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(Gender-Neutral) Conscription in the Nordic Countries' Armed Forces
Šťastníková, Štěpánka ; Plechanovová, Běla (advisor) ; Ludvík, Jan (referee)
While conscription has been experiencing a modest, albeit notable comeback in the past decade, the emergence of its gender-neutral variant is largely overlooked. Through a comparative case study of Norway, Sweden, and Finland, this thesis explores the reasons that led to or hindered the introduction of gender-neutral conscription in the three Nordic countries. Given the countries' similarities in many areas, the thesis aims to explain why Norway and Sweden introduced gender-neutral conscription, whereas Finland retained conscription only for men. To do that, the three cases are analysed using an original framework based on the surveyed literature, which features the following factors: national security situation, role and character of conscription, its legitimisation, integration of women into the military and thematization of gender equality in the military. On the one hand, the analysis identifies common patterns in the cases of Norway and Sweden across most of the factors. In the two countries, the security situation was perceived to be relatively favourable, conscription was used as a tool for the recruitment of future active-duty soldiers and thus the practice was considerably selective, conscription was reformulated to address changing circumstances, women were integrated into the military...
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Studená during the Second World War
Čermáková, Lucie ; Míšková, Alena (advisor) ; Hnilica, Jiří (referee)
The first mention of village Studená dates from 1356, yet this area was populated earlier, specifically since the 10th century. Its greatest development village underwent before the World War II., when there was the greatest number of inhabitants and various companies were established. The work is dedicated to the life in the Studená during the Second World War; however it is mainly focused on the beginning and the end of the war, when the inhabitants were most affected by the acts of war. Keywords: Studená, trench works, conscription, civil anti-aircraft defense, rationing, forced displacement, confiscation
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Conscription in the legal system of the Czech Republic
Bejbl, Daniel ; Kudrna, Jan (advisor) ; Grinc, Jan (referee)
Conscription in the legal system of the Czech Republic The main goal of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive take on a conscription legislation in the Czech legal system. With this in mind the beginning of the thesis includes a definition of conscription as well as the differences between conscripted army and a professional army since both these systems currently are or have been present in Czech armed forces. To better understand the different types of conscription used throughout the history, the thesis also contains a chapter encompassing a basic development of Czech (Czechoslovak) foreign policy and defence strategy since the birth of an independent Czechoslovakia up to this day, focusing its impact on the concrete type of conscription used in the particular period. Then, a comprehensive third chapter about a historical development of different types of providing defence to the area of the contemporary Czech Republic is included. Each subchapter is dedicated to a certain historical period since the early system of princely retinues during the 10th century up till the 21st century and a fully professional army. The main part of the thesis consists of chapters four to seven which describes individual aspects of current conscription legislation such as organization of Czech armed forces,...
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Military Conscription in contemporary Europe - how and why states still use it?
Hoppe, Dominik ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Ludvík, Jan (referee)
This thesis addresses issues regarding military conscription within the European geographic area. It reflects lengthy and complicated evolution of military conscription, as well as its use case and eventual suspension or abolishment as a military recruitment tool in a post- Cold war Europe up until this day. Thesis also addresses academic and non-academic debate related to conscription and its development, typology, use-cases while it tries to uncover and summarize principal reasons, why was the concept of military conscription abandoned. Furthermore, it tries to evaluate those reasons against the current state of security environment in Europe, compare them and based on that, answer the question whether the relevance of those reasons is still valid or not. Especially in relation to the fact, that some of the countries that abolished conscription in the past, are bringing it back in form of mandatory military or civilian service, contrary to above mentioned reasons. Thesis comes to conclusion, that the relevancy of the issues with conscription from the past are less relevant in current European security environment.
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Studená during the Second World War
Čermáková, Lucie ; Míšková, Alena (advisor) ; Hnilica, Jiří (referee)
The first mention of village Studená dates from 1356, yet this area was populated earlier, specifically since the 10th century. Its greatest development village underwent before the World War II., when there was the greatest number of inhabitants and various companies were established. The work is dedicated to the life in the Studená during the Second World War; however it is mainly focused on the beginning and the end of the war, when the inhabitants were most affected by the acts of war. Keywords: Studená, trench works, conscription, civil anti-aircraft defense, rationing, forced displacement, confiscation
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