big challenge! At the beginning of the year 2013 automotive experts predicted stable growth in LDC's and CIS's. But today in 2014, we know, that was different. How are the markets turbulenting shows current changes in U.S. economical and financial politics which also influents structural economical deformations and market warping in LDC's. On the other hand the current political crisis in Ukraine influence in turn CIS's markets where the ŠKODA is called the international automotive leader. Likewise, good to know is, that the current Russia annexation political approach influence negatively international exchange rates which brings strategical calm down to the ŠKODA growth and profit. In the same time running national politicical systems crises in the markets where ŠKODA long-term strong is, e.g. Arabian world. Despite of turbulent market trends introduced ŠKODA in 2013 the biggest model offensive in own history connected shortly with the biggest investment costs. Everything in the age when the world is more connected and requests bigger flexibility, faster launches of products and bigger frequency of radical innovations. Exist strategical coherence between automotive enterprises, national economies and self-started employees? Is sustainability the key condition for the growth in automotive industry? If yes, it is possible to measure sustainable growth in automotive enterprises? How manage correctly the automotive enterprise to be long-term sustainable and profitable growth despite of turbulent market environment?
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Russia in foreign policy of Slovakia and the Czech Republic
Lojanová, Jana ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Cibulková, Petra (referee)
The main objective of the thesis is to analyse different presence and perception of Russia in discourse of political figures in Slovakia and the Czech Republic since accession of both countries to European Union till 2013. First part of the work is theoretical and introduce main methodological foundations of the thesis, i.e. basics of discoursive analysis and selected approaches to discoursive analysis. In second part of the work, the author identifies main individual discourses intepreting Russia in various positions, which can be found in public discourse in selected countries. Third part of the work provides chronological overview of development of discourse on Russia in relation to various historical events explicitly or implicitly concerning Russia. Final chapter then provides comparative analysis between the discourse in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
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The attitude of France towards the US security policy
Čmakalová, Kateřina ; Eichler, Jan (advisor) ; Veselý, Zdeněk (referee) ; Novák, Jaromír (referee) ; Adamec, Vilém (referee)
One of the most surprising aspects of the renaissance of scholarly interest in culture has been the emerging consensus in national security policy studies that culture effects significantly grand strategy and state behaviour. Therefore, the paper tries to advance rigorous procedures for testing for the existence and influence of security and strategic culture of different national states. It builds mainly on the definition of Alastair I. Johnston (1995) and Jeffrey S. Lantis (2002), who relate security and strategic culture with the definition of main goals/objectives of the state in security affairs and with ways of achieving them. As a case study, the paper will evaluate the approaches of the United States and France towards security threats in the early 21st century, especially towards the threat of global terrorism. It will assess whether and why when achieving security objectives, defined at the highest political level, persuasive or coercive strategy and military or non-military tools were preferred; whether negotiations, diplomacy and political pressure were favoured, or whether it was rather opted for deployment of armed forces and warfare. The text attempts to show how the differences in security and strategic culture, American and French particular identities, values, norms and perceptive lens might lead to different understandings of terrorism as global security threat and to distinct measures taken in the fight against it.
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Curse or Blessing: natural resources and economic growth - comparison of the development of Botswana, Nigeria, Norway and Canada in early 21st century
Zubíková, Adéla ; Chytil, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Zeman, Karel (referee)
This thesis seeks to verify the concept of so-called resource curse at the beginning of the new millennium. The theoretical part defines the symptoms of the alleged curse, curse transmission channels and criticism of the concept. Compared to other studies dealing with the theme of the resource curse this work is not focused on just one transmission channel. The practical part verifies several hypotheses established by comparing research papers on impacts of natural resources. The validity of the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis, Dutch disease symptoms and a negative impact on political institutions (inclination toward authoritarianism, high level of corruption, high government spending, low efficiency of economic and political decision-making and low investment in education) is verified. For the analysis have been selected two African countries (Nigeria and Botswana) and two advanced countries (Canada and Norway). The last part of this thesis provides policy implications. The results confirm the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis for selected commodities in the long term and some of the symptoms of Dutch disease at the beginning of the new millennium. Hypotheses regarding the impact on the political institutions have not been confirmed, since the results varied across the countries. The high vulnerability of the countries to movements in commodity prices was found.
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Economic and Social Development of the Russian Federation after the collapse of the USSR
Byelikova, Yuliya ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Musiyenko, Svitlana (referee)
After the collapse of the USSR, the political leadership of the Russian Federation decided to carry out a series of radical reforms which were supposed to introduce market mechanisms into the economy, and enable a rapid transition from a centrally planned economy to a market one. During the transformation period Russia had to face economic problems as well as problems in the social sphere. This thesis focuses on the economic and social changes that have taken place in Russia after the collapse of the USSR. The aim of the thesis lies in finding the factor that caused the deep social, income and wealth inequality in contemporary Russian society.
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The financial crisis in Russia in 1998 : Why was ruble devaluation?
Baikovskaya, Tatsiana ; Tegze, Miron (advisor) ; Hlaváček, Jiří (referee)
This thesis aims to analyze the financial crisis in Russia in 1998, which combined a currency crisis, a debt crisis and a banking crisis. The main purpose of the work is to analyze the main reasons that lead up to the crisis. I argue that the mainstream theoretical models of currency crisis do not capture every aspect of the whole magnitude of the events in Russian economic system by August 1998. In order to explain the whole complexity of Russian financial turmoil it is absolutely necessary to analyze the origins that stood behind the crisis, which I consider to be found in country's economic structure, institutional environment and political processes. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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