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The survival of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: why didn't Jordan take part in the Arab Spring?
Altwal, Yara ; Záhora, Jakub (advisor) ; Daniel, Jan (referee)
Analyzing the various factors that strengthened the Hashemite regime's stability during the spread of chaos caused by the Arab Spring is deemed important; even though the wave of the Arab Spring has ended, Jordan's economy is still suffering and the public is still demanding reform nonetheless, the Hashemite regime is untouched. This research will analyze the regime-society bond in light of the Arab Uprising that has undoubtedly assisted in the survival of the kingdom by creating a framework by which protesters unconsciously adhered to that entailed calls for political and economic reform to be initiated by the existing regime. Furthermore, the Hashemite's most powerful allies made sure to provide military and financial assistance to ensure the regime and the kingdoms remain secure and stable. However, such aid did not come without a price; it was critical for the Hashemite regime to balance between maintaining its coordinated strategies with its allies to maintain the close relations and maintaining its sovereignty and the foreign policies that serve national interests.
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The Military component of the Counterrevolution - Egypt case- The root causes of the deep-state and its military hardcore counterattack against Egypt uprising.
Saad, Mohamed ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Ludvík, Jan (referee)
In the course of time, the Egyptian army has developed a complicated network of economic interests as a privileged establishment, and independent from civilian oversight or political surveillance. This dissertation argues that; the well-established and long lasting independent economic interests may turn the military establishment to an independent stakeholder and closed, conservative group within the society seeks to preserve its own privileges by controlling over the political power and resist any external oversight including the democratic reforms that may create a threat to these privileges. Such military establishment is a direct threat to any democratic transition. In this case, the armies securitize the political sphere raising the democratic reforms as foreign conspiracy and an existential threat to its privileges and raise the nationalism and xenophobic rhetoric as it needs to create a political justification for their security practices that aim to crush the opposition and secure the political power. I suppose that the Egyptian case shows causal relations between the economic interests of the military establishment and the nationalism as a dominant ideology. Such military is leaning to not only control the political power, but it aims to militarize the societal values and control over the...
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The revolt of 1953 and its interpretation in the tendentious newspapers in the GDR and Czechoslowakia
Kyselová, Petra ; Konrád, Ota (advisor) ; Nigrin, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of the bachelor work "Uprising from the 17th March 1953 and its interpretation in biased press in DDR and ČSR" is to characterize the basic characters of the uprising, which took place firstly on 16th end 17th June in eastern Berlin and then in other east-German cities. In the first part I am trying to describe especially the reasons of this event, its course with focus on crucial moments, which influenced the following course of the uprising. I am also focusing on results, which this event had on other social-political development of the divided Germany. In the second part of my work I am characterizing the immediate interpretation of this event, created by the biased press in DDR and ČSR. In each country I will investigate the interpretation in party-, labor unions- and youth press. With consideration of control and censorship mechanisms, which in each country got concrete outlines, during investigation of interpretation of this event I will try to search for differences between periodicals and later between the two countries. I will observe, how each periodical characterize the event and if some unbiased facts and thoughts could have appeared. In comparison between the countries, my question is, if it was necessary the information coming from eastern Germany designated for Czechoslovak...
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The Christian missionary movement in China, 1860-1900
Sakmárová, Dominika ; Liščák, Vladimír (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ondřej (referee)
The objective of this Bachelor's thesis is to describe the activities of Christian missionaries in China during the second half of 19. century. Most attention is being drawn to Protestant missions, which are more relevant due to the absence of hierarchy in Protestant churches, unlike in other branches of Christianity. However, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox missions are also briefly mentioned. The main point of the thesis is to describe history of Christian missions in China leading to the situation which arose in the second part of 19. century, causing a variety of different approaches to the problem of evangelization of Chinese people. The thesis describes various ways how the missions were practised and what kind of reactions amongst Chinese people they induced. On the other side, the point of view of Chinese Christians is mentioned, with the side effects that arose due to the presence of foreign missionaries. This leads to the explanation of how the Christian teachings were adjusted to the Chinese culture, and what were the consequences of cultural differences between missionaries and Chinese. The thesis is divided into two main parts, the first, theoretical part is concerned with history of evangelization in China and explaining specific cultural differences causing the evangelization process to be very...
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Comparison uprising in Poznan and Budapest in 1956
Mottlová, Tereza ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Kučera, Tomáš (referee)
The Bacherlor's Thesis deals with theme of comparism of the uprising in Hungary and Poland in 1956. The thesis employs methods of description and comparism. The Thesis is devided into three main parts. The first part deals with uprising in polish town Poznan. It outlines political situation before uprising and its causes. This part describes course of uprising and its ending. The second part concerns with uprising in Budpest. Analogous to the first part, the second part describes political situation in Hungary before autumn 1956. Focuses on a causes of uprising, main characters and course of uprising. In the end it mentions main consequences. The third part of the Bacherlor's Thesis deals with the comparism of both uprising - its the causes, courses and endings. It sums up main points and characters and compares it.
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What is the 'Facebook revolution'? Use of Social Media for Political Protest: Egypt 2011
Jelínková, Petra ; Zaccarello, Benedetta (advisor) ; Pudlák, Štěpán (referee)
This dissertation closely looks at the role of social media during the uprisings in the Arab world in 2011 that broke out in a number of Arab countries. In the thesis, an example of the Egyptian protests is used. An analysis of the usage of social media during the protests serves as a clear illustration how new media platforms subjugate traditional forms of media. This dissertation focuses on describing the power of the Internet and discovers the other aspects which played a significant role during the revolution. The dissertation uses an established social movement theories, communication theories and ideas of community, to place its use within a wider context and to explain the inherent characteristics of social media that made it appealing to the activists in Egypt. Finally, also to be pointed out, is the connection between the power of the social media and social power, when for the first time in history, the Internet facilitated the virtual relationship between people with very different profiles, but with a common objective. Key words: social media, community, online community, communication, uprising, cyberactivism, social movement theory, Egypt.
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Literary Reflection of the Jewish uprising during Holocaust on the examples of works written by Ernst Sommer and Max Zweig
Jurkovičová, Taťána ; Zelená, Alena (advisor) ; Röskau-Rydel, Isabel (referee)
The purpose of this diploma thesis is to analyse the works Ghetto Warschau by Max Zweig and Revolte der Heiligen by Ernst Sommer. The thematic focus of the thesis is the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The thesis aims to present a systematic analysis and subsequent comparison of both works, with emphasis on the issue of religion. It tries to find out how Judaism together with the inconsistent approach of the Jews to the Jewish faith influenced the approach of the Jews to the revolt in the studied works. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter presents the history and principles of the Jewish religion as well as the history of the Jewish population. The second chapter focuses on the history of the Jewish population in Polish territory, also on the period of World War II and the emergence of ghettos, including the Warsaw ghetto. The next chapter presents both authors' biographies and works, with particular emphasis on common aspects of their work and life. The fourth chapter deals with the analysis itself. The conclusion of the diploma thesis contains a summary of the analysis and answers research questions.
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Comparison uprising in Poznan and Budapest in 1956
Mottlová, Tereza ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Kučera, Tomáš (referee)
The Bacherlor's Thesis deals with theme of comparism of the uprising in Hungary and Poland in 1956. The thesis employs methods of description and comparism. The Thesis is devided into four main parts. The first part deals with the theory of opposition and objects that formed opposition in these countries. Following part focuses on uprising in polish town Poznan. It outlines political situation before uprising and its causes. This part describes course of uprising and its ending. The third part concerns with uprising in Budpest. Analogous to the first part, the second part describes political situation in Hungary before autumn 1956. Focuses on a causes of uprising, main characters and course of uprising. In the end it mentions main consequences. Last part of the Bacherlor's Thesis deals with the comparism of both uprising - its the causes, courses and endings. It sums up main points and characters and compares it.
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Post Stalin Crises in GDR - Causes of East-German Uprising in June 1953
Partynglová, Daniela ; Nigrin, Tomáš (advisor) ; Šmidrkal, Václav (referee)
The Bachelor thesis Post-Stalin Crises in GDR - Causes of East-German Uprising of June 1953 is searching for causes of East-German Uprising of June 1953. Thesis follows the situation and international position of soviet occupation zone in Germany and German Democratic Republic (GDR) after the World War II. until the summer of 1953. The aim of thesis is to analyse the potential reasons and causes of dissatisfaction of east Germans, which lead to the supressed uprising. The thesis is also focused on the reflexion and interpretations of causes of the Uprising in former Western and Eastern blocs of Cold War. In Western Bloc and the Federal Republic of Germany was accentuated antipathy to Communist regime and its fundaments, in the Eastern Bloc and the GDR was Uprising seem such a western provocation. The thesis concludes that the reasons of protest were the disappointing social and economic conditions and the repressions. The east Germans protested in 1953 against the instruments of politics of the leading East German Party, then against fundaments of the Communist regime.
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The survival of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan: why didn't Jordan take part in the Arab Spring?
Altwal, Yara ; Záhora, Jakub (advisor) ; Daniel, Jan (referee)
Analyzing the various factors that strengthened the Hashemite regime's stability during the spread of chaos caused by the Arab Spring is deemed important; even though the wave of the Arab Spring has ended, Jordan's economy is still suffering and the public is still demanding reform nonetheless, the Hashemite regime is untouched. This research will analyze the regime-society bond in light of the Arab Uprising that has undoubtedly assisted in the survival of the kingdom by creating a framework by which protesters unconsciously adhered to that entailed calls for political and economic reform to be initiated by the existing regime. Furthermore, the Hashemite's most powerful allies made sure to provide military and financial assistance to ensure the regime and the kingdoms remain secure and stable. However, such aid did not come without a price; it was critical for the Hashemite regime to balance between maintaining its coordinated strategies with its allies to maintain the close relations and maintaining its sovereignty and the foreign policies that serve national interests.
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