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Central Asian Economies in the Triangle of Relations among Russia - China - European Union
Tomčová, Ivana ; Cihelková, Eva (advisor) ; Hnát, Pavel (referee)
Central Asia is a region located between Europe and Asia, which gained sovereignty after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. In the first decade of independence all the countries had to deal with many problems within the states and were not interesting areas for foreign partners. But the situation has changed at the beginning of the new century, when the world faced the question of energy security and the thread of terroristic attacks from the neighborhood of Central Asia. Rich natural resources and key location of this region attracted global players as Russia, China or European Union. They started creating cooperation ties in many areas with Central Asian countries. The goal of this thesis is to describe the evolution and analyze the current state of mutual relations. Moreover to analyze weak and strong points of Central Asian economies and characterize problematic and perspective areas of cooperation, from which involved countries can benefit.
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Impact of the development aid on the countries of Central Asia (focusing on education and health)
Belenkova, Yuliya ; Šaroch, Stanislav (advisor) ; Buryan, Šimon (referee)
This bachelor thesis is divided into three parts and it studies the topic of international development aid provided to the countries of Central Asia focusing mainly on the sectors of education and health. This study includes brief explanation of the current situation in this countries and these two sectors, which could be found in the very first part of this work, possible role of development aid as a helping instrument when solving existing problems, relations between Central Asia as a recipient side and multilateral organisations as donors and examples of current or past project relating to either health or education could be found in the second part of this thesis. Third part contains concise analysis of the situation and gives some recommendations and forecast about future development.
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Clash of interests of great powers in the region of Central Asia
Hostová, Slavomíra ; Maslowski, Nicolas (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
The Central Asia region, that once used to be condemned for a period of time, is now a golden target of the world leaders because of its natural resources so essential for the world. This attempt to get the access to important energies could cause worries about The New great game in Central Asia to many people. The aim of this thesis is to compare the power leadership of four world leaders, Russia, China, the USA and the EU, based on their hard and soft power in Central Asia region and to investigate the possible clash of interests of these countries quoting The New great game, Huntington's theory of Clash of civilisations and Brzezinski's Great Chessboard. At the very end of the theses there is an agreement of their interests, which would bring the answer to the negative assumptions and worries about the development of competition of the great powers in Central Asia.
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Tulipánová revolúcia: očakávania verzus realita
Zalánová, Zuzana ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Prorok, Vladimír (referee)
The dissertation deals with the phenomenon of hybrid regimes, specifically applied to the case of Kyrgyzstan. The main emphasis is placed on the 2005 Tulip Revolution and the regime of Kurmanbek Bakiyev installed by this event. Applying the theoretical concepts of hybrid regimes and regime change, the dissertation verifies the hypothesis that Kyrgyzstan's post-2005 political system retained its hybrid character and kept being neither a democracy nor an authoritarian regime. In this light, the Tulip Revolution brought about only a change of the leadership (as usual in coups d'état), not regime change (as might have been ushered by a democratic revolution).
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Chinese soft power in Asia
Janáková, Zuzana ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Knotková, Vladimíra (referee)
Within the context of the foreign policy of the People's Republic of China, one hears frequently about Chinese "soft power". This work deals with Chinese soft power in three Asian subregions - Southeast Asia, Japan & South Korea and Central Asia - in order to verify to what extent can soft power be regarded a universal approach in Chinese foreign policy. After introducing the concept of soft power this work is aiming to explain the characteristics of Chinese soft power, define the potentials and limits of Chinese soft power resources and explain how soft power corresponds with China's general strategy of foreign policy. In order to create an image of Chinese soft power in each of the three subregions, I define the key soft power tools according to which I measure Chinese soft power: Bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, promotion of culture and language (mainly through Confucius institutes), education of foreign students at Chinese universities and foreign aid. The rest of work is an analysis of employment of these tools in the respective subregions.
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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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Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Wiesner, Tomáš ; Cihelková, Eva (advisor) ; Popovová, Marie (referee)
Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization - organization working in the Central Asia area. First part of this thesis is focused on the history of the organization, the structure and the member states. Security and the influence of the organization on security in Central Asia represent the second part. In the final part the economic cooperation ot the members is depicted.
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Ekonomická transformace zemí bývalé Indočíny
Soukupová, Lucie ; Adamcová, Lenka (advisor) ; Němečková, Tereza (referee)
Práce nejprve obecně charakterizuje ekonomickou transformaci, následně hodnotí přechod Vietnamu, Laosu a Kambodži a v menší míře také Číny a zemí Střední Asie od centrálně plánované k tržní ekonomice. Popisuje prvotní snahy o reformu systémů centrálního řízení, výchozí podmínky tržních reforem a jejich průběh. Dále srovnává reformní úsilí jednotlivých států a hodnotí, do jaké míry se v současné době přiblížily tržní ekonomice, přičemž zmiňuje aktuální překážky bránící plné ekonomické transformaci těchto zemí.
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Země SNS - středoasijský region
Rucki, Matouš ; Adámková, Vlasta (advisor) ; Řehořová, Veronika (referee)
Práce komplexně charakterizuje středoasijský region Společenství nezávislých států s důrazem na průběh transformace v 90. letech 20. století a v prvních letech století 21. Obsahuje i charakteristiku SNS, geopolitickou situaci Střední Asie a charakteristiku působení mezinárodních iniciativ a organizací v regionu.
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Kazakhstani socio-economic system against the background of world economy development
Aliyeva, Altynay ; Kašpar, Václav (advisor) ; Vošta, Milan (referee) ; Wahla, Arnošt (referee) ; Krs, Jan (referee)
Téma disertační práce ?Sociálně-ekonomický systém Kazachstánu na pozadí vývoje světové ekonomiky (se zohledněním bilaterálních vztahů Kazachstánu s Českou republikou)? je poměrné nové (s ohledem na otázku spolupráce mezi Kazachstánem a Českou republikou) i když otázka sociálně-ekonomického rozvoje jakékoli země je problematika dlouhotrvající. Disertační práce se skládá z několika dílčích cílů a problémů, jejichž řešení je v jednotlivých částech práce. The dissertation paper is devoted to analysis of socio-economic system of Kazakhstan and to examination of bilateral economic relations between the Czech Republic and Kazakhstan.
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