Zahraniční politika Velké Británie před první světovou válkou (1901-1914)

Abstract

Bachelor thesis Zahraniční politika Velké Británie před první světovou válkou (1901-1914) analyzes the position of the British Empire in the international system in the years before the First World War. It focuses on the circumstances that forced Britain to withdraw from the isolation and re-focus its foreign policy on European affairs. Maps steps of British diplomacy, as depending on the internal political establishment, so depending on the concept of "Balance of Power" and tense development on the continent. The aim is to explain reason of the British intervention in the beginning of the World War I. and to prove that British foreign policy had a share on the escalation of conflict.