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The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - interests of the member states
Oravec, Marián ; Horák, Slavomír (advisor) ; Cibulková, Petra (referee)
This thesis examines the interests of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation with a narrow focus on the interests of the four Central Asian members of the organization. The first two chapters are devoted to theoretical approaches to international relations and the concept of state interest. The work considers liberal-idealistic tradition as the most suitable theoretical approach for applying. There is no single, universally accepted definition of state interest, therefore the assessment of national interest is always subjective in nature. The state interests are then compared in the three chapters focusing on political view, security and economic cooperation. The security cooperation within the international organization is the only area of cooperation with tangible results. Economic cooperation among the countries as members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is indeed verbally declared, however, the real results are not visible. The work concludes that the common interests of the four Central Asian states are in the area of security and economic cooperation, cooperation in transport infrastructure development, as well as solving energy issues and issues related to water resources. Specific interests of the monitored countries are determined by their geographical location...
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Conflict Prevention in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan
Zalánová, Zuzana ; Klimešová, Martina (advisor) ; Ditrych, Ondřej (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with conflict prevention in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Its aim was to compare its relevance and results in the both countries. In doing so, the first theoretical section outlined the way of assessing conflict potential, which conditions and justifies applying preventative measures. This was examined in terms of Copenhagen school and its broaden meaning of security, whereas the paper focused on the political, economic and societal dimension. Then the notion of conflict prevention was framed within terminological and historical context and considered in terms of its trends and current challenges. At the end of the theoretical section, the concepts if security dimensions and conflict prevention were discussed in terms of their applicability for the case studies of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Afterwards, the empirical section researched the conflict potential and preventive actions of international organisations, states and non-state actors in the both countries. Analytical part evaluated the empirical data in order to assess conflict prevention in the both states. In doing so, I used SWOT analysis, which defined strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of conflict prevention in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The results can be summarised as follows: The character...
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Geopolitical significance of Kazakhstan
Erney, Peter ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Sudliankou, Aliaksandr (referee)
Bachelor thesis is focused on geopolitical significance of Kazakhstan and reasons of the importance of this country for the other states. The thesis describes historical development of the country and process of privatization. It describes, how some of the companies, that are specialized in mining and processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, natural gas, coal, uranium and oil, were transferred from 100% state ownership to private hands. It describes the circumstances of the sales of these companies. The thesis is also focused on bilateral and multilateral relations with the countries, for which is Kazakhstan the most geopolitically important, and therefore relations with USA, Russia, China, but also relations with European and neighboring countries.
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