Zhodnocení role a postavení Německa v EU a ve světě v postlisabonském období

Abstract

The aim of the bachelor thesis is to characterize and evaluate the position and role of Germany in selected crises that have taken place in Europe, with global impact, after 2009, on the basis of selected theoretical concepts for foreign policy analysis. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part outlines the historical development of Germany from the end of the Second World War to the signing of the Lisbon Treaty. In this part, selected concepts of assessing the role of the state are also described. In the second part, selected critical issues in European and international relations are portrayed and will be analysed subsequently. In the third part, the position of Germany in the given critical issues of European and international relations is assessed. The thesis concludes with an overall assessment of Germany's role in the selected crises. Germany's behaviour during the selected crises can be partly described as corresponding to the role of a civilian power and also partly to the role of a commercial state. The inconsistency in Germany's attitudes can be described as ambivalent. It is this role that Handl and Eberle also attribute to Germany, and it is this role that may also be appropriate for an overall assessment of Germany's role during the selected crises.