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EU and Czech Countermeasures Against Disinformation
Fišer, Jakub ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kadlecová, Lucie (referee)
This Bachelor's thesis deals with the development of countermeasures against disinformation in the Czech Republic and at the level of the European Union. Drawing upon the concept of Europeanisation, it aims to analyse the influence the two levels have on each other. Europeanisation has been widely used in the last two decades, and although it still lacks a universally valid definition, it is nowadays mainly regarded as a concept explaining the relationship between the European Union and its member states, considering it a process consisting of three interconnected dimensions: downloading (the influence of the EU on Member States), uploading (the influence of Member States on the EU), and cross-loading (the influence Member States have on each other). The chosen empirical case is rather atypical for research on Europeanisation, since most of it usually focuses on the adaptation of norms and institutions pre-existing at the European level. By doing so, this thesis aims to not only supplement the current research on Europeanisation but to problematise it as well. Taking the form of a comparative case study, the thesis focuses particularly on how the issue of disinformation found its way to the Czech and European political agenda. The main sources for the research are Czech and European policy documents dealing...
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EU Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela, 2017-2018: A Study on the Potential Development of Human Rights in EU Foreign Policy
Luber, Jordan ; Mach, Zdzisław (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
European Union (EU) foreign policy generally has not been hailed as a great success for the integration project. On one hand, trade deals and other economic aspects of foreign policy have demonstrated EU external power and internal competence. Yet when it comes to political issues in international affairs, the EU is often unable to effectively influence situations or even vaguely behave like the major global actor which many, including EU policymakers themselves, hope and expect it to be. Outside of the wider European region and its neighbors, and on human rights issues, EU foreign policy is especially limited in both effect and effort. However, these patterns were broken when it comes to the EU's response to the Venezuela Crisis (2017-present), a severe and explosive human rights crisis. In early 2019, the EU almost immediately recognized the democratically-elected legislature's assumption of power as the democratic interim government against the executive's de facto and previously de jure authoritarian regime. For the EU, this action and the sum of its policy toward the Venezuela Crisis since January 2019 are unprecedentedly forceful and bold. How did the EU get to this point? To answer this question, this paper examines public EU foreign policy toward Venezuela in the first two years of the crisis-2017...
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Germany's Energy Security in the Gas Sector
Štichová, Patricie ; Svoboda, Karel (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
Energy security is an important and current issue that resonates especially in resource-poor countries. In these countries, it is crucial to ensure a stable energy supply in order to maintain economic stability and ensure future economic growth. Germany is a state with low energy reserves (apart from coal reserves), and therefore this work focuses on German energy security in gas sector. The aim of this master thesis is to evaluate the current level of energy security in Germany in natural gas sector and to point out future potential threats arising from the realization of Nord Stream gas pipeline. In order to meet this goal, a new analytical framework is created, which evaluates gas security in terms of both short-term and long-term energy security indicators. This framework is based on several studies, primarily on the Model of Short-term Energy Security published by International Energy Agency. The framework is further extended by other studies dealing with the long-term dimension of energy security. Second part of the thesis deals with the role of natural gas in German energy transition (so- called Energiewende). Text examines the importance of natural gas in the situation of gradual disconnection of nuclear and coal capacities and in the ongoing decarbonization of the German economy. It was found that...
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The Cross-Border cooperation of Health Emergency Services in the Sumava Euroregion
Honsová, Eliška ; Bauer, Paul (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with a case of cross-border cooperation in the European Union, namely the cross-border cooperation of health emergency services in the Šumava Euroregion. The research focuses mainly on how this cooperation has been arranged and how the European integration theory can be applied to this case study. The diploma thesis analyzes the role of different actors, what contracts were needed for the cross-border cooperation, how the negotiationof the project took place, where the initiative for this cross-border cooperation originated or what complications occurred. The topic of cross-border cooperation of health emergency services is a practical example of European integration and therefore it also includes the study of cross-border cooperation of regions in the European Union, the role of EU funds for regional development and last but not least the EU health policy. The thesis is based on the theory of European territorial integration, which is characterized by the disappearance of the border and suppression of the unilateral orientation of the state inland. Furthermore, there are related theories of regional development and new regionalism. It also works with the theory of shared sovereignty, which inevitably comes with deeper integration. The theme of the diploma theses is time...
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Theoretical discourse on metrics of public relations measurement and their acceptance in Czech practice
Weiss, Tomáš ; Hejlová, Denisa (advisor) ; Klimeš, David (referee)
The diploma thesis is aimed at processing the issue of measuring the effectiveness of public relations (PR) in Czech practice. The concept of the thesis includes theoretical bases, modern trends in the field and description of the current state of measuring PR results in Czech practice. First, theoretical models of communication evaluation and their complicated acceptance are described. Second, the main milestones in measuring PR efficiency are defined with an emphasis on the Barcelona Principles, their updated version from London in 2015 and modern tools published by leading organizations from the field - AMEC and ICCO. All these topics are described in relation to the long-term struggle of the whole industry against rejected AVE metrics. The information for theoretical bases of the thesis were drawn from academic titles of leading foreign and Czech experts, as well as secondary online sources. The primary sources for the analysis itself were competition applications and also additional personal interviews with leading Czech PR experts. The regular AMEC and ICCO reports, and especially qualitative content analysis of Alžběta Fridrichová from ADison agency in 2017 were presented as the main theoretical bases of own empirical analysis. Its main objective is to evaluate the current state of Czech...
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Understanding the Czech Foreign Policy. The Case of the EU Sanctions against the Russian Federation
Fuchsová, Anežka ; Macaj, Gjovalin (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis examines the decision of the Czech Republic on the adoption of the EU sanctions against Russia over Ukraine. The perception of the Czech Republic and its behaviour is perceived ambiguously. For that reason, qualitative analysis of the decision was conducted in order to arrive at the understanding of the Czech position. The author works with a concept of identity based on Social Constructivist and Foreign Policy Analysis scholarship. It is argued that the elite idealistic identity, which is held by a proportion of Czech politicians and official, can be used as a variable in Czech foreign policy and a tool to enhance the understanding of it. The dominance of the elite idealistic identity is not fixed; therefore, the consequences enabling the identity to prevail are also discussed. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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