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This bachelor thesis is concerned with the foreign policy of Brazil towards the USA during the administrations of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Lula da Silva. The aim of this thesis is to determine whether the election of the leftist president Lula had an impact on the continuity of the Brazilian foreign policy towards the USA. Firstly, the concept of autonomy in foreign relations is introduced and subsequently put into context of South America and eventually into the context of Brazil itself. The second part offers an insight into some aspects of the political system of Brazil such as the presidential diplomacy and coalitional presidentialism. The third and the fourth parts are the core of the thesis and examine the cooperation between Brazil and the USA at the political and economic levels. In the framework of both the political and economic cooperation specific topics are identified, which are then analyzed with the objective of comparing Cardoso's and Lula's foreign policy. The thesis as a whole concludes that while the political cooperation between the USA and Brazil after the Lula's election demonstrates continuity, discontinuity prevails in the economic cooperation.

This Bachelor Thesis focuses on the Czech foreign policy and cooperation with the Russian Federation in the political and economic field during the period from 1993 to 2011. The Thesis is divided into three chapters which constitute individual stages in the Czech-Russian relations. The first chapter, commencing with the establishment of the Czech Republic 1st January 1993 and ending in the year 2000, looks into the development of political and economic cooperation in this period, characterized by the deterioration of the Czech-Russian relations. The second chapter focuses on the development of the Czech foreign policy and the Czech-Russian cooperation in the period from 2000 to 2006, which is characteristic by improvement of the Czech-Russian relations. The third chapter concerns the development of the Czech-Russian cooperation in the years 2007--2011, characterized by repeated deterioration of the mutual relations.