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Latest publications: Do the EU and Ukraine speak the same language? by Kateřina Kočí et al.

Kateřina Kočí, Marianna Gladysh & Oksana Krayevska (2023) Do the EU and Ukraine speak the same language? The various notions of resilience before the military intervention, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14782804.2022.2163991 The concept of resilience has become a leitmotif for the current foreign policy narrative and practices of most Western states and international organisations. It has been more […]

Latest publications: Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era by Jakub Eberle

Jakub Eberle, Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era—Review Essay, International Studies Review, Volume 25, Issue 2, June 2023, viad007, https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viad007 This essay reviews four recent books on Germany’s foreign policy with emphasis on the era of Angela Merkel. The evaluation is based on their (a) added value to scholarship on German foreign policy, (b) theoretical […]

Latest publications: Security beyond Biopolitics by Jaroslav Weinfurter

Jaroslav Weinfurter, Security beyond Biopolitics: The Spheropolitics, Co-Immunity, and Atmospheres of the Coronavirus Pandemic, International Political Sociology, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2023, olad003, https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olad003 This article explores the limitations of the oft-used biopolitical frameworks of interpreting the regulatory emergency measures that have been enacted worldwide in the face of the spreading pandemic of COVID-19. Not only […]

The SPS Summer Academy

The Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence announces the fourth edition of its summer academy, which will take place on 4-8 September 2023. It offers talented master’s students in the social sciences, coming from all over Europe, a week of full immersion into the stimulating intellectual […]

First Blended Intensive Program at the Prague University of Economics and Business

Prague University of Economics and Business successfully conducted its first Blended Intensive Program (BIP). The BIPs financed by Erasmus+ are short, intensive programs which promote innovative ways of learning, teaching and training for students and staff and combine the online and offline cooperation between at least three universities from different countries. This BIP was coordinated […]

ISA GIRS Newsletter 2/2022

ISA GIRS Newsletter 1/2022

Štěpánka Zemanová in the executive committee of the new section of the International Studies Association

Kateřina Kočí is heading a new project concerning the Presidency of the Czech Republic in the Council of the EU

Pamir Halimzai received the Josef Hlávka Award for 2021

Pamir Halimzai, PhD alumni of the Department of International and Diplomatic Studies, received the Josef Hlávka Award for 2021. Pamir Halimzai has been very actively involved in the scientific activities of the Jan Masaryk Center for International Studies (now, the Department of International and Diplomatic Studies) since the beginning of his doctoral studies. As a […]