This study discusses divination in Assyria, which was a highly important and respected discipline. Divination was done using the intestines of a sheep, by celestial signs or by a person’s appearance and behavior. In each chapter, the reader is acquainted with the appearance and...

This study attempts to apply the method of structural analysis to a Welsh myth taken from the Mabinogi book. This myth, the so-called “First Branch of Mabinogi”, refers to the relationship between the world of people and the Otherworld. The method of structural analysis, creat...

This paper returns to the efforts of theologian Hans Küng, who sought to promote ideas of a “Global Ethic” within both world politics and at a grassroots level. It further postulates that the culturally and religiously plural society of today’s globalized world – which is ...

This study analyzes developments in the field of study of political clientelism over the course of the last 50 years. It will focus on a broad spectrum of literature, but will also pay attention to particular research carried out in Latin America. The main goal is to...

The focus of this text is corruption and clientelism in communist society. General knowledge about corruption is defined in the context of the communist regime and this is further specified using the example of Czechoslovakia. The theoretical framework of this text, which stems fro...

This article deals with the perspectives that are used to analyze North Korean foreign policy. In particular, it offers the perspective of an irrational or mad actor, the perspective of a rational actor, the ideological and cultural perspective, the identity perspective and, finally,&#x...

Since 1990, the public administration of the Slovak Republic has gone through important changes in its state administration, local state administration, as well as self- -administration, both on the local and regional level. This, naturally, required stabilisation, which aimed to increase th...

The aim of this article is to present a wide range of text grammars in modern French grammar books. Text grammars are expected to provide a more adequate framework for the description of many problematic phenomena dealt with in modern linguistics. A text that lacks cohere...

The sphere of prison environment is currently one of the most undiscovered topics in the social research in the context of the Czech Republic. This article attempts partially fill out this gap. Based on ethnographic study of prison guards working in the Czech prison system,&#x...