Americké základny na východním okraji NATO

The thesis deals with the topic of American presence on the new eastern frontier of NATO within the framework of military facilities to which the USA has received access through concluding bilateral agreements. From the theoretical point of view, the thesis works with the neo-realistic concepts of security, power, security dilemma as well as alliance dilemma. Simultaneously it also employs ideas from the modern approaches to geopolitics such as critical geopolitics, constellation theory and radical geopolitics. Following that, the way to the creation of the European component of the American anti-missile defense system is presented. Then the thesis concurs with a complex overview of the past and especially the present of the military facilities the USA has at disposal in Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Romania. Based on the gathered knowledge, a typology of the American bases is presented.