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French foreign policy towards selected Maghreb countries (2007-2012). Continuity, or discontinuity?
Homolková, Petra ; Tomalová, Eliška (advisor) ; Emler, David (referee)
The bachelor's thesis analyzes French foreign policy towards Maghreb region during the Fifth Republic, with a special focus on the period of Sarkozy's presidency (2007-2012), and on the impact of the Arab Spring. The work further examines traditional aims and instruments of this policy, most importantly with regard to Libya and Tunisia. The main objective is to point out the changes under Sarkozy's presidency, and to verify whether the "rupture" with the previous strategies , promised by Sarkozy in his presidential campaign, really occured, focusing mainly on the issues of human rights. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Twitter as a tool of EU public diplomacy during Ukraine crisis
Smuž, Adam ; Emler, David (advisor) ; Tomalová, Eliška (referee)
Online social networking services recently become one of the most important tools of communication. Also national states understand their advantages and they try to actively use Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. The purpose of my thesis is to find out how the European Union and especially the European External Action Service is able to use Twitter as a tool of public diplomacy. This research is focused solely on Twitter communication during the Ukrainian crisis from its beginning to the end of the term of the High Representative Catherine Ashton. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part introduces the research topic from a theoretical perspective, there is a description of the main features of public diplomacy and digital diplomacy. Then the thesis presents several examples of the successful use of Twitter for public diplomacy. The second part contains an analysis of the European Union's activities on Twitter during the Ukrainian crisis. The greater part of the analysis examines only the Twitter account of the European External Action Service. The thesis concludes that the European External Action Service does not use opportunities of Twitter enough, these opportunities include the ability to capture the attention of large number of users through interesting tweets or two-way...
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Media as a Factor of Electoral Apathy in the Czech Republic
Vatahová, Jana ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Emler, David (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to explore whether the drop in voter turnout between the 2009 and 2014 European Parliament elections, as well as the general apathy toward the politics of the European Union, in the Czech Republic was contributed to by the mass media. Specifically, this thesis will examine the two most read daily newspapers of both 2009 and 2014, Blesk and Mladá Fronta Dnes, and analyze its articles with the use of search words in order to assess whether any change occurred in the way the European Union, its policies and institutions, were presented immediately prior to the 2009 and 2014 European Parliament elections. This will be achieved through the use of content analysis, both quantitative and qualitative, while evaluating the articles in comparative fashion. The thesis will argue that, given the essential role of the media as intermediary between the world of politics and the electorate, the portrayal, or lack thereof, of the European Union is a factor in explaining the electoral dynamics of the country. Key Words: voter turnout; European Parliament elections; mass media; electoral apathy Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Celebrations of the Elysee Treaty Fiftieth Anniversary Seen by the French Press
Wágnerová, Iveta ; Emler, David (advisor) ; Matějka, Ondřej (referee)
This bachelorʼs thesis focuses on media analysis, specifically the analysis of the newspaper articles of the three most important French newspapers Le Figaro, Le Monde and Libération. The thesis aims to find out how the French press evaluated Franco-German cooperation in January 2013 when the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the Elysee Treaty were going on. The Elysee Treaty also known as the Treaty of Friendship between France and Germany was created by efforts of Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer and was signed on 22 January 1963. The thesis is divided into three chapters. It begins with the description of the process of the birh of Franco-German cooperation. Then it describes the content of the Treaty and celebrations itselfs. Next two chapters apply the quantitative analysis of media on the corpus of 37 articles. In the second chapter the thesis uses frequency analysis. It researches different categories of words and how many times these concrete words are mentioned in the articles. This method provides us with the first analytic look into the articles. The third chapter includes deeper content analysis with the help of coding analysis. There are chosen two categories - of time and of evaluation of the current (January 2013) Franco-German cooperation. The thesis sums up that the current...
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The role of the immigration issue in the presidential campaigns of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 and 2012
Poláková, Terezie ; Emler, David (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
The purpose of my thesis is to analyse the role of the immigration issue in the presidential campaigns of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007 and 2012. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part illustrates the subject of this thesis in theory. It describes the development of the immigration question in France after the Second World War, and then addresses the rhetorical style of Sarkozy called "sarkozysme". The second part treats the outcomes of a Computer- assisted Text Analysis, a method described by sociologist Martin Hájek. The result of this process is a schema presenting the co-occurrence of the most frequent words in a text. In the second part, the schemas of the campaign of 2007 and 2012 are examined separately with regards to the role of the word "immigration". In the last chapter, the context and importance of "immigration" is compared. The aim of the thesis is to prove my initial hypothesis that the immigration issue had a negative connotation in the context of Sarkozy's speeches in 2007 and 2012, and that its importance had a growing tendency. The first claim was only partly proven as the immigration issue in 2007 had unexpectedly positive connotations whereas negative ones in 2012. The growth of its importance was proven and demonstrated. Keywords Sarkozy, immigration, presidential...
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Project Grand Paris of Nikolas Sarkozy
Filipi, Petra ; Tomalová, Eliška (advisor) ; Emler, David (referee)
Thesis "Project Grand Paris of Nicolas Sarkozy" deals with a plan of the French president to completely rebuild the city of Paris. Grand Paris continues in the legacy of "Grands travaux", architectural projects of previous French presidents such as the Louvre Pyramids or the Pompidou Centre. The main part of the work is focused on Sarkozy's vision of administrative reorganization of the Ile-de-France region which was supposed to create a new central administrative body that would comprise Paris and surrounding suburbs. It tracks the period from the first Sarkozy's speech in June 2007 to his retirement in May 2012. In order to clarify the context of the whole project I will present the history of changes in the Paris administration which has led to Sarkozy's initiative. This work will examine the reasons to start such initiative, suggested methods that would be used to implement desired changes and the impact of the 2008 municipal elections on the future form of Grand Paris. Once the left-wing parties won these elections, Sarkozy abandoned the whole idea of the administrative reorganization of the region and the project continued in a significantly limited form.
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Union for the Mediterranean: France as an initiator of a new project
Boháč, Marek ; Tomalová, Eliška (advisor) ; Emler, David (referee)
Thesis "Union for the Mediterranean: France as an initiator of a new project" deals with the subject of a new project of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy, which concerns en issue of mutual relations among the states in the area of the Mediterranean Sea. This work describes a period of time beginning with the first Sarkozy's notice about his new initiative in Toulon in February 2007 and ending with the official start of the process in July 2008. For the completeness of the theme, it includes previous attempts of both European and French policy in this region as well. Presented work highlights a major role of France in the building up of the concept of the project Union for the Mediterranean, when the main objective is to give reasons to actions and attitude of France, represented by Nicolas Sarkozy. These aims are primarily found out on the bases of the analysis of official speeches given by Sarkozy. Furthermore, this work strives to answer the question, whether Sarkozy managed to push through his proposal the way he wanted, and how other states and organs of the EU influenced the final version of this project.
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The fate of the Harkis in France after the Algerian War
Danišová, Michaela ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Emler, David (referee)
This bachelor's thesis deals with the formation and development of the auxiliary units in the French army during the Algerian war and analyzes the approach of French political leadership towards memebers of the auxiliary units, the Harkis, as well as the development, which the community of Harkis have undergone since the end of the conflict and the arrival in France until 2005. The first chapter presents period of the Algerian war, which leads to the formation of auxiliary troops comprising indigenous Algerian population, a categorization of the different sections and their deployment by the French army. The first chapter focuses on the motivation of France to create these auxiliary units, as well as on the motivation of Algerians to enter them. The second chapter is dedicated to the analysis of situation, which occurred just after the war when repatriation of the Harkis and their families took place and when the conduct of integration policy of France towards this social group was started. Furthermore, this chapter deals with transformation of social structure that occurs within the community of Harkis in the postwar period. This transformation in the middle of 1970s resulted in the mobilization of the community, which triggered a change in the integration policy of the French state. The third and...
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Institutionalization of Muslim Faith in France on the Basis of Laicite Principles
Lánová, Zuzana ; Emler, David (advisor) ; Perottino, Michel (referee)
The thesis " The Institutionalization of the Muslim faith in France on the Basis of the Laïcité principles" treats on the first place the impact of the acceptance of the law from the year 1905 concerning the separation of church and state on the contemporary attempts of French governments on creating the institution representing interests of the French Muslim community. Implications arising from the acceptance of the law supposed even the creation of representative organisation of concerned confessions. However Islam was never included to the system of recognised confessions, for all that its present position of the second largest confession in France supposes the creation of representative body, mainly on the basis of laïcité. The thesis follows the effort of single French government which lead to the establishment of French Council of Muslim faith in 2003. This representative organisation should lay the foundations of so-called French or Gallic Islam, nevertheless intern discrepancies caused by the diversity of participatory Muslim organisations, shows that the goal was not reached yet.
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