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The Role of High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina in its Postwar Reconstruction in between 1995-2002: Closing the "Capability-Expectations Gap"
Šitera, Daniel ; Králová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Tejchman, Miroslav (referee)
Bosnia has been an international protectorate for fifteen years after the end of civil war which was ravaging the country between 1992-1995. The protectorate was to originally give way to Bosnian growing sovereignty after one year since the end of civil war. Instead, the International Community started to increase its activity in the country via an expansion of the High Representative's capabilities (financial and military resources of the protectorate, High Representative's authority to take actions against Bosnia elected representatives, etc.). High Representative was ad hoc institution which was created to administer the international protectorate in Bosnia. At the end of 1997, High Representative received the so-called Bonn Powers which gave him authority to directly impose legislation and to dismiss Bosnian elected representatives. Any such usage of Bonn powers was justified as an effort to speed up Bosnia's stabilization and facilitate thus international departure from the country. However, Bosnia is destabilized country and international protectorate even in 2011. The usage of Bonn Powers proved to be wrong, since it could establish a Bosnian state minimally suitable to the international expectations, but it has at the same time failed to establish a Bosnian state suitable to the domestic...
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The role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT in agricultural sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Franěk, Václav ; Kandakov, Alexander (advisor) ; Hes, Tomáš (referee)
Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the poorest countries in Europe. Agriculture was in the 1990s as well as the whole country devastated by war conflict and needed the necessary transformation. Information and communication technologies (ICT) can help with faster development of agriculture in rural areas of the country, improving the competitiveness of small farmers, on which stands the whole agriculture of Bosnia and Herzegovina and, ultimately, improving its competitiveness in the international market. The aim of my thesis was deeper search analysis of literary sources in the context of the use of information and communication technologies in the agricultural sector of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Using information and communication technologies in agriculture may be then justified by the increasing consumption of food or expanding coverage for mobile phones and expansion of the Internet connection. However, Internet penetration in rural areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which stand on agriculture, is not on high level. But the actions of the government and local authorities are gradually moving towards rural development by using information and communication technologies, for example by introducing faster 3G Internet. Small farmers are also the most vulnerable to changes of food prices, in which can be information and communication technologies also helpful. The most important recommendation and conclusion would be using rather mobile devices instead of desktop computers or laptops.
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he Role of Ethnicity in Escalation of Armed Conflict: Case Study Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vápeníková, Sára ; Havlová, Radka (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
The Bachelor thesis deals with analyzing the escalation of the ethnic conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the death of communist leader Josip Tito in 1980 the nationalist ideologies started to revive. Due to the deteriorating economic crisis, high level of unemployment and the rhetoric of the political elites these ideologies had resulted in a war among nationalities that had lived together for centuries. The war among the three ethnic groups, which erupted in 1992, until then was considered to be the bloodiest conflict in Europe since the Second World War. The thesis also brings the analysis of other factors that influenced the escalation. Very important are economic, political, structural and cultural factors about which a significant part of this thesis is.
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EU as power for peace? Mission EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Králová, Barbora ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
This paper presents the role theory and the role conception power for peace which was created for the European Union on the basis of its values, norms and rules. Five criteria that define power for peace were applied to the peace mission EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After verification of all criteria it was proved that the EU has acted as power for peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and it has therefore fulfilled its role conception.
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Comparison of discount portals in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Czech Republic
Salihbegovic, Amna ; Hartman, Ladislav (advisor) ; Linc, Zdenek (referee)
In the year 2011, the first discount portal in Bosnia and Herzegovina, called eKupon, was created and soon afterwards large number of similar websites started operating. Nowadays less than ten sites are normally operating on the market. The goal of this thesis is to evaluate the market in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to compare eKupon to the biggest Czech discount portal, Slevomat. To begin with, I am going to characterize the business model of group buying sites and their development in Czech Republic, with emphasis on Slevomat. In the following part, I talk about the development of group buying in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the history of eKupon. The comparison of stated websites is done using several chosen parameters, such as relationship with business partners, terms and conditions of the business contract, consumer satisfaction, loyalty program etc. In the end, we can find SWOT analysis of the company eKupon, where the examined parameters are characterized as either strength or weakness of the company.
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Transformation of the Wester Balkans with a special emphasis on the role of Stabilisation and Association Process
Řehořová, Veronika ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Karpová, Eva (referee) ; Lipková, Ludmila (referee) ; Brož, Martin (referee)
This dissertation thesis is focused on the analysis of changing relations between the Western Balkan countries (WB) and the European Union (EU) against background of actual transformation processes in these countries. The Western Balkans represents a group of countries which were not part of so-called Eastern Enlargement of the EU, but are also slowly heading towards the EU. The EU distinguishes three groups of countries within the WB: Croatia has become an acceding country; then here is a group of candidate countries (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Montenegro, Serbia), and the last group is formed by so-called potential candidate countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo). All of these above mentioned countries are part of the Stabilisation and Association Process (SAP) which nowadays represents the core of the Enlargement Policy of the EU and stands for the main research topic of this thesis. The thesis also comprehends the history of the enlargement process of the EU and the basic theoretical concepts of the (EU) enlargement. The "transformation" chapter includes a theoretical grounding too. Three hypotheses were verified (mainly) by results of transformation, evaluation of Copenhagen criteria by the European Commission, and by the statistical methods (Principal Components Analysis and Cluster Analysis) based on a number of economic and demographic indicators.
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Economic development of Bosnia and Herzegovina since the beginning of 1990s
Baštářová, Tereza ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Řehořová, Veronika (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to show the civil war's impacts on economic situation in the country and to describe what conditions the war has made for the possibility of Bosnia and Herzegovina entering the European Union. The thesis deals with pre-war status and situation during the war in the country and with the follow-up participation of the World Bank and the European Union in the pre-war situation recovery. Furthermore it outlines the preparation of Bosnia and Herzegovina for graduated accession to the European Union including achievements and failures during realizing the stabilization and accession programs. In the end the thesis presents impacts of the world financial crisis and grey economy on economic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Entrepreneurial environment, business and cultural particularities of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duljković, Zenon ; Gullová, Soňa (advisor) ; Klosová, Anna (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to analyze entrepreneurial environment of Bosnia and Herzegovina, outline economic and political situation of the country, analyze business negotiation with Bosnian entrepreneurs and point out cultural and other particularities. The first chapter contains basic information about the country, brief history and some facts about the population. The second chapter deals with the entrepreneurial environment, economic and political situation and with the foreign direct investments. The third chapter is about the cultural and social particularities. The last chapter analyzes business negotiations with bosnian entrepreneurs by way of my own survey among Czech and Bosnian business partners.
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History of Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina
NUSKO, Jaroslav
The paper deals with the influence of Islam on the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It begins in the pre-Islamic period, then it deals with the integration of the country into the Islamic world via the Osmanic Empire, the expansion of which it also depicts. It covers the time under the Turkish supremacy in detail, it surveys the circumstances of the formation of the Muslim community, with which its whole future existence is connected. Further it describes the life and the milieu at various stages of its historical development until the occupation by the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. At the same time it pays attention to the influence of the Islam on the rest of the population of the country. Its further part then deals with the civil war in the years 1992-1995. It analyses the reasons of its outbreak, its development, the circumstances of its termination and also its effects, with respect to the Muslim nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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