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The impact of Ukrainian crisis on economic relations between Ukraine and Russian federation
Halaj, Alexandr ; Čajka, Radek (advisor) ; Bolotov, Ilya (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to characterize Russia-Ukraine mutual relations and to evaluate the impact of Ukraine crisis on mutual trade between two historically and culturally close countries-Ukraine and Russian Federation. The work examines both Ukrainian and Russian evolution of the economy with emphasis on the foreign trade and also captures main changes which occurred in their foreign trade after Ukraine crisis in 2014. The work in chronological order describes course of events that happened during the Ukrainian crisis. The ending of bachelor thesis studies the impact of Ukrainian crisis on trade between Russia and Ukraine. In the end of thesis possible scenarios of future development of crisis are outlined.
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Influence of ukrainian crisis on german economy and german russian relations
Skalická, Veronika ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Antal, Jarolím (referee)
The subject of my thesis is the impact of the Ukrainian crisis on German Russian relations and the German economy. Experts say that the deterioration of trade relations between the European Union and Russia caused by the Ukrainian crisis will also affect the economies of individual European countries. The deterioration in trade relations were caused by sanctions imposed in response to the crisis in Ukraine. The degree of impact of the Ukrainian crisis on a given country is directly proportional to the countrys interconnection with the Russia. Before the Ukrainian crisis began, Germany was Russias most active trading partner from the European Union. Germany also plays a significant role in the Ukrainian crisis, as a negotiator between the European Union and Russia. The influence of the Ukrainian crisis on the German economy is defined by the development of Germanys economic relations with Russia an important trading partner to Germany. Two economic indicators were used to assess the relationship: German-Russian commodity trading and German foreign direct investment in the Russian market. The development of trade between Germany and Russia was also analyzed within the individual economic sectors targeted by the sanctions. The impact of the Ukrainian crisis on the German economy was further assessed by the development of Germanys trade relati-ons with Ukraine and Belarus. The results of the analysis of economic indicators, which are in line with the information provided in expert sources, confirmed the negative impact of the Ukrainian crisis on German-Russian relations and the German economy. The negative impacts of the Ukrainian crisis on the German economy manifest in the form of financial losses caused by the decline in German exports to Russia and the poor economic situation of German investors in the Russian market. Due to the sanctions, some long-term projects between Germany and Russia were canceled, German companies operating in the Russian market experienced declining revenues, and these companies were forced to lay off workers.
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German-Russian Relations during the Ukrainian Crisis and the Russo-Georgian War
Ksiazkiewiczová, Pavla ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Eberle, Jakub (referee)
Pavla Ksiazkiewiczová Německo-ruské vztahy na pozadí ukrajinské krize a rusko- gruzínské války Abstract The thesis examines the German response to the Ukrainian Crisis in 2008 and the Russo- Georgian War in 2014. On the background of these two conflicts, I would like to demonstrate the German-Russian relations and their deterioration in the past years. My main research question was why did Germany decide to support and advocate the EU sanctions against Russia during the Ukrainian Crisis in 2014, when they did not promote such a solution in the 2008 during the Russo-Georgian War. My hypothesis is that German foreign policy shifted from the economic interests-oriented approach towards norm-oriented one. I am working with the theory Foreign policy analysis, which studies the management of international relations and state's activities. This theory can be understood as a critique towards dominant structural approach in international relations because it says that foreign policy is determined by the domestic policy. I constructed the German response to the Ukrainian Crisis and the Russo- Georgian War using qualitative discourse analysis. With this method I am analyzing the statements of those actors, who influence German foreign policy.
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Media framing of the Ukrainian conflict - articles comparison of German and Russian governmental servers concerning the theory of peace journalism
Prchlík, Václav ; Kaleta, Ondřej (advisor) ; Nečas, Vlastimil (referee)
This diploma thesis called "Media framing of the Ukrainian conflict - articles comparison of German and Russian governmental servers concerning the theory of peace journalism" focuses on the extent, to which differ news coverage of Russian progovernmental webpage rt.com and German progovernmental webpage dw.com. It also researches how much these media contribute to potential escalation and de-escalation of the conflict. These results are gained by implementation of the concept of peace and war journalism into analysed articles. Thanks to quantitative and qualitative analyses methods, the research showed that the coverage of the Ukrainian conflict differs in both media. They vary primarily in the extent of contextual insight into the issue, in thematic contents of articles and in descriptions of parties involved in the conflict. Neither of these two media however can be associated with the practice of war or peace journalism according to the findings. They proved to choose certain aspects of the reality and increase its meaning in their articles, but the amount of such interventions cannot be interpreted as inclination to war or peace journalism.
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The Ukrainian crisis in the news coverage made by ČTK and its comparison with ČT news with focus on crucial events within the conglict
Hušková, Jana ; Trunečková, Ludmila (advisor) ; Lokšík, Martin (referee)
This diploma thesis points out differences in the reporting methods of CTK and CT, the two public service's media, regarding the Ukrainian crisis. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on both of these media's properties with emphasis on their foreign coverageas well as related medial terms' definitions. One chapter is reserved to cover Ukraine as a state and its political history since the SovietUnion's disintegration through to 2014 and the Ukrainian crisis development; further studying the relationship between Ukraine and the Russian Federation resulting in the crisis in 2013. In the practical part of the thesis quantitative and qualitative methods are used to determine how much attention and screen-time both media dedicated to the crisis, which parties were given opportunities to comment and identify other sources of information. Keeping in mind the fact that CT had four reporters on site at it's disposal, the thesis tries to find out how big of an influence that had on the overall production, processing and tone of the television news and to what degree the production of both media agreed or diverged.
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Changing Public Opinion in Finland on NATO Membership in the Context of the Ukrainian Crisis
Kratinová, Dominika ; Plechanovová, Běla (advisor) ; Knutelská, Viera (referee)
Finland is nowadays a prosperous Nordic country, a member of the European Union, supporter of the EU-Russian relations and is one of the most developed economies in the world. Finland still has a unique role in maintaining friendly relations with Russia and therefore we can assume that Finland does not pursue NATO membership, because it would most definitely be perceived as threatening by the Russians. The Ukrainian crisis changed views of many people on Russian foreign relations and made the public, politicians and entire countries question what is Russia capable of and whether it should be perceived as a threat. Because of the Ukrainian Crisis, opinions in Finland are changing and developing and the NATO membership is seen from a brand new perspective and the much treasured policy of nonalignment is being reconsidered as well. That is the issue that I am going to research and examine in this thesis. I will describe changes in public opinion on NATO membership and general safety of Finland, because this public opinion has varied over the last decade and the Ukrainian crisis was the reason for these changes. In order to find answers to these issues, I performed a complex analysis of information coming from several sources, as well as results of research of public opinion and interviews with Finnish...
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Analýza dopadu sankcí na obchod mezi Evropskou unií a Ruskem
Kolářová, Andrea ; Klosová, Anna (advisor) ; Coniglio, Nicola (referee)
This thesis is trying to assess the effects of sanctions imposed on Russia in 2014 by the European Union and other countries, with respect to the changes in the trade flows among the two participants (EU and Russia). Firstly, the theoretical background for sanctions is provided, explaining their meaning and instruments which they use. Secondly, the overview of the Ukrainian conflict is conducted together with a brief review of the economic restrictions which were implemented, as well as the Russian counter-sanctions. The empirical part is firstly explaining the effects of the restrictions on the both economies and then introducing the state of the bilateral trade flows between the EU and Russia before the imposition of the sanctions. The most important part of the thesis is the gravity model conducted in the third chapter, which is trying to estimate the effects of the sanctions on the EU-Russian trade flows using two approaches. One of them is conducted with the help of regression analysis and a dummy variable which controls for the sanctions effect. The other one is predicting the values of exports without the disturbance of the sanctions and then comparing the results with the real values of the export for the years examined. The results of these analyses have proven the expectations about the negative impact of the sanctions on the trade flows between the EU and Russia.
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Germany's attitude to development of Ukraine crisis during years 2013-2014
Boubelík, Tomáš ; Eichler, Jan (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
This work engages in circumstances related to escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. It tries to justify Germany's evident efforts to calm the situation down. In introduction it provides theoretical basis by defining actor and interdependence theory, which are subsequently applied to Germany's and Ukraine's position in the field of international relations. Term interdependence is explained in accordance with economic relations between Germany and Russia. Second part of this work is focused on German foreign policy since its shaping, institutional background to implementation within the European Union. In the third part, that could be considered as core of bachelor thesis, are chronological described events and attitudes of leading German politicians to violations of international law by Russia. The final chapter analyses German's diplomacy participation on negotiation process, establishment and enforcement of Minsk agreements.
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European Union and its approach towards the Ukrainian crisis from Maidan until Minsk 2
Hovorková, Petra ; Eichler, Jan (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
This bachelor thesis is dealing with the topic of the Ukrainian crisis in the historical and present perspective. The goal of this thesis is to analyse approach of the European Union towards the war in the eastern Ukraine as well as towards violations of the international law by the Russian Federation. This work covers the events in Ukraine since demonstrations on Kiev's Independence Square until the negotiations of the second peace agreement signed in Minsk. The subject of research is also the future of the Ukrainian state as an equal partner of the EU and Russia.
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Foreign and security policy of Slovakia in relation to the crisis in Ukraine
Čuba, Andrej ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Sršeň, Radim (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to evaluate the involvement of the Slovak Republic in the action in Ukraine and their political and economic impact on Slovakia based upon the analysis of foreign and security policy of Slovakia. The work consists of two parts. The theoretical part explains the focus of foreign and security policy of the Slovak Republic from the point of view of Slovakia's most important participants in Slovak public administration, and their jurisdiction. In the empirical part I focus on the analysis of the ongoing crisis on Ukrainian territory in a global context, starting with historical causes of the civilian unrest till the present times, the subsequent military intervention and annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation, and eventual imposition of sanctions and their consequences for both Russia and the European Union. In the second half of the empirical section I continue with the analysis of the Ukrainian issue, but this time I focus on the point of view of the Slovak Republic, beginning with the shaping of foreign relations between the Slovak Republic and Ukraine since their independence till the present day. Within the second part of the work I will mention the general position of Slovakia and the significant cacophony between the statements of the President and the Prime Minister of Slovakia to the crisis. The thesis concludes with the direct and indirect impacts of imposed sanctions on the Slovak republic.
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