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The Srebrenica massacre as Dutch national trauma: Discourse analysis of selected daily newspapers
Ratajová, Klára ; Žíla, Ondřej (advisor) ; Šístek, František (referee)
Although more than 23 years have passed since the event known as the Srebrenica massacre, it is still a live topic in Dutch society. The Dutch troops who served on a UN peace mission in Srebrenica have been blamed for not being able to prevent the death of such a large number of innocent people. Moreover, the survivors of the killed Bosnian Muslims are still suing the Netherlands over compensations. The aim of the thesis is to find out who was blamed for the Srebrenica massacre by the Dutch society - the soldiers who served the mission, their commanders, the Netherlands, the international community or other sides involved. To reach the aim, discourse analysis was applied on articles published over a period of ten years in two influential Dutch newspapers - De Volkskrant and NRC Handelsblad. The time period from June 2007 to June 2017 was selected for the analysis as a number of key court cases took place during this particular period. The cases had a major influence on the development of the discourse of blame, which is studied in the thesis in detail. Apart from the analytical part, the thesis also includes a contextual part where historical events leading to the Srebrenica massacre are dealt with as well as the role of the Dutch peacekeepers.
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The Cultural Policy of the Netherlands in the United States of America after 1994
Král, Radek ; Tomalová, Eliška (advisor) ; Matějka, Ondřej (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the development of the Dutch international cultural policy in between Wim Kok's, Jan Peter Balkenende's and Mark Rutte's governments. Through the compiling and descriptive approach there is dealt with milestones and key interventions in the international cultural policy structure in the thesis. The pivotal part of the thesis is dedicated to the application of the above mentioned policy model in the United States of America. Metodologically, the thesis' core part consists of three case studies which provide text with an empirical dimension. Apart from the descriptive frame depiction of the Dutch cultural- diplomatic model, there is also paid attention to the Dutch internal political discourse in thesis in the given period of time. The thesis' content may be perceived as a complement to texts which put down the national interests' accomplishments through the culture to research, as a means of desired target of the collective perception from the host country, i. e. where is the cultural dimension of the foreign policy applied. Key words The Netherlands, USA, international cultural policy, government, discourse, approaches
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Using New Technologies in Healthy Lifestyle Interventions Targeted at Children: The Case of the Netherlands
Háša, Marek ; Zezulková, Markéta (advisor) ; Klimeš, David (referee)
New technologies such as social media or mobile games are often listed among the main contributors to the ever-increasing obesity rates among children. Paradoxically, the same technologies also bring potential to enhance the effectivity of healthy lifestyle interventions targeted at children. This thesis investigated the approach of the creators of such interventions towards the use of new technologies. The author devoted his attention to downstream social marketing interventions realised in the Netherlands because of the country's low youth obesity rates and exceptional position in the latest innovation rankings. The central objective of this instrumental multiple case study research was to reveal the benefits and limitations of the researched practice as perceived by the interventions' creators. Studying available documents and conducting four semi-structured interviews with the creators enabled the author to reconstruct the contexts and strategies of four Dutch healthy lifestyle interventions promoting exercise and healthy sleep and nutrition among children. The results indicated that the creators indeed regarded new technologies as a threat to children's physical and mental well-being; nevertheless, they also accepted them as an inevitable part of today's media environment and aimed to...
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European Tax Havens - Case Study
Dendisová, Zuzana ; Hraba, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Dupáková, Lenka (referee)
Diploma thesis "Tax Havens in Europe- Case Study" analyses offshore business in Europe at the turn of years 2017 and 2018 from legal and economic perspective. The first chapter is an introduction to tax havens. The second chapter clarifies legal regulations of offshore business in Europe. The third chapter applies theoretical knowledge from previous chapters in a case study.
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Comparation of pre-primary, primary education and a child's entry to school in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands
Freudenfeldová, Veronika ; Kropáčková, Jana (advisor) ; Poche Kargerová, Jana (referee)
The thesis deals with comparison of pre-school and primary education and child's entry to school in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. It is devided into two parts, the theoretical part and the practical part. In the theoretical part is summarized pre-school and primary education from both countries. Through the historical overview we come to nowadays school educational systems, ongoing debates and policy trends planned for the future. The practical part deals with child's transfer from second to third grade in the Netherlands. With a use of the record sheets I follow and evaluate the child's development in the last year of preschool in the Czech Republic and in the second grade of Dutch primary school. The aim of the thesis is on to determine how are children in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands prepaired at the age of 5-6 years for entering the school. The question is whether Dutch children are affected and more prepaired from compulsory school attendance than children in the Czech Republic.
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Imigrace do států Beneluxu
Kosík, Jana
Diploma thesis deals with evaluation of immigration into Benelux countries, namely Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. Thesis deals with the issue of granting visas, residence permits, work permits, asylum, citizenship and the issue of illegal immigration. Based on statistical data is made analysis of historical development of migration, number of immigrants and their source countries, residence permits, employment, applications for citizenship, asylum applications, illegal immigration and the forecast of future trends in the number of immigrants from the selected source countries.
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Second pillar - critical analysis
Šuták, Pavel ; Klazar, Stanislav (advisor) ; Trgiňa, Gejza (referee)
This deals with the pension system reform in the Czech Republic with a focus on the second pension pillar. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate the already canceled second pillar, to identify the causes of the failure and to outline in which aspects it could be learned from the experiences of other countries. The thesis describes the development of the reform, its main parameters and the attitudes of individual actors. The main cause of the fall was the low interest of citizens in participation in the second pillar, which was caused mainly by political factors, inappropriate settings and poor citizens' awareness. For future reforms, it would be advisable to take lessons from reforms implemented by other states. This paper describes the reforms in Hungary, the Netherlands and Sweden.
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Investment climate of the Netherlands
Fedoranyč, Maria ; Jiránková, Martina (advisor) ; Straková, Eliška (referee)
The aim of this Bachelor thesis is to analyse the investment climate of the Netherlands from the perspective of foreign investors. It contains information on the history of the country, its population, geographic location, environment and above all, its economic sectors: agriculture, industry and services, and foreign trade. The main objective of this thesis is to select the factors and characteristics of the Netherlands that can influence decisions made by foreign investors when considering the market entry in the Netherlands, to clearly structure them into categories and describe them. This objective is achieved by the application of PEST analysis using information obtained predominantly from Dutch and European sources. The related objective is to create a coherent image of the country, a description of its basic characteristics and history and its attractiveness for the reader who has no deeper knowledge of international trade, investment or of the Netherlands itself.
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Legal Forms of persecution of citizens in the Protectorate 1939-1945 in comparison with the occupied Netherlands
Mamrilla, Filip ; Kuklík, Jan (advisor) ; Skřejpková, Petra (referee)
Legal Forms of persecution of citizens in the Protectorate 1939-1945 in comparison with the occupied Netherlands In 1939, Czechoslovakia was destroyed by Nazi Germany without a single shot. Less than a year later, the Netherlands was conquered by the German army in the course of Blitzkrieg in the West. Both countries remained under occupation for almost six years, while their citizens faced an unprecedented persecution. Since these countries share a lot of commonalities, concerning size of their territory, wartime development and the form of occupation, they proved to be an ideal example to provide the comparison of the Nazi occupation regime in Western and Eastern Europe. Bohemia and Moravia joined the Reich as a protectorate, an institute of international public law that was very rare in the European context. Kingdom of Netherlands was transformed into so-called Reichskommisariat, a provisional arrangement that was supposed mainly to maintain public order in order to secure the industrial production. In the first place, this thesis trying to describe the distinction that the Nazis were making between occupied territories in the West and in the East in terms of ideology, because it greatly affected their approach to these countries and the intensity of the repression. The Netherlands was perceived by Nazi...
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The decline of party identification in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands
Hluchá, Tereza ; Brunclík, Miloš (advisor) ; Charvát, Jan (referee)
This Master's thesis looks into the phenomenon of party identification and explores various factors that play a role in the emergence, development and decline of partisanship. It follows and compares the changing levels of party identification in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands from the 1960s to the present day and strives to determine the causes and effects of this process. It is widely accepted that declining party identification is linked to increasing electoral volatility. This thesis draws upon a range of range of theoretical works in the field of electoral behaviour. It utilizes findings of an original small scale research among the British and Dutch voters as well as established election studies.
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