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Islamophobia and New Populism in Contemporary Western Europe: France and the Netherlands
Kočařová, Martina ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
Islamophobia and New Populism in Contemporary Western Europe: France and the Netherlands Bc. Martina Kočařová The Master thesis Islamophobia and New Populism in Contemporary Western Europe: France and the Netherlands explores current transformations of populism in contemporary Western Europe. The main objectives of the thesis are following: First, to verify a hypothesis implying that islamophobia has become a new feature of the contemporary populism, which has been consequently changing in terms of its content. Thus, it can hardly be classified as another form of the 'far right' politics. In this context, one may observe its shift towards the centre of the political party system. Second, based on the above outlined assumption, we aim to study whether the populist parties can be considered 'populist' in spite of the new features they have recently adopted. The theoretical framework of our research refers to Paul Taggart's conceptualisation of populism applying it on the cases of the French National Front under the lead of Marine Le Pen and the Dutch Party for Freedom and his leader Geert Wilders.
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Regional Transition - From Conflict to Cooperation
Kuľková, Miroslava ; Ditrych, Ondřej (advisor) ; Karlas, Jan (referee) ; Koschut, Simon (referee)
Doctoral thesis Regional Transition - From Conflict to Cooperation examines the transformation of world regions from non-cooperative to. It brings reconceptualization of the peaceful change, which it understands as a continuum - negative peace, positive peace, and security community. This understanding builds on the existing literature on peaceful change, yet the conceptualization of the stages is innovated. The main goal of this dissertation is to capture the dynamic process of transition from negative to positive peace, and from positive peace to the security community. It uses findings from the literature on peaceful changes and trust-building to build two comprehensive mechanisms of transition that are subsequently traced with the method of process-tracing in two cases of the region for each type of transition. The focus is on the entities and activities producing the qualitative change in the regional relations. For the transition from negative to positive peace, Western Balkans in the period from 1999 to 2011, and Southeast Asia from 1966 to 2003 are chosen. For the transition from positive peace to the security community, Western Europe (1957-2004) and North America (1940s- 2011) are chosen.
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Threat perception in the North Atlantic Region: Media Image of Terrorism in the US and Western Europe
Moravčík, Vladimír ; Hornát, Jan (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with media frames in selected American and British media with an influence over broader European audience. The subject of the research is the difference in the perception of terrorism in the US and Western Europe. The work specifically examines the contexts in which the terrorist threat was reported in 2001-2005 in The New York Times and The Guardian. The work is based on the works of Mary N. Hampton and Wyn Rees, who claim that in the US the threat of terrorism is seen as an external problem of military nature, while in Western Europe terrorism is seen as an internal criminal problem. This work identifies media frameworks in selected media that match this difference in perception of terrorist threat. The discursive analysis and the application of framing theory are used to identify the media frames.
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Lacemaking in Bohemia in 17 and 18 century
Čížkovská, Zdeňka ; Sojka, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Czumalová, Petra (referee)
Lacemaking in Bohemia in 17 and 18 century. The main theme of this work is to reflect on the lace-making tradition in Bohemia during 17th and 18th century both on the basis of already published studies, as well as with the help of historical portraits. The work also contains a brief outline of the history of lace making and of course discusses lace making and the types of lacemaking in other european countries. Just the tradition of the neighboring countries of the Czech lace-making pick up and prove it to adapt to the requirements of the domestic environment. The lace was an integral part of the garment, therefore this work is also supplemented by the development of fashion, recorded from the renaissance period after the fashion 18th century.
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Islamophobia and New Populism in Contemporary Western Europe: France and the Netherlands
Kočařová, Martina ; Barša, Pavel (advisor) ; Slačálek, Ondřej (referee)
Islamophobia and New Populism in Contemporary Western Europe: France and the Netherlands Bc. Martina Kočařová The Master thesis Islamophobia and New Populism in Contemporary Western Europe: France and the Netherlands explores current transformations of populism in contemporary Western Europe. The main objectives of the thesis are following: First, to verify a hypothesis implying that islamophobia has become a new feature of the contemporary populism, which has been consequently changing in terms of its content. Thus, it can hardly be classified as another form of the 'far right' politics. In this context, one may observe its shift towards the centre of the political party system. Second, based on the above outlined assumption, we aim to study whether the populist parties can be considered 'populist' in spite of the new features they have recently adopted. The theoretical framework of our research refers to Paul Taggart's conceptualisation of populism applying it on the cases of the French National Front under the lead of Marine Le Pen and the Dutch Party for Freedom and his leader Geert Wilders.
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Mortality analysis of diseases caused by smoking in selected countries of the Western Europe
Vachová, Aneta ; Hulíková Tesárková, Klára (advisor) ; Kurtinová, Olga (referee)
Mortality analysis of diseases caused by smoking in selected countries of the Western Europe Abstract The main objective of the thesis is to compare smoking-related mortality trends, using analytical methods, in selected countries of Western Europe (Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) during 1999-2009. The development of mortality has been demonstrated by fundamental mortality indicators. Furthermore, there has been an analysis carried out in order to demonstrate a difference in temporary life expectancy at age 35-85 under the condition that smoking related causes of death were eliminated. Results of the main part of the work show that in period 1999-2009 smoking-attributable mortality declined and that if people did not die because of those diseases, temporary life expectancy at age 35-85 would increase in average by 2 and 3.6 years for women and men respectively. Temporary life expectancy was increasing during the whole study and for both sexes. Keywords: mortality, smoking, cause of death, Western Europe, sex
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Využití tradičních hodnot a vliv západního modelu podnikání ve vinařství
Stehlíková, Martina
The Bachelor's Diploma Thesis Utilization of Traditional Values and the Influence of the Western Model of Enterprise on Viniculture is divided into four main chapters which are further divided into subchapters. The first chapter deals with the development of viniculture in Western European countries and the current state of global wine production. In the second chapter I analyse traditions related to viniculture, folklore and vinitourism. The third chapter describes wine enterprises in the Czech Republic, wine import and export, wine business legislation and the wine black market. The last chapter explores the basic characteristics of the wine business model and the new alternatives in the sphere of marketing and digital technologies.
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New Europe and New Europeans: The Impacts of Muslim and Asian Immigration on the Societal Security of the Big Western European Countries
Werner, Jan ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Havlová, Radka (referee)
Conflicts between majority societies and culturally different immigrants represent one of the key problems that today's Europe has to face. This bachelor thesis tries to analyze the subject from the societal security viewpoint in the context of the big Western European countries -- United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain and Germany. Knowledge from different disciplines is used to represent immigrants' identities and their relations with the host society in each of the countries. The last chapter is then devoted to a comparison of the societal security patterns in Western Europe; also, the main short- and long-term prognoses of the Muslim and Asian immigrations' impacts on societal security are presented and the basic starting points for a more effective integration process are defined.
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Comparison and evaluation of the post-war reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the post-war reconstruction in Wester European countries after the Second World War
Laketić, Aleksandar ; Kalínská, Emílie (advisor) ; Žíla, Ondřej (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to describe historical development of the process of post-war reconstruction. This will be achieved by comparing two examples. One of them is process of post-war reconstruction in countries of Western Europe after the Second World War and the other is process of post-war reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the civil war that ended in 1995. Importance of this topic is underlined by an increasing number of low-intensity conflicts. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate reasons of the success of the process of post-war reconstruction in Germany and failure in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This thesis contains a view on forming and development of post-war reconstruction. Later on the situation in countries of Western Europe after the Second World War is described, followed by an evaluation of this process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the end these two processes are compared. This work contains a historical context and geopolitical and strategic importance of the chosen countries. Supervisor of bachelor thesis: doc. Ing. Emílie Kalínská CSc.
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