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Český lokální a regionální tisk mezi lety 1989 a 2009

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

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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Die Marienlegende des Heinrich Clûsenêre: Manuskript, diplomatischer Abdruck, Übersetzung, Kommentar

Author(s): Jaromír Zeman / Language(s): German

The publication presents the Middle High German Legend of Virgin Mary by Heinrich Clûsenêre. The publication consists of manuscript facsimiles, a diplomatic transcription, a translation into contemporary German, and a comprehensive linguistic commentary followed by the description of the text source and an analysis of selected aspects of the language, literary form, and content in historical and theological context.

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Vlastní jména vlakových spojů (porejonyma) na území ČR v letech 1993–2013

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

Unusual in its theme, this comprehensive publication should please not only experts in onomastics but also fans of rail transport. For the first time, they can discover detailed linguistic analysis of the names of 357 trains that have been crossing the Czech Republic since its foundation. The core of the book consists in an extensive dictionary of proper names of train lines where each train connection is accompanied with a table of extra-linguistic factors such as the train category, its number, departure and destination, route, and time of operation. Supplementary charts and maps are provided at the end.

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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

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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Hudebně-literární slovník. Hudební díla inspirovaná slovesným uměním. Skladatelé 20. století. III. díl slovníkové trilogie

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

The third part of a Musical-Literary Dictionary builds on the first two parts of the Dictionary dealing with international and Czech composers which were published by the Masaryk University Press in 2011. The third part of the Dictionary concludes a monumental dictionary trilogy. This work deals with literary production of the 20th century composers and registers only their musicial compositions which are linked to literary (exceptionally also visual) art. The link could have a form of unspecified literary, visual or musical inspiration. In the most cases the connectionis about a common idea, theme, content or text of a literary work. The Dictionary designed this way brings a new and original point of view to the 20th century artificial and non-artificial musical production in a worldwide context into Czech and world musicial and literary lexicography. The book includes 4,205 musicial works of 533 Czech and international composers living from 1930 to the present and, on the other hand, it includes also 1,995 literary authors whose literary works have inspired the birth of musicial works. Furthermore the Dictionary pays attention to folk literature and its display in musicial production and also to musical works through which their authors have paid tribute to important artists of the past.

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Ozbrojené konflikty po konci studené války

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

Did the Cold War, or rather the end of it, represent any kind of fundamental milestone in armed conflicts? Answering this question became the central research focus of a project undertaken by a group of specialists from the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University as part of the grant funded project “Armed Conflicts in International Relations after the end of the Cold War”. The project was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. To a certain extent the team of authors attempted to summarize the research that has so far been conducted in this field and to present a more complex picture of the kind of changes that have actually occurred within armed conflicts over the last two decades and what the reasons for and consequences of these changes are. What is certain is that the end of the Cold War did not put an end to armed conflicts as such. On the contrary, latent tension which manifested itself through fractional armed conflicts, mostly on the periphery, had many more opportunities to develop after 1990 and grew into conflicts which a number of powers became involved in. Europe – the continent in which the Iron Curtain was located, but which had been spared open armed conflict throughout the entire duration of the Cold War – in the early nineties was to witness the most extensive violence to have occurred there since the end of World War II.

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Severoatlantická aliance a řešení ozbrojených konfliktů: Komparace angažmá v Kosovu a Libyi

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

The following conclusions may be drawn from the analysis of cases in which NATO, as a security alliance of democratic states, proactively engaged in armed conflict through the use of military force, and in which its policies sparked controversy with regard to perceptions of international law. The Alliance employs military force in situations where an extensive humanitarian disaster is ongoing, impending, or anticipated, and where the international community exhibits strong expectations that NATO should address the escalating crisis. Both of the examined cases involved humanitarian disaster; however, both crises proved less severe than anticipated by the international community at the time of NATO’s military engagement.

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Child welfare discourses and practices in the Czech lands: the segregation of Roma and disabled children during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Author(s): Victoria Shmidt / Language(s): English

In terms of methodological approaches, this book puts together eugenic studies and the segregation of Roma in order to indicate the new approaches to exploring the impact of the past on the current policies and routine practices in post-socialist world. It is possible to differentiate two camps of social scientists who practice historical method for reinforcing their attitudes towards the segregation of the Roma. In terms of retrospective analysis, both camps focuson the socialist period as a source of current issues regarding Roma, their discrimination and the intractability of practices. The main difference between these camps is the way of explaining the issue of segregation. Performed by applied scientists who study the strategies for well-balanced co-existence of the Czech and Roma, the first camp of scholars reproduces various essentialist concepts regarding Roma – putting forward the insuperable difference between the “white” majority and Roma as a call for more tolerant attitude. Utilising trans-historical disclosure of “traditional” values, the other camp leads the sources of segregation to the inappropriate discourses disseminated amongst public as well as professionals. Catching others in the act of producing essentialist notion, these scholars often criticise the first camp but remain unable to construct the sustainable alternative to segregation. While the critical response to the first camp connects it with the previous practices and policies of segregation, the critical deconstruction of post-socialist trans-historis mensures the necessity of deeper contextualization in order to recognise options for sustainable integration.

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Fletcherian Dramatic Achievement: A Study in the Mature Plays of John Fletcher (1579–1625)

Author(s): Pavel Drábek / Language(s): English

The mature plays of John Fletcher, Shakespeare’s collaborator and successor with the King’s Men, have received little critical attention. This book analyzes the specifics of mature Fletcherian style, proposing a reading that agrees with the Baroque mode. Special attention is given to anachronistic conventions that have been appllied to Fletcherian drama.

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Jugoslávie – Srbsko – Kosovo: Kosovská otázka ve 20. století

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

Kosovo issue represents a comprehensive complex of problems and issues, ensuing from troubles involving the coexistence of provincial Albanian majority and Serbian minority, residing at small common territory situated in the middle of Balkans. The submitted monograph describing the Kosovo issue covers the entire 20th century. Wherever it may be necessary, we strive to disclose deeper roots of some phenomena, or in cases, where an interpretation of certain development trends may remain unclear without elucidating their historical past. It specifies trials of Yugoslavian establishment to resolve “Albanian issue” in interwar royal Yugoslavia and during WW II. Commonalty of the publication then analyses genesis, development, and functioning of Kosovo autonomy in communist Yugoslavia since 1945 to 1990. Reflections of these events were given based on detailed studying of archival resources.

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Historia crítica de la lexicografía gitano-española

Author(s): Ivo Buzek / Language(s): Spanish

Publication deals with critical history of Spanish Gypsy lexicography. In first place, it pays attention to the theoretical lexicography and it applies its rules, mainly from the area of lexicographical criticism, to the corpus of Spanish Gypsy dictionaries. The main part of the book presents a critical study of repertoires of lexical units of this mixed dialect, starting from the 16th and 18th centuries manuscripts, 19th century amateur lexicographers’ dictionaries and ending up with 20th century ones. Final chapters look closely to Spanish Gypsy vocabularies and lists of lexical units present in publications about flamenco and Spanish Gypsies in general.

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Proměny modelu světa v ruské próze na přelomu XIX. a XX. století

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

The monograph centres on the changes in content and form in Russian literature at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. The first part of the monograph discusses the roots of the shift in the system of values and in the concept of the individual in comparison with 19th-century Russian prose, and shows differences in the models of the world presented by literary works of the period. The second part of the monograph explores particular phenomena in the work of V. Bryusov, L. N. Andreyev, L. N. Tolstoy, I. Shmelyov, S. N. Sergeev-Censkij and F. Sologub in relation to the work of F. Kafka and R. Musil.

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Regional Security Interdependence: Proceedings of the Workshop Organized by the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Studies of the Masaryk University in Brno on 25 September 2015

Author(s): Miroslav Mareš,Tomáš Šmíd,Tomáš Kaválek,Iveta Hlouchová,Martin Laryš,Tomáš Bělonožník,Lukáš Visingr / Language(s): English

Contemporary security development is characterized by growing interdependence of security phenomena at local, national, regional and global level (Kegley, Wittkopf 2006). Within the world regions regional security complexes with their regional security orders were established (Stewart-Ingersoll, Frazier: 2012). The so called “new definition”of the regional security complex is related to „a set of units whose major processes of securitization, desecuritization or both are so interlinked that their security problems cannot reasonably be analyzed or resolved apart from one another“ (Buzan, Waever, de Wilde 1997: 201)“.

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From Rhetoric to Aesthetics: Wit and Esprit in the English and French Theoretical Writings of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries

Author(s): Klára Bicanová / Language(s): English

The thesis deals primarily with the term wit and its modern and historical usage in literary and aesthetic theories. Further, it concerned with the literary and aesthetic implications of the terms wit and esprit as they were theorized in critical writings of several authors of the early modern England and France. The thesis has two primary goals. The first goal is to re-assess the English concept of wit, nowadays regarded as an out-dated device of past poetic systems, and to present it as vital and useful part of the contemporary discourse. The second goal is to provide comparative reading of early modern English and French theoretical texts dealing with wit and esprit, respectively. Presenting ideas on the English term wit as employed in the theoretical writings in the light of its French equivalent esprit, I wish to demonstrate a gradual development of the terms from rhetoric to aesthetic.

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Sagt mir jemand, was Liebe ist?: Deutschsprachige und tschechische Liebeslyrik des Mittelalters. Eine Typologie

Author(s): Sylvie Stanovská / Language(s): German

The book summarises the basic principles as well as main tendencies within the medieval lyric genre Minnesang – both in its German version, investigating its individual evolutionary phases, and in later appearing old Czech love poetry of high Middle ages. Moreover, the author of this comparative study Sylvie Stanovská applies her findings to younger German love poetry before 1500 as well so she gains a broad analytical basis, pursuant to which she constructs a novel, with numerous text examples supported typology of the old Czech love poetry. This typology can thus lead to further research of this genre.

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Функционирование слов категории состояния в древнерусских памятниках XII–XVII вв.

Author(s): Oksana Ushakova / Language(s): Russian

The monograph deals with the issue of the categories of state (predicative adverbs), which is a debatable point of contemporary Russian linguistics. In the center of interest are therefore indeclinable units that engage only in the predicate role of single-predicate sentences and express the state generally. The monograph completely describes how these words are represented and how they function in Old Russian texts from 12th to 17th century. The analysed units are viewed in lexical, derivative, morphological and syntactic terms. The complex research of such word is carried out in the confrontational diachronic and synchronic aspects of using data from Czech language.

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Sociologie města 20. a 21. století

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

Kniha vznikla – vedle grantové podpory GAČR pro postdoktorský projekt GPP404/12/P742 „Sociologie města 20. a 21. století: klíčové problémy, diskuze a trendy“ – také díky mnoha lidem. Poděkování patří zejména recenzentům za jejich připomínky a podnětné poznámky a také kolegům a kolegyním v Česku i za hranicemi, se kterými jsem měla možnost sdílet úvahy o sociologii města.

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Deutschlands Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik nach der Vereinigung: Zivilmacht, Handelsstaat oder Mittelmacht?

Author(s): Zdeněk Kříž,Jana Urbanovská / Language(s): German

Seit der Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands im Jahr 1990 und den fundamentalen Veränderungen der internationalen Sicherheitslage führen die sicherheitspolitischen Kreise, die politischen Eliten und die Öffentlichkeitin Deutschland umfangreiche Diskussionen über die neue Rolle des Landes in der heutigen Welt. Die Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik des vereinten Deutschlands ist auch ein häufiges Forschungsthema. Die Fachdebatte über die deutsche außenpolitische Orientierung wird von den Befürwortern der These von der Kontinuität deutschen Verhaltens und den Unterstützern der These von einer fundamentalen Veränderung, zu welcher es nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges und der Wiedervereinigung kommen sollte, bestimmt.

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Examining Armed Conflict: Theoretical Reflections on Selected Aspects

Author(s): Zdeněk Kříž,Kateřina Fridrichová,Zinaida Shevchuk,Jana Urbanovská,Martin Chovančík / Language(s): English

Studies on armed conflicts are among the traditional themes of international relations. Neither the theoretical, nor the practical importanceof this issue is declining in any way. It is an extremely complex research field, integrating a plethora of findings from international relations, social sciences, as well as natural sciences. The complexity of the issue exacts a plurality of theoretical and methodological approaches in examining the phenomenon of wars. Consolidating obtained findings into a homogenous and coherent framework can, however, be even more demanding. This work represents a contribution to ongoing academic discussion in all major areas currently relevant to armed conflict research while identifying the main issues of academic debate and analyzing their shared features.

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25 Years of Public Administration Developments and Reforms in V4 region

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

This publication deals with the public administration development in Visegrad member states during the last 25 years. The first four chapters describe development of public administration in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. In the last chapter are summarized approaches to public administration development and discussed good praxis that was used during reforms in mentioned states.

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