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bluery
Voldán, Martin ; Gabriel, Michael (referee) ; Mléčka, Jan (advisor)
We've lost water. We've lost natural contact with it. Thanks to climate change, we find ourselves in a situation where we either have too much water - flash floods and melting snow, or we have a shortage during increasingly frequent droughts. Solutions are nowhere in sight. We're borrowing water from underground reserves and not planning to repay it. And yet, when it does rain, the water slips through our fingers straight out of the cities. Go away! It is necessary to reintegrate water into the everyday functioning of the city, perceive it as a fundamental part equivalent to any other infrastructure, such as greenery. Greenery = bluery. It is necessary to retain water in place. More water won't just appear, drinking water is scarce, so it's not only reasonable but crucial for our future to preserve at least a drop or two. Visible with the invisible. Visible surface flags, imaginary cherries on the technological cake in the form of underground cathedrals or banks. Aqua bank.
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The Truman Doctrine: Greece and Turkey
Urban, Petr ; Smetana, Vít (advisor) ; Fojtek, Vít (referee)
In this paper, I compare the causes, development and effect, that the promulgation of the Truman Doctrine had. I argue that the theses, declared by President Truman contrasted fundamentally with the subsequent advancement of their application to contain communism in Greece and Turkey. I prove this incompatibility on the analysis of (1) the causes, why the Doctrine was promulgated in the United States, with stress on the Turkish Straits crisis of 1946, (2) the American economic and military aid to Greece in 1947-1948 and (3) the strategic support of Turkey by the United States. This triplet of events forms the backdrop to the three related aims, which the authors of the Doctrine pursued. One was to garner domestic support for a swift change in the American foreign policy towards the role of a world superpower. The second aim was to forestall the expansion of the Soviet sphere of influence (to contain communism) and the final aim was the support of freedom and democracy as a means of countering the communist ideology. The three given points contrast with the actual problems that threatened Greece and Turkey. By analyzing the key events surrounding the Truman Doctrine through the years 1946 to 1948 I look for the reason for its success. I see it in the combination of a moralist ideological attitude on...
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The War on Terror and the Strategy of Containment
Etčer, Tomáš ; Znoj, Milan (advisor) ; Bíba, Jan (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the nature of fight against terrorism of Barack Obama's government. Its objective is to verify the main hypothesis which says: "The transformation of war against terrorism, after Barack Obama acceded to the office, has got characteristics of Strategy of Containment as perceived by Ian Shapiro." Verification process will be done by comparing modern Strategy of Containment by Ian Shapiro to american strategy of war with terrorism, exercised by Barack Obama's Administration after his accession to the office in January 2009. In Obama's strategy of war against terrorism this paper will look for modern outlines of the containment doctrine and consequently it will evaluate Obama's strategy and concept of national security from this perspective as whole.
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Containment: a new strategy of the USA?
Kučera, František ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Andrýsová, Lenka (referee)
This thesis deals with the new foreign strategy of USA against the terrorism. The main question of the thesis is which concept the President of the USA Barack Obama is planning to apply as a framework for the foreign policy of the United States against the terrorism and towards the states which directly or indirectly support the terrorists or abide them in their territory. At first, previous traditions of the American foreign policy are mapped. Than follows the analysis of the concept of "containment" according to definition from the book "Containment" by Ian Shapiro. The third part analyzes contemporary foreign policy of the President of the USA Barack Obama and compares it with constituents of the concept by Ian Shapiro. The objective of this thesis is to find out whether the President uses the concept of "containment" in his policy against the terrorism.
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