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The Influence of the European Union on Non-Member States of Europe
LINHART, Tomáš
The thesis entitled "The Influence of the European Union on Non-Member States of Europe" deals with the mutual relations of this institution with selected non-member states of Europe, more precisely the Republic of Serbia, the Kingdom of Norway and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The text defines the European Union's foreign policies and identifies its political-legal dynamics and interconnections with its preferred European states. The thesis aims to establish the economic-economic and environmental relations between the players. Another ambition of the thesis is to list the current bilateral relations, foreign, security and defence policies and to describe the mutual influence of the legislative framework in the respective areas. The thesis introduces the EU cooperation with non-member states, or rather describes the existing ties in many areas, and presents the circumstances of the rejection of the Kingdom of Norway's membership in this structure, the rationale of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's withdrawal and abandonment from the multi-year membership, and on the contrary, the interests of the Republic of Serbia to become an equal member and partner of the European Union, following the example of other member states. In addition to the necessary historical insight into the integration development of the European Union, an essential part of the thesis is the justification of the continued or newly created non-membership of selected European states in the EU. However, there are numerous collaborations between the community and individual states, and it is these collaborations that the thesis text focuses on. The thesis assesses not only the relations and the reasons and benefits of being or not being a member of the European Union but is a comprehensive text for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the Common Security and Defence Policy, Foreign Policy and the European Neighbourhood Policy.
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Bilaterální vztahy mezi Československem a Íránským císařstvím v období 1960-1979 se zaměřením na politické, hospodářské a kulturní styky
Struhárová, Alexandra
STRUHÁROVÁ, A. Bilateral relations between Czechoslovakia and the Iranian Empire in the period 1960-1979 with a focus on political, economic and cultural relations. Master´s Thesis. Brno, 2022. The thesis deals with bilateral relations between Czechoslovakia and Iran with a focus on political, economic and cultural relations in the period 1960–1979. The main aim of the master´s thesis is to present and interpret the development of political, economic and cultural relations between the above-mentioned states. The intention of the thesis will be achieved on the basis of archival primary data deposited in the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and the National Archives.
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Dynamic of Turkish-Azerbaijan relations in the 1990s
Jafarli, Faig ; Horák, Slavomír (advisor) ; Brisku, Adrian (referee)
With the emergence of the multipolarity and the formation of new entities in the Eurasian space that happened after the collapse of the USSR in the 1990s, Turkey search for new ways economic, cultural and political alliance. Turkey decline role in the West-East tensions and was forced to turn into the East. The optimal way out of this situation was a rapprochement with Azerbaijan, from both national and ethnical point of view. Thus, the master's thesis aims to analyze the Turkish-Azerbaijani relations in the 1990s. For this purpose, the following tasks have been set. To analyse rapprochement trends in relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey after the independence and to examine the role of internal and external factors in this area, as well as the role of the legal framework in relations that were build.
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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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French-Czech Relationships after the French Presidency of the Council of the EU (2009-2013)
Čapková, Zuzana ; Tomalová, Eliška (advisor) ; Matějka, Ondřej (referee)
The diploma thesis "The French-Czech relations after the French EU Presidency (2009- 2013)" examines the relations between France and the Czech Republic during five years after the French presidency of the European Union in the second half of 2008, which was replaced by the Czech Presidency in the first half of 2009. It is evident that bilateral relations between Member States are influenced by their membership in the EU. The aim of this work is to find out whether we can observe a similar process in the opposite direction, that is, whether bilateral cooperation between France and the Czech Republic contributes to the Europeanisation of relations in the fields of foreign policy, defense and security, justice and home affairs, transport, environment, trade and economic relations, culture, science and education. The work is divided into two main parts. After a theoretical and methodological introduction, the first one treats the evolution of the French-Czech relations in the 20th and 21st century, the largest part of the work is the analysis of key areas derived from the text of Strategic Partnership established in 2008. In the final chapter, the author tries to generalize the Europeanisation of bilateral relations between these two EU Member States with regard to the importance of bilateral and...
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Guy Erismann and his role in Czech-French cultural relations in music
Černovská, Eliška ; Tomalová, Eliška (advisor) ; Bauer, Paul (referee)
The master thesis "Guy Erismann and his role in Czech-French cultural relations in music" focus on Erismann's activities which propagated the Czech music in France in 1960-2007. Guy Erismann was an expert whose aim considered in raising French public awareness of the Czech musical heritage. Furthermore, the interest of the French society in Czech composers was noticed not until the 1960s. The thesis analyses if the activities of Erismann contributed to promoting the Czech music in France and if yes, what kind of contribution it was. The research uses the biographical methodology concentrating on Erismann's personality, knowledge, official post, network of personal contacts and reputation. All research criteria represent intangible capabilities of an individual actor in international relations. Regarding Erismann's personality, he was able to overcome the mistrust and even political divergences between Czech and French environment. Consequently, he achieved to establish a cooperation with Czech representatives of communist and afterward democratic regime. He wrote five books relating to the Czech music that became to be one of the most crucial resources about the Czech composers in France. Moreover, Erismann's high position in Radio France allowed him to incorporate Czech compositions, unknown in...
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Neo-Ottomanism and Its Effects in the Western Balkans: The Comparison of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Prestaš, Ivan ; Žíla, Ondřej (advisor) ; Šístek, František (referee)
Bachelor Thesis under the title: "Neo-Ottomanism and Its Effects in the Western Balkans: The Comparison of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina" analyses the attitude of Turkish foreign policy towards Western Balkan states. The aim of the thesis is to analyse the Turkish expansionary foreign policy not only from a military but from an economic point of view. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part is dedicated to Turkey and how it has changed its position on the regional and world political scene. The following part deals with the development of both relations between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey and relations between Serbia and Turkey over the last ten years. The last and most significant chapter analyses the economic aspect of neo-ottomanism. Based on the analysis of Turkish investments in the Western Balkan states and other economic parameters (exports and imports), Turkey has been using soft power to become a major player in this very turbulent region. Using a comparative analysis of two case studies, it was confirmed that Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is one of the most important Turkish partners in the Balkans, is still in the centre of Turkish interest. However, led by recent events which resulted in the opening of the Serbian market to Turkish investors, one can observe...
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Czech Interests in Georgia: Analysis of methods of their promotion
Audyová, Petra ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Weiss, Tomáš (referee)
The diploma thesis analyzes the way of promoting the national interest of the Czech Republic in Georgia and describes possible changes as a result of the Czech EU Presidency. The national interest is examined based on the assumption that the state foreign policy is the expression of the national interest. Therefore, the primary sources for this analysis are official foreign policy documents of the Czech Republic. The aim is to confirm or disprove the hypothesis that Czech foreign-policy towards Georgia in the period from 2007 to 2011 was driven by the aim to maximize own profit through EU structures. Given the size of the Czech Republic and its geopolitical importace, the analysis is based on the theory of neo-liberal institutionalism, and in accordance with this theory the national interest operationalized into four criteria, namely: 1) Compliance of EU and Czech interests, 2) Profiting from the EU presidency to promote the Czech interests, 3) Long-term consistency of interests, and 4) Economic interests as the main priority. The set of criteria helped to identify whether the Czech Republic behaved in accordance with the theory of neo-liberal institutionalism, and whether the Czech interests were promoted either through multilateral or bilateral relations. The analysis shows that in the studied...
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Dynamic of Turkish-Azerbaijan relations in the 1990s
Jafarli, Faig ; Horák, Slavomír (advisor) ; Šír, Jan (referee)
After the collapse of the USSR in the 1990s, with the emergence of the multipolarity and the formation of new entities in the Eurasian space Turkey search for new ways due to the declining role in the West-East tensions forced it to turn to the East. In this area, rapprochement with Azerbaijan from a national and ethnic point of view to be an optimal way out. On this way, the master's thesis aims to analyze the Turkish-Azerbaijani relations in the 1990s. For this purpose, the following tasks have been set. Analysis of rapprochement trends in relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey after independence, analysis of the role of internal and external factors in this area, as well as the role of the legal framework in building relations.
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Analýza obchodních vztahů mezi státy Visegrádské skupiny a Čínou
Lieberzeitová, Petra
The theoretical part of this thesis focuses on the topics: foreign trade and bilateral relations. Another theoretical topic is an outline of the establishment of the Visegrad Group and its bilateral cooperation with the People's Democratic Republic of China. The analytical part describes the development of trade relations by macroeconomic indicators: export, import and trade balance. Based on the comparative advantage of the sub-commodity groups of the V4 countries, it compares whether commodities with a comparative advantage are the same, for which the volume of exports to China is increasing. Finally, the thesis deals with added value and its share in the volume of exports of V4 countries to China. Based on the above analysis, it is evaluated whether trade between the Visegrad Group countries and China contributes to the development of the domestic economies of individual V4 countries.
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