Summitová diplomacie: případová studie Velká trojka

This bachelor thesis deals with the summit diplomacy of The Big Three (USA, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union) during the Second World War in the form of conferences. The main goal of this work is to analyse the influence of this diplomacy on events in the international field after the end of World War II. The work is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is a theoretical part of the work, which deals with the summit diplomacy itself and its classification. The following chapter is devoted to The Big Three, its origin and historical context of the period. Furthermore, attention is focused on the conferences of The Big Three, which were a total amount of three. The following part is an analysis of changes after the end of the war, when The Big Three became The Big Four with the addition of France. It did not last long, and negotiations were made largely on a bilateral level i.e. only between the USA and the Soviet Union, by then great rivals. To better examine how the diplomacy of The Big Three has affected international relations, the last chapter discusses whether summit diplomacy is an effective tool for managing current international relations.