Hloušek & Pospíšil in the new book by Springer Publishing

Vít Hloušek and Ivo Pospíšil contributed to a brand new book titled „Das politische System Tschechiens“ published by the German publishing house Springer....

Lehotský & Ocelík presented their research at the University of Konstanz

Lukáš Lehotský and Petr Ocelík have presented a research on Czech coal policies at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, University of Konstanz.

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The department has its own Instagram account as of now. Follow us on muni_dires. Also, students can help us by sharing pictures and stories from study...

The Department has three new alumni of the PhD program

The department is proud to announce that on Wednesday 27 June, Lukáš Lehotský, Michaela Strapáčová and Vladimir Vučković completed successfully their post-graduate...

Padrtova at the biggest polar science conference

Barbora Padrtova participated in the Polar2018 conference in Davos last week. An intensive week that connected science, education, policy and business....

Petr Ocelík presented his research in Brisbane

Petr Ocelík presented findings of a research project on policy network analysis of the Czech coal policy domain, researched in cooperation with the Czech...

Department members discussed Euroscepticism at the ECPR conference in Paris

Vratislav Havlík, Vít Hloušek and Petr Kaniok participated at a conference organised by the Standing Group on the European Union of the European Consortium...

Hubert Smekal marked a publication success

Hubert Smekal together with our alumna Katarína Šipulová and Jozef Janovský wrote a chapter for a new book titled „International Courts and Domestic Politics“,...

Chovančík at the European Workshop in International Studies in Groningen

Martin Chovančík presented his article at EWIS, taking place June 6-9 at the University of Groningen, Netherlands.

The article titled: „Maximizing EU Sanctions...

Vlček & Minin on the nuclear sector after the Fukushima disaster

Nikita Minin (the department´s PhD student) and Tomáš Vlček are authors of a new paper in Energy Strategy Reviews titled "Post-Fukushima performance of...

Padrtova on innovation in learning and teaching in higher education

Vít Hloušek on the necessity to complete the EU citizenship with a republican dimension

Vít Hloušek together with Croatian sociologist Viktor Koska wrote a book chapter “Shifting borders and contested identities: the quest for republican EU...

Vít Hloušek lectured in Leipzig

Vít Hloušek held a series of lectures during his visit to the University of Leipzig on May 24 and 25. He organized an intensive seminar for local students...

Vlček & Jirušek on oil & gas sector in Albania

Tomáš Vlček and Martin Jirušek published a new article titled "The Hydrocarbons Sector in Albania: Short-Term Challenges and Long-Term Opportunities"....

Padrtová on Arctic geopolitics

Barbora Padrtová was lecturing today about Arctic Geopolitics in the course "Polar ecology" organized by the Centre for Polar Ecology, Faculty of Science,...

Krpec & Hodulák on the Czech economic model

Oldřich Krpec and Vladan Hodulák published an article titled "The Czech economy as an integrated periphery: The case of dependency on Germany". The article...

Tomáš Vlček in Novosibirsk

This week, Tomáš Vlček is lecturing within the English study program "Oil and Gas Management" at Novosibirsk State University in the Russian Federation....

Jirusek lectured in Kaunas, Lithuania

On May 3 – 4, Martin Jirušek lectured at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. In a series of lectures, Martin addressed issues of energy relations...

Chovančík lectured in Kazakhstan

On April 23 - 27, Martin Chovančík was lecturing at the International relations department of KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. The series of lectures...

Vít Hloušek on minorities in the Czech Republic

Vít Hloušek published two chapters in the volume Citizenship in Segmented Societies: Lessons for the EU. One was devoted to a comparative analysis of the...