South Korea should join the US BMD in Northeast Asia. Application of Offensive Realism clearly shows that China is a potential threat to South Korea, and Seoul requires an alliance partner in order to counter the threat from the west. The immense latent power and offensive military capabilities of China, coupled with its nuclear strategic weapons render China as a potential threat to South Korean national security. No independent action from South Korea would be sufficient to balance against China, hence the need for an ally. The United States is already engaged in relative power maximization against China. In addition, its role as an offshore balancer and status as a regional hegemon in the western hemisphere makes the US the most ideal alliance partner for South Korea. The alliance with the US to balance against China cannot be built upon the existing ROK-US alliance, because the current status of the alliance has deteriorated. One of the key causes of alliance deterioration could be attributed to the unilateral American security assistance to South Korea. Seoul’s participation in the US BMD would solve the non-reciprocating role of South Korea found in the existing ROK-US alliance. Because the benefits from South Korea’s participation in the US BMD are great for Washington, Seoul would be able to secure the US as an alliance partner to balance against China. Keywords: US, South Korea, China, Ballistic Missile Defense, ROK-US Alliance, Offensive Realism.

abstract: Counterinsurgency (COIN) is a long process that even great powers struggle with. Nevertheless, South Korea as a middle power was successful with COINs in Vietnam and Iraq. What were the drivers for the Republic of Korea (ROK) military's success? This dissertation maintains that the unusual nature of missions coupled with political/socio-cultural advantages are sufficient conditions for success of the middle power COIN. COIN missions are seen as unusual to middle powers. A rare mission stimulates military forces to fight harder because they recognize this mission as an opportunity to increase their national prestige. COIN mission success is also more probable for middle powers because their forces make the best of their country's political/socio-cultural advantages. The ROK military's COINs are optimal cases to test these hypotheses. The ROK military's COIN in Vietnam was an extremely rare mission, which increased its enthusiasm. This enthusiasm was converted into appropriate capabilities. By identifying battleground dynamics, the ROK forces initially chose an enemy-oriented approach based upon the method of company-led tactical base, and then later introduced a population-led method. South Korea's political/socio-cultural advantages also contributed to its military success in Vietnam. The Confucius culture that South Koreans and Vietnamese shared allowed the ROK forces to win the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese population. The mission in Iraq was also a rare and important one for national prestige. Accordingly, South Korean forces were equipped with pride and were enthusiastic about missions in Arbil. They changed their organization from a rigid one to a more flexible one by strengthening civil-military units. The ROK military possessed the ability to choose a population-centric approach. South Korea's political and cultural climate also served as an advantage to accomplish COIN in Iraq. The culture of Jung allowed ROK soldiers to sincerely help the local Iraqis. This project contributes to developing a theory of the middle power COIN. The findings also generate security policy implications of how to deal with contingent situations led by the collapse of the North Korean regime and how to redefine the ROK military strategy for the future. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Political Science 2011

The theme of this thesis is the Analysis of performance tests of stallions of the Czech warm-blood. The underlying database contains 821 breeding stallions included for breeding of the Czech warm-blood in the years 1974 - 2014. The aim of this work is to investigate the influence of breed, country of breeding, year of birth, the father and the father of the mother of classified stallions on their basic body measurements, breed type and sex expression, exterior. For the analysis we used the program MS Excel 2003 and the generalized linear model GLM in the programming package UNISTAT 5.5. The results indicate a statistically highly documented influence of the breed on the us reference body measurements (KVH, KVP, OH, OHOL) and breed type, the year of the birth on OH, OHOL, breed type and exterior, father on OHOL, the father of the mother on KVP and the country of breeding on OH.

The aim of the proposed thesis is to describe the history of The Business Academy in České Budějovice from its establishment in 1901 to 1948. The Czech history of the period between 1901 and 1948 as a factor influencing the school system at that time is also mentioned in the first chapter. However, the essential part of the proposed thesis is built up according to archival databases from the years 1901{--}1948. The second chapter is devoted to the development of business education in České Budějovice by 1918, the establishment of Czechoslovakia. The third chapter is focused on the development of secondary business school system in 1918{--}1948. In addition, a summary for each school year is given separately.

This thesis examines contribution of the Vodafone foundation program Year diffe- rently. More precisely it examines changes caused by the program from the point of view of participants and non-profit organizations and the programs long time bene- fit. The thesis focuses on organizations development by management branch, sociological branch and on diversity of organizations. It also focuses on the work of the manager and the impact of this work on his/hers mental condition. Practical part of the thesis analyzes year 2014 by using content analysis, semantic analysis and interviews. Possible use of determinated principles of Year differently for deve- lopment of civil society organizations and candidates is based on the research.

Cílem této práce je zhodnotit hospodaření společnosti od jejího založení v roce 2006 s důrazem na její středisko Realizace staveb a rok 2009. V práci je detailně popsána společnost spolu s jejími specifiky, provedena finanční analýza mapující vývoj ve společnosti a proveden rozbor vlivu střediska Realizace staveb na hospodaření společnosti a především jedné jeho zakázky, která velice negativně ovlivňuje hospodaření společnosti. Tato odhalila slabé stránky společnosti. V práci jsou popsány příčiny, které způsobily problémy v roce 2009, a jsou zde také popsána přijímaná nápravná opatření.

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Česká Lípa is a district seat located in the Liberec region. It had served as an important traffic junction since the Middle Ages because of its situation near the German and Polish borders. Thus, cultural customs and traditions of neighbouring countries and especially of the German majority had played a significant role in cultural events in the town and its surroundings. After both the World War I and the World War II, old residents and also new incomers endeavoured to re-establish or build a new background for the town's social life. Despite the fact that the majority of the post-war period was affected by the communist regime, the citizens set up clubs, organized competitions or festivals and by doing so, in many cases, they unknowingly built traditions that have been preserved till present days and are living inspiration for new generations of Česká Lípa inhabitants. Both the work of our ancestors and their legacy is extremely valuable cultural heritage. Due to the limited range of the diploma thesis and the author's specialization, this thesis focuses particularly on musical institutes and choirs in the region Česká Lípa. Unfortunately, the extant materials do not cover all musical activities, ensembles, personalities and events related to them since the World War II. It is worth mentioning...

The thesis titled Transformations of view on the teaching of social sciences from 1989 (in selected specialized journals) discusses the history and development of social science disciplines. The thesis is divided into two parts theoretical and practical. The theoretical part describes brief development of the Czech education from the perspective of teaching social sciences from 1774 to 2014. This section is divided into two parts the first shows the development of education from 1774 to 1989; the second section is dedicated to the development of teaching civic education after 1989. Diploma thesis reflects significant milestones in the historical development and transformation of civic education. The practical part is focused on the analysis of the view of the teaching of social sciences since 1989 and the capture of various effords, trends and changes reflected in specialized journals. In this thesis was used the method of analysis and comparison of theoretical expertise and popular educational texts. The most recent and most frequent topics of social sciences, which were discussed in specialized journals, were ethical education, media education, sex education and multicultural education. The thesis shows both opinions of experts and educators and the views of students and their parents.

This study deals with problems of identity of the office antiphons performed in the period after Pentecost. Mentioned antiphons belong to the New Testament canticle Benedictus for laudes and Magnificat for vespers. This part of the office is not so carefully regulated and between the European traditions occur variations. So this material was used for the determination of each tradition. The variability was not only in the selection and order of antiphons, but also in texts and melodies. After my analysis of the individual Post-Pentecost antiphons in several European medieval sources I found out that in certain cases with the same antiphon text appear completely different melodies or significantly different melodic variations. Due to this fact, in my opinion, is necessary to work with the musical part of this repertoire, consequently sort these chants not only according to the text, but also according to the melody. The ability to assign to the antiphons Melody ID based on the melody of chants (except Cantus ID based on the text) allows us to observe links between traditions which used this melody. In this way it is possible to reveal the relationships between the centers, which were performing the office repertoire. Keywords antiphon, office, manuscript, liturgical year, Pentecost, traditions,...