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Lebanese society involves the Western, i.e. liberal and democratic model, and the Islamic model of society as umma. This Lebanese model originated and has been maintained as a compromise between communities of different value paradigms where no significant shift can be expected as Lebanon is situated at the borders of their territorial expansion. According to my analysis on the basis of theoretical concepts of neo-realism and social constructivism the external players prevail over the internal players. External players have essential influence on the development of Lebanese society and state. It is also the regional status quo or regional and international order that influences the development in Lebanon and is responsible for almost every conflict, conflict initiation or struggle in Lebanon. Lebanese multiconfessional society has always made an effort to achieve and has achieved by itself a consensus for its coexistence. That is why the international community and organizations should promote and use their influence more to maintain the peaceful co-existence.

Bachelor thesis describes the formation and evolution of the Hamas movement on the background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it examines its ideology, terrorist methods and analyses the motivation of suicide martyrs. At the same time it deals with entities, which provide Hamas with financial and other support. The movement's popularity among Palestinians is manifested by the outcome of the last legislative elections, which are further analysed in this thesis. The text presents the viewpoints of both sides of the conflict as well as the views of representatives of the international community. Their inconsistency reflects the complexity of this conflict, the solution of which is currently at a stalemate. The aim of this thesis is to prove on the basis of relevant facts that Hamas is a barrier to peace, and outline up-to-date possibilities, which can help restart the peace process.

The aim of this bachelor's thesis is to analyze contemporary relations of Iran with the United States and European Union, states in the region, China and Russia. In the first chapter the history of Iran in the 20. century is mentioned, in more detail the second half of the 20. century. In the second chapter the situation in home politics in Iran - its development, structure, present state and influence of shia islam is described. In the key third chapter the foreign-political relations of Iran are analyzed. Development of the relations with certain country or union and then the main issues in the relations are mentioned in each part of the third chapter. First the relations with the United States and European Union are described. Nuclear programme and support of terrorism are the main issues. The iranian relations with countries in the region are following. They are divided into Arab states and Israel. In the part concerning Arab states the work lay stress on iranian influence in Iraq, relations with Saudi Arabia and Syria. The relations with Israel are influenced by nuclear programme and support of terrorism. The relations with China are especially concerned with trade with energy. The last part covers the relations with Russia. The main role plays in these relations oil in the Caspian sea ad relations with countries in the Central Asia and Caucasus. In the end the position of Iran on the international stage is considered.

The aim of this bachelor's thesis is an analysis of Syrian-Israeli Relations. The first chapter describes the history of their mutual relations from the period preceding the establishment of the State of Israel till the civil war in Lebanon. The second chapter is devoted to the Golan Heights issue, its importance, to the history of Israeli annexation, its international and legal aspects and to Israeli actions in the Golan. The third chapter deals with both stages of peace talks in the 90's and about the Syrian-Israeli Relations after 2000.

Bachelor thesis analyses reasons for the rise of Israel-Palestine dispute over Jerusalem, so called Question of Jerusalem. It provides a historical overview from the ancient biblical tradition to the contemporar state of peace process. The thesis place emphasis on analysis of the period of the second half of 19. century, the rise of arab nationalism, jewish sionism, as well as the formation of the state of Israel. The output of this bachelor thesis are possible variations of the future developtment in the Question of Jerusalem, predicating different state of israeli or arab administration over Jerusalem, supervision of international community, participation of resident population, security or economic developtment in the area. Finally, the thesis outlines the ideal variant of solution of the duspute over Jerusalem and conditions of it's realization.

The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze the conception of human rights in Islamic culture and to examine its influence on international relations. The essential method used to complete the analysis is a comparison of conceptions of human rights in western culture and in Islamic culture. This comparison is based on the most important documents involving human rights. Particular examination of different conceptions is posted in the case study of Pakistan based on Sharia and of secular Turkey. The thesis examines the hypothesis based on opinion, that the states practicing Sharia are not able to follow all the human rights as involved in the western conception of United Nations. Thus, position of those states in international relations is not as good as in case of the secular ones. Anyway, while analyzing various sources and factors, the hypothesis was found not as well-founded as it was supposed to be.

The thesis studies the human rights in Islam and evaluates them in concrete comparison of Muslim women's position in two different Muslim countries. It approaches two main human rights concepts: universalism and cultural relativism and describes the system and structure of Islamic law which determine all Muslims and Muslim society and therefore human rights perception itself. The diploma work follows two main goals:1) analysis of human rights from Islamic perspective, namely by its confrontation with prevalent universal model of human rights and 2) comparison of the status of Muslim woman in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The thesis is logically divided into four consequential parts. First two chapters introduce to theoretical issues of human rights and Islamic religion, the two other pivotal parts are concentrated on the above mentioned set goals. The objectivity of the thesis should be ensured by using various foreign-language sources of information from which studies and reports of international organizations such as United Nations, Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International form a considerable part.

This bachelor thesis deals with Islam in the politics of Arabian countries and with its culturally historical context. A case study is concerned with Saudi Arabia. As far as historical context is concerned, the thesis focuses on the territory of The Arabian peninsula, especially. The aim of the thesis is to find out, how Islam influenced a political organization in the individual state units from the time of the prophet Mohammed to the fall of the Ottoman Empire and how Islam influences a political organization of Saudi Arabia today. The thesis divides into three parts. The first part of the thesis devotes to historical context of Islam. A second part of the thesis deals with Islamic culture including its duties and practices, Islamic law sharia or cultural dimensions of Arabian world according to the studies of Geert Hofstede. The last part of the thesis is the case study.

This thesis looks into the ways in which religion influenced the civil war in Lebanon. The basis for the analysis of religious influence is taken from several theoretical publications dealing with the general ways in which religion influences politics and international relations. Based on those theories, the thesis examines the influence of religion on the civil war in three parts. First, it examines the effect of religion on the identity of the participants in the war. Second, it shows to what extend religion was used as a source of legitimacy by those participants. Third, it ascertains whether religion encouraged the internationalization of the civil war. At the end, religion is compared with the other factors which explain the outbreak, the process and the nature of the civil war in Lebanon.

Práce pojednává o aktuálních událostech spojených s arménskou genocidou v Osmanské říši v letech 1915-1923. Zaměřuje se na roli otázky genocidy v zahraniční politice Arménie i Turecka. Pro Turecko také ve vztahu se vstupem do EU. Práce zkoumá arménskou genocidu z pohledu mezinárodního práva a také otázku mezinárodního uznání arménské genocidy v posledních letech. Jsou v ní také shrnuté vztahy mezi Arménii a ČR a možné perspektivy vývoje těchto vztahů.

Diplomová práce se snaží systematizovat koncept multikulturalismu a jeho možné přispění k méně konfliktnímu vývoji mezinárodních vztahů. Obsahuje rozpracovaní příkladu Kanady, jako multikulturního společenství.