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Economic Diplomacy as a Tool in Bilateral Relations - a Case Study of Taiwan
Stehlíková, Libuše ; Peterková, Jana (advisor) ; Druláková, Radka (referee)
Due to the special international status of Taiwan the area of economic cooperation represents one of the most important components of the country's foreign policy. Economic diplomacy is one of the major tools to promote the economic interests of a state in international relations. First, the paper discusses the theoretical definition of economic diplomacy and the changes in approach to foreign relations in Taiwan. Further, it characterizes the institutional system of Taiwan's economic diplomacy. Based on the comparison of Taiwan's bilateral relations with a diplomatic ally and with a country without diplomatic relations, it is examined whether the form or the content of mutual relations is more important in order to achieve the economic diplomacy's objectives.
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Vybrané problémy vplyvu globalizácie na český automobilový priemysel
Fedor, Marek ; Plchová, Božena (advisor) ; Korandová, Jiřina (referee)
Bachelor thesis focuses on the effects of globalization on different areas of the Czech automotive industry. The thesis characterizes the phenomenon of globalization in general and specifically from the perspective of the world's automobile production. It also records the history and development of automotive production in the Czech Republic. The thesis captures the Czech automotive industry in details, where the impact of globalization caused significant changes in the last two decades. From an economic point of view it concentrates on the impact of these changes on the overall role of the automotive industry in the economy of the CR. At the end of the bachelor thesis there is view of the current situation in the various car factories of the Czech automotive industry.
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Vývoj obchodních vztahů Ruska a ČR
Shánělová, Petra ; Klosová, Anna (advisor) ; Handzel, Přemysl (referee)
This thesis describes a position of Czech republic as a trading partner of Russia. It emphasises a change in relationships between these countries after entry of Czech republic to the European Union. On the basis of statistical data analyzes the dynamics of foreign trade in past ten years. The thesis also delas with options of empower position of Czech republic on regional markets in Russia. Then describes opportunities for czech companies on this market, especially in individual branches of russia's economy. In fine it undertakes a prediction of expected develpoment in Rusiia and reveals Export strategy of the Czech republic for next years.
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Vývoj zahraničního obchodu v automobilovém průmyslu ČR
Kadleček, Jiří ; Klosová, Anna (advisor) ; Handzel, Přemysl (referee)
The automotive industry is going thru the turbulent times. To name a few: territorial and structural changes, changes in demand and last but not least establishment of ecological procedures in manufacturing and in operation of motor vehicles. Automotive industry is one of the most important branches of Czech external trade. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the development of international trade in this sector. The highest volume is performed with the neighbouring countries -- the biggest volumes of international trade are performed with Germany and Slovakia. Export of motor vehicles comprises of 16 percent of the whole amount of Czech exports and imports of motor vehicles comprise of more than 8 percent of the whole amount of Czech imports. The production of automotive industry was constantly growing and in 2010 the number of produced cars exceeded one million, thanks to this result is the Czech Republic one of the biggest motor vehicle manufacturers all over the world. Despite of the financial crisis the Czech manufacturers did not limit their production -- on the contrary -- the production kept growing thanks to the "scrap yard bonus" in EU countries. The most of the produced cars was exported. Many suppliers are dependent on the automotive industry in the Czech Republic. They supply parts, services, or labour forces. The Czech automotive manufacturers are awaiting a growth of production in the future.
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Cesta koruny do Eurozony - využití zkušeností Slovenské republiky
Jelínek, Tomáš ; Plchová, Božena (advisor) ; Müllerová, Františka (referee)
Unlike the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic is not at the present member of the Euro area. The aim of my bachelor thesis is to have a look at the current situation in the Czech Republic and also to focus on the experiences of the Slovak Republic with euro adoption. The first chapter characterizes the historical evolution of monetary integration in Europe from post-war years till the realization of the last stage of the Economic and Monetary Union project. The second part analyzes the whole process of Euro adoption in the Slovak Republic. The final third chapter deals with the way of the Czech crown to the Eurozone.
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Česká republika jako exportně orientovaná malá otevřená ekonomika
Salga, Jan ; Pavlík, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Gajdušková, Kateřina (referee)
With the progression of globalisation and the larger degree of openness of the Czech economy the economic situation of the Czech Republic is increasingly dependent on external developments. This bachelor thesis deals with the current economic position of the Czech Republic as a small export-oriented economy in international trade with an evaluation of its degree of openness, its engagement in the European Union's common commercial policy and its formation of a pro-export policy.
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Impacts of the EU structural and regional policy on the Czech economy and assessment of the impacts in the context of experience of selected member states
Vondrák, David ; Bárta, Vladimír (advisor) ; Wokoun, René (referee) ; Kalínská, Emílie (referee) ; Urban, Luděk (referee)
This work focuses on evaluation of possible impacts of structural and regional EU policy applied in the Czech Republic. Besides preliminary assessment of the use of economic, social and territorial cohesion policy in the Czech Republic, its aim is to put our national specific approach in the context of the whole European Union. It required not only a general appraisal of single priorities but also direct comparison with impacts of similar measures on the economies of the EU in the past. For this objective, an important part of the work consists in four case studies, analysing the application and impacts of the EU cohesion policy instruments in cohesion countries (Spain, Portugal, Greece, Ireland) since the first programming period 1989--1993 until the current period 2007--2013. With respect to the starting point of these economies and societies I would consider the convergence process to the EU relatively successful. Nevertheless, there are some important differences in the use and impact of the cohesion policy in these four member states. The results show that the impact of the Structural Funds in Spain has been quite sizeable in terms of its contribution to the economic growth and reduction of unemployment. Spain as a whole is approaching the EU average in most of the economic indicators. The convergence of the Portugal economy was markedly less substantial and the disparities increased on the regional level. The significant side effect of spending of Structural Funds in Greece consists mainly in the improvement of the institutional framework and strategic planning. The Irish example points to the importance of using the assistance rather for public goods than for supporting the private sector. The Czech Republic should take an example from this experience. Effects of the EU cohesion policy on the domestic economy could be very significant -- not only for a short-term but also for a long-term perspective. However, it is necessary to be aware of the fact that we are still talking about possible impacts, whose real successful fulfilment depends on individual participants -- whether on the strategic or the final beneficiaries levels.
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The protection of the economic competition and the role of providing of state aid to enterprises
Paneš, Patrik ; Zemplinerová, Alena (advisor) ; Urban, Luděk (referee) ; Benáček, Vladimír (referee)
State aid is the government intervention, which affects the economic competition because of the preference of certain market subjects. The European Union has concluded that if there exists any violation of competition in the international scale, it would be the reason for constitution of supranational regulation of its providing. The economic policy of subsidizing of chosen market subjects could be in principle taken into account as the subset of the industrial economic policy. Through it, the governments fulfill their miscellaneous structural intentions, from aborning industries helping till the declining industries saving. However, this type of the economic policy seems to be contrary to the protection of the economic competition, which has been declared as the one of key segments of the economic policy of the European Union. Selective privileges constitute anti-competition policy, so thus has been their control incorporated within the policy of the protection of competition. During the reviewing of the legality of provided state aid, we could see that the authorities prefer simpler, just legal review of the problem instead of the deeper economic testing of the given case. And that is the reason (together with the high recency of the theme), why this dissertation aims the generally neglected, economical aspect of the problem. I.a. it concentrates itself on the sight from the perspective of the Public Choice economic theory, which studies the interrelationship between the worlds of politics and economics. This important relation could not be marginalized and during the research work abstracted. Logical structure of exposed dissertation follows: first ordinary chapter focuses on the theoretical concepts of the state aids. It regards chosen questions from the point of view of different streams of the economic thoughts. It devotes itself especially to the effects of the state aids on the economy from the light of macroeconomics, microeconomics and international economics. It contains also conclusions of some empirical analyses. Next chapter focuses on the legal environment of the branch of subsidizing. Primary it contains communitary regulations of the European Union, secondary the list of legislation relevant for the Czech Republic and within the World Trade Organization, which has constituted unique system of countervailing measures. Next part of the dissertation maps different possibilities of measurement of the extent of granted state aids. With the stipulation of calculation difficulty and resulting lower ability of comparability, it uses subsequently four sources of data. One part of the dissertation is especially devoted to the analytical statistical system of the European Union, which is called the Scoreboard. First, there is characterized its methodology, and further, there is -- with the use of this database -- analyzed the structure of state aid granting within the area of the European Union. Its development is compared with the aim of the Lisbon strategy from the year of 2000. Last ordinary chapter represents the attempt -- on the base of the enterprise data -- to elementary research of the existence of the link between state aid and final market. Analysis could be characterized as the contribution to the -- yet more likely occasionally -- research of the effects of subsidizing within the context of competitiveness of target industry. Tested hypotheses are: larger industries receive more subsidies and industries receiving subsidies do not improve their competitiveness. For the case study has been the combination of four data sources used. The goal of this dissertation is the description of the questions of state aid provision from the highest possible number of different points of view, of course with the accent on the economics and with the stipulation of constraint of (un)availability of relevant data. In the end of the dissertation there are submitted some practical economic policy suggestions. During its elaboration there was wide variety of specialized literature used and great number of relevant thought and data sources processed, after all as the enclosed list at the very end of this thesis could show. The value added of exposed dissertation and its contribution to the existing research of chosen theme is namely the complexity of analysis, the compilation of previously developed knowledge, and also empirical findings.
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Discourses and practices of the Czech development cooperation
Horký, Ondřej ; Jeníček, Vladimír (advisor) ; Varadzin, František (referee) ; Fárek, Jiří (referee) ; Adamcová, Lenka (referee)
As a part of international economic relations, development cooperation is a relatively new issue area of the Czech foreign policy. In spite of the strong Czechoslovak cooperation with the pro-socialist Third World countries during the Cold War, the country quickly abandoned delegitimized development activities only to restart them in the mid-1990s. This time, the policy was induced mostly externally by the international and EU commitments to provide aid to developing countries. Building on James Ferguson's concept of 'anti-politics machine' and the Bourdieusian concept of illusio, this dissertation argues that (i) the apparatus of the Czech development cooperation deals with development as a technical matter and leads to the depoliticization of the Czech relations with the South; and (ii) the low public awareness of the policy and the dependence of the civil society on government funding tones down their criticism and facilitates the use of the policy for the particular interests of the Czech implementers instead of contributing to poverty reduction in the South. The second chapter justifies the interdisciplinary approach adopted in the dissertation. It argues that in the same way as multidimensional poverty cannot be reduced to mere income, a holistic analysis of development cooperation must extend beyond the neoclassical economic approach and include social, cultural, political and environmental aspects of development. The third and fourth chapters analyze accordingly the discourses (historical and legal sources, political and social context, government strategies) and practices (content of bilateral cooperation, its effectiveness, actors and interrelations between them) of the Czech development cooperation. The following chapters extend from the narrow topic of development cooperation to gender as a cross-cutting issue and further to the problem of policy coherence. While gender has gained serious credit on the international development research and policy agenda, it is reflected in policy and operational documents only formally, making bilateral cooperation projects gender blind, and hence detrimental to women. Finally, the Czech discourses and practices of the formally institutionalized policy coherence for development are analyzed in cases studies on migration, trade and agriculture. The chapter argues that slight changes in other government policies may have greater impact on developing countries than any substantial reforms of development cooperation. Overall, the dissertation advocates for a repoliticization of the development agenda and its return to the public space. So far, it was mostly the European Union funding that incited the civil society to raise new policy issues and question the effectiveness of the Czech development cooperation in reducing global poverty, but it is crucial to involve political parties, civil society at large, media and academia in the process as well. An annex lists a range of detailed policy recommendations for development cooperation generally, in particular its gender dimension, and its coherence with the Czech migration, agriculture and trade policies.
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Euroregions and euroregionalism in Czech republic and European union
Špinka, Milan ; Kadeřábková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Khendriche Trhlínová, Zuzana (referee)
The subject of my dissertation is the information process in reference to euroregionalism and the origin of euroregions in the area of EU and especially Czech republic. I will focus on the fundamental causes of the european cross-border cooperation and the historical roots of first euroregion's origin -- the theoretical and practical resources of the euroregion's inception and operation. I will examine the legislative and institutional assurance of euroregions -- documents (for instance the implication of the Madrid agreement) and principles that result from the european and national legislation, on which the foundation of the euroregions functions. The euroregion legislation specifications in the countries of central and eastern Europe and especially Czech republic will also be mentioned. In the next section of my dissertation I will focus on the euroregion's definition, which occur in Czech republic -- the origin's causes and the historical roots, the financial framework (the inner sources of cross-border cooperation's financing, European funds and enterprises etc.). The objective of the practical part of the dissertation will be the evaluation of the executed cross-border cooperation benefits for the development of the peripheral area.
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