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The Role of Uzbekistan in Afghanistan and Tajikistan Civil Wars
Kantner, Pavel ; Horák, Slavomír (advisor) ; Jordanová, Anna (referee)
This thesis focuses on the foreign policy of Uzbekistan under the highly personalized regime of first Uzbek president Karimov in regards to the Tajikistani civil war. The thesis is based around two interconnected research questions. First which goals motivated Karimov to intervene in Tajikistan civil war; second to extend were those interventions successful (i.e. to what extend was he successful in pursuing those goals). The thesis draws from existing publications about the Tajikistan civil war, foreign policy of Uzbekistan and conflict factors in the wider Central Asian region, such as islamism, inter-ethnic relations and water conflicts. Uzbek intervention in Tajikistan as such is a new research topic. None of the source publications examines it, rather it is touched upon from the perspective of their research topic. The thesis has theoretical part, which defines foreign policy of Uzbekistan and current state of research into the Tajikistani civil war. The following analytical part abstracts information relevant to Uzbek intervention in Tajikistani civil war in dozens of sources, which are analyzed by prism of Uzbek foreign policy defined in theoretical part, and based on those findings answers the research questions.
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ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE-STYLE ACCORDING TO GILLES LIPOVETSKY AND MICHEL MAFFESOLI: COMPARISON AND CONFRONTATION OF SELECTED THEMES, PROBLEMS AND CONTROVERSIES
VOLEK, Jan
The thesis analyzes and compares the approaches of two authors dealing with phenomena in contemporary society. It focuses mainly on issues of lifestyle and values. The thesis asks questions related to socialization and individualization of society. The thesis is divided into four parts. The first part is about definition of the basic terms (postmodernism, lifestyle, values). The second part is devoted to the concept of Gilles Lipovetsky. The third part focuses on the concept of Michel Maffesoli. In the fourth section, there is a comparison of these two concepts, where we are primarily focused on tracing argumentation clashes and controversies. In the final part, there is the presentation of the main questions and ideas, that come out on the basis of this comparison.
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Culture in Postmodern Society
KUČEROVÁ, Radka
The paper aims at giving analytic picture of postmodern culture in its various demonstrations in mass society and in its influence upon man{\crq}s individuality and their lifestyle.The beginning of the paper deals with terminology and with description of the western culture development. The main part of the paper analyses (gradual compilation) main works of important authors with various views and approaches (G. Lipovetsky, M. Maffesoli, Z. Bauman). An interesting contribution to this topic represents futurological vision of A. and H. Tofflers spouses, who describe mankind development and creation of new forms of democracy. The last chapter deals with comparing the similarities and the differences between the works of the above mentioned authors.
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