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Gazprom and the Russian Foreign Policy towards the Countries of the Former USSR
Červinková, Magdaléna ; Lupták, Milan (advisor) ; Lisa, Aleš (referee)
This thesis deals with the energy policy of the Russian Federation and its role within the Russian foreign policy towards the countries of the former Soviet Union. It focuses in particular on the Russian state gas monopoly Gazprom. The thesis inquires into Gazprom's relation to the Russian foreign policy and examines how and to what extent Russia uses Gazprom as a tool for enforcement of its political interests. It also analyses the implications of the Gazprom's acitivities in the postsoviet countries for the energy security of the European union.
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Eisenhower Administration and Guatemala 1954-1961
Měřička, Daniel ; Nálevka, Vladimír (advisor) ; Raška, Francis (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is the U.S. effort to build a "showcase for democracy" in Guatemala during the Eisenhower administration that was doomed from the beginning. The U.S. government itself lacked both the continuous commitment at the top and the unify of purpose necessary to mount such an undertaking. Guatemalan leaders had their own interests, which did not always coincide with those of their U.S. sponsors. Although the United States certainly had leverage and did use it, at same time, it was attempting to create political stability. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Transforming of Executive Coalitions in Prague in the Electoral Period 2010-2014
Horký, Miroslav ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Říchová, Blanka (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis Transforming of Executive Coalitions in Prague in the Electoral Period 2010 - 2014 is to analyze influences, which have an important role in a process of establishing executive coalitions and also in their stability. The analysis is based on a classical theory of coalitions, discursive analysis, interviews with direct participants and on official documents. One of the aims is to describe the level of possibility in application of theoretical concepts of coalition theory in the area of Prague's political system. There are many points of view, from which we look at stability and forming of coalitions. For example, very important point of view is an influence of making and implementing politics or an influence of politicians from national level. A big importance is focused on negotiating between participants, their statements in media and their real steps and decisions. The intention of this thesis is not an invention of general model which should be applied on similar local system, but to explain and describe the uniqueness of Prague local system and the election period of 2010 - 2014.
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Russian view on energy security
Sapronova, Yulia ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Vošta, Milan (referee)
The thesis is dedicated to the Russian view on energy security. Its aim is to evaluate how successful is Russian energy policy in sustaining energy and economy security in longterm perspective, and how well it deals with current and future potential problems of energy sector. The topic became of interest due to recent oil price drop, which led Russian economy to crisis and gave rise to discussion on its dependency on fossil fuel exports. First chapter is dedicated to definition of energy security of Russia as an exporting country. Next chapter is dedicated to SWOT analysis of current state of energy sector and defines its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Last chapter evaluates how successful is Russian energy policy in relation to defined energy security and performed SWOT analysis.
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Parliamentary parties in the Czech Republic: functions, tools, stability
Kuta, Martin ; Reschová, Jana (advisor) ; Němec, Jan (referee) ; Kysela, Jan (referee)
The thesis deals with activities of Czech parliamentary parties during EU-affairs discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, Parliament of the Czech Republic. The main focus is on three characteristic features of political parties during their activities on the parliamentary level: stability (rhetorical, voting, and programmatic), use of parliamentary oversight tools, and fulfilling their systemic function. The parties are seen through the prism of behavioural approach. EU-affairs are a rather new topic with a variable salience for national parties. EU-affairs influence party competition in extra-parliamentary arena. Conflict, however non-salient topics in parliamentary arena are ousted by governmental parties in order for them to keep governmental stability. The parties do not act according to their party manifestoes (low level of Europeanization); instead, their voting behaviour indicates that the parties follow logic of parliamentary competition between government and opposition. Parliamentarization of EU governance (engagement of national parliaments in broader institutional setting of the EU) leads to spreading of party competition on the national level to a new policy area. Political parties use tools of parliamentary scrutiny in a rather limited extent and according to their actual position within the system. The thesis also deals with party nomination and composition of the Committee on European affairs which holds oversight powers. The empirical analysis is based on the analysis of voting behaviour of parliamentary party groups (roll-call data), stenographic records, Committee and plenary session resolutions and quantitative analysis of composition of the Committee.
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The Velvet Revolution's influence on public life in Milevsko during 1989-1990 era
Wimmerová, Lucie ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Petřík, Martin (referee)
The thesis describes the political events initiated on November 17, 1989, which, after 42 years, led to the end of one-party rule and started the long process of democratization in Czechoslovakia. It analyzes the similarities and differences between the Milevsko policy and the national policy from November 17, 1989 to the June 1990 elections to the Federal Assembly and the Czech National Council. It describes how the democratization process, started with the Velvet Revolution in Prague, reflected in the public life of a small town. It answers questions like whether the political, economic and social changes in Milevsko were the initiative of its citizens, or those recommended by the revolutionary center in Prague? What was the attitude of Milevsko citizens towards these changes? Did they request replacement of politicians and municipal institutions as in Prague, or did they have specific requirements distinct from Prague?
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Analysis of macro-economic and political situation of the United Kingdom in the European integration process.
Kotrs, Petr ; Prát, Šárka (advisor) ; Pělucha, Martin (referee)
The following paper focuses on determination of importance that United Kingdom had in the European integration process. The first part will cover key moments in rise of the United Kingdom as the world superpower. Second part contains detailed look on the situations, which led to an end of so-called splendid isolation and also to creating alliances with other countries. Third part is dedicated to the United Kingdom in the era of Margaret Thatcher because in that time United Kingdom had to recover from loss of its colonies and had to make important reforms in order to have a chance to be one of the most powerful countries once again. Last part of this paper focuses on the macroeconomic and politic analysis of the current United Kingdom using the basic macroeconomic indexes such as GDP per capita, unemployment rate and total GDP. This part also briefly mentions the so-called BREXIT.
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The Development of Local Government in the Municipality of Žíšov
Koubová, Markéta ; Bubeníček, Václav (advisor) ; Michaela, Michaela (referee)
This master thesis deals with the development issues of local authorities in Žíšov (South Bohemian region). The thesis is divided into 2 part - theoretical and practical. The theoretical part describes the characterization of municipal administrative bodies, municipal electoral process and local partisanship. This part also deals with the characterization of typology of local partisanship systems according to Petra Jüptner and Václav Bubeníček, citizen participation of political life and splitting within communities. The practical part of this thesis describes the basic demographic characterization of Žíšov and its history at first.
Another researched part describes the problems of socioeconomic indicators of the village (Žíšov). The key part is the analysis of election period during 1994 - 2014 with detailed look into each year. The conclusion of this thesis is the nature of local politics.
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