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NAFTA: Way to the economic growth for Mexican economy?
Siegelová, Romana ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Cihelková, Eva (referee)
The main objective of this thesis is analysis of the impact of the North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) on Mexican economy. Especially the evaluation of the positive and negative effects of NAFTA on the economic growth of the Mexican economy. The secondery objective of this thesis is presentation and analysis of the concrete negative impact of NAFTA on Mexico, which is connected with the implementation of this agreement. This problem is related to the maquiladoras, these are assembly lines situated on the border between Mexico and the United States.
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EU - Canada relations: will CETA change their character?
Spáčilová, Klára ; Antal, Jarolím (advisor) ; Vošta, Milan (referee)
The thesis deals with the external economic relations between the European Union and Canada. The aim is to analyze the current state of their bilateral partnership - whether the current tools used by the partners nowadays fulfil their potential of 21st century. The thesis also analyzes the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and its prospective impact on a character of the partnership between the EU and Canada as well its impact from a wider, global perspective.
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ASEAN and the role of regionalism in Southeast Asia
Csopotiová, Alexandra ; Žamberský, Pavel (advisor) ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (referee)
The objective of this work is to analyze the phenomenon of regionalism in Southeast Asia with the emphasize on ASEAN and its impact on member states. The first part of the theses is theoretical and explains the development and characteristics of regionalism. The second part of the theses is practical and analyses impact of ASEAN in economical area, trade area and also area of diplomatic relations.
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Contemporary U. S. Foreign Policy towards the European Union. Negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Boček, Lukáš ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Maslowski, Nicolas (referee)
Transatlantic relations have a long tradition but their current state has recently come into question. This thesis is concerned with the contemporary foreign policy of the United States of America towards the European Union, focusing mainly on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) which has been under negotiation since July 2013. The first chapter provides the theoretical and methodological framework, explaining how the American political system and foreign policy construction work and suggesting how these can be analyzed. The following chapters deal with the TTIP itself, using mainly the sub-state level of analysis. Chapter 2 explains the overall agenda of the TTIP, analysing America's goals in the negotiations and the TTIP's possible impact on transatlantic relations. Chapter 3 investigates the role and goals of state actors in the ongoing negotiations, namely of the president of the United States; Congress and the United States Trade Representative and State Department. Chapter 4 is based on analysis of non-state actors involved in or affected by the TTIP negotiations.
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Formation of a free trade area between EU and South Korea and its impact on the czech car industry
Juha, Jan ; Černá, Iveta (advisor) ; Čajka, Radek (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with issues of the free trade area between EU and South Korea including theoretical basis of a possibility of regionalism within the frame of exceptions to WTO rules. The thesis concentrates on specific indicators of foreign trade of EU, South Korea and the Czech Republic and compares them mutually. In the introduction there is a theoretical framework of individual economic integrations and EU primary law that enables EU to conclude agreements with third countries. This thesis also focuses on the content and negotiation of the Free trade agreement between EU and South Korea. Following chapters deal with the comparison of individual figures reported in foreign trade and car industry, with an emphasis on the comparison of a period before the implementation of the Free trade agreement and after it. Finally, this thesis contains evaluation of the current functioning of the Free trade agreement and its possible changes.
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Interregionalism in the world economy with focus on EU´s interregional agreements
Šálený, Václav ; Cihelková, Eva (advisor) ; Hnát, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with interregionalism, which has systematically developed in the world economy since the 90's. The thesis focuses mainly on European Union's interregional agreements with Associaton of Southeast Nations, Common Southern Market and Gulf Cooperation Council. The aim of the thesis is to analyze these interregional dialogues in terms of their developement, institutionalization and potential economic impact of free trade areas. The first chapter deals with interregionalism in theory and its functions in the world economy. The second chapter focuses on interregionalism in practice and on the only completed interregional agreement. The final chapter deals with the selected EU's interregional agreements
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Perspective of the EU-Russia economic relations – building common economic space
Sokolov, Ivan ; Cihelková, Eva (advisor) ; Kalínská, Emílie (referee) ; Němcová, Ingeborg (referee) ; Varadzin, František (referee)
The main objective of the doctorate thesis was to explore the causes of the current state of relations between the EU and Russia and to provide substantiation for future effective cooperation. The main analytical assumption of the thesis is that deeper regional economic cooperation creates positive effects for improvement of economic relations. Based on that assumption a complex exploratory framework with solid theoretical grounding was created in order to evaluate potential gains from trade liberalization scenarios between the EU and Russia. Main research is focused on the three following areas: historical background of economic relations, current developments and perspectives of the future cooperation in light of trade liberalization. Historical background of common economic relations stems from political and economic development on both sides, legal and institutional framework and problematic areas. Current development of trade and economic relations is based on analysis of trade flows in goods, trade in services and capital flows. Analysis of the future development is based on three liberalization scenarios: - Accession of Russia to the World Trade Organization (WTO), - Free trade agreement (FTA) -- scrapping customs tariffs between the EU and Russia, - Comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA+) -- reduction of non-tariff barriers to trade, liberalization of trade in services and capital flows, regulatory harmonization. Meta-analysis of different computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling is used to evaluate the liberalization scenarios. Research results proved positive effects of trade liberalization for both sides. However, comprehensive free trade agreement seems to be the most effective form of trade liberalization with maximum economic welfare gains for the EU and the Russian Federation.
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New phenomena in the relations between the EU and Australia New Zealand at the beginning of the third millennium
Procházka, David ; Cihelková, Eva (advisor) ; Bič, Josef (referee)
The goal of the thesis "New phenomena in the relations between the EU and Australia New Zealand at the beginning of the third millennium" is to analyze mutual trade and economic relations in the context of new phenomena in regionalism, represented here mostly by bi-regionalism and trans-regionalism. The first part of the thesis characterizes economic positions of EU, Australia and New Zealand in the global economy and emphasizes their historical and societal ties. The second part of the thesis elaborates on the development of mutual relations between the EU Australia and EU New Zealand. In particular it sums up the process of deepening of their cooperation up to the current association of equal partners. This is illustrated by existing legal basis of the relations and the current trade exchange data. The focal point of the thesis is the possibility of further intensification of mutual cooperation, especially through conclusion of a preferential agreement that would remove remaining trade barriers between the EU and Australia New Zealand. In the context of the new phenomena in regionalism, any type of preferential agreement would have potential to foster their relationships as well as bring positive impact to process of multilateral liberalization. The issue of preferential agreement is therefore considered in the light of the steadily rising importance of the Asia-Pacific region. While Australia and New Zealand have concluded an agreement on a free trade zone with ASEAN, negotiations with the EU have been suspended. The thesis confirms one of its main hypothesis, marking their different approaches to agricultural policy as the main obstacle to concluding of a free trade agreement between the EU and Australia New Zealand. Based on the findings, the thesis concludes by outlining several scenarios of possible future development of mutual relations and their positive and negative aspects.
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