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Manas Air Base and U.S.-Kyrgyz Relations
Nováková, Sabina ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Horák, Slavomír (referee)
The following thesis is a case study of the U.S. Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan. It addresses the significance of the base in the context of mutual U.S.-Kyrgyz relations after 2001. It aims to analyze the bilateral negotiations between the U.S. and the Kyrgyz on establishing the air base, its functioning, and eventually its closure in 2014. Among the research questions, it seeks to explain the respective positions of both parties, the motives behind their actions, and factors that influenced this negotiation process. The analysis shows that the extensive U.S. efforts to get and maintain access to the facility were driven by the necessity to secure transportation corridors to and from Afghanistan. Kyrgyzstan, on the other hand, was primarily interested in financial benefits stemming from having an American base on its territory. The U.S. let local elites enrich themselves in connection with the air base revenues. Kyrgyzstan's internal instability also had a major impact on its stance towards foreign policy matters and the issue of the Manas air base in particular. The U.S. was a stronger player in this asymmetric relationship, but Washington often got into situations where it was being pulled by Kyrgyzstan's domestic developments, which effectively determined mutual relations. The analysis concludes that...
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Manas Air Base and U.S.-Kyrgyz Relations
Nováková, Sabina ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Horák, Slavomír (referee)
The following thesis is a case study of the U.S. Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan. It addresses the significance of the base in the context of mutual U.S.-Kyrgyz relations after 2001. It aims to analyze the bilateral negotiations between the U.S. and the Kyrgyz on establishing the air base, its functioning, and eventually its closure in 2014. Among the research questions, it seeks to explain the respective positions of both parties, the motives behind their actions, and factors that influenced this negotiation process. The analysis shows that the extensive U.S. efforts to get and maintain access to the facility were driven by the necessity to secure transportation corridors to and from Afghanistan. Kyrgyzstan, on the other hand, was primarily interested in financial benefits stemming from having an American base on its territory. The U.S. let local elites enrich themselves in connection with the air base revenues. Kyrgyzstan's internal instability also had a major impact on its stance towards foreign policy matters and the issue of the Manas air base in particular. The U.S. was a stronger player in this asymmetric relationship, but Washington often got into situations where it was being pulled by Kyrgyzstan's domestic developments, which effectively determined mutual relations. The analysis concludes that...
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The common commercial policy of the European Union and its relation towards Russia
Zavadilová, Michaela ; Bič, Josef (advisor) ; Vondrušková, Barbora (referee)
This bachelor's paper is focused both on the common European Union trade policy and on the trade relations between the European Union and Russia. This work describes the tenet, principles and the sense of the common commercial policy. The main goal of this work is to answer a reasearch question: Firstly, how much do differ the objectives of the European Union's trade policy (thus the plan) from the actually fulfilled ones (thus, the reality). Secondly, what steps have been taken in order to achieve the objectives. The question is answered by a comparative research.The information were predominantly obtained from a conceptual material of the Global Europe-competing in the world, from publications and from the observations of experts on this topic.The main part of theses analyzes the mutual trade relations with Russia, as one of the most important trading partners and actors of the world economy, in oder to investigate their business interests, disputes and a position.
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EU - China relations
Ťažká, Andrea ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Cihelková, Eva (referee)
The thesis seeks to analyze the current relations between the EU and China, with an emphasis on the area of economic co-operation. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter discusses the external relations of the two main actors implemented in South East Asia, with a focus on the economic and also the political dimension. The second chapter provides insights into EU-China relations from the '90s until today. The emphasis is put on trade and investment relations. The third chapter is an evaluation of the current EU-China partnership focusing on achievements but also the problematic issues that still hamper the further development of mutual relations.
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The impact of the entry to the EU on the Czech foreign trade policy
Schinková, Natálie ; Plchová, Božena (advisor) ; Müllerová, Františka (referee)
The thesis discusses the impact of the entry of the Czech Republic to the EU on its foreign trade policy. Shortly the history of European integration is described as an introduction to the part about the development of European common trade policy. In the second part the foreign trade policy of the Czech Republic before entering the EU is described and in the final part the changes to the external trade policy are analyzed together with the impact on external trade of the Czech republic.
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Role of the European Union in Latin America: a Change after the Rio Summit?
Bakule, Martin ; Cihelková, Eva (advisor) ; Dvořáková, Vladimíra (referee) ; Kašpar, Václav (referee) ; Opatrný, Josef (referee)
The thesis "Role of the European Union in Latin America: a Change after the Rio Summit?" focuses on alternations of the position of the European Union (EU) in Latin America after the Rio Summit (1999) which was supposed to be a milestone in European-Latin-American relations. The main objective is to identify and explore the EU role and its trends which result not only from the economic links but also the actions of the EU institutions. Factors of unequal position of Latin America in mutual relations, as well as the impact of the interregional strategy of the EU are of special focus. The thesis is organized as follows. The chapter 1 lays conceptual and theoretical grounds and develops the methodology of "the Atlantic triangle" to frame the issue in interregional relations concepts. The chapter 2 analyses the EU and Latin America as subjects of interregional relations. As for the Latin-American region, its social-economic features, development strategy orientation and its impacts and subregional integration are examined. The EU region subchapter is focused on the interregional strategy, its design and development, as well as the multidimensional nature of the relations and its component dynamics (trade, political dialogue, development cooperation). The Chapter 3 identifies and explores external factors which influence the European-Latin-American ties. According to the triangle methodology, the inevitable influence of the United States (the Anglo-American region in the thesis concept) is studied separately from the global environment and other regions. The Chapter 4 quantifies the economic links of the Latin-American region. It examines the shares and trends in trade, investment, development cooperation transfers and migration. The Chapter 5 studies the institutionalised relations within the Atlantic triangle. It classifies the existing links of the Latin-American region (treaties, fora), assesses the role of interregional summits, compares the political approaches from the United States (US) and the EU in trade, development and security areas and studies in detail the EU impact on several aspects of Latin-American institutional configuration (e.g. regional integration). Among others, the most important conclusions drawn in the last chapter are the following: The unequal position of Latin America in relations with the EU can be attributed to its development characteristics as well as its fragmentation that has recently been progressing. It results in week coordination capability of Latin-American countries on the subregional level and absence of effective coordination on regional level. The interregional strategy of the EU aimed at building "Birregional Strategic Partnership" has not met Latin-American expectations. Although the situation in both regions and global environment has changed substantially from the strategy initiation, the strategy concept remains unaltered which is reflected the mutual relation stagnation. The EU strategy has not proved to be effective in fostering the EU role in Latin America. The free trade negotiation balance of the EU and the US is unfavorable to the EU which has not been able to conclude the association agreements (a basic tool to build the partnership) with its major Latin-American partners (MERCOSUR). The mid/long-term trends in the economic positions on the Latin-American markets have been also unfavorable to the EU in favor to the US and Asian partners. The ineffective strategy did not reverse nor stop such trends. However, the EU role is still not negligible in Latin-American aspirations to diversify its external links from the US influence. The relations with the EU display evident counter-balancing features. The EU also plays the role of "external federator" on subregional level but its influence is rather limited. The overall conclusion is that the Rio Summit did not start closer cooperation. The weakening economic relations are not supported by an effective interregional strategy from the EU. The role of the EU is therefore diminishing.
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The European Union in the Context of the New Regionalism
Vášová, Kristýna ; Hnát, Pavel (advisor) ; Antal, Jarolím (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the definition and analysis of New Regionalism in the European Union. The first part discusses not only the phenomenon of our time such as globalization and regionalism, but also current European Union strategy in the global world. Aim of this thesis is an act of the New Regionalism in the European Union's external relations and the mapping of current trade agreements concluded by the European Union with third countries. The second part provides a comprehensive overview of the current development of external economic relations of the EU towards the developed economies and developing countries.
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French and Czech terminology in European legislative texts concentrated on the field: Aid to developing countries
KRUPOVÁ, Zuzana
The main theme of the thesis is the French and Czech terminology which is used in the European legislative texts focusing on the area of "External relations - aid to developing countries". As an introduction the work deals with the language policy of the European union and the translation service of the Union. The second part describes the procedure of choosing and arrangement of legislation texts and the work with the special program called "ParaConc". The texts were processed in a form of parallel corpus. Consequently, 201 key words and their collocations were selected which formed the subject of the investigation. Finally, translations and structures were analysed and evaluated.
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New Regionalism in the External Relations of Brazil
Chvátalová, Kristýna ; Hnát, Pavel (advisor) ; Suchá, Tereza (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the analysis of the external relations of Brazil. I compare the states in terms of a volume of trade and preferencies. That comparison is the main objective of this thesis. I used a variety of statistics from official websites of organizations - ALADI, World Trade Organization - WTO, Conference for Reconstruction and Development - UNCTAD and the Brazilian Ministry for Development, Industry and Foreign Trade - Ministerio do Desenvolvimento, Indústria e Comércio Exterior.
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EU External Trade Policy
Schmid, Ondřej ; Švarc, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Grmelová, Nicole (referee)
This thesis provides economic and legal view of the external trade of the European Union. The first part shows the position of EU in world trade in goods and services, territorial and commodity structure and differences between Member States. The second section provides the basis for European trade policy, its principles and links to the multilateral rules of GATT and WTO. The final part of the paper deals with autonomous and the conventional instruments of commercial policy.
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