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Serbian Paramilitary Troops in Comparative Perspective.
Nikl, Jakub ; Hofmeisterová, Karin (advisor) ; Žíla, Ondřej (referee)
This bachelor thesis aims to provide a comparative analysis of three Serbian paramilitary units - the Arkan Tigers, the Šešelj's Men and Scorpions - which played a key role in the wars on the territory of the former Yugoslavia in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The thesis examines their origins, motivations and activities, as well as their relations with the military and state apparatus of Republic of Serbia and the newly formed Serbian republics. Based on an analysis of primary sources, it offers a description of the distinct characteristics of each unit and sheds light on their operational strategies. The bachelor thesis also discusses their commonalities and differences in their activities during the wars. Ultimately, the thesis contributes to a better understanding of their complex dynamics.
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Internal Political Development in Montenegro - From the Fall of Yugoslavia to Independence
Lucovič, Matěj ; Žíla, Ondřej (advisor) ; Hofmeisterová, Karin (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the events that led to the declaration of independence of the state of Montenegro. The aim of the thesis was to determine factors, which influenced the internal political development in Montenegro and to what extent the crisis and the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the rise and rule of Milo Đukanović, the Montenegrin-Serbian national question and the very coexistence of the two republics in one state were involved. The thesis traced the development of Montenegro from the death of Josip Broz Tito in 1980, which launched the end of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, to the declaration of Montenegrin independence in 2006. It turned out that the personality of Milo Đukanović and his political actions played a big role, transforming his political career from a communist prominent into a hegemon of Montenegrin politics in resistance to Serbian pressure, especially from the parties of the local leader Slobodan Milošević. The complexity of the problem, which consists primarily in the multitude of variables and the interconnectedness of events, became apparent in the search for an answer to the research question.
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The Serbian Orthodox Church's Engagement in Memory Politics of Post-2000 Serbia: Memory of Suffering and Resistance
Hofmeisterová, Karin ; Králová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Aleksov, Bojan (referee) ; Pavlaković, Vjeran (referee)
For late-modern societies, amnesic and fragmented in their character, a compact presence of the past in the present is of crucial importance. The search for collective memory as a precondition of collective belonging is especially urgent in the light of societal insecurity, which deconstructs the firm systems of significations. Churches, governed by the imperative of continuity constitute the reservoir of memory and provide a very effective response to such an insecurity. Religious institutions, therefore, often employ their mnemonic potential to constantly reaffirm their public relevance in the realities of late modernity. In my dissertation, I explore the motivations, forms, strategies, and outcomes of the mnemonic engagement of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) in post-2000 Serbia. Analyzing primary sources collected by using methods of multi-sited ethnography, I illuminate the SPC's mnemonic activities related to the memory of Serbian heroic victimhood in World War II, and I embed them in a wider picture of memory-making, framed by the socially memorable and configured by specific features of mnemonic interaction. As a historical disjuncture, World War II has been an object of multidimensional mnemonic interplay, involving diverse mnemonic actors from local to transnational and from vernacular...
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The position of the Serbian Orthodox Church to the regime of Slobodan Miloševic: The ideal of symfony between church and state versus reality.
Hofmeisterová, Karin ; Králová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Zilynskyj, Bohdan (referee)
The presented work deals with the topic of the relationship between the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) and the regime of Slobodan Milosevic in the years 1987 - 2000, which is a topic that has scarcely been elaborated upon in academic circles. It specifically deals with the concept of symphony as an Orthodox ideal of the arrangement of relationship between the Church and the state in the SOC policy towards the Serbian political leadership of that time. The thesis illuminates the origins and the essence of this concept and defines the adjustments which it went through in the Serbian milieu. In comparison to the original concept of symphonic interaction between the Church and the power of the state, the author establishes the core alteration as the addition of a national aspect and the creation of an organizational triad of nation, Church and state, which became a characteristic feature of the Serbian Orthodox theology. Based upon the analysis of SOC discourse, the treatise then refreshes the proposition that the symphony of Church and state, taking into account specific attributes, forms a key framework that has influenced and to this day to a certain extent still influences the SOC policy and its approach to a particular political power and regime.
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Folk dance in national identity's construction: dance groups in Sarajevo during war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the years 1992 - 1995
Grossová, Veronika ; Hofmeisterová, Karin (advisor) ; Žíla, Ondřej (referee)
The bachelor thesis examines the Cultural Art Societies and more precisely amateur folklore dance groups in Yugoslavia between 1945 - 1992 and in besieged Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author comprehend the folklore dance as one of the tools used for creating the national identities during the period of the modern European states' construction. Within strengthening specific national identity, also the folklore dances were used for consolidating the political power and legitimization of the regime during the 20. century. The idea of the Yugoslavian worker self - management, which had been practised since the 1950s, spread to the cultural agenda as well. Workers groups were establishing the amateurs' artistic organizations, which maintained the cultural heritage - songs, dances and plays. The purpose of these organizations was to spread the Yugoslavian identity and to support a narrative about brotherhood and unity of all the Yugoslavian's nations. Along with the economic problems, the nationalistic tensions occurred in the 1980s and it caused the break-up of Yugoslavia induced by a series of wars. The three most numerous ethnics - Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats fought against each other, and the traditional multi-ethnic capital was not spared of conflict. The aim of bachelor...
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Impact of ICTY on international criminal law with respect to judgments concerning Bosnian Serbs
Kohoutová, Marie ; Hofmeisterová, Karin (advisor) ; Žíla, Ondřej (referee)
The bachelor's thesis focuses on changes in international criminal law after creation of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The impact on internatinal criminal law examines especially with respect to chosen judgements concerning Bosnian Serbs. For this aim it uses mainly an analysis of primary sources, such as judgements of International criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, its founding documents or Un resolutions, and also an analysis of secondary sources concerning international law and historical context of a conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The conclusion of the thesis is based on an analysis of al the sources with respect to current problematics in the area of international criminal law. The study concludes that ICTY definitely had an impact on further functioning of international criminal law, because it was the first judicial institution after the Nuremberg trials that took place almost fifty years ago. The impact of ICTY can be seen on countless legal definitions that ICTY created or specified and also on giving accuracy to many facts of the cases of crimes under international law.
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Problems of Balkan Candidate Countries that are slowing their integration into the EU
Zelenková, Gabriela ; Šístek, František (advisor) ; Hofmeisterová, Karin (referee)
The European Union's leading policies undoubtedly include integration policy. Since its inception, the European Union has grown several times and is now being counted With the accession of other states. It is the candidate countries of the Western Balkans that will be crucial for my analysis. In our work we will focus on discovering and analyzing the main obstacles of these countries, which are responsible for the slowing of the integration process. The problems faced by these states on their way to the European Union are numerous. Since they are states of one region, many problems are common, but despite the fact that the European Union does not form themselves as a single entity and the admission of one of the states to the European Union, that is to say the acceptance of other states as well. Although they have many problem points in common, each country has its own specific problems that slow down this integration process.
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Folk dance in national identity's construction: dance groups in Sarajevo during war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the years 1992 - 1995
Grossová, Veronika ; Hofmeisterová, Karin (advisor) ; Žíla, Ondřej (referee)
The bachelor thesis examines the Cultural Art Societies and more precisely amateur folklore dance groups in Yugoslavia between 1945 - 1992 and in besieged Sarajevo during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author comprehend the folklore dance as one of the tools used for creating the national identities during the period of the modern European states' construction. Within strengthening specific national identity, also the folklore dances were used for consolidating the political power and legitimization of the regime during the 20. century. The idea of the Yugoslavian worker self - management, which had been practised since the 1950s, spread to the cultural agenda as well. Workers groups were establishing the amateurs' artistic organizations, which maintained the cultural heritage - songs, dances and plays. The purpose of these organizations was to spread the Yugoslavian identity and to support a narrative about brotherhood and unity of all the Yugoslavian's nations. Along with the economic problems, the nationalistic tensions occurred in the 1980s and it caused the break-up of Yugoslavia induced by a series of wars. The three most numerous ethnics - Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats fought against each other, and the traditional multi-ethnic capital was not spared of conflict. The aim of bachelor...
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The position of the Serbian Orthodox Church to the regime of Slobodan Miloševic: The ideal of symfony between church and state versus reality.
Hofmeisterová, Karin ; Králová, Kateřina (advisor) ; Zilynskyj, Bohdan (referee)
The presented work deals with the topic of the relationship between the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) and the regime of Slobodan Milosevic in the years 1987 - 2000, which is a topic that has scarcely been elaborated upon in academic circles. It specifically deals with the concept of symphony as an Orthodox ideal of the arrangement of relationship between the Church and the state in the SOC policy towards the Serbian political leadership of that time. The thesis illuminates the origins and the essence of this concept and defines the adjustments which it went through in the Serbian milieu. In comparison to the original concept of symphonic interaction between the Church and the power of the state, the author establishes the core alteration as the addition of a national aspect and the creation of an organizational triad of nation, Church and state, which became a characteristic feature of the Serbian Orthodox theology. Based upon the analysis of SOC discourse, the treatise then refreshes the proposition that the symphony of Church and state, taking into account specific attributes, forms a key framework that has influenced and to this day to a certain extent still influences the SOC policy and its approach to a particular political power and regime.
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