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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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Concept of ideology in the work of Louis Althusser
Katsaros, Denis ; Bíba, Jan (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to reconstruct the principal features of the theory of ideology which can be found in the work of french marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. An attempt to clarify the key differences between approaches of Althusser's and that of classical marxism is also made here, although the author belongs rightfully to marxist philosophical tradition. Owing to belief in usefulness of this method, the thesis tries to enrich a traditional interpretation of Althusser's theory by using less known and less employed writings by the same author. Apart from the above mentioned goal this work also aims to describe author's original conception of the philosophical category of subject. This category is in many ways a centrepiece of the whole Althusser's theory of ideology and due to this reason the examination of his implications permeates almost entirely the work you are about to read.
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Activism as a reply to the crisis of the shared
Knapp, Dalibor ; Lapka, Miloslav (referee) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
This rigorous thesis is a study on crisis of a shared world. Furthermore, it brings some strategies how to deal with it. In the first part the author introduces the shared world and analyses its existence conditions, which are physical public space, the public and media public space. At the end of the first part, the author characterises civic society as a result of an ideal combination of those three above mentioned conditions. In the second part, the author illustrates the crisis of the shared world on selected phenomena of physical and media public space, the public and civic society. The crux of his work is in presenting three main types of activist groups (social movements, non-profit organizations and individual artists and artist groups) and analysing chosen strategies focused on how to recapture the shared world through physical and media public space. Physical public space - direct action, reclaim the street, critical mass, guerilla gardening, flash mob, street art, culture jamming, etc. Media public space - alternative media, cyberactivism, hactivism, mass virtual active action, culture jamming, etc.
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Does the Northern League (Lega Nord) belong to the populist radical right party family?
Ferrarová, Miroslava ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
The aim of this PhDr. thesis is to verify the hypothesis that the Northern League does belong to the populist radical right party family. The work is based on present politologic theoretic approaches, where the criteria determined by Dutch researcher Cas Mudde as typical for this kind of political parties have been applied for verification of the hypothesis. In verifying the hypothesis I worked on the sources content analysis. It was mainly the matter of Northern League's electoral programmes, political documents, party leaders and members' opinions published in the party daily La Padania, registrations of public speaches and interviews by party leader Umberto Bossi and other representatives, manifestos, radio Padania libera broadcasts and laws proposed by Northern League ministres to the Italian Parliament. Northern League was studied in the context of political and party system development in Italy from the unification untill the present day. The results of the analysis have confirmed the presence of all the signs complying with Mudde's maximal and minimal definition ie. nativism, authoritarism and populism. This result classes the Northern League among populist radical right party family.
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Female suicide terrorism - the case of Chechnya
Lohr, Štěpán ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the phenomenon of female suicide terrorism in Chechnya, particularly with the focus on motivation of individual terrorists and organizations. Besides these two levels of analysis, it looks for facilitating and necessary conditions in the specific socio-political environment of Chechnya.
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KSČM : The Prohibition Discourse
Chytil, Matěj ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
(English): The aim of the thesis is to analyse the discourse of exclusion of the Czech communism and the discoursive attempts to ban the communist party. It shall shed more light on its sources of thought as found in the Czech dissident movement, as well as on the conditions it has risen from after the Velvet revolution. We intend to point out that the two main concepts of the dissident thought are essential for the birth of the discourse - one is shaping it, while the other opposes. The influence of non-political discourses - such as legal or political discourse on the subject - are also given serious attention. Using the Critical Discourse Analysis toolbox of methods, we hope to enhance our knowledge about contradictory images of the Czech past that shape contradictory images of the communism as well.
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Privatisation of Security in the Context of the "War on Terror": Analysing the Private Military Companies Phenomenon
Vurbs, Jan ; Jireš, Jan (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
V Praze, dne 25. července 2013 ………………………………… Abstract The main focus of this thesis is the phenomenon of private military companies and their deployment in situations of armed conflict conducted under the auspices of the so-called "War on Terrorism". The aim is to provide the reader with an introductory insight into this issue, describe specific activities of private military companies during operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and to answer research questions about their positive or negative contribution to the overall results of these conflicts and the possible impact on civil-military relations. The main thesis of this work is that the performance of these companies can not be categorically evaluated because it is different from case to case. There are, however, some general trends which can be traced in regard to "War on Terrorism". They mainly relate to the lack of efficient state control of private military companies and their conduct. The work is divided into several parts. The first deals with the historical development of conducting military operations with the help of non-state financially motivated actors. This section is intended to create a framework for a better understanding of the issues examined. The second part is devoted to theoretical classification of private military companies and...
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Youth Organizations of the Worker's party of Social Justice and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
Dytrych, Martin ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
The Diploma thesis focuses on youth structures that profess to the largest far-right and far-left parties representatives in the Czech Republic. In the far-right milieu it is the Worker's Party Youth, who are closely associated with the Worker's party of Social Justice. On the far-left side of the spektrum, there are formally two entities, that profess to the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: the Communist Youth Union and the Union of Young Communists of Czechoslovakia. The aim of this thesis is to clarify the extent of real interdependence of these civic associations with a political party, and on the other side, to examine their political extremism level, both in theory and also in the terms of security forces. The thesis further explores to what extent, therefore, these entities are a real threat to the existing democratic system in the Czech Republic.
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