Department of International Relations and European Studies (EN)

• doc. Mats Rickard Braun, Ph.D.
  - Head of Department
  

  mats.braun@mup.cz

  Education & Work Experience

  • 2003–2008: Postgraduate studies in Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague, dissertation defended: 30.6.2008,
  • 2002: Master of Political Science, Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden

  Involvement in Other Institutions

  • Spring 2016: Lecturer, Dalarna University, Sweden
  • Fall 2015: Visiting Scholar - Cornell Institute for European Studies, Ithaca, US
  • 2005–2014: Senior Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, Prague
  • 2010–2013 and 2013–2016: Member of the Executive Council of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA)
  • 2006–2013: Lecturer, the Anglo-American University in Prague
  • 2004–2007: Lecturer, Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Prague
  • 2007–2014: Editor of Perspectives – Review of International Affairs

  Expertise

  • European integration; the institutional structure of the EU; international relations of the environment; norms diffusion; socialization

  Major Publications and Projects

  • Braun, M. (2014) Europeanization of Environmental Policy in the New Europe: Beyond Conditionality. Farnham: Ashgate.
  • Braun, M. (2014) ‘EU Climate Norms in East-Central Europe’. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 52(3), pp. 445-460.
  • Beneš, V. and Braun, M. (2014) ‘An ever-closer eurozone and its consequences for differentiated integration in Europe’. In. Steven Blocksman (ed.). Differentiated Integration in Europe: from the inside looking out, pp. 12-25, Brussels: CEPS. 
• Mgr. Šárka Kolmašová, Ph.D.
  - Deputy Head of Department
  

  sarka.kolmasova@mup.cz

  Education & Work Experience

  • PhD in International Relations and European Studies; Metropolitan University Prague and Institute of International Relations
  • Specialization in Humanitarian Military Interventions and the Concept of the Responsibility to Protect

  Involvement in Other Institutions

  • 2010 – now: Research Fellow; Institute of International Relations, Prague
  • 2014 – now: Member of the Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution Commission; International Peace Research Association (IPRA)

  Expertise

  • Armed Conflicts and Conflict Resolution
  • Military Interventions
  • Human Rights in International Politics

  Major Publications and Projects

  • Drulák, Petr and Šárka Moravcová (2013) Non-Western Reflection on Politics. Frankfurt am Main: Petr Lang.
  • 2013 – now: “Humanitarian military intervention in the context of the Responsibility to Protect”, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, Postdoctoral project; position: head investigator.
  • 2012 – 2013: “Network of Cooperation for the Research on Non-European Areas (RESAREAS)”, EU Operational Programmes; position: manager of cooperation for the Institute of International Relations, investigator.
• Mitchell Belfer, Ph.D.
  

  mitchell.belfer@mup.cz

  Education & Work Experience

  • Professorship-track on Small States in International Affairs in cooperation with the University of Bahrain
  • Political Researcher in Bahrain, Azerbaijan and Israel/Palestine

  Involvement in Other Institutions

  • Editor in Chief, Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (CEJISS)
  • Lecturer, NATO International School of Azerbaijan (NISA)
  • University Teacher, The Victoria University of Manchester, UK

  Expertise

  • Alliance Theory
  • Small States in Regional and International Security
  • Geopolitics in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia

  Major Publications and Projects

  • Small State, Dangerous Region: A Strategic Assessment of Bahrain, Peter Lang Publishing, Frankfurt, Germany, 2014.
  • ‘Gaza’s Tangentopoli,’ Revista de Investigaciones Politicas y Sociolgicas, 11:4, 2012, pp. 55-76.
  • ‘Iran’s Bahraini Ambitions,’ The Wall Street Journal, 06 October 2011, p. 15.
• Ing. Vít Beneš, Ph.D.
  

  vit.benes@mup.cz

  Education & Work Experience

  • Ph.D. in International Relations, University of Economics, Prague
  • Master degree (Ing.), University of Economics, Prague

  Involvement in Other Institutions

  • Institute of International Relations Prague, researcher, editor-in-chief, journal Mezinárodní vztahy
  • Institut für Politische Wissenschaft, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, external lecturer
  • CERGE-EI Prague, external lecturer

  Expertise

  • political and institutional aspects of European integration, theories of European integration, methodology of political science research

  Major Publications and Projects

  • Beneš, Vít – Harnisch, Sebastian (2015): Role Theory in Symbolic Interactionism: Czech Republic, Germany and the EU. Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 50, No. 1, s. 146-165.
  • Beneš, Vít (2016): Evropský rozměr české zahraniční politiky. In: Michal Kořan a kol.: Česká zahraniční politika v roce 2015: Analýza ÚMV. Praha: Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, 43–66.
  • "Czech EU Policy in the Light of the Role Theory". Postdoctoral project of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic No. P408/12/P905.
• Mgr. Kateřina Březinová, Ph.D.
  

  katerina.brezinova@mup.cz

  Education & Work Experience

  • Ph.D. in History and Latin American Studies at Charles University in Prague.
  • El Colegio de México. Mexico. Department of International Studies. Diploma in international relations.
  • Institute of Latin American Studies. University of Texas, Austin, USA. Master’s programme in cultural anthropology & regional studies in Latin America.
  • Instituto Universitario de Investigación Ortega y Gasset, Spain:  postgraduate  programme  “Máster en América Latina Contemporánea”.

  Involvement in Other Institutions

  • 2007- now: “Transculturalidad, mestizaje y mundialización en la Época Contemporánea” at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, I +D project of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Innovation, Spain. Position: Research fellow.
  • 1997- now: European Union – Research and expertise. Within a number of EU projects in the developing countries: The Russian Federation, Mexico, Brazil. Focus on minority rights, diversity policies; international migration. Position: Researcher and key expert
  • 1999 – 2006: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Position: Associate professor
  • 1998-1999: El Colegio de México, Mexico. Position: Professor-Research Fellow
  • 2011: Member of Latin American Studies Association,professional association for individuals and institutions engaged in the study of Latin America.

  Expertise

  • International relations with a territorial specialization in the Americas;
  • Latin America, Mexico, Brazil, USA;
  • International migration;

  Major Publications and Projects

  • Březinová, K: El imaginario chicano. La iconografía civil y política de los mexicanos en Estados Unidos de América 1965-2000. Monograph based on a research analyzing U.S. Mexican population’s identity politics. Upcoming by Charles University Press, Karolinum, 2014
  • Březinová, K: Turbines and Weapons for Latin America: Czechoslovak documentary film propaganda in the Cold War Context 1948-1989, in Cejiss 7:3 2013: Central European Journal of Security Studies. ISSN: 1802-548X Part of an ongoing research project on Czechoslovakia’s political and cultural engagements in Latin America in the second half of the 20th century.
  • Březinová, K.: Disrupt Thought and Destabilize Vision. Toward the representation of the Yanomami between art and anthropology in Fernandez del Campo, E., Riviere, H. (eds.): “The Ark of Babel. Artistic Theory and Practice in a Transcultural Perspective”. Madrid: ABADA Press, 2013.
• Mgr. David Erkomaishvili, Ph.D.
  

  david.erkomaishvili@mup.cz

  Education & Work Experience

  • Doctoral program (IIR/MUP) - International Relations and European Studies

  Involvement in Other Institutions

  • Doctoral candidate - IIR/MUP joint doctoral program 2009-2015

  Expertise

  • Theoretical: alliances, alliance theory, alliance politics, geopolitics, democratisation, Eastern Partnership, colour (electoral) revolutions
  • Regional: post-Soviet space, Caucasus, Central Asia, Eurasia (and adjascent regions)
  • State: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Turkey, China, post-Soviet states

  Major Publications and Projects

  • “The Baltic Element,” ISN Security Watch, July 2015
  • “Who is Aligning with Who?” (Rethinking Alignments in the post-Soviet Space), New Eastern Europe, 3-4, May 2015.
  • “The Regional Dimension of Central Asian Security Cooperation,” ISN Security Watch, 24 July 2014.
• Marko Stojić, Ph.D.
  

  marko.stojic@mup.cz

  Education & Work Experience

  • PhD in Contemporary European Studies, School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex, UK
  • MA in International Relations and European Studies, Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Hungary

  Involvement in Other Institutions

  • Lecturer, Department of International Relations and European Studies, Masaryk University, Brno
  • Lecturer, Department of International and Economic Relations, University of New York in Prague
  • Research Fellow, Europeum Institute for European Politics, Prague

  Expertise

  • European integration, EU enlargement, political parties in the Western Balkans, party-based Euroscepticism

  Major Publications and Projects

  • 'Party responses to the EU in the Western Balkans: Transformation, opposition or defiance?’, Palgrave Macmillan (2017).
  • 'Between core and peripheral politics: Opposing Europe in the Western Balkans', Europe-Asia Studies, 2017, 69/5, p. 728-753.
  • 'Transformation or defiance: The impact of the European People’s Party on Serbian and Croatia parties', Czech Journal of Political Science, 2015/2, p. 147-167.
  • 'Ideological families and party attitudes toward the EU in Serbia and Croatia', In EU Enlargement: Current challenges and strategic choices, PIE Peter Lang, ed. Laursen, F. (2013).
  • 'From deep-seated animosity to principled disagreement: A comparative analysis of party-based Euroscepticism in Serbia', In Charting the path from intervention to integration ‘Europe and the Post-Yugoslav Space’, Ashgate, ed. Radeljić, B. (2013).
  • 'Between Europhobia and Europhilia: Party and popular attitudes towards membership of the European Union in Serbia and Croatia', Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2006/7(3), p. 312-335.
• Ing. Břetislav Tureček
  

  bretislav.turecek@mup.cz

External Academics