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Influence of Violent Non-State Actors on Corporations in the Sahel
Dziak, Adam ; Doboš, Bohumil (advisor) ; Riegl, Martin (referee)
West Africa's Sahel is one of the most unstable regions in the world. Despite its turbulent security situation and high amounts of political risk, foreign corporations dominate the region's extractive industry. Violent non-state actors and their activities present tangible physical risk to operations and employees of these corporations. Since extractive corporations present an important source of foreign direct investment in the region, if the risk far outweighs the costs for corporations they could be expected to pull out leaving the region in a worse economic state. Despite the salience of the topic, it is academically severely underdeveloped, with the majority of scholarship focusing on the region's broader geopolitical situation or specifically at the act of kidnapping with the intent to ransom. Aim of the research is to study the dynamics between violent non-state actors and corporations in order to identify security risks they face and how they react to them. This is accomplished through qualitative analysis of specific incidents, with special attention paid to countries of origin in order to determine whether non-western or western corporations are more risk averse. Findings indicate that corporations tend to halt their operations temporarily if attacked directly by violent non-state actors,...
Left-wing terrorism in Italy - Red Brigades and New Red Brigades
REMEŠ, Štěpán
The topic of this Bachelor Thesis is the Italian left-wing terrorism focused on the group of the Red Brigades. The work is divided into three parts. The first part outlines political and economic situation in Postwar Italy. Author gets from the economic miracle to the origins of social unrest, which resulted in the formation of leftist organizations. Among them were also the Red Brigades. The following section gives an overview of the most famous actions of the Red Brigades and it also talks about the radicalization of methods used during the attacks. Author does not forget to mention strategies that were taken against this terrorist organization by Italian State, which succeeded in suppressing the Red Brigades. The third and final section focuses on the group of the New Red Brigades, which is considered the successor to the Red Brigades. .

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