Original title: Občanská společnost v nedemokratickém režimu. Analýza občanských skupin v současné Barmě a jejich vztahu k pádu vojenské vlády
Translated title: Civil Society in Non-Democratic Regime. Analysis of Civic Groups in Current Burma and Their Relation towards the End of Military Goverment
Authors: Peřinová, Marie ; Mlejnek, Josef (advisor) ; Andělová, Petra (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2007
Language: cze
Abstract: [cze] [eng]
Tato práce analyzuje občanské organizace a skupiny v současné Barmě - jejich fungování, role a cíle, právní rámec a financování, vztah ke státu a režimu. Na základě této analýzy usiluji o zodpovězení dvou otázek. Zaprvé zkoumám, zda v Barmě existuje občanská společnost, a pokud ano, jaké jsou možnosti jejího fungování. Za druhé se věnuji otázce, zda a případně jakým způsobem různé typy v současnosti existujících sdružení v Barmě napomáhají liberalizaci či demokratizaci této země. Práce se tak zaměřuje na dva problémy výzkumu: 1. vztah skupin občanské společnosti a nedemokratického režimu 2. potenciální role skupin občanské společnosti v procesu demokratizace Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Since 1962, Burma (Myanmar) has been under the rule of a military junta, which, through the extensive state and military apparatus, forms one of the most repressive regimes in the world today. In spite of, or rather because of the authority of the authoritarian regime, hundreds of associations with a variety of social, economic and political goals have been emerging in the country in recent years. The existence of numerous associations under authoritarian rule is a rather new phenomenon which has aroused contradictory views among observers - hopes for the formation of civil society struggling for liberalization on the one hand, and fear that the associations are just another of the regime's tools to manage people's lives on the other. On the basis of a qualitative analysis of various organizations, movements, parties and groups in current-day Burma, this thesis aims to explain that neither of the aforementioned views alone can depict the complexity of associational life under the authoritarian regime, but rather that both roles must be viewed as an intrinsic and mutually-interacting part of it. Many of the associations are apparently controlled and used by the military government for its own objectives, including the aim to preserve the regime. At the same time, there are organizations which strive to...

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