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Intervention in Afghanistan: Soviet and American experience
Tzoumas, Janis ; Matějka, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
This diploma thesis analyzes the approach of the Soviet Union and that of the US-led coalition to state-building in Afghanistan, which today, as in the past, takes place against the backdrop of counterinsurgency warfare. The analysis in the field of politics, economy and security shows that in both cases the intervening powers have focused on building a strongly centralized system of government, in spite of the fact that the Afghan countryside's relationship to the Kabul-based government had traditionally been characterized by broad autonomy. The intervening powers' efforts have futhermore been associated with the export of exogenous political structures and for this reason attention is also drawn to the question to what extent the intervening powers' approach to the modernization of Afghan society has contributed to the escalation of unrelenting conflict.
Řecký postoj k otázce Kosova a jeho nezávislosti
Tzoumas, Janis ; Cibulková, Petra (advisor) ; Druláková, Radka (referee)
This work analyzes the way two Greek journals, namely To Víma and Ta Néa, reflect the Kosovo affair in the period between the NATO intervention in Kosovo in 1999 and its unilateral declaration of independence. Most of them are characterized by strong antiamericanism which is by far their most typical common feature. This antiamericanism manifested itself most apparently in the period of the NATO intervention in Kosovo in 1999. The analysis reveals, that to the authors of the published articles they were important other factors for their stance than those important to the greek government for whom the muslim minority in Thrace could be deciding. This objective factor was In the authors' articles outweighed by their antiamericanism, determined by developments in Greece after the Second World War and which still influences the Greeks' stance towards the U.S. foreign policy.

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