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Turkey's Rise as a Regional Power
Ledbová, Zuzana ; Kučerová, Irah (advisor) ; Daniel, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the rise of Turkey as a regional power in the Middle East since the end of the Cold War until the present. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the country's position in the region during the period 1990-2017 and to examine factors that contributed to the growth of Turkey's power. The thoretical framework discusses important concepts and different approaches within the international relations literature to the analysis of regional powers and subsequently defines criteria for assessing whether to consider Turkey as a Middle Eastern power. The study follows chronological evolution of Turkey and its foreign policy, examining the country's material capacities as well as strategies and instruments used by Turkish governments to promote Turkey's influence at the regional level. In view of the growing power potential, ambitions and engagement in the region, the thesis has come to the conclusion that Turkey has achieved the status of one of the regional powers of the Middle East during the 1990s. The end of the bipolar international system was a factor that allowed Turkey to act more independently in the new global order. Subsequently, thanks to Turkey's economic growth, the Turkish leadership could increase the volume of funds spent on active foreign policy and thus strengthen...
Iran As a Regional Power
Kotubejová, Karina ; Dubský, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Havlová, Radka (referee)
This thesis addresses position of Iran in the Middle East and is trying to find out whether Iran is regional power or not. In the first part the key concepts for defining regional power are explained. Because of absence of unified view on phenomenon of regional power, our own characteristics of it are introduced. Second part is focused on Iran and its position as an actor of international relations in five areas: identity, geopolitical position, foreign policy, regional security and economy. In next part the characteristics of regional power defined in the first part are applied on the findings about Iran. Based on this application, the thesis comes to an opinion that Iran can be marked as regional power. However, it still faces challenges, which are shortly indicated in the final part of the thesis.

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