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Czechoslovak diplomacy and its evaluation of De Gaulle's policy of grandeur between 1958 and 1969
Jiráčková, Magdaléna ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Šmidrkalová, Michaela (referee)
Czechoslovak-French relations developed gradually since the early 1960s. At the time Charles de Gaulle was the president of France. He enforced the politics of grandeur, according to which France had to restore its superpower position while Czechoslovakia was one of the satellites of the Soviet Union. Based on the research of historical sources with elements of qualitative content analysis of documents from the Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, I answer my question on how the phenomena related to de Gaulle's politics of grandeur between 1958 and 1969 were evaluated by Czechoslovak diplomacy. The archival documents show that Czechoslovak diplomacy was interested in French policy towards disarmament in the early 1960s when talks were held on this topic in Geneva, in which Czechoslovakia was directly involved. French rejection of disarmament agreements was always negatively assessed by Czechoslovak diplomacy, but over the time it ceased to be an obstacle to the development of mutual relations. The evaluation of French politics towards the countries of the West was full of contradictions. France's attitude towards the United States, whose influence in Europe was France trying to limit, was positively assessed, but France's rapprochement with West Germany was viewed...
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Czechoslovak diplomacy and its evaluation of De Gaulle's policy of grandeur between 1958 and 1969
Jiráčková, Magdaléna ; Matějka, Ondřej (advisor) ; Šmidrkalová, Michaela (referee)
Czechoslovak-French relations developed gradually since the early 1960s. At the time Charles de Gaulle was the president of France. He enforced the politics of grandeur, according to which France had to restore its superpower position while Czechoslovakia was one of the satellites of the Soviet Union. Based on the research of historical sources with elements of qualitative content analysis of documents from the Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, I answer my question on how the phenomena related to de Gaulle's politics of grandeur between 1958 and 1969 were evaluated by Czechoslovak diplomacy. The archival documents show that Czechoslovak diplomacy was interested in French policy towards disarmament in the early 1960s when talks were held on this topic in Geneva, in which Czechoslovakia was directly involved. French rejection of disarmament agreements was always negatively assessed by Czechoslovak diplomacy, but over the time it ceased to be an obstacle to the development of mutual relations. The evaluation of French politics towards the countries of the West was full of contradictions. France's attitude towards the United States, whose influence in Europe was France trying to limit, was positively assessed, but France's rapprochement with West Germany was viewed...
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The sources of thoughts of the Czechoslovak foreign policy after 1989
Česenková, Adéla ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Jeřábek, Petr (referee)
The bachelor thesis explores the sources of thoughts of the Czechoslovak foreign policy after 1989. The first aim of the thesis is to formulate general principles that laid foundations for the foreign policy planning. This is achieved by analysing the ideas of the three principal foreign policy representatives in the years from 1989 to 1992: president Václav Havel, minister of foreing affairs Jiří Dienstbier and prime minister Marián Čalfa. The second aim of the thesis is based on the analysis of the goals of the foreign policy after 1989 that captures the implementation of the respresentatives' sources of thoughts into the foreign policy planning and potential deflections from the original thoughts. In conclusion, majority of the principles formulated on the basis of a synthesis of the representatives' sources of thoughts influenced the foreign policy planning. Some deflections concerning the security cooperation in Europe were noticed.
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Czechoslovak-Cuban Cinematic Cooperation in the 1960s
Matušková, Magdaléna ; Opatrný, Josef (advisor) ; Štěpánek, Pavel (referee) ; Skřivan, Aleš (referee)
The study analyzes the largely understudied cinematic cooperation between Czechoslovakia and Cuba in the first decade following the Cuban Revolution. It is based mostly on archival documents from the former Central Directorship of Czechoslovak State Film, the ministry of education and culture and the ministry of foreign affairs. Several chapters also draw from oral history, data collected from series of interviews with Cuban technicians and artists who have worked in Cuban cinema since the 1960s as well as Czechoslovak experts who worked at the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industries in the 1960s. The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (CICAI), founded in March 1959 shortly after the triumph of the Revolution, faced a shortage of human and material resources since its inception. The film industry, which had been mostly in the hands of the Americans before 1959, lost much personnel due to mass emigration. Later on, due to the American blockade and embargo, it also lost its most important provider of films, material and equipment. The majority of CICAI's technician and artists were just starting and were lacking in technical knowledge required to make films. Czechoslovak State Film (CSF) offered extensive help to Cuban cinema, especially in the area of developing the...
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Journalist and politician Hubert Ripka
Pavlát, David ; Gebhart, Jan (advisor) ; Čechurová, Jana (referee) ; Kvaček, Robert (referee)
During the first republic, Hubert Ripka (1895-1958) was one of the most active democratic orientated journalists and closest colleagues of minister of foreign affairs and later president Edvard Beneš. His political and journalist beginnings are connected with national democratic group Mladá generace. What was crucial for Ripka's career was the split between left and right wings of Mladá generace in 1920, when he - after the victory of the right wing - withdrew. Antonín Pešl brought him to the Národní osvobození, which was associated with Československá obec legionářská and politics of Hrad. In the area of foreign policy he focused above all on monitoring political and cultural life in Jugoslavia, he became a secretary of Československo-jihoslovanská liga, member of Slovanský ústav, he contributed to the Jugoslavian periodicals and to the renovated Slovanský přehled. Ripka's most important lecture activity was associated with prestigious Klub Přítomnost. He worked in Lidové noviny since 1930, yet he still contributed to a lot of other periodicals. With growing threat of Pangermanism he concentrated on all kinds of support of Little Entente. He made informative foreign trips since 1932, from which he brought summary reports to E. Beneš. In 1934 he participated significantly in the programme of...
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The Role and Importance of M. R. Štefánik during the Formation of Czechoslovak Diplomacy
Gúcka, Dominika ; Veselý, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Šauer, Jaroslav (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyze the role and importance of Milan Rastislav Štefánik during the formation of Czechoslovak diplomacy. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first one focuses on the formation of Czechoslovakia, theory of diplomacy forming, and on a diplomat as a person involved in international relations. In the second chapter I deal with Czechoslovak foreign policy and its main representatives within the external resistance. The third chapter focuses on M. R. Štefánik and his personal and professional life, which helped him to obtain his diplomatic relations. I explain his relationship with Masaryk and Beneš and in the last subchapter I deal with the actual credits and importance of Štefánik based on a theoretical and conceptual framework.
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