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Palestinian National Authority and Negotiating About the Final Status of Jerusalem: a Shift from Secular to Religious Nationalism?
Pirohovičová, Barbora ; Hesová, Zora (advisor) ; Bílý, Prokop (referee)
This Bachelor's thesis is dealing with the approach of the Palestinian autonomy to the negotiations over the final status of Jerusalem while observing the development of nationalism in Palestine. More precisely, the work is looking into the changes of Palestinian nationalism in the 1990's. Palestine was dominated by secular nationalism, represented by PLO with Jasif Arafat in the lead. However, in the course of peace negotiations Arafat changed his stand and started to use religious (Islamic) elements in his rhetoric. Thus, this thesis is asking a research question about what caused the shift of Arafat and whether the utilization of islamic symbols can considered as shift from secular to religious nationalism. On the basis of a research, the author is assuming that the shift was mainly pragmatic aiming to maintain the support of Palestinians. The reason was that Islamism, most distinctively represented by Hamas, began to grow stronger in 1990's with ambitions to take control over the Palestinian territory. Arafat's shift towards islam can be best observed in Israeli- Palestinian negotiations about Jerusalem which were recommenced as a part of peace negotiations. Firstly, the author will be inquiring the shift of nationalism from secularity to religiousness using a theoretic approach of Mark...
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Great Power Politics: Russia, the USA and the Realist International Relations Theory Perspective
Bílý, Prokop ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on great power politics at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The studied phenomenon is viewed through the lens of defensive, offensive a neoclassical realist perspective. The key goal of the thesis is to determine, whether contemporary streams of the realist international relations tradition can provide plausible explanation of great powers relations. The research is also embedded in the fourth great debate, which entered the international relations discipline during the course of 80's, and as such it tries to reflect current ontological and epistemological debate. Research results then show that realism is still a valid scientific discourse. On the other hand, neoclassical realism's research agenda, as is shown, takes over other theoretical perspectives features.
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Russia's Foreign Policy Since Putin: Russia as a Eurasian Great Power?
Bílý, Prokop ; Aslan, Emil (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
This thesis deals with the Russia's foreign policy pursued by presidents Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev, respectively. The studied phenomenon is viewed through the lens of the theory of neo-Eurasianism, coined by the Russian philosopher and political scientist Alexander Gelevich Dugin. The starting point of the neo-Eurasian geopolitical theory is a conviction that the current world order is unipolar and that the U.S.-led globalization is an instrument of its reproduction. The alternative to the hostile, free development of nations curtailing, Atlantic order is represented by multipolarity which, according to the neo-Eurasian theory, will supposedly be established through the messianic mission of Russia-Eurasia, which has nevertheless first to free itself from the Atlantic bond. Application of the neo- Eurasian theory in the context of Russian foreign policy since 2000 then points to the conclusion that Russia's foreign policy can, to some extent, be considered neo-Eurasian.
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Czech Hard and Soft Power: Is Czech Participation in Afghanistan "European" or "American"?
Bílý, Prokop ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with Joseph Nye's hard and soft power concepts and applies them to Czech Republic's participation in Afghanistan. The initial point of this text is represented, besides hard soft power's conceptual discussion, also by the debate on American and European approach to foreign affairs. In Afghanistan, the Czech Republic embarks upon within wider international community and as for the reconstruction process, commenced after fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001, it engages both the army and civilian personnel. Development co-operation is pursued by Czech non-governmental organizations. Behavior of the mentioned Czech subjects is studied from the hard and soft power perspective.
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