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Can suicide bombers be rationally acting people?
Tišl, Zdeněk ; Šťastný, Daniel (advisor) ; Bartoň, Petr (referee)
The paper deals with the phenomenon of suicide bombers. Terrorism is very serious problem of the modern world. Economics is the social science that studies human behaviour. So this science should be able to explain this extreme behaviour. The key goal of this paper is to describe the suicide attacks as rational action. The paper consists of two parts. The first part deals with the term rationality in economics and its alternative aproach. The second part is about suicide bombers. I have chosen islamic suicide bombers as a object of my work. The social profile of the suicide bombers is studied and the conection between education and wealth on the one hand and propensity to perpetrate the suicide attack on the other hand is discussed.
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Counter-terrorism strategies, different approaches of U.S. and Germany
Mihalovicsová, Petra ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Sršeň, Radim (referee)
Bachelor thesis focuses on the Counter-terrorism concepts of two particular actors of international relations, U.S. and Germany. Both states are aware of the danger represented by terrorism and consider it presently as the primary security threat. However, each of them takes a different approach when combating it. Thesis analyzes goals, methods and means being preferred by these states in fight against terrorism. It compares them and evaluates their complementarity in connection with bilateral cooperation between U.S. and Germany and its contribution to global fight against terrorism.
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U.S.-P.R.C. Relations after 11th September, 2001 and the War on Terror
Sitter, Tomáš ; Krátký, Karel (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
In the first chapter the author deals with 11th September, 2001 itself and its consequences (primarily) on American foreign policy. The second chapter analyses factors that influenced the decision-making of the Chinese leadership concerning the cooperation with the United States. The third chapter uses examples to show the extent of the assistance rendered by China to the United States and in some instances deals with the American attitude thereto.
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Containment: a new strategy of the USA?
Kučera, František ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Andrýsová, Lenka (referee)
This thesis deals with the new foreign strategy of USA against the terrorism. The main question of the thesis is which concept the President of the USA Barack Obama is planning to apply as a framework for the foreign policy of the United States against the terrorism and towards the states which directly or indirectly support the terrorists or abide them in their territory. At first, previous traditions of the American foreign policy are mapped. Than follows the analysis of the concept of "containment" according to definition from the book "Containment" by Ian Shapiro. The third part analyzes contemporary foreign policy of the President of the USA Barack Obama and compares it with constituents of the concept by Ian Shapiro. The objective of this thesis is to find out whether the President uses the concept of "containment" in his policy against the terrorism.
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Hamas and terrorism as a barrier to peace between Israel and Palestine
Podracká, Petra ; Havlová, Radka (advisor) ; Šabacká, Yvona (referee)
Bachelor thesis describes the formation and evolution of the Hamas movement on the background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it examines its ideology, terrorist methods and analyses the motivation of suicide martyrs. At the same time it deals with entities, which provide Hamas with financial and other support. The movement's popularity among Palestinians is manifested by the outcome of the last legislative elections, which are further analysed in this thesis. The text presents the viewpoints of both sides of the conflict as well as the views of representatives of the international community. Their inconsistency reflects the complexity of this conflict, the solution of which is currently at a stalemate. The aim of this thesis is to prove on the basis of relevant facts that Hamas is a barrier to peace, and outline up-to-date possibilities, which can help restart the peace process.
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Financing of Islamic Terrorism
Hakošová, Bibiána ; Fireš, Adam (advisor) ; Eichler, Jan (referee)
The thesis focuses on financing of the Islamic terrorism problem and discusses its possible nexus with organized crime, money laundering, Islamic charities and the Hawala system. It presents the basic model of Islamic terrorism financing, which is thereinafter applied to the financing of Al Qaeda. In addition, it monitors the development of the Al Qaeda and analyses its financial aspect and the main development trends arising from it. As these general trends in development also have an important impact on the financing itself, the conclusion takes them into account during the "combating the financing of terrorism efforts" evaluation.
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Conflict in Northern Ireland
Sikorová, Tereza ; Vymětal, Petr (advisor) ; Reschová, Jana (referee)
The aim of Bachelor thesis is to process the issue of Northern Ireland conflict and its resolution and to determine the constitutes of the conflict and its possible development in the future. Because of involvement of IRA in the conflict it is also the aim to define the concept of terrorism and to assess whether the IRA is regarded as a terrorist organization. The first chapter deals with analysis of historical contexts and assumptions of the conflict. This chapter focuses on development in the period shortly after the partition of the island in 1921. The next chapter deals with the definition of the term of terrorism and its main features, developmental stages, differences between conventional and guerrilla war and its type-distribution. It also outlines the origins of the Irish Republican Army, and what elements of terrorism, the IRA shares. The last chapter includes the concrete analysis of Northern Ireland conflict since partition of the island and the process of its solution.
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Impact of political and security situation on tourism of Israel
Vanžurová, Monika ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Druláková, Radka (referee)
Security and political instability may affect development of country's tourism negatively. Moreover, tourism is one of the basic development conditions of tourism. Country affected by a bad security situation, e.g. because of terrorist attacks or war, is considered as an unsafe destination by potentional visitors which may result in decline in tourist arrivals to the country. Israel has image of dangerous destination in respect of a long Arab-Israeli, or Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The aim of this study is to evaluate impact of security on inbound tourist flows to Israel based on characterization of security situation in Israel from the end of the 60's to the present and reaction of inbound tourism to this development.
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Global terrorism and its psychological aspects
Fajmonová, Veronika ; Eichler, Jan (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
This bachalor thesis concentrates on the phenomenon of terrorism and its psychological aspects. In the first third we speak about the definition of terrorism, terrorism as a communicating process, typology of terrorism and its evolution. The second and third part of the thesis deal with the psychology of terrorism -- especially with explanation why people commit terroristic acts, what their motivational factors are, what the group dynamics is about and if suicide terrorist are suicidal.
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