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Prague coronation of king Matthias on 23rd may 1611 in the light of contemporary documents
Pařízková, Kateřina ; Holá, Mlada (advisor) ; Ebelová, Ivana (referee)
To the coronations which took place in Pre-White time, not enough attention has been paid yet. As it appears, enough accounts were preserved not only in contemporary prints but also in manuscript sources - in the works of chroniclers, in memories of persons present and above all in official and private correspondence. In addition to writen sources also material sorces and great part of iconographic sources have been preserved. The elaboration and evaluation of the sources to one of them, to the coronation of Matthias of Habsburg in Prague on May 23rd 1611, is a subject of the first half of this thesis. The coronation in the life of souvereign is a ceremony that generally certificates his leading position in the country. This ceremony customary is executed in accordance to the prede- terminated order. In case of the lands of Bohemian crown binding form has been set by coronation order of Bohemian kings Ordo ad coronandum Regem Bohemorum, prepared by Charles IV. The main core of this order was maintained also by Matthias coronation. His coronation in the cathedrale of Saint Vitus was a festive ceremony strongly influenced by then political situation. It placed under the strong protection of troops, excluding the general public, mostly ordinary people. Despite of it the ceromony was performed with...
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The Comparison of the Presidency in the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria.
Bednář, Martin ; Koubek, Jiří (advisor) ; Polášek, Martin (referee)
Annotation: In my Bachelor thesis I compare the roles of Presidents in the political systems of the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany. Despite that fact that all these neighbouring states are culturally linked and all account for parliamentary regimes, the heads of states in these countries carry out their functions in very different manners. The position of the Presidents are in my thesis examined with the help of the Tsebelis's theory of vetoplayers. The aim is to look into the fields of personal policy, foreign policy and legislative process and to ascertain, through the analysis of political and constitutional works, the exact role of the Presidents in these areas. Key words: president, head of state, The Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, constitutional competences, constitutional practice, personal policy, foreign policy, legislative process
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USA and Soviet intervention to the Czechoslovakia
Lopuchovská, Kateřina ; Václavů, Lubor (advisor) ; Míšková, Alena (referee)
Since the turn of the 1967/1968 the american administration was carefully monitoring the democratic process in Czechslovakia. Despite rising interest it was clear from the start that Washington was unwilling to participate actively.Czechoslovakia was one of the main arms suppliers for the communist belligerants in the Vietnam conflict and for the ending Johnson administration the priority was a treaty with Soviet Union controlling the nuclear proliferation. Fist analysis about a Sovietic military intervention in Czechslovakia appear since may 1968. CIA was working with that possibility till july.Was it the political interest of peace between Washington and Moscow that hindered these analysis to be taken into account more seriously and to inform the highest representatives of the USA? Indeed, it could have caused a diplomatic quarrel and freeze the anti-nuclear proliferation treaty negociations.The decision of Moscow the 19.August 1968 of an armed intervention in Czechslovakia was a surprise for the president Johnson, but not a surprise for the CIA.
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Ukrainian Monarchist Movement on the Territory of Czechoslovakia 1922-1939
Tomek, Miroslav ; Tumis, Stanislav (advisor) ; Zilynskyj, Bohdan (referee)
The thesis deals with the Ukrainian monarchist movement on the territory of Czechoslovakia in the interwar period. It describes its ideological origin, development, number of adherents, relations with other Ukrainian political movements and its cooperation with Czechoslovakian agrarian organizations. It tries to analyze its relation to the European centre of Hetmanite movement. It also pays attention to the Czech attitude to this movement. Further on, the thesis studies the accounts which the Czechoslovakian police and intelligence services held of the activities of Skoropadsky's adherents in Czechoslovakia and abroad. The last chapter is dedicated to the life and deeds of Nykyfor Horbanyuk, Ivan Poltavets-Ostrianytsia's representative in Prague.
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Facebook and the elections. The analysis of a self-presentation of the Czech political parties before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2010
Báčová, Petra ; Marcelli, Miroslav (advisor) ; Nováková, Martina (referee)
The elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic on 28th and 29th May 2010 was called Facebook elections. The reason for such title was the scale of usage of Facebook by the political parties for their campaigns. The thesis Facebook and the elections. The analysis of a self-presentation of the Czech political parties before the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic in 2010 focuses on a semiotic analysis of Facebook accounts of some political parties and their chairmen. During the monitored period Facebook presentations were presented by the Civic Democratic Party, the Czech Social Democratic Party, TOP 09, the Public Affairs party, Christian Democratic Union - Czechoslovak People's Party and the Greens. The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia was not officially registered on Facebook. We also analyzed Facebook pages of Mirek Topolanek (ODS), Petr Necas (ODS), Jiri Paroubek (CSSD), Karel Schwarzenberg (TOP 09), Radek John (VV), Cyril Svoboda (KDU-CSL) and Ondrej Liska (SZ). We call Facebook a viral social network. We analyzed it as a cyberspace with an ambivalent structure which influences the mean of a communication process before elections. Rhizomatic map of Facebook is comparable with a topology of a virtual cafe. We also...
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A dream deferred: continuities in African American autobiographies
Bosničová, Nina ; Ulmanová, Hana (advisor) ; Procházka, Martin (referee) ; Jařab, Josef (referee)
As a great number of recent scholarly publications discussing the given topic shows, the genre of autobiography provides a fruitful field for literary research and analysis. In part, this springs from the genre's rather ambiguous nature and blurred boundaries. A lot of autobiographies are claimed to interweave elements of fact and fiction and to stand on the verge between literary works and cultural, or historiographical, documents. Since autobiographies are, for the most part, understood as accounts of real life and authentic experience, rather than imagination, they are thought to be particularly efficient in persuading the reader to believe the author/narrator, accept the author's/narrator's point of view and his/her perception of the world. This gives them, in addition to other things, a strong potential to serve as tools in the political struggles of various kinds. This statement is especially true of the African American autobiography. Black autobiography, from its very first specimen, namely the slave narrative, has played a central role in the literary tradition of African Americans. It has played a crucial part in their attempt to survive and fight racism, sexism and "classism" frequently oriented against them in the American society. Being conscious of the social impact of the printed word, many...
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In the shadow and background: general Antonín Hasal (1893-1960)
Hubený, David ; Maršálek, Zdenko (referee) ; Kuklík jun., Jan (advisor)
1960), whose activities left a significant vestige both in military and political course of Czechoslovakian public life. The first chapter focuses on his youth, academic education and precocity. He finishes his secondary school education in Rakovnik, from which he moves to Russia shortly before the beginning of the First World War. In the course of the First World war he enters Česká Družina (Czech Retinue) as a private. The chapter focuses on the growth and development of Czechoslovak forces in Russia and studies those military operations in which Hasal participated. One of the fields of interest is also the Civil War in Russia, into which Hasal intervenes already as a commander of 2nd riflemen regiment of Jiřího z Poděbrad. The chapter terminates with the return of Czechoslovakian Legions to Czechoslovakia. The second chapter concentrates on Hasal's career in the first Czechoslovak Republic. The chapter begins with the characterisation of the restless events of December 1920, when the uproar between moderate social democrats together with the state powers and the radical social democrats, later to become communists, begins. Following are the passages dealing with Hasal's career development, an account on his studies on several military universities and the foundation of his family. In the course of 1930s...
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"The Nervature of Past Life": Spatiotemporal Constructions of Post-National Politics in the Struggle for European Legitimacy
Castille, Sarah ; Drulák, Petr (advisor) ; Plechanovová, Běla (referee)
In this thesis paper, I propose an alternative means of studying post-national politics through the integration of aesthetics into the discipline of political studies. I argue that traditional methods of studying politics perpetuate an exclusionary, homogenizing national bias that renders them inappropriate tools of understanding the experience of political subjects in a global environment. I argue that to circumvent these processes of exclusion, we must find a means of taking the experience of the political subject into account in our studies of political conditions. Following Jacques Rancière, I argue that both the political and the aesthetic are types of experience that emerge through a distribution of common sensory experience, or le partage du sensible. I propose the use of Michal Bakhtin's chronotope as a means of considering the connections between the sensory experience of the individual and larger political conditions, in particular as it relates to the development of state legitimacy. In the last two sections of the paper, I apply the chronotope to the study of two different types of political structures: the traditional nation-state and the European Union. In doing so, I attempt to uncover the ways in which both entities perpetuate similar notions of time and space, ultimately engaging in similar...
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Hannah Arendt's concept of thought and action
Štech, Daniel ; Němec, Václav (referee) ; Kouba, Pavel (advisor)
The present thesis follows the distinction made by Hannah Arendt between the life of the mind and vita activa. In her earlier writings, Arendt presents acting in concert as a supreme human possibility. The devaluation of active life in the Western tradition is seen as related to the subordination of the experience of action to the experience of thought, which presupposes a turning away from the world of phenomena and plurality. With respect to the ability to act, Arendt understands thought as marginal or even detrimental. On this note, she contrasts thought with opinion, a specifically political attitude bound to the experience of action and plurality. Following the process with Eichmann, however, this image saw a revision. With the collapse of the public sphere, the dependence of the ability to tell right from wrong on the activity of thought became more prominent. Subsequent considerations therefore shift to the sphere of the mind. In the light of the corpus of Arendt's works, the present thesis enquires into the nature of mental acts required for adequate action. The first part presents political thought within the situation of plurality. The second part takes into account the collapse of the public sphere and deals with the uneasy relationship between thought and the ability to relate to the common...
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