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Vietnamese Political Power, Authority and Legitimacy in the Context of Emulation Movements
Homutová, Lada ; Buben, Radek (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ondřej (referee) ; Strašáková, Mária (referee)
This dissertation thesis centres on the stability and instability of the Vietnamese communist regime, and how to understand this topic today. This problem was explored with the help of an imported political tool, which Vietnam adopted from the USSR, through China, in the late 1940s, and which experienced a revival in modern economically liberalised Vietnam: emulation movements. This thesis assumed that historic and current emulation movements were designed to control, but also to bring legitimacy or a 'legitimacy effect' (and the related stability), through their different functions. It asked how they succeeded in this task comparatively, in their historic and current incarnations. The framework of functions of emulation movements in Vietnam combined with the theoretical concepts of David Beetham, Max Weber and Robert Lamb served as basic theoretical tenets. The thesis concluded that emulation indeed helped create foundational regime legitimacy and offered possible links to a new communist doctrine. The thesis showed that a predominance of successful legitimization, combined with legitimacy effect and Ho Chi Minh's charisma, helped stabilize the DRV regime, especially until 1954. The analysis of present-day emulation movements, however, showed the weakness of the VCP as it struggles to fulfil the...
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Vietnamese-Khmer relations and the third Indochina conflict
Homutová, Lada ; Karlová, Petra (advisor) ; Strašáková, Mária (referee)
This thesis examines Vietnamese-Khmer relations, with emphasis on the twentieth century, analysing reasons for their development in both international and domestic fields. This study concentrates on the acts of aggresion deeply rooted in the continuing conflicts concerning the Mekong river delta territory. In order to determine the factors which have influenced diplomatic relations between these two countries in the field of international politics, emphasis was focused on allied relations between East Asian countries and the influence of the United States and Soviet Union. The role of the Kampuchean National United Front for National Salvation, a Khmer resistance organization formed with the help of Vietnam, has been examined to further explain the overthrowal of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. However, attention must also be drawn to the subsequent Veitnamese invasion of the Democratic Kampuchea. Consequentially, this study investigates a final solution for the developing Vietnamese-Cambodian border relations.
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Development and changes of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Homutová, Lada ; Buben, Radek (advisor) ; Koubek, Jiří (referee)
This thesis focuses on the study of factionalism in the Communist Party of Vietnam and relates it to the recent problems of the Vietnamese regime. In order to determine the causes of the current crisis in Vietnam and introduce the environment in which Vietnamese elites operate, this study analyses both formal and informal structures of the political system of Vietnam and the principles of their functioning. This thesis criticizes misleading usage of faction as an analytical tool in the works on Vietnam and presents Andrew Nathan's factional model elaborated for China which is applied to Vietnam in a slightly changed form. We present evidence showing that the central political arena in Vietnam displays factional characteristics. Those findings are linked to the problem immobilism in Vietnam which is connected with instability caused by the absence of political initiatives and needed reforms (mainly the political one). Attention is also drawn to the need for the development of a theory of factionalism. Key words: The Communist Party of Vietnam, factional theories, political system of Vietnam
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Vietnamese Political Power, Authority and Legitimacy in the Context of Emulation Movements
Homutová, Lada ; Buben, Radek (advisor) ; Klimeš, Ondřej (referee) ; Strašáková, Mária (referee)
This dissertation thesis centres on the stability and instability of the Vietnamese communist regime, and how to understand this topic today. This problem was explored with the help of an imported political tool, which Vietnam adopted from the USSR, through China, in the late 1940s, and which experienced a revival in modern economically liberalised Vietnam: emulation movements. This thesis assumed that historic and current emulation movements were designed to control, but also to bring legitimacy or a 'legitimacy effect' (and the related stability), through their different functions. It asked how they succeeded in this task comparatively, in their historic and current incarnations. The framework of functions of emulation movements in Vietnam combined with the theoretical concepts of David Beetham, Max Weber and Robert Lamb served as basic theoretical tenets. The thesis concluded that emulation indeed helped create foundational regime legitimacy and offered possible links to a new communist doctrine. The thesis showed that a predominance of successful legitimization, combined with legitimacy effect and Ho Chi Minh's charisma, helped stabilize the DRV regime, especially until 1954. The analysis of present-day emulation movements, however, showed the weakness of the VCP as it struggles to fulfil the...
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Development and changes of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Homutová, Lada ; Buben, Radek (advisor) ; Koubek, Jiří (referee)
This thesis focuses on the study of factionalism in the Communist Party of Vietnam and relates it to the recent problems of the Vietnamese regime. In order to determine the causes of the current crisis in Vietnam and introduce the environment in which Vietnamese elites operate, this study analyses both formal and informal structures of the political system of Vietnam and the principles of their functioning. This thesis criticizes misleading usage of faction as an analytical tool in the works on Vietnam and presents Andrew Nathan's factional model elaborated for China which is applied to Vietnam in a slightly changed form. We present evidence showing that the central political arena in Vietnam displays factional characteristics. Those findings are linked to the problem immobilism in Vietnam which is connected with instability caused by the absence of political initiatives and needed reforms (mainly the political one). Attention is also drawn to the need for the development of a theory of factionalism. Key words: The Communist Party of Vietnam, factional theories, political system of Vietnam
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Vietnamese-Khmer relations and the third Indochina conflict
Homutová, Lada ; Strašáková, Mária (referee) ; Karlová, Petra (advisor)
This thesis examines Vietnamese-Khmer relations, with emphasis on the twentieth century, analysing reasons for their development in both international and domestic fields. This study concentrates on the acts of aggresion deeply rooted in the continuing conflicts concerning the Mekong river delta territory. In order to determine the factors which have influenced diplomatic relations between these two countries in the field of international politics, emphasis was focused on allied relations between East Asian countries and the influence of the United States and Soviet Union. The role of the Kampuchean National United Front for National Salvation, a Khmer resistance organization formed with the help of Vietnam, has been examined to further explain the overthrowal of the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. However, attention must also be drawn to the subsequent Veitnamese invasion of the Democratic Kampuchea. Consequentially, this study investigates a final solution for the developing Vietnamese-Cambodian border relations.
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