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Terrorism from the perspective of public policy
Batko, Martin ; Cejp, Martin (advisor) ; Knobloch, František (referee)
Area of interest regarding this master thesis is the fight against terrorism at European Union level. The work then aims to analyze how effective the EU institutions in the fight against terrorism, Europol, Eurojust and the CTC, are. The first part focuses on the issue of terrorism itself, by the help of comparative analysis and data analysis the possible root causes of terrorism and issues regarding radicalization are discussed. The second part is devoted to the actual effectiveness of the main EU institutions in the fight against terrorism and consequently to the security threat associated with the issue of foreign fighters that became a priority agenda within the EU counterterrorism. These sections has also been prepared on the basis of empirical research since semi-standardized interviews with experts in this field were conducted. It was investigated, that the EU institutions in the fight against terrorism have several weaknesses, and there are several limits in their fight against terrorism. Conversely, in the context of foreign fighters the EU has managed to adopt several concrete and directed measures.
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Terrorism from the perspective of public policy
Batko, Martin ; Cejp, Martin (advisor) ; Knobloch, František (referee)
Area of interest regarding this master thesis is the fight against terrorism at European Union level. The work then aims to analyze how effective the EU institutions in the fight against terrorism, Europol, Eurojust and the CTC, are. The first part focuses on the issue of terrorism itself, by the help of comparative analysis and data analysis the possible root causes of terrorism and issues regarding radicalization are discussed. The second part is devoted to the actual effectiveness of the main EU institutions in the fight against terrorism and consequently to the security threat associated with the issue of foreign fighters that became a priority agenda within the EU counterterrorism. These sections has also been prepared on the basis of empirical research since semi-standardized interviews with experts in this field were conducted. It was investigated, that the EU institutions in the fight against terrorism have several weaknesses, and there are several limits in their fight against terrorism. Conversely, in the context of foreign fighters the EU has managed to adopt several concrete and directed measures.
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Comparison of Political Parties ODS and TOP09: Program versus Reality
Batko, Martin ; Švec, Kamil (advisor) ; Trávníček, Matěj (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Comparison of the Political Parties ODS and TOP 09: Programe versus Reality" analyses how successful were the mentioned political parties in the implementation of their election programmes in actual fact. The beginning of this thesis deals with the theory of the party systems. The Giovanni Sartori's and Jean Blondel's typologies are applied to the Czech party system. The second section of this part follows up the Klaus von Beyme's theory of the party families, the emphasis is put on the conservative and liberal thinking, which the political parties ODS and TOP 09 recognize as their own ideologies. By using the election programs, comparative method will find out which of the studied party was more successful in the implementation of their promises into the reality. The Comparison analyses the election programs of the both parties for the elections to the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic in 2010. Evaluation has been done in four sections, which are the economic policy, the struggle against corruption, the social system and the pension reform. It has been found out that both parties were in their actions similarly successful, the most problematic of studied parts was the economic policy. Nevertheless, TOP 09 has implemented slightly more promises into the reality than...
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