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Russian federation - energy policy and economization of foreign policy
Řezáč, Tomáš ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Petříček, Tomáš (referee)
The paper clearly shows that Russia has been diversifying its export routes during past 20 years, in order to by-pass third countries and to avoid paying additional transportation fees. The overall Russian export capacities of oil and gas are increasing, but in the same time the export volumes are stagnant. In case of oil transportation, pipelines are progressively substituted by sea transport, which enables Russia to participate on the world market. Situation with gas is different. Despite increasing export capacity Russia nowadays export almost the same amount of gas to the same locations as it did in 1990. It means that if there is any political or economical pressure it is laid against transition countries, which can be substituted, rather than against importing countries. Russian economical gains from export are following increasing oil and gas prices. To make the gains even higher, Russia initiated transition to world gas prices in the CIS countries as well as at the domestic market. To support the hypothesis of this thesis that primary goal of Russia is to increase its economical gains rather than to strengthen its political leverage, it is important to mention that majority of energy disputes of past twenty years were ignited by quarrel over prices and were settled by trade agreement. The...
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Case study - Lobbying of the Act No. 180/2005 Coll.
Řezáč, Tomáš ; Mrklas, Ladislav (advisor) ; Opatrný, Aleš (referee)
Case study - Lobbying o f the Act No. 180/2005 Coll. (Law on Support fo r Electricity Generation from Renewable Energy Sources) is a study following legislative procedure of the Act No. 180/2005 Coll. It focuses primarily on the influence of interest groups, which were participating on law making of the particular act. The study firstly deals in general features with theoretical preconditions for lobbying in the Czech Republic, in order to set a background for a consequent case study. These theoretical conditions are partly verified and partly refuted in the case study. The theoretical part of the work firstly depicts the term of lobbying; secondly it surveys predisposition of legislative procedure to be lobbied. In the case study itself, the work pursues the ways and extent, in which lobbying is carried out. It analyses behavior of political parties, interest groups and professional associations during lobbying the Act No. 180/2005 Coll. In the end of the paper, the author looks, on basis of the case study outputs, for correlation between a lobbying subject and a type of lobbying used during influencing of the law-making. The paper is first of this kind in the Czech Republic. Because there are no analogous studies in scope of Czech political science, hence the author doesn't attempt a deep and...
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