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Global governance and an analogy with domestic political systems - the impact of income inequality in a society on governance quality
Pašek, Roman ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Dopita, Tomáš (referee)
This paper discusses the issue of global governance, in particular the possibility of the establishment of an institutionalized form of a global government, whose field of action would be determined by global and supranational problems of today's world. One of the obstructions of a quality functioning of such world government could be the measure of income inequality in the world. Hence the submitted paper ponders the question, whether a high measure of income inequality would necessarily thwart the establishment of a global government and it's quality functioning, on the basis of a research of a representative sample of states and the impact of such inequality on the quality of functioning of these domestic systems. Implications for the possible establishment of a global government are then analogically deduced from the conclusions of the aformentioned analysis. These conclusions will help us find out, whether income inequality has a negative or a positive impact on governance quality, or whether there is such a clearly demonstrable connection between these variables at all. The analysis of these variables is possible thanks to the quantifiability of the data that this paper works with and their availability thanks to the research activity of renowned international organizations. Hence the first part of...
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The Development in the Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Agreement (1998-2008)
Čapková, Zuzana ; Soukup, Jaromír (advisor) ; Dopita, Tomáš (referee)
This bachelor deals with an ethnic and religious conflict which divided in recent years the society of Northern Ireland into two irreconcilable communities. The negotiations brokered by the Irish and the British governments between major political parties in Northern Ireland in the late 90s opened space for a new phase of the peace process which ended in the signing-up of the Good Friday Agreement. The Agreement enabled to set a government and for the second time to reiterate the devolution suspended in 1974 because of the 1969 violent clashes. This work analyses a ten-year-long development in the province after 1998 underlying the political situation, the accomplishment of the peace process and the convergence of the population. Treating the operation of the new institutions based on the cooperation within Northern Ireland, between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and between the Irish and the British governments, in the centre of the attention there is a decommissionning process which has split up considerably political participants and Northern Irish society and has prevented for a long time from dealing a compromise. Among the other issues is to impose the reform of the police service and the review of the criminal justice system, to contribute to reconciliation of the population of...
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The position of Czech soldiers to the Afghan population during the reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan
Lišková, Tereza ; Dopita, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
Bachelor work deals with the characteristic attitudes of Czech participants on missions in Afghanistan, mainly civilian and military staff of Provincial Reconstruction Teams. Theoretical part is based on the opinions of Samuel P. Hungtington's clash of civilizations and Francis Fukuyama's end of History. This work also utilized the opinions of their critics such as Associate Professor Miroslav Mendel or Oskar Křejčí. As a methodological approach at this work is chosen case study, namely disciplined interpretive study. To determine the attitudes of Czech actors in Afghanistan was carried out analysis of relevant data First, analysis of publicly available materials and information about the mission in Afghanistan, then on the basis of published interviews with participants PRT Logar and also according to the results of own survey among troops and civilian experts. The aim of this work is to determine the characteristics of attitudes of Czech actors during the reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. And also find out which theory about relationship between two different cultural group is attitude of Czech soldiers more simmilar or closer.
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West and Christianity in Relation to Islam in the Context of Reconstruction in Afghanistan
Lišková, Tereza ; Dopita, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kubátová, Hana (referee)
Bachelor work deals with the interpretation of the relations of Czech participants on missions in Afghanistan, mainly civilian and military staff of Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan and local residents. Theoretical part is based on the opinions of Samuel P. Hungtington's clash of civilizations and Francis Fukuyama's end of History. This work also utilized the opinions of their critics such as Associate Professor Miroslav Mendel. As a methodological approach at this work is chosen mainly discourse analysis. Interpretation of ideas of Czech actors in Afghanistan, their attitudes and their perceptions in different civilizational groups was carried out on the basis of analysis of relevant data. First, analysis of publicly available materials and information about the mission in Afghanistan, then on the basis of published interviews with participants PRT Logar and also according to the results of own survey among troops and civilian experts. The aim of this work is to understand the interrelation of Czech actors and the Afghan people during the reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. And also find out which theory about relationship between two different cultural group is experience of Czech soldiers more simmilar or closer.
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Democracy and Islam
Bláhová, Pavlína ; Kučera, Rudolf (advisor) ; Dopita, Tomáš (referee)
The bachelor thesis Democracy and Islam explores the compatibility of democracy and political Islam in its current and historical context. The main object of the study is to identify crucial principles, which are shared by both, democracy and Islam and also on the contrary, identify main principles of these two systems which exclude one another. The variables, which I examine in order to compare democracy and Islam, are following: political systems in democratic and Islam countries, which includes electoral system, sources of political authority, attitude toward the political opposition etc. Other elements that need to be examined are sources of law and compatibility of Islamic law Shari'a with the basic principles of human rights. Human rights are other important article that describes relationship between democracy and Islam. The comparison of theoretical Islam and democracy creates a first part of the study. The second part is dedicated to the implementing of democracy into the Islamic system in praxis. The first case shows Turkey's approach to the democracy, advantages and traps that transfer to the democracy can bring. Democratization of Turkey is then compared to Iran and its historical development toward the democracy. The two cases also show the difference between ideal, theoretical Islam...
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Global governance and an analogy with domestic political systems - the impact of income inequality in a society on governance quality
Pašek, Roman ; Parízek, Michal (advisor) ; Dopita, Tomáš (referee)
This paper discusses the issue of global governance, in particular the possibility of the establishment of an institutionalized form of a global government, whose field of action would be determined by global and supranational problems of today's world. One of the obstructions of a quality functioning of such world government could be the measure of income inequality in the world. Hence the submitted paper ponders the question, whether a high measure of income inequality would necessarily thwart the establishment of a global government and it's quality functioning, on the basis of a research of a representative sample of states and the impact of such inequality on the quality of functioning of these domestic systems. Implications for the possible establishment of a global government are then analogically deduced from the conclusions of the aformentioned analysis. These conclusions will help us find out, whether income inequality has a negative or a positive impact on governance quality, or whether there is such a clearly demonstrable connection between these variables at all. The analysis of these variables is possible thanks to the quantifiability of the data that this paper works with and their availability thanks to the research activity of renowned international organizations. Hence the first part of...
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(A)symmetric dynamics of the conflict in Sri Lanka
Granátová, Lenka ; Aslan, Emil (advisor) ; Dopita, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis (A)symmteric dynamics of the conflict in Sri Lanka is an attempt to apply the theoretical concept of asymmetric conflicts and asymmetric warfare to the empirical case of the conflict in Sri Lanka and to figure out whether or not the asymmetric nature of the relationship between the sides of the conflict was the cause of the conflict's long term persistence and incapability of finding a durable solution to the conflict . In order to do so, the author first introduced the theoretical framework itself and highlighted the most significant features which were furthermore employed as the tool for the following analysis. On this basis the conflict in Sri Lanka was set into the theoretical framework and relevant asymmetries between the two counterparts - the Sri Lankan government/army and the organization of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - were identified. As the next step, the author tried to embrace the variable dynamics of the conflict in terms of relevant asymmetries and also symmetries which came to being within the course of the conflict. Since the symmetric situation is deemed to be more advantageous for finding the solution to a conflict, the author focused on the impact of the "symmetrization" on the prospects for the solution to the Sri Lankan conflict. However, the final findings...
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Conceptualisation of Ethnicity in the Context of the Sri Lankan Conflict Transformation
Dopita, Tomáš ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (advisor) ; Klimešová, Martina (referee)
Diploma thesis "Conceptualization of ethnicity in the context of transformation of Sri Lankan conflict" concerns the protracted social conflict in Sri Lanka in respect of relevant theories and possibilities for a peaceful transformation of the crisis. By means of content analysis I uncover the ontological and epistemological understanding of ethnicity within scholarly discussions of "ethnic conflict", selected discourses on multiculturalism and the politics of recognition, feminism and postcolonial studies. I attempt to relate and critically evaluate the conceptualizations of ethnicity contained within these discourses in respect of the Sri Lankan conflict and the challenges to its peaceful transformation. I argue that the understanding of ethnicity in the field of "ethnic conflict" studies, as presented within the limits of this thesis, is derived substantially from knowledge produced in the context of nation, nationalism and the modern nation state conceptual framework. The general theoretisation of ethnicity is therefore confined to the narrow view of a "Westphalian imagination". Ethnicity is thus passively accepted as a given quality of a de facto homogeneous group, operating within the circumscribed political society defined by the sovereignty of the modern state. However, as I argue, the explanatory...
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