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Media image of Václav Klaus and Vladimír Mečiar in selected press from the period of split of Czechoslovakia
Matějková, Kristýna ; Just, Petr (advisor) ; Charvát, Jakub (referee)
Czechoslovakia underwent a challenging transition from a communist regime to a democratic system in the 1990s. Some Slovak citizens perceived this period as their chance to seek emancipation. This desire, nourished by some political figures, started the division process of the Czechoslovak federation, which resulted in a series of bargaining between the two national prime ministers, Václav Klaus and Vladimír Mečiar. The citizens of the federation were waiting to see how their protracted meetings would unfold. And the only intermediary that could regularly bring them information, were the media. Nevertheless, through its important role of informing the public, the media also has a considerable power to influence what people consider important and what they think about. The way in which the media covered all events that led to the breakup may have had an effect on the public opinion on the existence of Czechoslovakia. This diploma thesis offers a view on how selected Czechoslovak press in 1992 portrayed the main characters of the final split of Czechoslovakia, focusing on the perception of Václav Klaus in Slovak media and Vladimír Mečiar in Czech media.
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Mečiar's Slovakia: Integration into NATO or the Alliance with Russia?
Strnadová, Martina ; Litera, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Svoboda, Karel (referee)
The primary objective of the Bachelor's thesis: "Mečiar's Slovakia: Integration into NATO or the Alliance with Russia?" is describe Slovak failed integration into North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the context of Slovak-Russian relations. The thesis confronts declared priorities in foreign and security policy with real actions of the government of Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar. The first part focuses on the Slovak Republic after its formation in 1993, while the Warsaw Pact disintegrated and Slovakia had to seek alternative security. The second part deals with the third Mečiar's government which was critical for the integration failure of Slovakia. The thesis confirmed, that intensive and high-standard Slovak-Russian relations and Vladimír Mečiar had an impact on that.
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Selected causes of the third Mečiar's goverment on the biased news of the Slovak television
Pauková, Kristina ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
The Master's Thesis "The selected cases of the third Mečiar's government and the bias in news coverage in the Slovak television" analyses a period of the third Mečiar's government on the basis of research focusing on the presence of bias in the news coverage in the Slovak television. This institution, which provides the public service broadcasting, is in general considered as a politicians' tool and during 1994-98 is described as a medium subordinated to the coalition government of that time, or even to a single political party. Due to the previous research dealing with election campaigns in 1998 we decided to focus on two significant events - the kidnapping of Michal Kováč jr. in 1995 and the 1997 referendum, which could present an illustration of the media production during the respected period. Closer characteristics of the socio-political situation with the accent on the selected cases is outlined in the introductory part of the work together with the bias issue and the concept of public service broadcasting. In this work we pay attention to the characteristics of evolution of the Slovak television after 1989 as well, and to a closer description of its functioning and broadcasting in 1994-1998. The final part deals with the very research of bias in the main STV news programme by using the...
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Vladimír Mečiar's attitude towards Slovakia integration in NATO
Renčová, Agáta ; Kubát, Michal (advisor) ; Kunštát, Miroslav (referee)
This bachelor thesis discusses the attitude of Vladimír Mečiar towards Slovakia's integration into NATO during the period of his third government (1994 - 1998). The thesis follows the steps of Mečiar, that led to international isolation of Slovakia and to the exclusion of Slovakia from the first NATO enlargement. Bachelor thesis focuses on development of Mečiar's approach towards Slovakia's integration in NATO, from pro-western to neutral or even pro-russian orientation. The aim of the thesis is to determine whether Mečiars attitude towards NATO changed over time and whether the steps he has taken were in line with his official statements on the subject.
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Online reviews of a documentary film Mečiar and user's comments in Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze
Müllerová, Eva ; Novotný, David Jan (advisor) ; Štoll, Martin (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Online reviews of a documentary film Mečiar and users' comments in Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze" focuses on the analysis and comparison of selected online film reviews and users' comments in Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. The first part focuses on the political situation in Slovakia after the Velvet Revolution in 1989, specifically the political party Hnutie za demokratické Slovensko and its leader Vladimír Mečiar. This part of the thesis also gives a brief insight into the theory of the documentary film, and it provides information about the first documentary portrait of Vladimír Mečiar, Tereza Novotová's documentary work and also the analysis of a documentary film Mečiar. The main part of the thesis defines the publicist genre of review, and it deals with the phenomenon of Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze, as well as with two other different film databases. The final part of the thesis focuses on the analysis and comparison of online film reviews published in different media platforms and also on users' comments in Česko- Slovenská filmová databáze. Four different platforms of online media were chosen as the representatives of different target groups. Online film reviews and users' comments are compared based on of content, form and language differences. Using the...
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Political system during Vladimír Mečiar's government and its reflection to the foreign policy
Bátová, Martina ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Knutelská, Viera (referee)
This bachelor thesis concerns the Slovak political system under the Vladimír Mečiar's government and its influence on the foreign policy. The aim of this thesis is Mečiar's authoritarianism and to analyse if there was an impact on the inner policy as well as foreign policy. It analyses the period from the beginning of the second Mečiar's era as the prime minister in 1992 to 1998 when his third government ended. The thesis is conducted in the form of a case study. In the thesis I specifically elaborate the theory of democratic consolidation written by José Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan which focuses on the democratic consolidation of political arena; then I elaborate the Fareed Zakaria's concept of illiberal democracy and additionally I study the Guillermo O'Donnell's concept of representative democracy. The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to prove the democratic deconsolidation in political arena in Slovakia and to verify the validity of the theory of defective democracy on the case of Slovakia and also to describe the Slovak political isolationism which has been in my opinion too little analysed. In the first part of the thesis I present the three theories mentioned above and their individual components. In the following empirical part these individual components are applied to specific examples...
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Comparison of acceptance and ratification of Lisabon treaty in Czech republic and in Slovakia
Müller, Joseph ; Handl, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (referee)
The main goal of my work is to determine which factors were the most important in process of ratification of Treaty of Lisbon in Czech Republic and in Slovakia. The lenght and the complexity of ratification were quite different in both countries. My work is based on concept saying that foreign policy of Czech Republic and Slovakia was given by domestic and foreign policy factors.1 In Slovakia it was mainly the determination to change suverenistic foreign policy of former prime ministr Vladimír Mečiar. On the other hand in Czech Republic politics were convinced that Czech Republic belongs to Europe and so they can dare to criticize EU's decisions. After analysis of stances of all important political parties in both countries, I can conclude, that concept I am using, is applicable also to the process of ratification, and therefore it was also the main reasons of different lenght and complexity of ratification. 1 Petr Drulák, Michal Kořan a Jan Růžička, "Außenpolitik in Ostmitteleuropa", Osteuropa 58 (červenec 2008): 139-152.
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Media analysis of Czechoslovakian Desintegration
Vávra, Ladislav ; Štemberk, Jan (advisor) ; Vávra, Martin (referee)
This thesis addresses the topic of the breakup of Czechoslovakia into two independent Czech and Slovak republics at the beginning of the year 1993. With the help of secondary literature, the first section is dedicated to chronologically interpreting the history of the relationship between Czechs and Slovaks. The section also discusses the accounts of leading Czech, Slovak and other international historians relating to the end of Czechoslovakia. In the second section, the author of this thesis firstly focuses on the analysis of selected printed media, including the Czech newspapers 'Rudé právo' and 'Mladá fronta/Mladá fronta DNES', and Slovakian 'Pravda' from the months around the time of the so-called Hyphen War at the beginning of 1990. The final chapters focus on the analysis of the above-mentioned newspapers from the time of the elections to the Federal Assembly in 1992 and examine reference methods relating to the issue of the Czech- Slovak misunderstanding.
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Selected causes of the third Mečiar's goverment on the biased news of the Slovak television
Pauková, Kristina ; Křeček, Jan (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
The Master's Thesis "The selected cases of the third Mečiar's government and the bias in news coverage in the Slovak television" analyses a period of the third Mečiar's government on the basis of research focusing on the presence of bias in the news coverage in the Slovak television. This institution, which provides the public service broadcasting, is in general considered as a politicians' tool and during 1994-98 is described as a medium subordinated to the coalition government of that time, or even to a single political party. Due to the previous research dealing with election campaigns in 1998 we decided to focus on two significant events - the kidnapping of Michal Kováč jr. in 1995 and the 1997 referendum, which could present an illustration of the media production during the respected period. Closer characteristics of the socio-political situation with the accent on the selected cases is outlined in the introductory part of the work together with the bias issue and the concept of public service broadcasting. In this work we pay attention to the characteristics of evolution of the Slovak television after 1989 as well, and to a closer description of its functioning and broadcasting in 1994-1998. The final part deals with the very research of bias in the main STV news programme by using the...
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The issue of energy dependency of Slovakia and its armaments cooperation with the Russian Federation in the years 1993 - 1998
Drozd, Michal ; Irmanová, Eva (advisor) ; Litera, Bohuslav (referee)
Bachelor thesis"The issue of energy dependency of Slovakia and its armaments cooperation with the Russian Federation in the years 1993 - 1998 in terms of safety" deals with specificites of mutual affairs in the area of energetics and military cooperation between two countries, which are far too uneqal in potencial of power. At the first and second part thesis deals with short characteristic of the situation, which occured in the region of CEE at the beggining of the 90. It also deals with the explanation of different interests and expectations, which resulted of this mutual cooperation. In the core the thesis tries to understand the wiew of Russia on the region of CEE, Slovakia particulary, at the time of lasting two russian foreign policy doktrins. Subsequent synthesis of knowledges has got to provide the answer on required hypothesis. The thesis is trieing to form the answer, if there could be possible participation of the Slovac Republic, due to the forming of common economical and security area in Europe, if the political aiming of the country would be the same as at the time of Vladimir Meciar government.
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