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Energy security of the CR and EU in context of the foreign relations with Russia
Antonova, Oksana ; Abrhám, Josef (advisor) ; Jeníček, Vladimír (referee)
This diploma thesis dissertates about energy security of the European Union and the Czech Republic in the context of the foreign relations with Russia. It is focused on Russia as the biggest supplier of energy resources to the fore mentioned regions. Energy dependence of EU and the Czech Republic on Russia exceeds 50 %. This dependency is inevitable and is caused by the insufficiency of EU's and Czech Republic's own resources and above all it is very dangerous because of Russia's frequent nondemocratic behavior. The gap in demand of energy resources cannot be covered even by alternative energy recourses, which are in this thesis divided into renewable recourses and nuclear energy.
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The changes in the localization of the extractive industry and the political consequences.
Novosadová, Monika ; Vošta, Milan (advisor) ; Kašpar, Václav (referee)
The bachelor thesis analyzes the global changes in the territorial structure of the extraction of the mineral resources, especially the energy resources and less some precious metals and diamonds and related political consequences. This bachelor thesis describes also the importance of these resources for human society and their deposits. There are also outlined possible future development of the extraction of these resources. The first chapter illustrates general characteristic of the extractive industry. It introduces the ranking of the extractive industry, main mining regions and the biggest producers of some minerals. The second chapter closely presents energy resources, i. e. mining of energy resources, their deposits, their usage and possible future developments. The third chapter focuses on the mineral resources, i. e. their extraction, deposits, usage and possible future trends. The fourth chapter introduces the political consequences related with global changes in the territorial structure of the extraction of the mineral resources.
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The importance of oil in Mexican economy
Mandát, Jakub ; Steinmetzová, Dana (advisor) ; Sudliankou, Aliaksandr (referee)
The aim of this work is to present the structure of the Mexican economy, to analyze the oil industry and to explain the role of PEMEX -- national oil monopoly, which is the main contributor to Mexican national budget. The main objective is to analyze, on the basis of obtained information, the causes of actual problems and to project their impact on Mexican economy. At the end of the text are suggested possible solutions of current difficult situation.
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The Economic Policy of Angola during the Civil War
Osičková, Martina ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Šaroch, Stanislav (referee)
The following Bachelor's thesis deals with the analysis of the politics of Angola in the period of the civil war and after its end. The thesis unravels issues related to the outbreak of internal conflicts both theoretically and through the case study of Angola. Furthermore it deals with economic policy during the war and describes the political developement since achievement of independence until the end of the war and various political orientations which were present in the country. In detail the thesis focuses on the policy of oil industry. It tackles a question of its impact on economy of the country and dependency of Angola's economy on this industry. Moreover the thesis explains the situation in agriculture and Angola's agricultural policy. An important chapter is that which refers to corruption in Angola. The corruption is expressed by figures and illustrated with an example of a particular corruption affair. The last chapter mentions some basic economic data which illustrate the development of Angola since the beginning of the civil war until present.
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Derivatives suitable for commodtiy risk hedging
Klepetko, Petr ; Scholleová, Hana (advisor) ; Štýbr, David (referee)
This thesis is concerning the problematic of derivatives which can be applicable for commodity risk hedging. The futures contracts and options are utilized for hedging commodity risk on oil market. For purposes of this work is designed a trading strategy, which consists of exponential moving average and expiration cycle of the options. The strategy is tested on historical oil prices. Because the strategy shows promising outputs it was employed on setting options strategy as well. The hedging options strategy collar is tested on historical prices of oil. Testing on historical prices discovered that it is profitable for processor to hedge the oil price by futures contracts. For producer it is more profitable to hedge the price by employing standard collar strategy. On the other side the bear collar strategy generated quite unconvincing outputs for processor. When the out-the-money bear collar war modified into in-the-money bear collar the outputs were satisfactorily profitable.
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The Transportation of Dangerous Goods by Sea
Vytopilová, Jana ; Novák, Radek (advisor) ; Miletín, Jiří (referee)
The goal of the Thesis is the analysis of maritime transportation of dangerous goods. Thesis is divided into 4 Parts. Chapter 1 describes development of dangerous goods regulations with the emphasis on maritime safety and environmental aspects. Chapter 2 is based on the analysis of IMDG Code, whose regulations have the fundamental importance for the carriages of dangerous goods by sea. Chapter 3 is dedicated to the basic duties of the parties included in the maritime transportation of dangerous goods- carriers on the one side and shippers on the other side. Final Chapter is related to the maritime carriage of oil - one of the dangerous substances with the strategic importance.
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Russian federation and its Natural Energy
Lamborová, Denisa ; Jeníček, Vladimír (advisor) ; Abrhám, Josef (referee)
Diploma thesis describes situation of Russian federation as an energy power. It is concerned with relationships of EU and Russia, especially with the distribution of russian energy resources to Europe. It describes projected gas pipelines, which do not cross the territory of Ukraine. Thesis analyses European union dependence on energy supplies (especially gas supplies) from Russia and is concerned with the question of Energy security. In the thesis there are introduced both relationships of Russia and EU (one subchapter is devoted also to relationships of Russia and Czech republic) and relationships of Russia and China -- rising and rapidly growing economy which needs a lot of energy resources to its growth, therefore China increases its energy demand and turns its interest to Russia. The main contribution of the thesis is conducted analysis of the situation of Russia as energy power and analysis of russian relationships with Europe (and china) and mentioned solutions of EU-Russia dependence on gas supplies.
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The second generation of biofuels in the real world
Skalický, Michal ; Dvořák, Antonín (advisor) ; Hadrabová, Alena (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the problematics of biofuels as a renewable source of energy in transportation, which has recently gotten under social spotlight. The theoretical part is focused on an explanation of basic terminology, historical development and especially reasons for the need to replace current fosil fuels with respect to an increasing volume of CO2 and shortening oil reserves. The practical part compares characteristics, use, pros and cons of the biofuels of the first and second generation and tries to estimate benefits of the biofuels of the second generation in both economic and environmental area.
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Energy Potential of Central Asia
Brožová, Jana ; Kašpar, Václav (advisor) ; Vošta, Milan (referee)
The diploma thesis called Energy Potential of Central Asia aims to assess the potential of this region as a supplier of resources of energy. In the first part the basic trends in the area of consumption and production of energy resources are summarized. In the second part the countries of Central Asia region disposing of extensive oil and gas reserves are briefly introduced. The third part describes in detail the oil and gas reserves, firstly considering the whole world and secondly for each of the countries independently. The fourth part describes the options of transport of the energy supplies from Central Asia to consumers' markets in Western Europe, China and India. The last part deals shortly with characterization of approach of the major world and regional powers to this area.
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Contemporary Foreign Policy of Iran
Šmídová, Pavlína ; Šabacká, Yvona (advisor) ; Havlová, Radka (referee)
The aim of this bachelor's thesis is to analyze contemporary relations of Iran with the United States and European Union, states in the region, China and Russia. In the first chapter the history of Iran in the 20. century is mentioned, in more detail the second half of the 20. century. In the second chapter the situation in home politics in Iran - its development, structure, present state and influence of shia islam is described. In the key third chapter the foreign-political relations of Iran are analyzed. Development of the relations with certain country or union and then the main issues in the relations are mentioned in each part of the third chapter. First the relations with the United States and European Union are described. Nuclear programme and support of terrorism are the main issues. The iranian relations with countries in the region are following. They are divided into Arab states and Israel. In the part concerning Arab states the work lay stress on iranian influence in Iraq, relations with Saudi Arabia and Syria. The relations with Israel are influenced by nuclear programme and support of terrorism. The relations with China are especially concerned with trade with energy. The last part covers the relations with Russia. The main role plays in these relations oil in the Caspian sea ad relations with countries in the Central Asia and Caucasus. In the end the position of Iran on the international stage is considered.
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