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Influence of the military-industrial complex on the making of foreign policy of the state
Golubenko, Darya ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Eichler, Jan (referee)
The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the degree of influence of the military-industrial complex on the foreign policy decision-making process of the state by examining the examples of certain countries with a large and developed defense industry. In terms of this thesis there were analyzed the contemporary trends in global military expenditures and the dynamics of the global arms transfers. A critical point is evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of the extensive investing in the military-industrial complex of state.
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States without Armed Forces: A Comparative Case Study of Demilitarization in Panama and Costa Rica
Sponták, Tomáš ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Ludvík, Jan (referee)
This thesis is focused on countries which do not have their own armies, especially those which had an army in the past but decided to abolish it. The main part of the thesis is a comparison of two particular countries - Panama and Costa Rica - having undergone a process of demilitarization in the last century. The thesis aims to identify factors which conditioned a contradictory post-demilitarization development of the respective countries and clarify their motivation to abolish their armies. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first one is to introduce the contemporary army-less countries to a reader. Second chapter, the theoretical one, deals with praetorianism - a situation when an army becomes a dominant element of the executive and the society as a whole. Chapters number three and four are detailed case studies of Panama and Costa Rica.
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Military Chaplaincy in the Czechoslovak Army in the years 1918?1939 with special emphasis on the Roman Catholic Church
LAŇKA, Jiří Ignác
This dissertation deals with the history of military chaplaincy in the space of the historic Czech lands. It mainly focuses interwar period of the independent Czechoslovak Republic. The first part of this work deals with the history of activities of military clergymen until the time of founding of the First Republic and briefly passes through a period of many centuries. Then it informs about founding of Czechoslovak Army after year 1918. It notes especially the receipt and development of military chaplaincy until the reorganization of the armed forces in the thirties. Also, it informs about the development in a stable chaplaincy and about its general organization, both in peacetime and in time of the state of emergency. The next section informs about the activities of chaplains in different specific environments. The most comprehensive fifth chapter is dedicated to the life stories of individual chaplains. The consequential part shows life and work of the last chief of military chaplains General Jaroslav Janák. These biographies are key resources for understanding the real duty life of catholic military priests. This dissertation is primarily compiled on the bases of archive resources.
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Criminal offences committed by the Czechoslovak gendarmerie in Prague and the outskirts 1918−1921
Křížek, Filip ; Šedivý, Ivan (advisor) ; Rychlík, Jan (referee)
SYNOPSIS The subject of the criminality of armed forces is serious and belogs to less processed problems of modern history. The goal of this bachelor thesis is to examine illegal behaviour and offences of the gendarmes in interwar period in Prague and the outskirts. The author will make an effort to analyse different types of criminal activities of the gendarmes and compare them with criminality of civil persons. The motives for illegal behaviour of the gendarmery will be inquired in this thesis, its results and punishment by the gendarmery officers or military courts will be inquired as well. The base of the historical sources comprises mostly of criminal files of the gendarmes, handbooks for the gendarmery, directives and regulations. Key words: Czechoslovak gendarmerie; gendarmerie; armed forces; military judiciary; court martial; military courts; criminality; Czechoslovakia
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Volunteering and armed forces
Komedová, Kateřina ; Pernica, Bohuslav (advisor) ; Stejskal, Libor (referee)
The MA thesis "Volunteering in Armed Forces" focuses on describing and analysing the phenomenon of volunteering in relation to the voluntary service in the reserves of the armed forces. This topic is highly relevant in the Czech context, as there are long-term efforts made by the Czech Armed Forces to strengthen and enhance this specific component of national defense. In 2012 a new concept of reserves, the Active Reserve Concept (Koncepce aktivní zálohy) was finally approved by the Czech government. The first objective of this thesis is to shed some light on the general motivation of the volunteers to join the reserves and to show whether the incentives are mainly economic, socio-psychological or whether other factors are at play. In order to do this, the volunteering as such must first be defined as a phenomenon influencing the entire society. Then it is also necessary to show how volunteering related to national defense differs from other forms of volunteering. Next, the thesis illustrates how the system of active reserves works in a number of selected countries (Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States), where this model is applied for a long period of time and became widely accepted. The author points out the differences in national characteristics and other differences from the...
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Legal and internal regulations in Czech armed forces
Nový, Dalibor ; Mikule, Leoš (advisor) ; Vopálka, Vladimír (referee) ; Svoboda, Ivo (referee)
This work entitled "Legal and internal regulations in Czech armed forces" endeavours to tackle the relation between legal and internal regulations in public administration focusing on their hierarchy, quantity, liability in specific area of armed forces. At first sight military service is independent on legal code, because there is wide range and amount of relatively autonomous service regulations and official channels. Career soldiers and civil employees have to obey not only the texts of legislation composed of laws, govermental directions etc., but also must maintain discipline and work rules founded on internal orders, guidelines and advices. All commanders and managers as military superiors are obliged to enforce their authority through this regulations. Relation between legal and internal level is not clear. There are many doubts and questions based on facts regarding for instance these features and issues of any internal system of rules: delegation of authority to creation and publishing; verification of compatibility and harmony with legal framework; persistence, integrity, perpetual modifications and amendments.
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Deconsolidation of Venezuelan Democracy: Erosion of tha Party System, Neo-Populism and Repoliticization of the Armed Forces
Buben, Radek ; Opatrný, Josef (advisor) ; Barteček, Ivo (referee) ; Kovář, Martin (referee)
Thesis PhDr. Radek Buben Deconsolidation of Venezuelan Democracy: Erosion of the Party System, Neo-Populism, and Repoliticization of the Armed Forces The thesis Deconsolidation of Venezuelan Democracy: Erosion of the Party System, Neo- Populism, and Repoliticization of the Armed Forces addresses the process of deconsolidation of democracy in Venezuela between 1973 and 1993. The analysis is based on both theoretical and comparative approach embedded notably in institutional comparative political science (analysis of systemic and institutional conditions of the analyzed process), historical sociology and political theory (phenomena of populism and neo-populism) and approaches of traditional historical analysis of political process in a particular period of time. The theoretical part of the text is focused on the issue of democracy in Latin America in general. More concretely, it concerns with typologies of political regimes, institutionalization of party systems, civil-military relations and the so-called resources curse theory. The great deal of the text covers analysis of populism, its definition and the existing research of the phenomenon. The starting point of the empirical part presents the establishment of the petrostate and bipartism in 1973. The analysis ends with the decomposition of the...
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Assigned forces and assets of the Armed Forces within Integrated Rescue System of the Czech Republic
Kopecká, Jana ; Fiala, Miloš (advisor) ; Vilášek, Josef (referee)
Title: Assigned forces and assets of the Armed Forces within Integrated Rescue System of the Czech Republic. Objectives of work: - to describe the past development and current status of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic over specific periods since establishment of independent Czechoslovakia until the year 2005; - to briefly specify the development and role of Civilian Protection Force (equivalent of National Guard) within the period of 1918 until 2008; - to point out the most significant milestones of Integrated Rescue System (IRS) development and to introduce a legal framework, core tasks and main bodies of Czech Republic IRS; - to explain mutual relationship and cooperation between IRS and the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic in relation to legal aspects; - to describe principles and procedures for requesting and deployment of Armed Forces assets assigned to rescue assistance and disaster relief operations; - to briefly summerize Armed Forces rescue battalions, respectively their specific units allocated to overall Integrated Rescue System; Method: collection of data using subject literature and IRS database with follow up analysis and selection. Keywords: Armed Forces, rescue and training bases, assigned forces and assets, General Staff
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Man´s religious dimension - Development Ways and Possibilities. Military Chaplaincy of the Czech Republic Armed Forces
VARGA, Roman
The thesis deals with the chaplaincy role, taking into consideration man´s religious dimension in a specific Czech Republic Armed Forces environment. It conducts a survey of military chaplaincy history at first, from a biblical ages to the present days and outlines possibilities for it´s further orientation. It deals with a cornerstone of the chaplaincy services afterwords, which is chaplain´s personality and his particular roles. The thesis subsequently analyses the subject of ethics of a soldier as well as marginally deals with the theme of war defense and pacifism. The end of the thesis describes stress and it´s impact to a soldier, including consequences of such an impact and it is dealing with the question of the military chaplaincy role, during following care about soldiers, affected by post traumatic stress disorder, in a context of holistic philosophy. Comparing and assessing the obtained information, this thesis finds out, if the military chaplaincy has an irreplaceable position in the Czech Republic Armed Forces.
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The place and the role of the Military Police in the Integrated Rescue System frame
PÍZA, Rostislav
The goal of my thesis was fulfilled. There was analysed the Military Police of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. There were investigated two hypothesis in general. It was discovered that the hypotesis No. 1 was not confirmed. The reset of this Thesis is the recommendation with real particular suggestion of better application of the present possibilities of the Military Police of the Czech Republic Armed Forces use in the Integrated Rescue System. The hapothesis No. 2 was confirmed. It was discovered that both of these Military Police have the similar application.
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