http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/96185 Volume 2016 2026-04-20T06:51:01Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97207 Understanding Russia? Helping Ukraine? Poles and Germans on the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict Fomina, Joanna The paper analyses public opinion on the Russo-Ukrainian conflict in Germany and Poland in the context of the EU policy responses to it, utilising the concept of “strategic culture”. Seeing Russia as a military threat and attributing the main blame for the conflict to it makes people in both countries more likely to support Ukraine. However, it does not explain all the differences between the supporters and opponents of aiding Ukraine. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97208 A Structural Assessment of the U.S. Counterespionage Vis-à-vis Chinese Espionage Effort Kristlík, Tomáš This essay examines the historical context, structure and focus of the U.S. counterespionage, or institutionalized capability to detect and neutralize human assets or spies, its strengths and weaknesses; it provides an overview of the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) foreign espionage structure and methods deployed against the USA in the past. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97206 Sixteenth-century Mexican Architecture: Transmission of Forms and Ideas between the Old and New World Brenišínová, Monika This article deals with the subject of 16th century Mexican monastic architecture and its artistic embellishments. Its aim is to present the architecture and its decoration program within an appropriate historical context, putting a particular emphasis on the process of cultural transmission and subsequent changes between the Old and the New World. Some attention is also paid to the European art of the modern age with regard to the discovery of America and its impact on the western worldview (imago mundi). The article concludes that the Mexican culture represents an example of a very successful and vivid translation of Western culture (translatio studii) towards the America, albeit it stresses that the process of cultural transmission was reciprocal. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/97191 Příběhy falešných mesiášů. Židovská hereze Jakuba Franka a její reflexe v polské literatuře Benešová, Michala This paper examines the reflection of a heretical religious movement of the 18th century created by Jacob Frank in Polish literature, more particularly in the prose of Julian Stryjkowski, Aleksander Wat and Olga Tokarczuk. 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z