, Diss--Universität Kassel, 2002. / SIJORI = Singapore-Johor-Riau.

A part of academic work inspired by Nye's concept of "soft power" has adopted his conceptualisation without much reservation, while another part has contested it. Some authors describe Nye's conceptualisation of power as biased towards democracies, or otherwise challenge the concept as category of analysis. On the case study of the partial democracy of Singapore, through analysis of official discourse, the thesis explores whether Singapore's government acknowledges the idea and if so, how it interprets it. Secondly, the thesis aims to provide more insight into the use of soft power as category of analysis with the help of the selected case study.

Diploma thesis Single-Party Regimes in Comparison: China, Malaysia and Singapore is devoted to non-democratic regimes in which one party dominates and which legitimize by the concept of Asian values. The first part deals with the most important typologies and to approaches to explore single-party regimes. The second part introduced changes and the very concept of Asian values according to which democracy is unsuitable for Asian countries because of cultural differences. Other parts are devoted to describe the regimes in China, Malaysia and Singapore, which are classified into different typologies. The aim of the work is to show that Asian values don't explain the genesis of these regimes or their forms of non- democratic governance.

This diploma thesis deals with relation between good governance and organized crime. The aim of this thesis is to test a theory claiming that level of democracy directly influences level of organized crime and then to test a hypothesis claiming that key factor for successful fight against organized crime is presence of principles of good governance. Existence and strength of the relation between democracy, good governance and organized crime is tested by statistical analysis on a wide range of states. Results of this analysis are then verified within frame of instrumental case studies of the states with low level of democracy, low level of good governance and high level of organized crime (states of Central Asia) and a state with low level of democracy, high level of good governance and low level of organized crime (Singapore).

The thesis deals with the demographic and economic situation in the region of Southeast Asia with the focus on population policy. There is a relation between population growth and economic development. The region of Southeast Asia is a dynamic demographic where some states have policies that control population growth. There are two types of population policy: antinatalist and pronatalist. Depending on the condition of the population, the state goverment will choose to implement one of these policies. The objective of my thesis is to find out which of these population policies was implemented in selected states in the region of Southeast Asia. In addition I will determine the impact on demographic and economic aspects of the region. I examined only the countries of Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). I constructed composite indicators for my research. Based on the results of the composite indicators, I chose three case studies which are detailed in the thesis.

Předmětem diplomové práce jsou možnosti vstupu zahraniční firmy na singapurský trh. První část představuje Singapur jednak z hlediska základních informací o teritoriu, obyvatelstvu, obchodních zvyklostech, ekonomickém prostředí, zahraničních vztazích, a jednak se zaměřuje na možnosti, které nabízí tento trh zahraničním exportérům. Pozornost je věnována kulturním specifikům a následně jsou uvedena doporučení vyplývající z interkulturních odlišností ve vztahu k evropské kultuře a ve vztahu k marketingové politice exportující firmy. Druhá část se zabývá českou společností Mauting spol. s.r.o., která vyváží své výrobky do více než 40 zemí světa a rovněž do Singapuru. Pozornost je soustředěna především na mezinárodní marketingovou strategii firmy, důraz je kladen na propagační politiku, adaptaci marketingového mixu na singapurský trh a na závěr je zhodnocena úspěšnost vstupu na singapurský trh.

Univ., Diss. u.d.T.: Kammel, Armin J.: The law of international banking associations and their usage of international accounting systems--Graz, 2004.

Zugl.: Weimar, Bauhausuniv., Diss.

Thesis--Universität Bielefeld, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-237).

This thesis focuses on the analysis and description of the causes of trends in the accumulation of foreign exchange reserves in three selected Asian economies, China, Singapore and Hong Kong. In the analysis are examined selected factors whose relationship with the foreign reserves, based on their merits and in the work of this association subsequently investigated on empirical data, mainly from the balance of payments and the statement of net investment position to identify and specify the main causes of accumulation of foreign exchange reserves in individual economies. The general framework of work consists of the theories of international movement of capital, specifically called Lucas's paradox, whose presence adds insight about other possible causes of some capital flows.