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The diploma thesis aims to describe the concept of Fascism in thought of Pier Paolo Pasolini. The interpretation of Pasolini's thought is based on a more general approach to the question of Fascism in Italy, to Marxist theories of Fascism, as well as to the theories of Emilio Gentile, Zeev Sternhell and Roger Griffin. The literary-theoretical and social-political parts of Pier Paolo Pasolini's thought are particularly examined. Key words Fascism, Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian society, Modernism, Antonio Gramsci, Marxism, Emilio Gentile, Zeev Sternhell, Roger Griffin, Robert Paxton, Roland Barthes

The thesis concerns women's rights and their role in the U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan from 2001-2021. The first part focuses on the historical events of the twentieth century that shaped women's rights in Afghanistan. The second focuses on the U.S.' military intervention in terms of the gender reforms implemented on the territory of Afghanistan. The third part examines the rights of Afghan women during the U.S. military intervention. And the last part provides an analysis of the factors that influenced the effectiveness of the gender reforms in Afghanistan.

The master thesis focuses on similarities and disparities in the politics of memory related to the 'forgotten' Romani Holocaust in Slovakia and Hungary after 1989. It scrutinizes based on particular topic areas to what extent is the Romani Holocaust marginalized, excluded or integrated into the historical narratives of nation-states and whether it can be classified as a competitive or multidirectional form of memory. The reference point for the comparative discursive analysis represents the Jewish Holocaust. By employing the discourse-historical approach, the thesis attempts to identify various current or long-term strategies of instrumentalizing the Romani Holocaust in specific politics of memory. Moreover, it endeavours to find out which role can the Romani Holocaust play in forming the national identity in these states or its potential endangering.

Main subject of this paper is political discourse of the Czech version of the "Three-strikes" law, which is an amendment of the law n. 111/2006, About help in material need. Amendment was submitted on 27.9.2018 by legislators led by Jan Baeur. Three-strikes law was promulgated in the collection of laws 8.9.2021 as law n.327/2021 and entered into force on 1.1.2022. The subject of the analysis will be shorthand records from parliamentary debate. The goal of analysis is to identify key arguments and their interpretation in David Garland' theory of culture of control. The work is divided into three main parts. In the first theoretical part I will study Garland' theory of culture of control and concepts of zero tolerance policies, three-strikes laws and problems of welfare surveillance. In the second part, I will examine the history of these policies both in Czech and international environment and I will try to place these policies into the theory of culture of control. In this section, I will analyse the Czech version of the three-strikes law in the history of Czech security development. In the third part, I will perform thematic analysis of parliamentary debate of three-strikes law in MAXQDA software. Key words: thee-strikes laws, culture of control, David Garland, zero tolerance, welfare...

This thesis will focus on what influence Taiwan has on the mutual relations and rivalry between China and the United States of America. The thesis will focus mainly on the events after 2012, when Xi Jingping took office as the Chinese president, which resulted in a transformation of Chinese foreign policy. The research will be conducted using the theoretical concepts of the Thucydides Trap and the Security Dilemma. In the second part of the thesis, using the scenario method, it will be investigated what a change in the current status quo in Taiwan would mean for both superpowers.

The thesis deals with Vladimir Medem, one of the leading theorists of the national question in the Jewish Bund, and his concept of national- cultural autonomy. The first part of the thesis focuses on answering the question of why it was necessary to create a specifically Bundist concept of national-cultural autonomy. Therefore, in addition to the important milestones in the development of the Bund's national program - from the proto-Bundist circles in Vilna in the 1890s to its split in 1917 - the context of the emergence of this concept is also provided. Naturally, the debates on the national question did not take place in isolation from the great debates of that time, and therefore the Bundist program was a synthesis of the discussions of Marxism, socialism, and the national (Jewish) question during that period. The second part of the thesis focuses on Medem's texts and his conception of national-cultural autonomy. This concept was meant to solve the problem that the Jewish minority faced as a nation "without territory". As this concept was developed in dialogue with Austro-Marxism and the Bolsheviks, my thesis concludes with an attempt to compare the national policies of all three currents.

Focus of thesis is Liberal Institute and its role in establishment of ideology of right-wing politicians and parties after November 1989. Focus of research is relationship between Liberal institute as actor and government or political parties. Objective is to determine how important participant was Liberal institute in process of neoliberalism rising from marginal theory to key element of ideology of government of Civic Democratic Party and prime minister Václav Klaus. Liberal institute was one of the first think tanks in Czech Republic. Therefore, research will be done by methods which will facilitate describing its behavior during economic or democratic transition. Thesis will be divided between two parts. In theoretical part will be description of neoinstitutional approach toward institutions and Liberal Institute as actor in political process. It will outline reasons for founding of Liberal Institute, his goals, who founded it and its role in politics. It is the kind of institution which did not exist before founding of Liberal institute. Empirical part will illustrate how important actor Liberal institute was and how it managed promote ideology of neoliberalism. Several occasions will be used like privatization laws or liberalization of market. Keywords: Liberal Institute, neoliberalism,...

In this diploma thesis, the subject of research will be the topic of collective memory in Ukraine and Poland. The goal of the work will be to perform a comparative qualitative analysis of current historiographical discourses of the politics of memory devoted to the Ukrainian insurgent army (sometimes inaccurately referred to as "Bandera Movement") in Ukraine and Poland. The theoretical framework of the work will be studies of collective memory. The aim of the work will be to perform a qualitative analysis of deeper epistemic assumptions of Ukrainian and Polish political discourse. The work will examine how the UPA is represented in political memories in Poland and Ukraine, respectively, how the professional "truth" is constructed, which is behind the attitude of both societies, to which individuals with a deeper interest come closer. The purpose of this work is to identify a deeper - historiographical - subsoil of political thought, which is reflected in the discourses of Polish and Ukrainian politicians, historians or representatives of memory institutions or publicists and which is the source of their argumentation. Key words: Collective memory, discourse analysis, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Poland, Ukraine, memory distinctions, legacy

This bachelor thesis deals with the issue of influencing large technology corporations in the policy areas of the United States within the concept of civic oligarchy. The first chapter presents the development of crucial definitions of oligarchy from the Greek philosopher Platon to the American political scientist Jeffrey Winters. The second chapter is devoted to describing the oligarchy in the United States, the rise of companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon with the definitions that accompany the oligarchy. The historical period of the Gilded Age as a forerunner of the present is also briefly introduced. The third part points out the corporation's practices character of the civic oligarchy such as lobbying, influencing elections, and tax evasion. The fourth part groups solutions to the problem of the oligarchy in the United States by economists, lawyers, and political scientists. The conclusion is a summary of all aspects of the work in order to prove or refute the possibility of applying the concept of civic oligarchy in the United States to technology corporations. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The work will focus on the influence of soft power, which will be operationalized mainly as Russian propaganda activities during the Russian-Ukrainian conflict at the time when Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula. Its empirical core will be a comparison of the news coverage of the beginnings of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis by the international media network paid by the Russian government Russia Today and the Czech tabloid parliamentary website Parlamentní listy, which is often included in public debate as pro-Russian or "disinformation" media. In the theoretical part, the work will focus on the concept of "soft power" (especially in relation to Joseph Nye) and sharp power, and their usefulness for the analysis of Russian propaganda. The author will focus mainly on the extent to which the narratives used in the Russia Today broadcast are used in the contributions of Parlamentní listy and whether this Czech media can be considered as pro-Russian or not. Subsequently, after a brief description of the conflict and selected media, the work will focus on comparison the discourses of these media in two short periods of time. In this analysis, the author will focus on narrative constructions, the degree of legitimacy and, using a combination of qualitative quantitative analysis, will examine the difference...

This thesis concerns analysis of climate and ecological crisis by realism in international relations. Firstly, realism is defined in contrast with neoliberalism. Next chapter describes Latour's and Moore's analyses of the causes of these crises, which identify the dichotomy between humans and non-human nature, the concept of nature as a passive object, accumulation of capital, and extractivist relationship with non-human nature. It is shown that attempts to synthesize realism and ecological thought cannot take these causes into consideration; therefore, these attempts are considered flawed. Thus, the degrowth movement is introduced as an alternative reaction to these crises, which overcomes their causes, but which does not present a comprehensive vision of global transformation. The last chapter offers a neo-gramscian analysis of international transition to degrowth. Key words international relations theory, ecorealism, New Climatic Regime, Capitalocene, degrowth

This bachelor's thesis deals with a perception of physicians in the Czech society. It is investigated with the use of critical discourse analysis. The thesis begins with an Introduction and Methods. The third chapter offers a basic overview of the structure of the Czech health care system, which eventually provides summary of important political factors influencing the health care. The fourth chapter analyzes a union strike Děkujeme, odcházíme, the most important doctors' protest since nineties. The fifth chapter investigates position of female physicians in the Czech Republic, their perception inside the medical community and how this perception contributes to power asymmetry between men and women in health care. Last chapter analyses statements of medical experts during COVID crisis. The point of this chapter to demonstrate how medical experts use their expertise to involve themselves into the broad social debate and how the public perception limits their involvement. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Both the theoretical outlines of a solution to the climate and ecological crisis, as well as concrete efforts at environmental reform and energy transformation, often run into the ambivalent role of organised labour, particularly trade unions, in todays growth-oriented, fossil-fuel based economy. On the one hand, trade unions often already formally endorse the ideal of sustainability, on the other hand, in concrete environmental conflicts, they often the side with "jobs" against climate and environmental protections, and thus serve as a support of the growth-oriented fossil economy. The concept of a just transition, embodying the attempts at creating a framework in which the interests of workers and climate protection can be reconciled, thus also becomes ambivalent, serving often as a basis for arguments against more ambitious decarbonization. The aim of this thesis, drawing on the theoretical framework of critical political ecology, is to explore the possibilities of solving this dilemma in the case of Czech trade unions. On the basis of interviews with their various representatives, it will try to answer the questions: 1) what political strategy is shaping the policies of Czech trade unions in the sphere of climate and energy policy, 2) how do these trade unions see their role in the proces of a...

The main goal of this paper is to trace the formation of nation-states in Central Asia, primarily during the second half of the 19th and the first quarter of the 20th century. Although soviets played a significant role in shaping modern Central Asian political map, local national elites (like Alash Orda and jadids) and tsarist officials had contributed to this process as well. Thus, it is necessary to understand the interrelationship between all these key actors. Key words Central Asia, Bolshevism, nationalism, Turkism, nation-states

NÁZEV: Kořeny studené války AUTOR: Aneta Kostková KATEDRA: Ústav politologie VEDOUCÍ PRÁCE: Mgr. Martin Štefek, Ph.D. Abstrakt V této bakalářské práci se budeme zabývat tématem studené války. Budeme analyzovat příčiny a předpoklady jejího vzniku. Její kořeny budeme hledat již v předválečné éře a poté zejména v průběhu druhé světové války. Zaměříme se na analýzu diplomatických jednání mezi politickými aktéry Sovětského svazu, Spojených států amerických a Velké Británie, zejména se budeme soustředit na vzájemné vztahy mezi jednotlivými vůdci. V tomto směru budeme analyzovat narativy jednání Velké trojky během Postupimské konference a Jaltské konference. Budeme sledovat, jak došlo k vyprofilování dvou supervelmocí Sovětského svazu a Spojených států amerických a zejména se zaměříme, jak se vyvíjel vztah mezi těmito dvěma zeměmi a jak dospěly k vzájemnému antagonistickému postoji. Také se budeme zabývat dokumenty, které byly po druhé světové válce projednávány a přijaty. Zejména se zaměříme na problematiku Marshallova plánu a Trumanovy doktríny. Kořeny studené války budeme koncipovat jako historickou práci. Klíčová slova: Kořeny, Studená válka, mezinárodní vztahy, diplomacie

This paper analyzes China and european postcommunist states relations in Xi Jinpings era. This era is specific in chinese attemps to resolve its economic position into a international power position. This paper discuss various approaches to chinese goals and power concepts. Examines if it is a domination or hegemony concept, or a new power concept which can be described only by reconstruction of chinese traditions. Tha main issues of this paper are chinese reasons of interest in european postcommunist states, success of its foreign policy goals in this area and reasons which led to either failing or success its goals. To answer these issues will be analyzed specific methods of promoting chinese influence in 16+1 iniciative and also will be reconstructed chinese power concept. To analyse specific factors in individual states this paper includes a case study of three european postcommunist states - Czech republic, Hungary and Poland.

The goal of this bachelor thesis is to peek into thoughts mechanisms of Soviet and United States society through propaganda posters they published during the World War II. I suppose, that the conversation about something indicates something about ourselves as well (by the selection of expressions or by the subject of debate). Simultaneously I inspire myself by the specific semiological approach developed by Roland Barthes. He claims that every communication has certain secondary meaning that is submitted to the recipients for some purpose. I perceive propaganda posters as a communication that has its own admitted, declared part but at the same time it also has secondary, latent part which is not very obvious at first, but it is necessary to decode it. This mentioned decoding of secondary communication will occur in three topics which I established. Firstly I will analyze how indicated societies pictured themselves. Secondly I will focus on the picture of the enemy. Third theme will be dedicated to the picture of women. In the final part I will compare how indicated societies pictured chosen topics. Keywords: Propaganda, mythology, USSR, USA

(in English): This thesis deals with role of religion within public sphere, in both theoretical and practical terms. In form of a comparative case study, it will analyze the relationship between the role of religion (especially various forms of Christianity) in the political culture of the Czech Republic and Germany, and in the intensity and form of Islamophobia in public debate in the two countries. The theoretical framework will have as its basis Roger Brubaker's concept of Christianism and Jürgen Habermas's idea of religion within public sphere. In both countries the author will analyse debate evolved around criticism of Charlie Hebdo's cartoons, emerged in the public discourse after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris in 2015, by analysing different media German and Czech outlets. In both countries she will analyse how references to religion and certain argumentative patterns have been used in the public debate and possibly how they influenced Muslim immigration discourse.

This case study is dedicated to the Russian counter-revolutionary policies that were developed in response to the heavily supported democracy promotion by the western countries and the so- called colour revolutions in Russia's near abroad, being Rose revolution in Georgia, Orange revolution in Ukraine and Tulip revolution in Kyrgyzstan. Why did these events invoke the need to create a patriotic civil society inside Putin's regime? What tools were used to create such patriotic civil society? In this context, the thesis considers the role of political technologists Gleb Pavlovsky and Vladislav Surkov, the main engineers of counter-revolutionary policies and authors of the sovereign democracy concept. The thesis will analyse the role of the government organised youth movement Nashi that developed an anti-fascist discourse based on sovereign democracy. I connect the concept of civil society with thoughts of political philosophers such as John Locke, Thomas Paine, Robert Putnam and Alexis de Tocqueville who associated the civil society concept with certain civic virtues. Petr Kopecký and Cas Mudde provide the theoretical framework to classify the concept of ‚uncivil society'. Finally, the youth movement Nashi is classified based on criteria associated with ‚civil' and ‚uncivil' society. Key words: colour...

ŠUPOVÁ, Kateřina. Reflection of structural and political conditions in the ideology and practice of Islamic groups - the so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda (Master's thesis). Charles University in Prague. Faculty of Arts. Department of Political Science. Tutor: Zora Hesová, M.A., Ph.D. 2019. p. 84. In this thesis the author's main goal is to analyze the strategy and propaganda of the Islamic state in relation to the strategy of Al Qaeda. Emphasis is on studying the intentions and capabilities of each group by examining the ideology, goals, warfare, tactics, propaganda etc. What was the reason for the split? Martha Crenshaw's instrumental and organizational perspectives were very useful for analysis. As well as a concept of Michael Arena and Bruce Arriga deals with identity and propaganda in collaboration with Ervin Goffman, who deals with the theory of self-presentation, By analyzing various documents, declarations by the Islamic state and al-Qaeda there is outlined an ideological, apocalyptic and strategic movement shift. Keywords: ideology, propaganda, strategy, Islamic state, al-Qaeda, terrorism, identity

The bachelor thesis will focus on the evolution and development of peace negotiations concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The theoretical part will try to outline the basic definition of the term peace and its possible forms along with reflection on its sustainability from optics of realism and constructivism approach. The practical part will describe forms of the peace process itself between two nations and analyze the most important barriers in these efforts. The aim of the work is to analyze approaches of the Palestinian and Israeli parties towards previously defined obstacles and subsequent analysis of changes of those approaches during the peace process to the present time. Key words: peace, negotiations, peace process, Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, barriers

The thesis captures the anti-Islamic protest between 2015-2016, which accelerated after the attack on the Paris editorial of Charlie Hebdo on 7 January 2015 and during the so-called refugee crisis. The author analyzes short interviews she made at demonstrations organized especially by the group around the Facebook page Islam in the Czech Republic, and from semi-structured interviews with selected participants, as well as from participating observations at demonstrations. Using a discursive analysis and biographical method of work, she creates an ideological map of the movement, its basic tropics, and the attitudes. This ideological map consists of three perspectives: In the first chapter, a image of distant another, created mainly through media experience, involving the image of Muslims and Islam. In the second chapter, the image of close another created in a longer-term perspective and in opposition to one's own political and social identity. In the second chapter, the author also describes how the image of those who do not belong to the community (nation, state, Europe) is constructed. The third perspective is the image of the West, which combines elements of both distant and close another. The perspective that emerges in each of these chapters is a gender perspective and how different images of...

This bachelor thesis deals with the UN and the EU models of development cooperation, with emphasis on helping to overcome poverty. It focuses on several aspects: historical development, institutional framework, and management of development aid. It attempts to clarify what the extreme poverty is, how development policy criteria were formed, and how the intensity of the aid has changed. Most importantly is to answer the question, whether regarding development policies of these two huge international actors we could speak of social justice. Key words Development Policy, UN, EU, Social Justice, Poverty, Sub-Sahara Africa

The diploma thesis deals with Marxist philosophy in Czechoslovakia between 1956 and 1968, it focuses especially on Marxist humanism. The XX. Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956 and the Khrushchev's critique of Stalinism gave opportunity for critical approach in Marxist philosophy. Marxist humanism came with the turn to questions of man and his world and it refused the dehumanizing system of Stalinism. The campaign against revisionism was led in regimes of the Eastern Block between 1956 and 1960 as a reaction to critical efforts in Marxist theory and practice. The campaign against revisionism was led in Czechoslovakia against efforts of separation philosophy from ideology or emphasis to Hegelian origins of Marxism. Areas where was evolving critical thinking and original approach to Marxism were arising in the 1950s and especially in 1960s in Czechoslovakia. Examples of this areas were the Institute of Philosophy of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the dialogue between Marxists and Christians. In this thesis I examine thinking of Karel Kosík, Robert Kalivoda and Milan Machovec on questions of history and man. Through these themes I show different approaches to Marxist humanism in Czechoslovakia between the 1950s and 1960s. Marxist humanism is often seen as an unitary...

This thesis is focused on the theoretical bases of contemporary analysis of Turkish nationalism and Turkish identity. The first part of this thesis in two chapters provides a brief review of the historical development of Turkish nationalism and the main sources of its ideas, and then summarizes the evolution of theoretical debates on the nationalism and shows the most influent theories of the end of 20th century. The main part of the thesis analyzes texts of contemporary Turkish experts concerned with Turkish nationalism in the book Milliyetçilik. The analysis is focused in detail on four main topics. The aim of the analysis is to show how today's Turkish experts approach the study of Turkish nationalism and which thoughts and theoretical bases they work with.

The goal of the bachelor thesis is to analyse the role of soft power in international environment from the point of view of the Power Transition Theory. The main issue is the position of soft power in the conflict emerging during the period of changing global dominance. Hypothesis assumes the challenger state in 21st century prefers to use soft power means rather than traditional military conflict for the purpose of changing status quo and reaching dominance in international environment. The case for application this proposition will be foreign policy of People's Republic of China, which seems like a potential challenger to present dominating United States in medium-term horizon.

Barbora Chrzová Citizenship Rhetorics in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Enacting Citizenship and Nationality in a Divided Country Abstract: This thesis deals with the rhetorical dimension of citizenship in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The disputed legitimacy of Bosnian statehood, ethnicization of every-day life, and a multilayered citizenship regime which leaves little space for purely civic loyalties to the state, pose an important challenge to the symbolic dimension of Bosnian citizenship. Drawing upon rhetorical approaches to citizenship, this thesis analyses how citizenship was crafted on the discursive level; how various actors formulated the question of 'who is a Bosnian citizen', how their narratives interacted and influenced each other. The thesis specifically focuses on two series of protests, the so-called 'JMBG protests' that took place in June 2013 and the 'Social uprising' which arose in February 2014. The protests challenged the dominant ethno- national framework and represented periods of intensive debates on fundamental questions of citizenship. The analysis has shown that the emptiness of the notion of Bosnian citizenship makes its discursive constructions largely context-dependent and shifting. The boundary between 'the citizens' and 'the elites,' however, appeared as a salient societal cleavage that...

India and Pakistan: Security dilemma? Abstract The Bachelor thesis is focused on the india-pakistan conflict and answers the question if it's existence is a result of the reaslist concept of security dilemma. According to Tang countries are trapped in security dilemma only if 3 main causes of security dilemma are present. Those causes are anarchy, acummulation of power and lack of malign intention. To answer the question the presence of these charakteristics is observed. Secondary target of this bachelor thesis is to observe the impact of material and psychical modificators on the spiral of security dilemma in the India-Pakistan conflict.

and key words My Bachelor's thesis is focusing on the influence of the British domination on the identity of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. In the first part I present the theoretical framework in which I explain key terms such as identity, nation and nationalism. In the second and the third chapter I map British colonialism and the historical development of the Hong Kong's national identity under the British domination. The main part of my thesis focuses on how specifically the influence of British domination was expressed in relation to the national identity of the Hong Kong people. An integral part of my thesis is the relationship between Hong Kong and Mainland China. Key words: Hong Kong, China, identity, nation, Great Britain

The subject of the thesis is the Czech Republic parliamentary debate about a national referendum spanning from 1989 to 2014. It is mapping the evolution of the debates on the base of stenographic protocols from the proceedings concerning national referendum bill, as discussed by Chamber of deputies of the Czech Republic. The theoretical part of the thesis is based on current debates about direct democracy. The metodological part of the thesis is using concepts and terminology of the discoursive approach of R. Wodak. Based on this approach, the analysis of the debates is focusing on the main discoursive elements, those are, context framing, inter - discoursive relations, the main issues of the debates, reasoning and identification of the participants. The second level analysis is putting the debates about national referendum into the the context with contemporary debates about direct democracy. In the last part of the thesis the results of the analysis are discussed.

In this paper I will analyze contemporary politics of memory on the basis of their temporal orientation face to face to the end of history. I will follow on the one hand theories of perception of time in regards of social dimension of an agent's identity of Henri Bergson and Jean-Paul Sartre applied on Pierre Nora's work, and on the other hand I will try to join those philosophical concepts with Ricouer's and MacIntyre's narrative approach. This theoretical base will subsequently allow me to elaborate on political temporality oriented to the sacred eternity, to the future or to the past and confront it with the hypothesis of the end of history as conceptualized by Francis Fukuyama. Politics of memory gains in this classification a peculiar status - being oriented either towards the past denying the end of history, or oriented towards diffused individualized future. The second type of politics of memory aims to heal society from history, still present in painful memory, and support establishing of post-historic reality. Paradoxically, I will argue, both types of politics of memory allow history in Fukuyma's sense to pass the threshold.

The main subject of this thesis is the attitude of political parties to the implementation of gender quotas and their approach to feminism as well. The thesis looks at the differences between the opinions of individuals, for example, whether there is a different approach between men and women. Also another important aspect is the influence of the European Union and for example the divergent approach of the politicians of the particular parties in the EU, compared to their Czech counterparts. The context of this issue is the historical development of feminism in Czech Republic, ir in Czechoslovakia, which is important for understanding the current state. The stigmatization of feminism, which has its roots in the 1990s, is reflected in both public and political views today. The second contextual level is the public's attitude, which is also influenced by the anti-feminist wave, and I believe that whose views reflex our political representatives. I look at different approaches and opinion levels on the background of two proposals for gender quotas that have been debated in Parliament since 2009.

The presented work is devoted to the development of Czech environmental movement in 1990's which is accompanied by academic debate about de-radicalisation. The aim of the thesis is to explore what sort of particular changes in the field of political ideas could be identified behind notional de-radicalisation. For this purpose is first laid out the historical context within which the movements were created onto their political ideals. It is followed by an introduction of the theoretical approaches to analyse these ideologies, outlining the basic methodological assumptions for a morphological analysis of the journals of Hnuti Duha. This analysis shows that between the periods 1991-1994 and 1998-2000 can be seen significant ideological transformations that are linked both with the inclination to certain elements of conservative thought and partly an inclination to a non-political politics. Key words green political thinking, ideology, morphological analysis, environmental movement

Korean nationalism is a phenomenon dating back to 70's of the 19th century. My work focuses on its roots and background factors influencing its origin and development till 1945. For the theoretical frame, I use Clifford Geertz with his essentialism and epochalism in context with social Darwinism, an influential theory of that time. My work explains the role of Japan and its modernity from the perspective of Korean intellectuals.

The master thesis deals with the historical development of humanitarian aid against the backdrop of transformations of the world order. Firstly, the thesis scrutinizes the differences between the classical humanitarianism of the Red Cross and the so-called new humanitarianism, which emerged during the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970). Secondly, the thesis demonstrates that although the new humanitarianism tends to be presented in an opposition to and as a more historically advanced form of the classic humanitarianism, when examined in a more detailed manner, the two humanitarian approaches face similar dilemmas in relation to political power. The overcoming of the "end of history" era, which gave rise and prominence to the new humanitarianism, opened discussion about the alternatives to the future of the world order. This shift allows us to formulate the main argument of the thesis - the evolution of the humanitarianism should not be seen as teleological and linear but as a continuous process in which both the classic and the new humanitarianism need to balance between strict legalism which can lead to moral failure and exaggerated moralism which can have consequences contradicting the basic principles of humanitarian action. Keywords: classical humanitarianism, new humanitarianism, human rights,...

This thesis examines the development of relations between mainland France (center) and its peripheries, French Polynesia and New Caledonia, which are located in the South Pacific. The thesis aims at answering the following questions: which factors have played a role in the mobilization of the peripheral cultures against the dominant center? How has the center reacted to the peripheral mobilization and its demands? Why has the separatism become much stronger in New Caledonia than in French Polynesia? The thesis examines the historical, societal and political developments in French Polynesia and New Caledonia since the dawn of their colonization till the present day in order to respond to the stipulated questions.

Václav Drozd Object oriented political theory? A contribution of object oriented philosophy for political theory Abstract (in English): This diploma thesis is concerned with the turn to materiality and object in contemporary philosophy and explores its impact on political theory. It focuses on conceptions trying to reformulate the relation between subject and object, culture and nature or human and inhuman entities - symetrical ontology of Bruno Latour, speculative realism and object-oriented ontology. The aim of the study is to identify the benefits of these aproaches for political theory. The first frame topic important for investigated theories is the relation of human and state towards complex technologies. The second general topic is the existence under conditions of anthropocene and climate change. Keywords: anthropocene, speculative realism, object, corelationism, actor, vibrant matter, technologies, symmetry, actor-network-theory, Latour

This thesis will deal with a topic of the second Czechoslovak republic as a case of authoritarian situation, which transforms into authoritarian regime. The regime of the second republic will be compared with similar cases of interwar Portugal and Austria. Also, conditions of establishing democracy and its preservation, the influence of individual branches of the nondemocratic right on breakdown of democracy, authoritarian situation and building of authoritarian regime will be analyzed. In the end, this thesis will focus on cases of borrowing elements of fascist political style by mentioned regimes.

The aim of this thesis is to record The historical development of political and political science concept of Universal Basic Income, it tries to map from its beginnings to the present. This thesis will handle the Universal Basic Income as that described by Thomas More and by Johannes Ludovicus Vives. Thesis will focus on their later critics from series of economic and philosophical thinkers and political scientists. UBI will build on these theorists modern ideas which will then be compared with previous authors. This thesis will show the development and deepening of ideas of Universal Basic Income through comparison of the concept of individual authors.

This bachelor's thesis focuses on the dynamics of electoral support of Norwegian Fremskrittspartiet (FrP), classified here as 'functional equivalent' to the far right parties. It examines the puzzling decline in FrP's electoral support in the capital Oslo. The party's electoral support in Oslo was traditionally 30% higher than in the rest of Norway. However, since 2001, the trend has gone in the opposite direction and today, the party's electoral support in Oslo is 30% lower than in the country as a whole. I hypothesize, that this turnover was provoked by shifts in party's ideology. FrP has moved toward centre in the economic dimension and, more importantly, it has undertaken a significant authoritarian move in the cultural dimension. After analyzing the influence of both demand-side and supply-side factors on the FrP electoral support, I compare the changes in FrP's ideology with the development of Norwegian electorate's policy preferences. While not underestimating the demand-side factors and the institutional and political setting, I conclude that the party's internal development could be of crucial importance in order to understand the dynamics of its electoral support.

(thefts of socialist property) This diploma thesis observes how the problems of thefts of socialist property in Czechoslovakia were presented in the Rudé právo, the press body of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, between 1986 and 1989, or which discrepancies appeared in this presentation. The view on thefts of socialist property in the terms of law comes before the real core of the thesis - by putting stress on the definition of the socialist property in the Constitution, the given criminal act in the Penal Code, the view of the juristic literature on the social dangerousness of the given action, here represented by the Socialistická zákonnost journal. Afterwards the author focuses on how the problems of thefts (but also that of protection) of socialist property were related to the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (or rather to its officials), top managers and rank and file employees, which he illustrates on particular cases. In the end the author compares the articles of the Rudé právo with some empirical findings - in relation to the survey of the Institute for public opinion poll by the Federal statistical office about the discipline and the check on the workplace, in relation to the statistics about the economic criminal activity mentioned in the German written...

The objective of this thesis is to determine whether Nagorno-Karabakh can act autonomously with respect to internal and external sovereignty and whether a sense of Nagorno-Karabakh identity exists. The subject will be examined as a single case study with the application of the concept of weak states to the quasi-state Nagorno-Karabakh. The paper will first review the historical development of relations among Azerbaijan, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. It will then focus on the foreign policy and the internal structure of Nagorno-Karabakh, presenting an analysis of its constitution as well as electoral and party systems. Furthermore, the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh identity will be explored. The conclusion of the thesis aims to evaluate the extent to which Nagorno-Karabakh is capable of acting autonomously. Key words Nagorno Karabakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Quasi-State, South Caucasus, Armenian Foreign Policy