Kasetinis šaudmuo – tai įprastinis šaudmuo, kurį sudaro dešimtys ar/arba šimtai mažesnių sprogmenų – kasetinio šaudmens vienetų. Kai šaudmuo yra išaunamas nuo žemės ar paleidžiamas iš oro, jo korpusas atsidaro ir jame esantys kasetinio šaudmens vienetai pabyra dideliame plote. Kasetinis šaudmuo – mirtį nešantis ginklas, dėl kurio, skaičiuojant nuo 1965 m., nukentėjo daugiau kaip 100 tūkstančių žmonių. Pažymėtina, kad 98 procentai visų nukentėjusių yra civiliai, o net kas trečias nukentėjęs – vaikas. Šiame darbe atskleidžiamos ir analizuojamos kasetinių šaudmenų techninės savybės, keliančios didžiausią grėsmę civiliams. Taip pat darbe plačiau aptariami tarptautinės humanitarinės teisės principai, labiausiai susiję su kasetinių šaudmenų reguliavimu. Didelis dėmesys darbe skiriamas naujo teisinio instrumento – Konvencijos dėl kasetinių šaudmenų, kuri visiškai uždraudžia konvencijos šalims naudoti, tobulinti, gaminti, jokiais kitais būdais įsigyti, kaupti, saugoti ir pervežti kasetinius šaudmenis, – analizei. Darbo pabaigoje atskleidžiama Lietuvos pozicija kasetinių šaudmenų atžvilgiu ir jos indėlis tarptautiniuose procesuose, siekiant uždrausti šį pavojingą ginklą. / Cluster munitions are conventional weapon containing dozens or hundreds of smaller submunitions. After being dropped from the air or fired from the ground, parent cluster munitions open in the air, releasing and dispersing their submunitions over a wide area. Cluster munitions are deadly weapons that have killed or maimed more than 100 000 people worldwide since 1965. It should be noted that 98 percent of all casualties are civilians, and every third victim is a child. The paper analyses the technical background of the cluster munitions and it looks at what causes the biggest humanitarian harm. The paper further discusses the principal rules of international humanitarian law relevant to the use of cluster munitions. The paper gives much attention to the analysis of a new legal instrument, the ‘Convention on Cluster Munitions’. The Convention prohibits the use, developing, production, acquisition, stockpiling, and transfer of cluster munitions. At the end of the paper the position of Lithuania is revealed in respect of cluster munitions and its contribution in the international processes to ban this dangerous weapon.

<p>Några av de stora sjöteoretiker som vi utbildas på idag var verksamma i en tid innan insatsförsvaret, men deras teorier anses fortfarande vara användbara idag. Idag genomför svenska flottan andra typer av insatser än på slutet av 1800-talet, då teoretikerna Mahan och Corbett var verksamma. Kriget ser inte likadant ut idag och både tekniken och taktiken har utvecklats. Är de teorier vi utbildas på, tillämpbara idag? Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka teorier om skydd av handelsfartyg och jämföra hur detta skydd genomförs i nutid med fokus på insatsen i Adenviken. Utgångspunkten har varit att genom kvalitativ textanalys beskrivit Mahans, Corbetts och Vegos teorier om skydd av handelstransporter. Dessa har jämförts med varandra samt med en fallstudie genomförd på Operation Atalanta. En av slutsatserna är att teoretikerna Mahan, Corbett och Vego har liknande teorier. De talar omsäkra hamnar, konvoj, eskort och säkra färdvägar som metoder att skydda handelstransporter. Skillnaden är hur metoderna genomförs samt hur viktiga de är. De metoder av Mahan och Corbett som återfinns i Operation Atalanta är framförallt eskort, men även vikten av säkra farleder och knutpunkter. Vegos metoder som återfinns är även eskortföretag, men även vikten av luftherravälde vid skydd av handeltransporter och att arbeta med att vidta förebyggande åtgärder.</p> / <p>Mahan and Corbett, which we study today, were operating in an era before the Cold War and international military intervention, but are still considered useful. Today the Swedish fleet carries out other types of missions than in the late 1800s, when Corbett and Mahan were active. War does not look the same today as both technology and tactics have evolved. Are the theories we study, applicable today?The purpose of this paper is to examine theories about the protection of merchant ships and compare Mahans, Corbetts and Vego theories with how it is implemented in the present day, focusing on the operation of the Gulf of Aden. This paper uses qualitative text analysis to describe Mahan, Corbettand Vegos theories, on the protection of commercial shipments. These were compared with each other and the results were later applied to a case study on Operation Atalanta. One of the conclusions are that Mahan, Corbett and Vegos theories are similar, concerning securingports, convoy, escort and securing routes. The difference however is how to apply these methods and the importance of them. Mahan and Corbett's theories, which are applicable to Operation Atalanta concern escort, and the importance of safe routes and hubs. Vegos theories which are applicable are escorts and the importance of air supremacy for the protection of trade and transport to work with preventive measures.</p>

Några av de stora sjöteoretiker som vi utbildas på idag var verksamma i en tid innan insatsförsvaret, men deras teorier anses fortfarande vara användbara idag. Idag genomför svenska flottan andra typer av insatser än på slutet av 1800-talet, då teoretikerna Mahan och Corbett var verksamma. Kriget ser inte likadant ut idag och både tekniken och taktiken har utvecklats. Är de teorier vi utbildas på, tillämpbara idag? Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka teorier om skydd av handelsfartyg och jämföra hur detta skydd genomförs i nutid med fokus på insatsen i Adenviken. Utgångspunkten har varit att genom kvalitativ textanalys beskrivit Mahans, Corbetts och Vegos teorier om skydd av handelstransporter. Dessa har jämförts med varandra samt med en fallstudie genomförd på Operation Atalanta. En av slutsatserna är att teoretikerna Mahan, Corbett och Vego har liknande teorier. De talar omsäkra hamnar, konvoj, eskort och säkra färdvägar som metoder att skydda handelstransporter. Skillnaden är hur metoderna genomförs samt hur viktiga de är. De metoder av Mahan och Corbett som återfinns i Operation Atalanta är framförallt eskort, men även vikten av säkra farleder och knutpunkter. Vegos metoder som återfinns är även eskortföretag, men även vikten av luftherravälde vid skydd av handeltransporter och att arbeta med att vidta förebyggande åtgärder. / Mahan and Corbett, which we study today, were operating in an era before the Cold War and international military intervention, but are still considered useful. Today the Swedish fleet carries out other types of missions than in the late 1800s, when Corbett and Mahan were active. War does not look the same today as both technology and tactics have evolved. Are the theories we study, applicable today?The purpose of this paper is to examine theories about the protection of merchant ships and compare Mahans, Corbetts and Vego theories with how it is implemented in the present day, focusing on the operation of the Gulf of Aden. This paper uses qualitative text analysis to describe Mahan, Corbettand Vegos theories, on the protection of commercial shipments. These were compared with each other and the results were later applied to a case study on Operation Atalanta. One of the conclusions are that Mahan, Corbett and Vegos theories are similar, concerning securingports, convoy, escort and securing routes. The difference however is how to apply these methods and the importance of them. Mahan and Corbett's theories, which are applicable to Operation Atalanta concern escort, and the importance of safe routes and hubs. Vegos theories which are applicable are escorts and the importance of air supremacy for the protection of trade and transport to work with preventive measures.

Ce mémoire vise à comparer la manière dont Witold Gombrowicz et Milan Kundera conçoivent la dialectique immaturité/maturité, afin de dégager la portée critique qu'elle comporte. Parce qu'ils mettent en scène des personnages qui éprouvent un sentiment de fascination-répulsion à l'égard de leur propre immaturité, et oscillent constamment entre un profond désir d'autonomie et un besoin viscéral d'adhérer à des formes établies, les romans Ferdydurke et La vie est ailleurs explorent les paradoxes de l'homme moderne: ne pouvant plus compter ni sur la transcendance ni sur des traditions ancestrales, ce dernier se retrouve piégé dans un monde qui lui semble de plus en plus énigmatique. Une étude comparative de la dialectique immaturité/maturité -sur les plans psychologique, anthropologique, poétique, biologique et socio-historique, -permet de découvrir le regard que ces romanciers centre-européens posent sur le monde moderne. Malgré les nombreuses similitudes existant entre l'oeuvre de Gombrowicz et celle de Kundera -ces derniers mènent un combat pour libérer l'écriture romanesque de tous les discours idéologiques et illusions esthétiques qui empêchent l'écrivain de rendre compte avec lucidité du monde réel -, il demeure que ces romanciers accordent une valeur différente aux notions d'immaturité et de maturité. D'une part, pour Gombrowicz, l'immaturité revêt deux significations opposées: la première, puisqu'elle traduit l'inaccomplissement naturel de l'homme, est synonyme d'anti-forme et devient un moteur de la subversion des lieux communs et des idées établies; la seconde, parce qu'elle est imposée par le monde extérieur et qu'elle camoufle tout ce qui est informe sous une fausse maturité, emprisonne l'homme dans une forme qui ne l'exprime pas totalement. D'autre part, chez Milan Kundera, l'immaturité désigne l'attitude de ceux qui, déterminés à gommer la complexité du monde, se créent un univers parallèle dans lequel les imperfections de la vie sont totalement évacuées, ou encore adhèrent à des mouvements idéologiques proposant une vision réductrice de la réalité. Au terme de notre recherche, il est permis d'affirmer que la principale différence existant entre la manière dont ces deux romanciers centre-européens conçoivent l'opposition entre l'immaturité et la maturité réside dans le fait que, contrairement à Gombrowicz qui estime que l'homme est à la fois immature et mature et s'efforce, notamment dans Ferdydurke, de rendre compte du chaos qui habite chaque individu, Kundera condamne avec véhémence tout ce qui a trait à l'immaturité et aspire à faire du roman le genre par excellence de la maturité. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Immaturité, Maturité, Roman, Modernité, Individu, Jeunesse.

Mémoire (M.A.)--Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2005. / Comprend des réf. bibliogr.: f. 103-106. Également disponible en format microfiche et PDF.

Le rire et la mélancolie constituent l'ambiance dominante des romans de Milan Kundera. Ce sont les deux faces de son attitude vis-à-vis du narcissisme de l'homme reflété par ses personnages. Comme Narcisse, l'homme n'est jamais celui pour qui il se prend. Le narrateur présente cette vision kundérienne de l'homme, en racontant le comique et la misère des personnages. Comme le vécu de Kundera se reflète dans les situations des personnages, ce narrateur assume d'un côté une fonction d'autocritique. Mais d'un autre côté, ce narrateur reflète également le romancier, en prenant jusqu'au nom même de Kundera, et présente son image du romancier que croit être Kundera. Ainsi, Kundera lui-même n'est pas non plus hors de l'emprise narcissique. Néanmoins, le roman est le seul espace qui lui permet de méditer sa subjectivité narcissique en la relativisant. Pour Kundera, le roman permet d'échapper momentanément à la condition de Narcisse, grâce au jeu solitaire et sérieux de l'écriture dans les marges de l'hypothèse. / Laughter and melancholy constitute the dominant atmosphere of the novels of Milan Kundera. These are the two faces of his attitude about man’s narcissism and of which his characters are reflections. But man is never the person he thinks he is. Kundera expresses this vision of man through the narrators in his novels, who explore the comic and the miserable aspects of the characters appearing in them. Given the fact that the experience of Kundera is reflected in the characters’ situations, on one hand, the narrator endorses a function of self-criticism. On the other hand, this narrator reflects the novelist, sometimes taking even the name of Kundera himself, and presents his image of the novelist which Kundera believes himself to be. Therefore, Kundera is not free of narcissism. Nevertheless, the novel is the only place that allows him to ponder over his narcissistic subjectivity by the way of relativization. For Kundera, the novel enables him to escape momentarily the condition of Narcissus, by the solitary and serious game of writing in the margins of hypothesis.

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Key Words: Comparatistics, Intertextuality, Essayism, Esem, Milan Kundera, Ričardas Gavelis, Laughter, Kitsch, Vulgarity, Carnevalism, Thanatos, Sexuality This comparativist thesis discusses the intelectual novel of the end of the 20th century. The study objects chosen for this paper were the works of Ričardas Gavelis and Milan Kundera. Due to the differences in the poetics of the works, it was chosen to analyze four works of each writer's large prose. In the case of Gavelis they are as follows: Vilnius Poker (Vilniaus pokeris, novel, 1989), Vilnius Jazz (Vilniaus džiazas, novel, 1993), The Last Generation of People on Earth (Paskutinioji Žemės žmonių karta, novel, 1995) and Six Ways of Suicide (Septyni savižudybės būdai, novel, 1999). From Kundera's works we picked out The Farewell Party (Valčík na rozloučenou, novel,1972), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Knihou smíchu a zapomnění, novel, 1978), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Nesnesitelnou lehkostí bytí, novel, 1984) a Immortality (Nesmrtelnost in french, 1990, in czech 1993). One of the main aims of this study is to introduce the Czech reader to Ričardas Gavelis: one of the most important and influential writers of Lithuanian literature of the late 20th century. The works of this writer are not yet properly evaluated even in his native...

Diploma thesis The Foreign Broadcasting Department of Former Československý rozhlas (The Czechoslovakian Radio) Between 1966-1969 describes the operation of an important part of the key broadcastng institution in former Czechoslovakia. Early times of reporting of Czech polititians during the Second World War from the UK, USA and USSR are included. Paragraphs related also mention the first reports of Czechoslovakian journalists after the Second World War and activities of Frantisek Gel who worked as an editor for the Czechoslovakian radio and later between 1945-1946 became renowned for his reports from the Nuremberg Trials. It also deals with activites of Czech journalists working in the International Department. The text also contains overview of political and social situation in former Czechoslovakia in the second half of the twentieth century and how it is reflected in the overall operations of former Czechoslovakian Radio. A description of an important period The Prague Spring 1968 is also included. The text also descibes the period of so called Normalisation in former Czechoslovakia. Moreover, the thesis contains reasons for journalists redundancy. The final paragraphs describe their activities after the Velvet Revolution in 1989, up until the present. The key method used to compile this...

The diploma thesis deals with a creation of three significant Slovak representatives who are Dominik Tatarka, Ľubomír Feldek and Milan Lasica and their view of the Czech nation and its culture. Their craft indeed exceeds boundaries of the Slovak republic and its well-known also to many people in the Czechia. The paper is aimed to deepen knowledge of the Slovak art especially literature at the Czech environment and to find out how the three chosen artists see it. Three separate chapters are devoted to the lives of Dominik Tatarka, Ľubomír Feldek and Milan Lasica and circumstances of their creation which always individually zoom in also periods when the Czech environment influenced or shaped them mostly, apart from other significant information. The chapters together create a basis of a an analysis of the literary works which are specifically focused on the Czech environment or which create a knowledge about it. Thanks to this analysis we tried to map out which image is constructed by author's literary works about the Czechia and to point out to Czech-Slovak relationships also a quarter century after separation of the two neighboring nations. We looked closer to their current connection at the last part of the paper which is especially dedicated to the literary creation and translation to the Czech...