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This thesis examines the central place of racial theories in the nationalist ideology of the Croatian Ustasha movement and regime, and how these theories functioned as the chief motive in shaping Ustasha policies toward the minorities of the Nazi-backed Independent State of Croatia (known by its Croatian initials as the NDH), namely, Serbs, Jews, Roma and Bosnian Muslims, during the years 1941 to 1945. This thesis is divided into three parts. The first part deals with historical background, concentrating on the history of Croatian national movements from the 1830s to the 1930s. The second part covers the period between the founding of the Ustasha movement in 1930 and the creation of the NDH in 1941. The third part examines the period of Ustasha power from 1941 to 1945. Through the above chronological division, this thesis traces the evolution of Ustasha ideas on nation and race, placing them within the historical context of processes of Croatian national integration. Although the Ustashe were brought to power by Nazi Germany, their ideology emerged less as an imitation of German National Socialism and more as an extremist reaction to the supranational and expansionist nationalist ideologies of Yugoslavism and Greater Serbianism. In contrast to the prevailing historiographical view that has either ignored or downplayed the significance of racial theori! es on Ustasha policies toward the minorities of the NDH, this thesis highlights the marked influence of the question of 'race' on Ustasha attitudes toward the 'problem' of minorities, and on the wider question of Croatian national identity. This thesis examines the Ustashe by focusing on the historical interplay between nationalism and racism, which dominated so much of the modern political life of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. The fusion of nationalism and racism was not unique to Ustasha ideology, but the evolution and nature of Ustasha racism was. Ustasha racial ideas were therefore the product of both specific Croatian and wider European historical trends. This examination of the historical intersection between nationalism and racism in the case of the Ustashe will, i hope, broaden our understanding of twentieth-century nation-state formation, and state treatment of minorities, in the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

Die Mozart-Rezeption in Kroatien soll auf zweierlei Weise dargestellt werden. Der erste Teil soll den Rahmen bilden anhand der Fragen: Wo und wann erklang Mozarts Musik zum ersten Mal (unter besonderer Beachtung des 19. Jahrhunderts), und wie wurden Mozart-Jubiläen begangen? Der zweite Teil dieses Beitrags enthält das spezifische Element: Wie wurde Mozart in Kroatien aufgenommen und reflektiert, wie wurde er zu einer Inspiration für neue Werke?

Legal aspects of the accession of Croatia to the European Union Abstract The EU enlargement policy is a fundamental instrument of the EU's foreign and security policy that enables Union to achieve its goals such as creating a common area of peace, stability and prosperity. Since the Western Balkans has experienced an armed conflict in the recent past and since these countries are direct neighbors of the European Union, the Balkan region represents an essentially important area in the strategic plans of the EU. The European Union as well as the Western Balkans' countries strives for the full integration into the European structures. In the context of the ongoing post-war reconstruction in the region Croatia's accession into the EU represents a significant historical moment. Croatia has already passed through the whole accession process and can act as a model example for other Balkan countries. In this thesis author mainly aims to map in detail the course of the accession process in general and understand the specifics of the Croatian accession in the context of the European policy towards Western Balkans. Although the EU has set down the accession criteria and procedural rules, accession process of every candidate state is different and depends on the actual situation of the country in question. This thesis...

This thesis deals with political developments in Croatia since the beginning of 1989 to the first multiparty elections in the spring of 1990. It analyzes the evolution of attitudes of Croatian communists to the Yugoslav crisis and activity of opposition groups during this period. The main emphasis is on the attitudes of Croatian ruling and alternative political elites against national and constitutional questions. Attention is paid to the development of so-called Serbian Question in Croatia. The thesis analyses the development of political pluralism in the territory of Croatia and the activities of the Croatian Democratic Union and Croatian Social Liberal Party. The thesis is based on a detailed analysis of the contemporary press and memoir and secondary literature. Keywords: Yugoslavia, Croatia, Communist Party, nationalism, election

This work is a study of a community of Croatian immigrants to Southeast Louisiana in the twentieth century. Drawn from a multidisciplinary approach that included spatial analysis of settlement patterns, quantitative analysis of seafood industry data, the records of voluntary associations, and guided by the oral histories of men and women of Croatia who immigrated to Louisiana, this work reveals a community that has managed to maintain close ties despite its distribution both in urban New Orleans and rural coastal Louisiana through links created by and supportive of the state’s seafood and restaurant industries. The study points out how the custom of returning to Croatia for marriage and the retention of property in Croatia helped the group maintain links with its national and cultural origins in ways not always seen with other ethnic groups in America, pointing out the range of the immigrant experience in the United States.

The thesis examines how parties in Serbia and Croatia have responded to the significant challenges brought by European integration since 2000. It seeks to identify and categorise the broad, underlying stances on the substance of the European integration as expressed by relevant, parliamentary parties across both countries. The thesis also intends to discern the most important factors that determined the formation of their attitudes. It explores the interaction and effects of five explanatory variables: party ideology, party strategy, position within the party system, relations with electoral constituencies and socio-economic groups, and transnational and bilateral party linkages. As a qualitative comparative study, it draws on a qualitative content analysis of party programmatic documents as well as interviews with senior party officials, country experts and officials of the EU and European transnational parties. The thesis makes a major empirical contribution to our knowledge on party responses to Europe by looking systematically and comparatively at two under-researched cases. It also makes a more general theoretical contribution by using a new set of cases to test, amend and develop the literature on party positions on the EU. The thesis found that party ideology and strategy were the most important drivers of parties' attitudes towards the EU. Although Serbian and Croatian parties had generally loose ideological underpinnings, a party's ideology was the single most important source of motivation for a response to Europe in the majority of these parties. This was due to the nature of European issues, closely related to identity and statehood issues, in the context of these post-communist and post-conflict societies. Additionally, due to the specific conditions pertaining to the political milieu of candidate countries, a number of former nationalist and Eurosceptic parties fundamentally shifted their long-term positions on the EU. This volte-face was a strategically driven response to internal and external incentives in the context of dynamic electoral competition and strong EU presence, and aimed at maximising their chances of securing executive office. Other factors generally proved to be of secondary importance since their effect was mostly mediated through party ideology and strategy.

The thesis deals with the Croatian tourism, describes its current state mainly focusing on its structure and special features and highlights the effect on the national economy. Special attention is dedicated to the mutual tourism among Croatia and the Czech Republic. One part of the thesis analyses the prerequisites of the Croatian travel and tourism development. It also includes the SWOT analysis as the evaluation of the country's strenghts, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

The diploma thesis analyses supply of three major and three small regional Czech travel agencies regarding Croatia in terms of its width (number of offered accomodation facilities in particular sea resorts)and its compelexity (offer of packages for more demanding customers, sightseeing tours etc.) The thesis also contains general introduction of Croatia as one of the most popular summer destinations for Czech tourists as well as description and explanation of basic terms connected to tourism theory and functioning of travel agencies in general.

Esta pesquisa estuda a formação e a realização de atividades linguísticas e culturais em Grupos Folclóricos de comunidades rurais de origem ucraniana na Croácia e no Brasil, com vistas a compreender a constituição de políticas linguísticas em/para comunidades minoritárias. A escolha dessas comunidades se deu porque ambas têm em comum um mesmo momento de formação, no século XIX, organização interna e tensão com o poder institucional. A partir disso formulamos a nossa hipótese inicial: a comunidade ucraniana não só segue as políticas oficiais, mas também estabelece, para além dessas políticas, uma política específica e mais autônoma em seu interior, concretizada através de diversas ações educativas, o que nos mostra que a política linguística pode acontecer no nível micro, fora do âmbito estreitamente institucional. Para tal fim, analisa como os membros de uma comunidade minoritária constituem sua política linguística, nos momentos educativos que oscilam entre o (não)formal, bem como o resultado da tensão entre a identidade assumida pela Comunidade, a identidade presumida pelo Estado e a intermediada pela Universidade. O conjunto de dados analisado é formado por documentos, entrevistas e observações, das comunidades ucranianas nos municípios de Irati (grupo Ivan Kupalo), Prudentópolis (grupo Vesselka) e Mallet (grupo Spomen), no Brasil, e Lipovljani (grupo Karpati), umee (grupo Andrij Pelih) e Kania (grupo Taras evenko), na Croácia. Também foram coletados documentos e textos produzidos pelo Estado/Universidade. Para a coleta dos dados, a pesquisa valeu-se de metodologia etnográfica, utilizada para organizar e interpretar os depoimentos, os textos e as observações, junto com a abordagem analítica do discurso presente neles. Já o aparato analítico-interpretativo da pesquisa consiste no entrosamento das áreas da Educação (Ensino formal e não-formal), dos Estudos linguísticos (Análise do Discurso) e folclóricos (políticos, econômicos e estéticos) e das Políticas Linguísticas (nacionais/locais). Alguns dos resultados que obtivemos dizem respeito às práticas educativas realizadas nessas comunidades que são múltiplas e concomitantes e à discussão acerca da ampliação da interligação das quatro áreas mencionadas, abrindo, assim, espaço para novas interpretações da possibilidade de novas estratégias e ações educativas na prática e na teoria. / This research studies the formation and the implementation of linguistic and cultural activities in folklore groups among rural communities of Ukrainian origin in Croatia and Brazil, in order to understand the constitution of linguistic policies in/ for minority communities. These communitieswere selected because both were formed in the nineteenth century, with the same internal organization and tension with institutional power. From this we formulate our initial hypothesis: the Ukrainian community not only follows the official policies, but also establishes, in addition to these policies, a specific and more autonomous policy in its interior, materialized through several educational actions, which shows us that language policy can occur on the micro level, outside the narrow institutional framework. To this end, the thesis analyzes how the members of a minority community constitute their linguistic policy, in the educational moments that oscillate between the (non)formal, as well as the result of the tension between the identity assumed by the Community, the identity presumed by the State and intermediated by the University. The data consists of documents, interviews and observations from the Ukrainian communities in the municipalities of Irati (Ivan Kupalo group), Prudentópolis (Vesselka group) and Mallet (Spomen group) in Brazil, and Lipovljani (Karpati group), umee (Andrij Pelih group) and Kania (Taras evenko group) in Croatia. Documents and texts produced by the State/University were also collected. For the data collection, the research was based on ethnographic methodology, used to organize and interpret the statements, texts and observations, along with the analytical approach to their discourse. On the other hand, the analytical-interpretive apparatus of the research consists of the integration of the areas of Education (formal and non-formal education), Linguistic Studies (Discourse Analysis) and folklore (political, economic and aesthetic). Some of the results we obtained relate to the educational practices that offer information according to topic and the discussion about the extension of the interconnection of the four mentioned areas that open space for new interpretations.