Publisher: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství

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Topical Issues of Contemporary Music Education

Topical Issues of Contemporary Music Education

Author(s): Marek Sedláček,Ivo Bartoš,Radka Binderová,Bedřich Crha,Taťána Jurčíková,Marek Olbrzymek,Markéta Prudíková,Klára Roztočilová,Lucie Sochorová,Kamila Sokolová,Kateřina Šrámková,Šárka Vaňková / Language(s): English

Keywords: Music Education; Musical Pedagogical Area; Music teachers; Multimedia; Computer Multimedia Technology in Music Education; Czech Republic;

The proceedings contain full-text papers presented in the sub-section of the XXVI. international music teacher conference MUSICA VIVA IN SCHOLA organized by the Department of Music, the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University in Brno (the Czech Republic) on 16 – 18th October 2012.The studies of the partial conference section entitled "Topical Issues of Contemporary Music Education" regard the current problems of the Czech and European music education in historical contexts, as well as theoretically reflect on the partial results of the extensive nation wide empirical researches conducted by a team of academic workers and doctoral students of the above mentioned Department of Music in 2010-2012 – Research on the Use of Multimedia Technologies in Music Education at Elementary Schools of the Czech Republic (MUNI/A/1025/2009), Research on the Use of Multimedia Technologies in Music Education at Secondary Schools of the Czech Republic (MUNI/A/1022/2010) and especially Music Preferences of the University Students in the Czech Republic (MUNI/A/0885/2011).

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Private Correspondence as a Linguistic Source

Soukromá korespondence jako lingvistický pramen

Author(s): Zdeňka Hladká,Dana Hlaváčková,Klára Osolsobě,Jana Machalová,Lucie Rychnovská,Marek Nekula,Jaroslava Janáčková,Robert Adam,František Martínek,Alena Macurová,Jana Hoffmannová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Private correspondence; linguistic treatment; morphological and sociolinguistic tags in corpuses; KSK; language biographies; historical sociolinguistics; Pragmalinguistics; Syntax;

Private letters belong to most interesting materials, as far as their language is concerned. This book presents an insight into contemporary methodological approachesto a linguistic treatment of these materials.

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Financial accounting

Finanční účetnictví

Author(s): Eva Hýblová,Jaroslav Sedláček,Petr Valouch,Zuzana Křížová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Financial accounting; business management; external environment of the company; decision-making; commercial and tax law; basic accounting elements and principles;

Cílem tohoto studijního textu je uvést budoucí ekonomy do problematiky finančního (podvojného) účetnictví tak, aby pochopili jeho filosofii, jeho úlohu v řízení podniku a jeho význam pro vnější okolí podniku. Hlavním úkolem současného účetnictví je věrně a poctivě zobrazit skutečnost. Kvantifikuje primárně ekonomické jevy a proto je úzce spjatos rozhodováním, avšak na druhé straně uznává požadavky obchodního a daňového práva. Čtenáři se seznámí s účelem a funkcí účetnictví, s jeho právní úpravou a se základními účetními prvky a principy, na které navazují základní postupy účtování o hospodářských transakcích, s nimiž se setkáváme v podnikové praxi. Výklad obsahuje obecné teoretické přístupy včetně jejich praktického uplatnění v oblasti hospodaření podniků.

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Management of reverse flows

Řízení zpětných toků

Author(s): Radoslav Škapa,Alena Klapalová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Reverse flows; raw; material; product; packaging; information and financial flow; logistics; Supply Chain Management; management of companies and organizations;

Reverse flows include several types of flows – raw, material, product, packaging, information, and financial – and therefore they pose a source of different types of values. Reverse flow management includes all activities related to the reverse flows including reverse logistics, effective control of inputs and efforts to reduce reverse flows. The implementation of reverse flowstakes place through internal processes in an enterprise but a substantial part of them occurs within the Supply Chain Management. Interest in reverse flows from practitioners and theorists increased in the 1980s; yet in many models and methods that emerged just in the 1980s and which aim to ensure success (see, e.g., process management models, EFQM, Balanced Score card, etc.) reverse flows were omitted and this situation continues partly until today. Nevertheless, the management of reverse flows is currently considered to be one of the key supply chain management competencies. For some industries reverse flows may even be critical to their competitiveness and success. The perception of the importance and impact of reverse flows on the management and the existence of companies, however, varies considerably among managers. The monograph presents a part of the results of the authors’ empirical research conducted for several years, focused on the attitude of Czech companies to reverse flow management in terms of the perception of a potential value. In addition, it presents a compilation of current knowledge in the field of reverse flow management and value creation within these flows. These findings surely cannot be considered to be a comprehensive summary of the theories, concepts, definitions, etc., as these issues are continuously evolving and involve multiple aspects of management of companies and organizations (including non-profit ones).

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Shapes and Metamorphoses of the City in Slavic and Selected Non-slavic Cultures, Literature, and Languages

Podoby a proměny města ve slovanských a vybraných neslovanských kulturách, literaturách a jazycích

Author(s): Stanislava Adámková,Marek Čorba,Eva Mikulková,Veronika Neničková,Stanislav Oplatek,Michał Przybylski,Anton Somov,Milan Strmiska,Martin Surovčák,Josef Šaur,Pavel Zeman / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Department of Slavonic Studies at Masaryk University’s Faculty of Arts; Slavic region; East Slavic; West Slavic; South Slavic; non-Slavic Balkan environment; lignuistics; literature; religion;

This publication is the result of research by a young collective (professional staff and doctoral and non-doctoral students) from the Department of Slavonic Studies at Masaryk University’s Faculty of Arts. Its component chapters provide studies on the broadly-defined topic of the urban space in all three zones of the Slavic region—East-Slavic, West-Slavic (Central European), and South Slavic (Balkan-Slavic)—with some carry over into the non-Slavic Balkan environment. The whole publication is based on the area concept, which consists mainly in stepping beyond the conventional borders of traditional philology and creating room for intertwining of philological and social sciences. The individual surveys analyze phenomena traditionally covered by linguistics, language teaching theory, history, religious studies, and literary science.

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Effectiveness in the system of revere flows

Efektivnost v systému zpětných toků

Author(s): Alena Klapalová,Michal Krčál,Radoslav Škapa / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: reverse logistics; business system; performance of the system; effectiveness; efficiency; Management of reverse and flows;

This book deals with reverse logistics from the economical point of view. Various types of losses occurring in this business system can diminish the performance of the system, and thus the competitiveness of the whole company. These losses are the main focus of this book. By “losses”, we refer to the effectiveness- and efficiency-related problems. The issue of performance of reverse logistics (especially the barrier and bottle neck identification) has already been addressed in two publications Management of reverse flows, and Specifics of reverse flows management. Effectiveness in reverse flows systems aims to define the research problems of bottle necks restraining the value recovery from reverse flows. Main chapters are organized as follows: Chapter 2 deals with performance tracking of reverse logistics, Chapter 3 elaborates on outsourcing and Chapter 4 deals with the informational systems supporting reverse flows. All research areas combine theoretical knowledge obtained by literature research with empirical findings. Both quantitative study among representatives of the enterprises operating in the Czech Republic, and one enterprise case study were used.

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Dreams of Civil Society Two Decades Later: Civic Advocacy in the Czech Republic

Dreams of Civil Society Two Decades Later: Civic Advocacy in the Czech Republic

Author(s): Jiří Navrátil,Miroslav POSPÍŠIL / Language(s): English

Keywords: Civil society; Czech Republic; Non-democratic regimes; Slow emancipation; 1989; Legal environments; CSO;

This study focuses on the key aspects of Czech civil society two decades after the revolution of 1989. More particularly, we explore a particular function of civil society – the political, representative, contentious, or advocacy function – and deliberately leave aside the others. In other words, we stress the “political” sense of the concept of civil society that was proposed and developed by many thinkers (for overview see Keane 1998; Cohen, Arato 1999; Kaldor 2003). This study acknowledges that the concept is inextricably linked to the notion of political order or democracy and that its political dimensionis a key aspect that distinguishes this social sphere from the state, family, or economy. Some of the contemporary normative perspectives on civil society propose an ideal type of civil sphere that prevents the powers of the state and the market from invading the lives of citizens (e.g., Habermas, Skocpol, Ehrenberg).

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Competition and performance of european railways

Konkurence a výkonnost na evropských železnicích

Author(s): Zdeněk Tomeš / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Railway reforms; reform strategy; infrastructure; railway's output; horizontal and vertical separation;

European countries after 1993 applied railway reforms. The reform strategy included vertical separation (infrastructure – services), horizontal separation (freight – passenger) and the entry of competition. The aim of this book is to identify the effect of reforms on railway’s output. Based on regression analysis of data in 27 European countries in the period 1995–2011 it was identified, that horizontal separation is increasing output where as no clear effectcould be identified in case of vertical separation. The effect of competition entry was different for sample of Western and Eastern European countries. In passenger sector the entry of competition was increasing output in Western Europe but decreasing it in Eastern Europe. Also other reform and control variables had significantly different effects for samples of Western and Eastern European countries. The results therefore indicate that European railway reform generates different results for Western and Eatstern European countries.

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Words in Private Letters. A Lexicographic Probe

Slova v soukromých dopisech. Lexikografická sonda

Author(s): Olga Martincová,Zdeňka Hladká / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Private letters; lexicography; private correspondence; linguistic research; spoken and written; dialogue and monologue; presence and absence; ways of expression;

Attention of scholars from the field of humanities has been for a long time paid to private personal letters. This applies especially to historians, to scholars dealing with literature and more recently to sociologists, psychologists etc. Private correspondence is also a subject of interest in the field of linguistic research. It is a material attractive from many viewpoints, relating to well-known contrasts of epistolary style [Skwarcz yńska 1975 et al.], namely to contrasts such as a) spoken vs. written (relating e.g.to the contrast of standard vs. non-.standard); b) dialogue – monologue; c) presence vs. absence of ambitions to include features of the style of fiction (which applies also to letters of common people); d) individual ways of expression vs. following conventions of letter writing. An electronic Corpus of Private Correspondence was created at the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University (ÚČJ FF MU). Serving the purpose of linguistic research, this corpus contains 2,000 letters written by hand and 1,000 e-mails from the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries written by 3,000 common people, especially by young people; the corpus contains dialectological, sociological and partly grammatical tags. The section focused on letters written by hand in 2006 became a separate part of the Czech National Corpus (KSK-dopisy; http://ucnk.ff.cuni.cz). Full versions of gathered texts, including photo copies of the original letters, adding also 2,000 sms, were published inthe work Čeština v současné soukromé korespondenci. Dopisy, e-maily, SMS [Hladk á et al. 2005].

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Introduction to the Study of Archeology

Úvod do studia archeologie

Author(s): Vladimír Podborský / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Study of Archeology; Pre-history and history; Methods in Archeology; Sub-fields of Archeology; mobile archaeological artifacts; archaeological culture;

Před zhruba půlstoletím napsal prominentní britský prehistorik Gordon Vere Childe (1892–1957) jeden z prvních, ne-li vůbec první, novodobých úvodů do studia archeologie: A Short Introduction to Archaeology (Krátký úvod do archeologie). Od té doby byly takových úvodů napsány desítky, až po volnou, žertovnou formou napsanou repliku knihy G. V. Childa, Archaeology. A Very Short Introduction od Paula Bahna (Oxford University Press 1996, 2002; český překlad Anna Kalmanová, Archeologie. Průvodce pro každého, Vimperk: Dokořán, 2007). U nás byly nejvíce používány příručky: H. J. Eggers, Einführung in die Vorgeschichte (München 1959); S. J. Laet, Archeologija i jejproblemy (polské vydání, Warszawa 1960); F. Felgenhauer, Einführung in die Urgeschichtsforschung (Freiburg 1973); H. Müller-Karpe, Einführung in die Vorgeschichte (München 1979) a možná i poněkud náročnější polský sborník W. Hensel – G. Donato – S. Tabaczyński, eds., Teoria i praktika badań archeologicznych I. Przeslanki metodologiczne (Wrocław–Warszawa–Kraków–Gdańsk–Łódź 1986).

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Historian Jiří Špét - Life and work

Historik Jiří Špét - Život a dílo

Author(s): Marie Gilbertová,Jan Dolák / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Jiří Špét; Historian; Czech museums;

Předložená práce, věnovaná PhDr. Jiřímu Špétovi, CSc., významnému historikovi českého muzejnictví, muzeologovi, pedagogovi a úředníkovi ministerstva kultury, sestává ze dvou základních částí.

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The Paths of Folk Dancing. Zdenka Jelínková and Czech Ethnochoreology

Cestami lidového tance. Zdenka Jelínková a česká etnochoreologie

Author(s): Martina Pavlicová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Zdenka Jelínková; Folk dancing; Czech ethnochoreology; ethnological specialization; dancing traditions;

Zdenka Jelínková was a prominent researcher in the area of folk dancing, who was present at the birth of Czech ethnochoreology after the Second World War. She was born on 30th March 1920 in south-eastern Moravia in Velká nad Veličkou, which belongs to the Horňácko ethnographic region. In her childhood and youth she still had opportunities to encounter numerous manifestations of traditional folk culture, which were gradually disappearing from everyday life due to the influence of modern society. She came from a white-collar family; however, she was attracted by rural folk culture, mainly folklore manifestations. She regularly returned to Horňácko even after her family moved to Brno. The closure of universities during the Nazi occupation in 1939 prevented her from studying the subjects she had already enrolled in (Physical Education – French), therefore she at least graduated from the school for instructors of the Czech Sokol Community (Česká obec sokolská) in Prague (1940) and worked as a teacher at various schools until 1950. Her interest in folk dancing and in children folklore did not wane even during her teaching career; she was also active in the folklore movement. In 1949 her erudition brought her to a group of collectors who were making folklore records for the collections of the Folk Song Institute (Ústav pro lidovou píseň) in Brno. In 1950 she was hired as a qualified worker of this institution and worked here until her retirement in 1982. Not even then did she give up her ethnochoreological activities. She died on 5th October 2005.

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Caused Motion: Secondary Agent Constructions

Caused Motion: Secondary Agent Constructions

Author(s): Naděžda Kudrnáčová / Language(s): English

Keywords: Semantico-Syntactic Status of Secondary Agent Constructions; Applicability of Verbs; Causal Structuration; Non-Coercive and Corective SA Constructions;

Secondary agent constructions (SA constructions) represent verb-class specific constructions (in the sense of Croft 2003). The reasons are as follows: (a) SA constructions include a narrowly defined set of verbs and (b) the resulting meaning is derived from the interaction between the meaning of the verbs and the meaning of the construction, involving a very specific causal structuration (as regards the form of SA constructions, directional phrases can be missing, depending on the type of scenario). Heavy restrictions imposed on the repertory of verbs that are admitted into these constructions have been explained in the literature by the inherently monadic, non-causative nature of these verbs. It has often been claimed in the relevant literature that manner of motion is not syntactically relevant. However, owing to the apparent restrictions imposed on the syntactic applicability of self-agentive manner of motion verbs (including their usability in SA constructions), it is evident that the claim cannot be maintained. Boas (2006, 2008) has shown convincingly that there are connections between the verb’s descriptivity (roughly, the complexity and specificity of the verb´s meaning) and the range of syntactic patterns into which the verb may enter. Nevertheless, his account does not make clear exactly which elements of the verb´s meaning decide the verb’s usability in SA constructions (and in some other types of syntactic patterns).

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Czech local and regional print media between 1989 and 2009

Český lokální a regionální tisk mezi lety 1989 a 2009

Author(s): Lenka Waschková Císařová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: structural transformation; local and regional press; privatization; commercialization; centralization; rationalization; Czech media;

The fall of communism in 1989 brought major social, political and cultural changes in the Czechoslovakia. This book concentrates on changes in one particular segment of the media market, the subsystem of local and regional print media. This segment of the media landscapeis rarely studied although – arguably – it is a significant part of the media system, particularlyas it enables strong identifications at the local/regional level. Czech local and regional press has been the centre of attention in relation to the entry of foreign owners on the market and particularlyin relation to issues of possible media concentration on this segment of the market but concentrated academic study of this subject is seriously lacking. The text aims at mapping structural changes that characterize this segment of the media market between 1989 and 2009. It analyzes political and economic factors that played a role in the transformation and identifies commercialization as a major influence. The book makes use of three research methods: document analysis, semi-structured in-depth interviews, survey and content analysis. The analysis operates at two levels, those of the media system and the media organization and it uses a case study approach for an in-depth analysis of the case of the Vltava-Labe-Press (VLP) publishing house that has become dominant on the Czech local and regional print media market. The main hypothesis that the book addresses is that the influence of commercialization (and its constituting elements on the macro and micro levels) within the transformation process leads to the gradual erosion of the local characteristics (a process we term delocalization) of this particular segment of the media system.

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Mothers – Grandmothers – Daughters? Reconciling Labour Market Integration with Care Responsibilities in Brno

Mothers – Grandmothers – Daughters? Reconciling Labour Market Integration with Care Responsibilities in Brno

Author(s): Steven Saxonberg,Martina Kampichler,Miroslava Janoušková / Language(s): English

Keywords: Women's labour market; Brno; Gender segragation in Education; Gender pay gap; Local Welfare System; Childcare;

This book presents a case study of how social policies influence women in the labour market in the Czech municipality of Brno. This study is based on research that we conducted as part of the EU financed project “Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social cohesion,” which has been shortened to the acronym FLOWS. The project’s goal was to analyze “how local welfare provision affects the labour market participation of women, and how female employment in turn affects the life course (of women and men), structures of inequality, social cohesion and hence the sustainability of the European social model” (FLOWS 2010: A1: 3).

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Return policy and its economic issues

Reklamační politika a její ekonomické souvislosti

Author(s): Radoslav Škapa / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: customer complaint policy; return policy; Claim management; seller; customer; marketing; extended product;

The book deals with the issue of claims and what foreign literature refers to as “return policy”. Since this term is absent in Czech literature, it is translated into Czech as “reklamaní politika” and it is defined by its content with regard to the Czech legal environment. In this book, the return policy simply means a way of claim management that the seller receives in respect of material defects of a product and possibly even defects subjectively perceived by the customer. The return policy topic is presented from several perspectives. The main one is the connection of the return policy with marketing; the return policy is understood primarily as a marketing tool that participates in forming a so-called “extended product”. In its initial chapters, the thesis defines the subject of interest – the so-called return policy – and based on a conducted literature review it analyzes the consequences of the selected return policy (rules and procedures applied by the sellers) on customers’ perception and their behavior. The purpose of this sectionis to serve as a basis for empirical surveys (part II and part III). Although the focus of each of the presented studies is different, a unifying objective can be used for all of them, i.e. to investigate the behavior of customers in connection with claims and terms of claims so as to optimize the return policy.

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Jaroslav Palliardi (February 20, 1861 - March 12, 1922): A Progressive Cultural Authority of Southwest Moravia and a Renowned European Archaeologist (Study on the History of Archaeology)

Jaroslav Palliardi (20. 2. 1861 – 12. 3. 1922): Pokrokový kulturní činitel jihozápadní Moravy a věhlasný archeolog evropského jména (Studie k dějinám archeologie)

Author(s): Jaroslav Kovarnik,Vladimír Podborský / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Archeology; Jaroslav Palliardi; Moravian archeology; Františka Kerschnerová; Vítězslav Houdek ;

Ve chvíli předávání tohoto svazku „Postav moravské archeologie“ do tisku cítí autoři povinnost připomenout čtenářům jednu důležitou okolnost, která – jak se ukazuje – provází a do budoucna stále bude vydávání „Postav“ provázet. Jde o úplnost či neúplnost a o kritičnost jednotlivých svazků. Malé monografie stěží mohou osudy a životní dílo jednotlivých protagonistů moravské archeologie vyčerpat bezezbytku. Ne kvůli limitovanému rozsahu svazků – žádný limitkromě ekonomického není stanoven, nýbrž z heuristických důvodů. Co se týká kritičnosti, resp. hodnocení té které osobnosti, pak – pokud se ho ten který autor vůbec „dopustí“ – bude vždy především subjektivním pohledem, ovlivněným celkovým rozhledem pisatele, jeho odvahou a dobovým nazíráním. Autoři ostatně nejsou k hodnocení osobností vyzýváni.

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Tesetice-Kyjovice 7. Settlement of the Moravian Painted Pottery Culture between the Ditch and the Outer Roundel Palisade

Těšetice-Kyjovice 7. Osídlení kultury s moravskou malovanou keramikou mezi příkopem a vnější palisádou rondelu

Author(s): Martin Kuča,Eliška Kazdová,Šárka Hladilová,Miriam Nývltová Fišáková,Lubomír Prokeš / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Těšetice-Kyjovice; Moravian painted ceramics; Moravian painted pottery; Archeology;

V několika posledních desetiletích je mimo řadu jiných témat archeologie patrný zvýšený zájem o výzkum a následnou interpretaci fenoménu nazývaného v archeologických kruzích jako rondelová či sociokultovní architektura. Na Ústavu archeologie a muzeologie (dříve Katedře archeologie) Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity v Brně mátento směr bádání dlouhou tradici. Připomeňme jen, že jako první byl ve střední Evropě kompletně prozkoumán rondel v „Sutnách“ u Těšetic-Kyjovic nedaleko Znojma, a to meziléty 1968–1978 (dějiny výzkumu jsou i s literaturou uvedeny v kapitole 1), čímž rozběhl novou etapu oboru. Od té doby bylo do dnešních dnů objeveno řádově několik desítek podobných objektů.

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Flow cut: InFlow Yearbook 2009

Škobrtnutí o flow: Ročenka InFlow 2009

Author(s): / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: InFlow; articles and blog posts; fresh opinions;

První ročenka Inflow se jmenovala Hledání Flow. Před deseti lety, v roce 1998, vydal Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi knihu Finding Flow. Kniha pojednává o tom, že když člověk dělá to, co miluje, často ztratí pojem o čase. Nepotřebuje potom pracně hledat rovnováhu. O tom, kde hledat to, co nás pohltí. Kniha Hledání Flow byla mozaikou, výběrovým dílem mnoha autorů, kteří do Inflow v roce 2008 přispěli něčím zajímavým, originálním, imaginativním. Byla to kniha o hledání, nacházení, sdílení a nadšení.

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The Challenges of Central European Security: Critical Insights

The Challenges of Central European Security: Critical Insights

Author(s): Tamás Csíki,Jan Daniel,Ľubomír Lupták,Diāna Potjomkina,Richard Turcsányi,Václav Walach / Language(s): English

Keywords: Central European Security Challenges; Internal and External Threats; USA; Roma minorities; Hungary;

This book employs various theories of contemporary security studies to explore some of the most important and most common security issues in Central Europe at this time. Individual chapters of the book adhere mainly to European branches of critical and constructivist security studies,through which they look at some of the salient topics of Central European security politics. The distinction between internal and external security issues is employed throughout the book for analytical purposes. Under this framework, alliance building, security guarantees, “special relationships,” the relational politics of identity, and relations with major powers – documented in the book on the case of Latvia’s relations with United States – are examples of external security issues. Various pressing domestic security challenges, illustrated on the case of Hungarian far-right movements and their activities towards the Roma minority, are examples of internal security issues.

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