Comparison and evaluation of the post-war reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the post-war reconstruction in Wester European countries after the Second World War

The aim of this bachelor thesis is to describe historical development of the process of post-war reconstruction. This will be achieved by comparing two examples. One of them is process of post-war reconstruction in countries of Western Europe after the Second World War and the other is process of post-war reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the civil war that ended in 1995. Importance of this topic is underlined by an increasing number of low-intensity conflicts. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate reasons of the success of the process of post-war reconstruction in Germany and failure in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This thesis contains a view on forming and development of post-war reconstruction. Later on the situation in countries of Western Europe after the Second World War is described, followed by an evaluation of this process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the end these two processes are compared. This work contains a historical context and geopolitical and strategic importance of the chosen countries. Supervisor of bachelor thesis: doc. Ing. Emílie Kalínská CSc