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Comparative Electoral Engineering in the Post-Yugoslav Area
Höfer, Karel ; Lebeda, Tomáš (advisor) ; Cabada, Ladislav (referee)
Bc. Karel Höfer Komparativní volební inženýrství v postjugoslávském prostoru KP IPS FSV UK Diplomová práce ABSTRACT The thesis deals with the topic of electoral engineering and electoral design in the Post- Yugoslav area. It can be classified within social sciences as a part of political science, specifically as a part of comparative political science and electoral studies. The subject of this thesis is electoral design and electoral engineering. Its cases are political and electoral systems in the Post-Yugoslav area up to 2012. The importance of this topic consists in the fact that it is not entirely explored topic. On that account it deserves attention from both empirical and theoretical perspective. The research of electoral design and electoral engineering is one of the most promising courses of contemporary political science. The Post-Yugoslav area offers an ideal environment for comparative political science in general and comparative approach due to its common historical and institutional grounds, but different political and institutional development after the disintegration. The primary objective of this work is the comparison of electoral design and electoral engineering in the Post-Yugoslav area. An important component of this work is also original and comprehensive theoretical framework for a...
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Addressing Internal Displacement within Post-Conflict Reconstruction Efforts: Kosovo 1999-2008
Mašínová, Barbora ; Tejchman, Miroslav (advisor) ; Pikal, Kamil (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the academic discourse relating to the issues of internal displacement and its addressing within the post-conflict peace operations and reconstruction efforts. Particularly, this thesis scrutinizes these processes with respect to the return policy of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kosovo in the course of 1999-2008. The objective of this study is to examine the way the theoretical background on the internal displacement was applied on the return policy of IDPs designed by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) during the respective period. In doing so, this case study explored the patterns of practical implementation, its successes and shortcomings. The return of IDPs was considered as an inextricable part of the post-conflict reconstruction process in Kosovo. Therefore, addressing of the return policy was put on the top of the UNMIK's agenda. The analysis of the return policy revealed that the contemporary discourse on internal displacement influenced return policy in the following aspects: emphasis on the minority returns, a right to sustainable return, and introduction of restitution mechanisms. However, despite these efforts, UNMIK repeatedly failed to promote a breakthrough in the return process, thus only very limited cases of returns occurred. The main...
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A commented translation: Orthodoxie und Katholizismus in Jugoslawien 1945-1991. Wiesbaden 2004. Selected part: Historische Einführung (p. 39-54).
Javůrková, Lenka ; Kloudová, Věra (advisor) ; Maroszová, Jana (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to translate a German non-fiction text into Czech and to provide it with a professional commentary. The translated text consists of the first two sub-chapters of the historic introduction to the publication "Orthodoxie und Katholizismus in Jugoslawien 1945-1991: ein serbisch-kroatischer Vergleich". The first part of the commentary includes a translation analysis of the original text according to Christiane Nord which means an analysis of intratextual and extratextual factors. Based on the analysis the translation method is deduced. In the next chapter, different kinds of translation problems are presented along with their solutions. The commentary is concluded by a typology of translation shifts.
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Political and regional differentiation of Serbia in the case of the entering EU
Cvetkovićová, Katarina ; Tomeš, Jiří (advisor) ; Martínek, Jiří (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to analyze the regional differentiation in Serbia with regards to the question of the country's accession to the European Union (EU). The analysis is based on a voting preferences of pro-European or Eurosceptic political parties and leaders. The prerequisite is a north-south polarization of these preferences correlating with socio-economic maturity of the region. Thesis uses electoral geography to determine if this correlation exists and if so, how stable it is in the time period. The first part of the thesis discusses a general theory of regional differentiation of electoral results, the emergence and development of nationalism in Serbia and Serbia's relations and cooperation with the EU. The second part of the thesis attempts to provide an objective image of the Serbian political scene, its electoral history and main political affairs. These two parts, in which the thematic literature is discussed, serve as a theoretical framework for the third part of the thesis which deals with the analysis of electoral results in socio-economic frame and also contains a discussion of the results of correlation. Key words Serbia, electoral preferences, regional differentiation, European Union
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Modern Weddings in Belgrade and Prague
Igić, Vanja ; Otčenášek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Petráňová, Lydie (referee)
The goal of this bachelor thesis is to show contemporary wedding customs in Belgrade and Prague on the background of typical Old Serbian and Old Czech wedding. The thesis primarily thoroughly deals with the characterization of wedding customs which lasted to this day and therefore became a part of modern weddings. Simultaneously it tries to depict similarities and differences in traditions of both of the described regions. The method of describing the modern marriage culture is based primarily on analysis of traditional wedding components and at the same time is interspersed with results of the questionnaire survey. The analysis shows that even though many of the old customs preserved they are being often practiced in an altered form and some of them even lost their original meaning and character.
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Specifics of Serbian and Romanian oral folklore - fairy tales of magic
Krucká, Barbora ; Otčenášek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Sochorová, Ludmila (referee)
The work is focused on mapping the historical circumstances of collecting oral folklore literature in the territory of Serbia and Romania and to cultural, religious, geographical and political influences that formed the folk traditions of these ethnic groups. It describes the role that oral folk literature played in the given environment. The historical circumstances and influences mentioned are then compared. The work provides an overview of translations of the anthologies of fairy tales from given languages into Czech. Then it focuses on a comparison of concrete fairy tales from chosen anthologies, comparison of particular fairy tale themes and elements of Serbian and Romanian fairy tales of magic.
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Media Representation of NATO Operation "Allied Force" in Selected US Newspapers
Filipová, Vendula ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
This thesis examines coverage of NATO operation "Allied Force" in Yugoslavia, 1999 in US daily papers New York Times and Washington Post from March, 18th till April 16th, 1999. To evaluate media representation, the thesis uses qualitative discourse analysis. It focuses on coverage of key parties of the conflict and NATO operation, failure of Rambouillet Accords, explanation of launching NATO air campaign, intensifying air strikes and explanation of failure to reach the goals of the intervention. The paper argues that selected media has brought a biased coverage of the NATO operation and verifies a hypothesis whether the coverage could be defined as "propagandistic".
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The media image of an independent Kosovo in the newspapers MF DNES and Pravda
Pospíšil, Adam ; Králová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Šafařík, Petr (referee)
The subject of the thesis is to analyze the transformation of news in the Czech and Slovak press when Kosovo declared an independence from Serbia in 2008. The periodicals chosen to be analyzed are Czech newspaper MF DNES, which is considered serious and also most widely read and the Slovak significant daily news Pravda. Using the content analysis and the theory of agenda setting, the paper will focus on media image interpretation of the Republic of Kosovo. The aim of the research is to answer the question, whether it is possible to identify coverage of the Kosovo conflict in the two newspapers as independent. Both newspapers are investigated together and the result is a comparsion of their approach to the Kosovo issue.
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Serbia and Montenegro in the processes on integration into the European Union: Analysis of internal security issues in regions with high ethnic Albanian population
Heler, Daniel ; Tejchman, Miroslav (advisor) ; Pikal, Kamil (referee)
The author will attempt to outline the basic requirements of the European Union on the field of internal security imposed on states seeking membership. These demands, requirements and criteria for EU membership will be compare in the specific case of the regions with high proportion of the Albanian population to the current internal security situation in Montenegro and Serbia, with emphasis on the dynamics of development especially in the last approximately 12 years. Security issues will be discussed broadly in keeping with the Copenhagen School. That is in its broader form the so-called hard security to societal security. On the example of the regions with high proportion of the Albanian population in Serbia and Montenegro in the above-mentioned internal security issues I will try to verify and critically evaluate the basic axioms of the general concept of europeanisation in its transitological meaning. In relation to the surveyed processes of europeanisation I will also focus on the gradual process of loosing the ties between the two state entities, the issue will explore possible impact of formal and informal processes of secession of Montenegro from the common state, the quality and the intensity of ongoing europeanisation in both state entities will be examined.
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Procházka, Tomáš ; Končelík, Jakub (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
In 2007 the international community started to establish the political status of Kosovo, the Serbian province, inhabited mostly by the Muslim Albanian majority. In February 2008 Kosovo declared independence. What happened in the so-called "last media battle for Kosovo"? This thesis, called Representations of Serbs and Albanians in the Czech press during the proces of declaring independence of Kosovo, investigates discourses of two Czech newspapers and their coverage of the events between February 2007 and June 2008 when the Kosovo Constitution came in force. This thesis use both quantitative and qualitative content analysis. The analysis of recontextualization shows that the newspapers reproduce the dominant Serbian nationalism that focuses on the myth of a Greater Serbia.By an appropriation of different discourses, the dominant Serbian nationalism becomes legitimized and justified. In particular, the newspapers reproduce distinctive religious discourses from the political past, and furthermore, they borrow the so-called European,"war on terrorism" and "crime" discourses from the international mainstream public spheres and appropriate them to the contemporary political context. They borrow the so-called "modern Munich betrayal" and the Czech-Serbian kinship too. Generally, the newspapers reappropriate...
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