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Today's French Foreign Legion and the Internal Factors that Make it Work
Janík, Daniel ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Tomalová, Eliška (referee)
The French Foreign Legion has many traits and characteristics that may be labelled as strange, anachronistic or controversial. It is, however, a fully functional and well performing military unit. What are the inner mechanisms that allowed it to remain in existence until the present day? If we leave out external influences and consider the Foreign Legion as a typical total institution, we can try to find and classify these factors. The first group of mechanisms is connected to admission and accession of the candidates to the Legion and includes a formal change of the applicants' identity, weakening of their links with their own personal history and an indoctrination aimed at creating a strong bond with the Foreign Legion. In the second category we find characteristics and processes that further deepen this acquired loyalty, such as rituals, customs, songs etc. However, these mechanisms aren't always working properly. The French military campaign in Indochina after the end of the Second World War is an example of a situation where some of these functional prerequisites were limited or missing completely. The image of the Foreign Legion during the Indochina War was affected by the so-called myth of German veterans, according to which a major part of the Legion composed of legionaries of German...
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Today's French Foreign Legion and the Internal Factors that Make it Work
Janík, Daniel ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Tomalová, Eliška (referee)
The French Foreign Legion has many traits and characteristics that may be labelled as strange, anachronistic or controversial. It is, however, a fully functional and well performing military unit. What are the inner mechanisms that allowed it to remain in existence until the present day? If we leave out external influences and consider the Foreign Legion as a typical total institution, we can try to find and classify these factors. The first group of mechanisms is connected to admission and accession of the candidates to the Legion and includes a formal change of the applicants' identity, weakening of their links with their own personal history and an indoctrination aimed at creating a strong bond with the Foreign Legion. In the second category we find characteristics and processes that further deepen this acquired loyalty, such as rituals, customs, songs etc. However, these mechanisms aren't always working properly. The French military campaign in Indochina after the end of the Second World War is an example of a situation where some of these functional prerequisites were limited or missing completely. The image of the Foreign Legion during the Indochina War was affected by the so-called myth of German veterans, according to which a major part of the Legion composed of legionaries of German...
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Interests of parties to the Sino-Vietnamese War 1979
Marhoul, Jan ; Karásek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Soukup, Jaromír (referee)
Diploma thesis Interests of parties to the Sino-Vietnamese War 1979 deals with the lesser know topic of the semi-forgotten war which had been fought during the Cold War era. The most interesting in this conflict is, that it had been fought by former mutual allies. The thesis isn't focused on the course of war, with the beginning on the 17th of February 1979. The form of war so called "limited". It means, that the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army, had its objectives, when they had been reached, the Chinese military units turned back to China. The last Chinese soldier crossed the border on the 16th of March 1979, after four week of harsh fighting's. But the aim of this work is to analyze the interests of the parties involved in the conflict and to prove the hypothesis, that the war was actually proxy war between PRC and USSR.
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New members of ASEAN and their participating on the global economy
Janoušková, Klára ; Cihelková, Eva (advisor) ; Bič, Josef (referee)
The aim of this paper is to analyze the economic development in countries of Indochine and Myanmar and to answer the following questions. How the Indochina countries and Myanmar participate in the global economy and what contributes most to the growth of their economies? The richest of the countries is Vietnam. Vietnam has undergone many political and economic changes and is now experiencing significant growth. Vietnam was not affected by the global crisis, and therefore his growth can continue without interruption. What contributed to the significant growth in Vietnam?
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Ekonomická transformace zemí bývalé Indočíny
Soukupová, Lucie ; Adamcová, Lenka (advisor) ; Němečková, Tereza (referee)
Práce nejprve obecně charakterizuje ekonomickou transformaci, následně hodnotí přechod Vietnamu, Laosu a Kambodži a v menší míře také Číny a zemí Střední Asie od centrálně plánované k tržní ekonomice. Popisuje prvotní snahy o reformu systémů centrálního řízení, výchozí podmínky tržních reforem a jejich průběh. Dále srovnává reformní úsilí jednotlivých států a hodnotí, do jaké míry se v současné době přiblížily tržní ekonomice, přičemž zmiňuje aktuální překážky bránící plné ekonomické transformaci těchto zemí.
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