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Comparative analysis of political and economic organizations MERCOSUR and Pacific Alliance
Mocák, Filip ; Krausz Hladká, Malvína (advisor) ; Svitková, Katarína (referee)
The purpose of this work is to examine two political and economic blocs of South America; MERCOSUR and Pacific Alliance. Concretely, it focuses on the way of founding above mentioned organizations as well as it stresses economic power of both coalitions and their potential for the future. Region is analysed by realism perspective. While MERCOSUR was understood as a product of bandwagoning executed by Brazil's neighbours, the research about Pacific Alliance was based on balance of power behaviour. I used two research strategies: (1) a descriptive method applying bandwagoning and balance of power concepts on process of creation of both respective organization and (2) comparative analysis to compare coalitions and bring insight on current success of Pacific Alliance and potential outlook in the future. Since the relevant continent is considered as zone of peace, the realistic view on power was enriched by economic aspect. Hence, a driving force in regional affairs is economic, rather than military power. In case of Pacific Alliance, The focus was on two founding members, Chile and Colombia, since both are considered as secondary powers on the South American continent. The main sources to conduct this research were published economic reports and academic articles, analyses and journals. Even though...
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The Importance of the Pacific Alliance in Mexican Foreign Policy
Kubínová, Karolína ; Kochan, Jan (advisor) ; Demková, Marcela (referee)
The thesis analyses how Mexico uses the Pacific Alliance as a tool for its foreign policy. The first chapter explains the international relations framework, the structure of international organizations, the foreign policy network and also the international integration. The second chapter looks over Mexico's foreign policy. The chapter expounds the basic macroeconomic indicators describing the development of Mexican foreign policy and discusses Mexico's position in Latin American integration. The third chapter deals with Mexico in the Pacific Alliance. It lays out basic data on the Pacific Alliance out, and goes on to analyze the activities of the Pacific Alliance with which Mexico is involved. The chapter concludes by comparing these broader Pacific Alliance with Mexico's objectives, and considers the activities' impact on Mexico.
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Pacific Alliance as Counterpart to Mercosur – Underestimated Markets of Latin America for Czech Business
Skřička, Vojtěch ; Čermáková, Klára (advisor) ; Kovanda, Lukáš (referee)
This thesis focuses on two integration blocks in Latin America -- the Pacific Alliance and MERCOSUR. The analysis should confirm the hypothesis that the integrated countries converge faster than non-integrated. With use of beta-convergence and sigma-convergence approaches, this hypothesis was rejected for the two Latin American integration groups. It is also supposed that market-led policies should diverge from the protectionist countries in terms of per capita income. However, this hypothesis was not neither confirmed, nor rejected for the observed region and time period. The income growth analysis showed that the Pacific Alliance countries are less dependent on their initial incomes than MERCOSUR members. However, the macroeconomic data exhibit multicollinearity, autocorrelation and unit root generated process. The explanatory coefficients likely lose their statistical significance, when this is controlled for. Therefore, the lower growth dependence in the Pacific Alliance integration on initial income cannot be fully confirmed.
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