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The Anglo-American "Special Relationship" in the Period of Gordon Brown's Government: the Case Study of Finding Solutions to Financial Crisis
Bábiková, Jana ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Raška, Francis (referee)
The central theme of the bachelor thesis is the phenomenon of the "special relationship" between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America. The "special relationship" that is most often associated with cooperation in military and security, is applied on the field of economic diplomacy during the time of financial crisis and finding a solution to it. At first, the thesis argued whether it was possible to claim the "special relationship" in economic cooperation. Then it continued to argue, to what extend could the "special relationship" influence crisis-solution finding. Thesis used the examples of economic diplomacy before and during G20 leaders' summits as the most obvious manifestation of the role of the "special relationship". Another focus of the thesis is the period of Gordon Brown's government. Besides summarizing the events leading to finding crisis solution, thesis also describes the main events that happened and shaped the evolution of the "special relationship" during the period of Gordon Brown's government. Most of the thesis is, however, centered on the role of Brown and Anglo-American diplomacy in finding solution to financial crisis.
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Comparison of non-european immigration policy of the United Kingdom during the premierships of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in 1997-2010
Šatrová, Tereza ; Kasáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Váška, Jan (referee)
The Bachelor's thesis "Comparison of non-European immigration policy of the United Kingdom during the premierships of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in 1997-2010" is a comparative case study which deals with the outputs of immigration policy, especially the legislation and governmental papers published since the New Labour won the general election in the United Kingdom in 1997 until 2010, when the New Labour lost. The two compared cases are delimited by the years 1997 and 2007 for the premiership of Tony Blair, and years 2007 and 2010 for the premiership of Gordon Brown. The thesis'goal is to discover if and how did the main focus of the immigration policy towards non-European immigrants has changed, in spite of the same party in charge and if the restrictiveness or openness of the country towards non- European immigration has changed as well. There are three research criteria, regulations of entry, control mechanisms and naturalisation, which are used for determining this in the thesis. Based on the analysis and comparison of data in both cases, it can be determined that the immigration policy focus has changed partially, and the restrictiveness has been growing since Gordon Brown has become the Prime Minister. These differences between the two Prime Ministers seem to be caused by the socioeconomic...
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Ideational framework of British foreign policy under New Labour.
Váška, Jan ; Pešek, Jiří (advisor) ; Říchová, Blanka (referee) ; Fiala, Vlastimil (referee)
This doctoral thesis explores the ideational framework of British foreign and European policy in the era of New Labour governments (1997-2010). Drawing from social constructivism and the "linguistic turn" in social sciences, and using discourse analysis as its primary tool, it analyses a set of major foreign and European policy speeches by prime ministers and foreign secretaries, and Labour Party general election manifestos, to reconstruct the ideational structure in which empirical British foreign policy was embedded. It identifies conceptual ideas about the nature and rules governing the international order, distribution of power in the international system, hierarchy of issues in contemporary international agenda, international identity and role of the United Kingdom, its key international relationships, its power resources, and interests and values shaping British foreign policy, as held by the leading government figures of the era. Established changes and transformations of these governing ideas are contextualised in the empirical development in the international arena. While confirming the pro-stability and self-reproduction bias of ideational structures, via their constitution of agency and organization of the actors' discursive practices, the thesis identifies six events which sparked...
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The Anglo-American "Special Relationship" in the Period of Gordon Brown's Government: the Case Study of Finding Solutions to Financial Crisis
Bábiková, Jana ; Váška, Jan (advisor) ; Raška, Francis (referee)
The central theme of the bachelor thesis is the phenomenon of the "special relationship" between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America. The "special relationship" that is most often associated with cooperation in military and security, is applied on the field of economic diplomacy during the time of financial crisis and finding a solution to it. At first, the thesis argued whether it was possible to claim the "special relationship" in economic cooperation. Then it continued to argue, to what extend could the "special relationship" influence crisis-solution finding. Thesis used the examples of economic diplomacy before and during G20 leaders' summits as the most obvious manifestation of the role of the "special relationship". Another focus of the thesis is the period of Gordon Brown's government. Besides summarizing the events leading to finding crisis solution, thesis also describes the main events that happened and shaped the evolution of the "special relationship" during the period of Gordon Brown's government. Most of the thesis is, however, centered on the role of Brown and Anglo-American diplomacy in finding solution to financial crisis.
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