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Comparison of the regimes and foreign policy of Hosni Mubarak and Mohamad Morsi
Tománková, Zuzana ; Eichler, Jan (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with comparison of two regimes in the Arab Republic of Egypt, namely with the reigns of Hosni Mubarak and Mohamed Morsi. The first chapter analyses the internal factors as the objects of comparison: legitimacy and the status of army. The second chapter is concerned with the group of external factors, including the foreign policy of Egypt towards the region and towards the USA, since the relationship with the USA has been a long-term determinant of Egypt's foreign policy towards the region. The biggest difference between the two regimes is considered to be embodied in the position of army, particularly regarding its relationship with the presidents. Moreover, there are diverse origins of legitimacy of the regimes and causes of its loss. On the other hand, foreign policy of Egypt did not get through distinctive changes.
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Intervention in Afghanistan: Soviet and American experience
Tzoumas, Janis ; Matějka, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
This diploma thesis analyzes the approach of the Soviet Union and that of the US-led coalition to state-building in Afghanistan, which today, as in the past, takes place against the backdrop of counterinsurgency warfare. The analysis in the field of politics, economy and security shows that in both cases the intervening powers have focused on building a strongly centralized system of government, in spite of the fact that the Afghan countryside's relationship to the Kabul-based government had traditionally been characterized by broad autonomy. The intervening powers' efforts have futhermore been associated with the export of exogenous political structures and for this reason attention is also drawn to the question to what extent the intervening powers' approach to the modernization of Afghan society has contributed to the escalation of unrelenting conflict.
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The Arab Spring in Tunisia
Tamchynová, Kristýna ; Kochan, Jan (advisor) ; Kočišíková, Viera (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the topic of the Tunisian revolution. The Tunisian revolution was part of the so called Arab Spring, which in the end affected the whole region of the Middle East and North Africa. These events started in Tunisia. The aim of the thesis is to identify the causes of revolution in Tunisia and to analyze, if the revolution was really so unexpected as it appeared at the first sight. It was a spontaneous popular uprising and it caused change not only of the government, but of the political system as such. That is why the first chapter of the thesis deals with the problematic of legitimacy of the regime. The second and the third part of the thesis deal with economic and political development in the country and also other possible causes of the revolution are mentioned. The last fourth chapter describes the revolution and draws a short summary of current situation in the country.
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European Parliament and Democracy
Dvořák, Jiří ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Skřivan, Aleš (referee)
This bachelor thesis is built upon theory of economics and politics. A study of development of the European Parliament's predecessors up till the introduction of direct election follows. Then there is an institutional analysis of the development of powers, legitimacy and structure of the European Parliament since the introduction of direct election. The analysis focuses on explanatory characteristics concerning democracy on the European level. A model of the effect of parliament's acts contributes. I examine the influence of the European Parliament on democracy on the European level.
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Ethical Apects of internatiol relation (Lockean perspective)
Gregárek, Matěj ; Kratochvíl, Petr (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
Ethics in the international relations is usually based on the assumption that states represents an ethically relevant subject. The thesis challenges the assuption, that existing states could be legitimized on the general principles of universal ethics in any other way than as a "realm of necessity" and inquires the conseqeuncesof the lack of domestic legitimity on the ethical assertion of the state's conduct abroad.
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Reflections on the crisis of authority in terms of philosophy of education.
VAŇKOVÁ, Karolína
The thesis analyzes the crisis of authority in education. The first part deals with an analysis of the contemporary concept of authority; the definition of dimensions, legitimacy, power, bureaucracy, charisma, obedience to authority, authoritarianism, and the definition of the crisis of authority in society. The second part evaluates the knowledge, defines crisis of authority in education, analyses the roots of this crisis, and offers a solution. The final part deals with the definition of animation as a third dimension of education and defines its potential benefits in the issue of crisis of autority.
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Risk of power in helping professions.
BÁRTEK, Lukáš
This thesis addresses aspects of helping professions that could represent a certain ?risk? of using power; it especially focuses on a social work sphere. In the first part, the thesis deals with basic terms that are essential for this issue. It pays attention to power itself and its specifications and connections to the helping professions. Further, it focuses on characteristics of terms that apply to the helping professions and social work or on a formulation of aspects which represent a risk of an improper use of power. In addition, it deals with the topics of burnout, helper?s syndrome or supervision as spheres that are closely related to the topic. The second part of the thesis refers to the necessity of ethics application in social work and in the helping professions in general. It is based on values from which the helping professions arise and which are crucial to them. It focuses on the Code of Ethics of social workers as a tool to solve ethical problems and on its justification in social work. It attempts to introduce ethical theories which are crucial and relevant to this sphere, and further - on the basis of these theories - to outline the basic ethical principles which play an important role in the ethical justification of proper decisions and in the use of power in the context of helping professions. The aim of this thesis is to describe an ethical framework of helping professions themselves and subsequently to analyze the problem of power in helping professions. This will be used as a basis on which to formulate basic ethical starting points that should be taken into account during the execution of helping professions.
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European public sphere - analysis of the media discourse
Šedivá, Lucie ; Müller, Karel (advisor) ; Faturová, Marie (referee)
The bachelor thesis is based on the assumption that the formation of a European public sphere is desirable. In order to successfully tackle problems that transcend the boundaries of nation states, a majority of votes at the transnational level is necessary . If EU decision-making is to be considered legitimate, it is necessary to create a European public sphere, that would control the policy of the EU. In the first part of the work, the thesis deals with the assumptions, forms, and conditions of the creation of a European public sphere. The work justified the view that the formation of a European public sphere is possible and the conditions of its creation are determined. In the second part of this thesis, the political news of Czech public television CT and German public television ZDF are reviewed. CT currently broadcasts more programs concerning the EU and European issues are expressed with better quality. Both CT and ZDF inform the public about what is happening in the EU from a national perspective and in their programs, they do not discuss the specifics of EU policy.
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