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Our Students Participated in an EU Institutions Negotiation Simulation in Brussels

New article by Z. Dubský, M. Votoupalová & A. Vítková: Framing the European Green Deal: political and media energy discourses in Czechia and Sweden

Dubský, Z., Votoupalová, M. & Vítková, A. Framing the European Green Deal: political and media energy discourses in Czechia and Sweden. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 233 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04557-w Abstract: The European Green Deal (EGD) has become a key reform process in the European Union with a major impact on energy reforms in the Member States (MS). […]

New monograph by Jeremy Garlick: Evolution in International Relations

Garlick, J. (2025). Evolution in International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Abstract: Scholars of international relations (IR) and evolution pay little attention to each other’s fields. However, there is a need to examine evolution’s impacts in IR. International actors such as nations are made up of people, so evolved human nature has an impact on relations […]

Jeremy Garlick on the Horizont podcast discussing China’s influence in the Global South and implications for Europe

Dr. Eberle has become a new associate professor at FIR

FIR has new graduates of the Sports Diplomacy MPA programme

Dr. M. Hennlichová Participated at Retrofest 2024 in Ljubljana

We are pleased to announce that our colleague, Dr. Marcela Hennlichová, recently participated in the Retrofest 2024 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. On September 23, 2024, she contributed to the roundtable panel on “Continuity and Discontinuity of the Cultural Struggle” held at the historic Ljubljana Castle. Dr. Hennlichová’s presentation focused on the Munich Agreement, the so-called “Munich […]

Doing the Same With Different Results: Variations in EU Presidencies of Austria, Finland, Slovakia and Czechia, a new article by dr. Kočí a dr. Antal

Latest publications: Doing the Same With Different Results: Variations in EU Presidencies of Austria, Finland, Slovakia and Czechia by K. Kočí and J. Antal

Kočí, K. and Antal, J. (2024) ‘Doing the Same With Different Results: Variations in EU Presidencies of Austria, Finland, Slovakia and Czechia’. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13646. Holding the presidency in the Council of the EU can be a powerful tool of influence for a member state. Despite its centrality in EU decision-making, there is a gap in a systematic […]

Roundtable Discussion “State and Diplomatic Support for Innovations in the Context of Growing International Competition”