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The Atmosphere in the Czech and Slovak Society after the Breakup of the Czechoslovakia: The Event in the Context of Comments in the Broadcasting of the Czech and Slovak Radio (1.1.-31.12.1993)
Kobrlová, Eva ; Lovaš, Karol (advisor) ; Maršík, Josef (referee)
This diploma thesis aims to convey the atmosphere in the Czech and Slovak society at the time of the Breakup of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. For this purpose, comments broadcasted by Czechoslovak Radio, Czech Radio respectively, and Slovak Radio were analyzed. The author collected all such comments connected with the breakup of Czechoslovakia between the 1st of July, 1992, and the 31st of December, 1993, regardless of whether these comments focused on the defense, criticism, causes, or consequences of this event. For the analysis itself, the method of analytic induction was used. To put the issue into a broader context, the analysis itself is preceded by a brief overview of events related to the breakup of Czechoslovakia in the period under review. The overview is followed by a description of how the event was perceived by Vladimir Mečiar and Václav Klaus, leaders of the two most powerful political parties in Czechoslovakia at that time and, therefore, the main figures of the breakup. The description is based on their publications and social outputs. To give an insight into the atmosphere mainly in the media under review but also into the atmosphere in the Czech and Slovak society, the perspective of Anna Sámelová and Jan Pokorný, journalists working in the mentioned media at that time,...
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The End of the CSFR and the role of political elits in this process
Vimmr, Martin Kryšpín ; Říchová, Blanka (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
This paper focuses on the dissolution of Czech and Slovak Federal Republic in the context of Arend Lijphart's theory of consociational democracy. It is a comparative case study in which is compared the case of Czechoslovak federation with consociational democracy as a normative type. The paper consists of theoretical and empirical part. The consociational theory itself and its relation to the federalism are described in the first one. In the empirical part are sought all major consociational principles (grand coalition, mutual veto, proportionality, segmental autonomy and political discretion) in the Czechoslovak political system in the time around elections in 1992. The main reason why should be Czechoslovakia placed in the context of consociationalism is fact that the Arend Lijphart (author of the theory) himself identifies Czechoslovakia as a book example of consociational democracy. The existence of strongly divided segments in Czechoslovakia is proven in this paper by the same method as Lijphart uses in Netherlands. The election results of both ethnics - Czechs and Slovaks - were strictly divided in the years 1990 and 1992. This means that there were no political parties that were successful in both republics at the same time. Most of the consociational principles were found in the Czechoslovak...
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Constitutional aspects of the dissolution of the Czechoslovak Federation
Šnajdaufová, Eva ; Gronský, Ján (advisor) ; Pithart, Petr (referee)
Constitutional aspects of the dissolution of the Czechoslovak Federation Abstract The Czechoslovak Federation was a Czechoslovak state, which originated in 1918 based on the nation's right to self-determination. Through the natural and historical law, Slovakia was incorporated into the historical territory of the Lands of the Czech Crown, and Czechoslovakia was formed. A Czechoslovak nation had not previously existed. It was created out of people on the Czech territory and people on the Slovak territory as a fiction that helped to defend the state-forming idea. A Czechoslovak state was created as a national state, but was, in fact, a multinational state. Unsolved national and ethnic issues were one of the major causes of the end of the Czechoslovak state. The Czech and Slovak relations were re- evaluated with every social-wide change. Even prior to the formation of the state, Slovaks were assured of certain autonomy within Czechoslovakia. The failure to fulfill the assurances wound like a red thread through the entire history of the Czechoslovak state. Czechs, who began identifying with the Czechoslovak statehood practically immediately, were not too aware of their somewhat dismissive attitude toward Slovakian demands. It is likely that the concept of a unanimous Czechoslovak nation state led to its...
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Constitutional aspects of the dissolution of the Czechoslovak Federation
Šnajdaufová, Eva ; Gronský, Ján (advisor) ; Pithart, Petr (referee)
Constitutional aspects of the dissolution of the Czechoslovak Federation Abstract The Czechoslovak Federation was a Czechoslovak state, which originated in 1918 based on the nation's right to self-determination. Through the natural and historical law, Slovakia was incorporated into the historical territory of the Lands of the Czech Crown, and Czechoslovakia was formed. A Czechoslovak nation had not previously existed. It was created out of people on the Czech territory and people on the Slovak territory as a fiction that helped to defend the state-forming idea. A Czechoslovak state was created as a national state, but was, in fact, a multinational state. Unsolved national and ethnic issues were one of the major causes of the end of the Czechoslovak state. The Czech and Slovak relations were re- evaluated with every social-wide change. Even prior to the formation of the state, Slovaks were assured of certain autonomy within Czechoslovakia. The failure to fulfill the assurances wound like a red thread through the entire history of the Czechoslovak state. Czechs, who began identifying with the Czechoslovak statehood practically immediately, were not too aware of their somewhat dismissive attitude toward Slovakian demands. It is likely that the concept of a unanimous Czechoslovak nation state led to its...
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The End of the CSFR and the role of political elits in this process
Vimmr, Martin Kryšpín ; Říchová, Blanka (advisor) ; Švec, Kamil (referee)
This paper focuses on the dissolution of Czech and Slovak Federal Republic in the context of Arend Lijphart's theory of consociational democracy. It is a comparative case study in which is compared the case of Czechoslovak federation with consociational democracy as a normative type. The paper consists of theoretical and empirical part. The consociational theory itself and its relation to the federalism are described in the first one. In the empirical part are sought all major consociational principles (grand coalition, mutual veto, proportionality, segmental autonomy and political discretion) in the Czechoslovak political system in the time around elections in 1992. The main reason why should be Czechoslovakia placed in the context of consociationalism is fact that the Arend Lijphart (author of the theory) himself identifies Czechoslovakia as a book example of consociational democracy. The existence of strongly divided segments in Czechoslovakia is proven in this paper by the same method as Lijphart uses in Netherlands. The election results of both ethnics - Czechs and Slovaks - were strictly divided in the years 1990 and 1992. This means that there were no political parties that were successful in both republics at the same time. Most of the consociational principles were found in the Czechoslovak...
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Foreign Policy Initiatives of the New, Democratic Czechoslovakia in the Period 1989-1992
Štěpánek, Zdeněk ; Matějka, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyzes and evaluates the activities in several areas of Czechoslovak foreign policy between 1989 and 1992. The first area is getting over the past and opting out of obligations arisen under the Communist regime, such as negotiations on the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia and active participation of Czechoslovakia on the dissolution of the Warsaw Treaty Organization. Another area is the contribution of Czechoslovak diplomacy to debate on new architecture for international relations in the period after the end of the bipolar division of the world. It is specifically a proposal for a European security commission based on the CSCE and the Harvard plan to help the economy of the USSR and its former satellites. The third area is the activity of Czechoslovak diplomacy in international regional cooperation in Central Europe, in the so called Visegrad Group. An important source of information were the personal interviews with witnesses.
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