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Working Conditions in the Developing Countries: The Effect of the International Organizations
Mrázová, Michaela ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Karlas, Jan (referee)
This thesis is focused on the labor conditions of garment industry in developing countries. The text is structured as a comparative case study that is concerned with the situation in Cambodia and Bangladesh. Case studies of these countries describe domestic garment industry, its general and specific problems and a rate of compliance with labor standards. The goal of the thesis is to determine whether international organizations have an influence on the improvement of labor conditions in developing countries and compare it with other relevant actors. In this particular case the attention is focused on the International Labor Organization which manages its supportive programs in both countries but in a different manner. A pilot ILO program focused on the private sector has started in Cambodia thirteen years ago while in Bangladesh ILO had managed to run traditional program focused on the public sector until the Rana Plaza tragedy. Moreover, in the case of Bangladesh is a characterization of change after the tragedy. The thesis examines innovative ILO program that focuses on the monitoring of the garment factories, its functioning and outcomes. It also examines the role of ILO and its orientation by a theory of institutional change: whether it is possible to restore efficacy of one of the oldest...
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Reflexion of Pol Pot's Regime in Communist Czechoslovakia
Židlický, Jan ; Soukup, Jaromír (advisor) ; Horčička, Václav (referee)
This diploma thesis at first analyzes the brutal regime in Cambodia beetween the years 1975-1979. The goal for the readers is briefly to describe this Khmer Rouge regime. It was inhuman and genocide regime which, after taking control of this land began to implement a huge social experiment. This experiment resulted into two milions deads. One half of the diseases, overwork and starvation, one half of the executions. The purpose of this big disaster was a attempt to put this southeast Asia land into self-sufficiency agriculture state. This situation was a work of a small group of people. The main of them was o Pol Pot. In the second part diploma describes a reflection of this regime in communist Czechoslovakia. This part is based on the research in newspapers of this era and research in archive of Ministry of external affairs. The regime in Czechoslovakia was a communist and very conform to foreign policy of the Soviet Union. So the articles in the communist press was not the official statepoint of Czechoslovak govement. At first the governement was a very happy of winning the new regime, because the previous Lon Nol's was very fixed to the United States. After the year 1976 the locals confrontations beetween Cambodia and Vietnam began. In this time carried on the clash beetween China and Soviet...
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Development of bilateral relations: Cambodia and the Czech Republic
Puklová, Anna ; Kofroň, Jan (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to describe the development of bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Czech Republic and factors which have an influence on this development. Official cooperation between these two states started in 1956. The development of Czech-Cambodian relationship was heavily influenced by two historical turns - the rule of Khmer Rouge in the 1970s in Cambodia and the fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989. This thesis deals with development of concrete relationship on descriptive level. The descriptive level is followed by the comparison of the development after two historical turns mentioned previously. The thesis compares events after which the renewal or transformation were necessary, factors which influenced these periods, how the relation was renewed and concrete examples of cooperation. This comparison tells us that the development after the two turns went in almost the same direction, historical turns mainly left marks in the first few years after the event. It is not possible to compare the first steps in cooperation after the role of Khmer Rouge and after the fall of Communism.
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Regional Distribution of Development Aid in Cambodia
Ficek, František ; Jelen, Libor (advisor) ; Těšinová, Michaela (referee)
Regional distribution of development aid in Cambodia Abstract This bachelor thesis, examines development aid distribution in Cambodia, specifically focused on the distribution and allocation of development projects that target reproductive health and education. Within the introduction, the history and current situation in Cambodia is presented, followed by a discussion of current approaches to development aid. The reproductive health and education issues will also be examined as well as the continuing discourse of development aid allocation. The research analyses the relationship between development interventions and reproductive health or education indicators on provincial level. The main outcome in Cambodia's development aid only highlights the distribution of aid with regard to the level of development in several cases; allocation of aid is mostly influenced by other factors rather than recipient need. Key words: Cambodia, development aid, allocation, distribution, reproductive health, education, official development assistance, non-governmental organizations
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The Indochina War in the Time of Nixon and Ford Administration
Šulka, Petr ; Horčička, Václav (advisor) ; Koura, Jan (referee)
After the year of 1968, which was crucial in the history of the war in Indochina , a new phase of a conflict started to evolve. The United States, under President Lyndon B. Johnson, after the Tet offensive and massive domestic protests, finally retreated from the goal of military victory and changed its strategy to get out of the conflict as quickly as possible. Johnson had established negotiations with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Paris, which the South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu systematically negated. As it was later revealed, this was done in cooperation with the Republican candidate for President Richard M. Nixon, who wanted to do this in order to compromise policy of a Democratic president and take his place himself. Nixon, after his appointment to the presidency, assumed that renewed negotiations in Paris would be simple and would lead to the rapid end of the war. Soon it became clear that it was a mistake. North Vietnamese and communist insurgents in South Vietnam managed, due to conflicts caused by Thieu and by the delay between flares, to restore their strength and they were no longer willing to retreat. Negotiations bogged down in fruitless debates and disputes. Nixon and his closest collaborator Henry Kissinger were forced to seek other solutions. On the...
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Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia 1979-1989: causes, course, consequences
Zelenda, Jiří ; Strašáková, Mária (advisor) ; Nožina, Miroslav (referee)
This thesis deals with the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia in 1979 - 1989. The main concentration, however, is focused on the causes of the conflict. In addition to the immediate causes like the aggressive and unpredictable policies of the Khmer Rouge and the border disputes between Cambodia and Vietnam this study searches the deeper causes of conflict. They are found in the significant cultural differences between Khmer and Vietnamese, as well as historical resentments. The course and consequences of the occupation are analyzed in the joint chapter. This consecution emphasizes interdependence of course and consequences and achieves the greatest understanding of the analyzed issues. Thesis as a whole is aimed at the motives, goals, interests and attitude of Khmer and Vietnamese. Influence of international relations, however, is also dealt with. Up to this day, Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia in the years 1979 - 1989 has a significant influence on relationship between Vietnam and Cambodia. Therefore, this issue still needs to be dealt with by scholars am historians. This thesis is based on secondary literature and several primary sources; in particular, the works of American, Australian and Vietnamese scholars. Used sources are particularly memoirs and sources of official provenance.
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Temple architecture as a cultural core in Southeast Asia
Steinbachová, Eva ; Soukup, Václav (advisor) ; Uherek, Zdeněk (referee) ; Soukup, Martin (referee)
Dissertation thesis "Temple architecture as a cultural core in Southeast Asia" presents the temple architecture of Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesian islands of Java and Bali as a cultural phenomenon which opens possibility to observe Hindu and Buddhists cultural continuity in Southeast Asia. The main focus of the work is in the culturological analysis of the temple architecture as a semiotic system - associated symbols and meanings in close relations, reflecting the ideological foundations of Hindu and Buddhist culture. This study follows the works of orientalists and anthropologists and it extends the Czech bibliography, which traditionally lacks of topics in church architecture of Southeast Asia. This study does not claim to cover the topic in a full universal view. It is guided by an effort to map the issues in culturological terms and help to a deeper understanding of cultural heritage of East Asian culture as part of the cultural heritage of mankind. Keywords: Architecture, Southeast Asia, Buddhism, Hinduism, Java, Bali, Thailand, Cambodia.
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The effect of democratization on the state of civil society in Cambodia between 1991 to 2015
Rostek, Ondřej ; Pajas, Petr (advisor) ; Benyovszky, Selma (referee)
This dissertation deals with the civil society in Cambodia, according to the democratization of the country. After the turbulent times that were full of bloody conflicts the country in 1991 initially joined the path of democracy, but soon after that the governing regime shifted the orientation of the country toward authoritarianism. This complicated situation in the country after several decades was making the existence of civil society and western type non-profit sector impossible. Also, the situation concerning civil and political freedoms in the country was very controversial. The aim of the thesis is, through a secondary source analysis to describe the structure of civil society and the obstacles that it must deal with, in the background of the democratization process of the country.
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Comparison of Post-conflict Reconstruction in Rwanda and Cambodia
Dvořáková, Klára ; Havlová, Radka (advisor) ; Kochan, Jan (referee)
This bachelor thesis is dedicated to comparison of post-conflict reconstruction in two countries that went through a genocide, Rwanda and Cambodia. The goal of the thesis is to evaluate if the reconstruction was successful or not concerning the present situation in these countries. The purpose is also to decide whether it was performed correctly and whether it managed to prevent appearance of other conflicts and violations. The subject of post-conflict reconstruction is very extensive. Hence, my thesis is concerned mostly with achieving justice and reconciliation among people. So called Gacaca courts were the main instrument for stabilization of the society after the conflict. Therefore the thesis is very concerned with them. Parallel of Gacaca courts in Rwanda was ECCC tribunal in Cambodia. The last part of the thesis contains comparison of both conflicts and evaluation of reconstructions.
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Subregional Cooperation in the Mekong River Basin: Program GMS
Součková, Lucie ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Musiyenko, Svitlana (referee)
The main focus of this bachelor thesis is the cooperation between the subregions of Southeast Asian countries situated on the river Mekong. The objective of the resesarch is to display subregional cooperation in this particular area and its impact on the development of these areas. Effectivity of subregional cooperation in this part of Southeast Asia has been discovered within the case study aimed to the program of the Asian Development Bank named Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). From the analysis of the indicators which are maping not only the econommical status but also standard of living conditions the big improvement has been made within last 20 years. Rising integration in the subregion leads to improvement of the infrastructure and effectivity of manufacturing processes which led to engagement of these countries on world markets and the intensity of intraregional trade growth. Opening the borders for easier movement of the goods, capital and people has its downs for instance the increase of criminality around the border areas. However, the criticism of subregional cooperation which compares them to confusing mixture of initiatives in the case of GMS program, the form of cooperation seems to be effective for several reasons: its based on cooperatiom on the local level which leds to bigger consequences towards the general standards of living, cooperation is mainly managed by the market and therefore is not so demanding for institutionslization and involvement of the government which is mainly beneficial for countries with weaker government sector.
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