Besides many publication activities, the members of the Department also participate in publication of quarterly Central European Studies Review (on-line as well as in print) and Czech Journal of Political Science, and also on a number of non-periodical publications.
Total number of publications: 58
Journal of Language and Politics, year: 2024, DOI
European Political Science, year: 2024, volume: neuveden, edition: neuveden, DOI
Frontiers in Political Science, year: 2024, volume: 6, edition: June, DOI
East European Politics, year: 2024, volume: 40, edition: 1, DOI
Regional & Federal Studies, year: 2024, DOI
Sociologický časopis, year: 2024, volume: 60, edition: 1, DOI
Journal of Contemporary European Studies, year: 2024, volume: 32, edition: 4, DOI
British Journal of Politics and International Relations, year: 2024, volume: 26, edition: 4, DOI
Energy Research & Social Science, year: 2024, volume: 112, edition: June, DOI
Journal of European Public Policy, year: 2024, DOI
Evropský mezičas deals with a number of questions which the European Union faces nowadays. The consequences of repeated EU enlargement, the rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty by the citizens, growing scepticism about the purpose and need of further integration, economic and financial difficulties, new external threats and increasing problems related to integration of socially, religiously or otherwise defined groups...
Firstly, Lidská práva v Evropské unii aims to theoretically describe whether there is a gradual penetration of the influence of transnational levels of government into the traditional sphere of the interests of nation states – modification and implementation of human rights issue – and how does it happen. How can the transnational authority fit into the decision-making monopol of a state on dealing with subjects in jurisdiction? ...
“Lidská práva v mezinárodní politice” (Human Rights in International Politics), published by Pavel Dufek (Department of Political Science FSS), Hubert Smekal (Department of International Relations and European Studies FSS) et al., to which also Ivo Pospíšil and Katarína Šipulová contributed, was published by Wolters Kluwer publishing company. ...
The book, written by a group of authors affiliated to the Dept. of IR and European Studies of Masaryk University in Brno, is the very first publication of the Czech origin that presents an extensive and comprehensive explanation of underlying principles of IR as a discipline. Its nine chapters summarize the most important concepts and issues which are fundamental for the operation of the international system and its scientific exploration, and present their analysis...
The present European studies research is more focused on the procedural aspect of the EU foreign policy than it had been in the past. It is not merely about the general interpretation of events and searching for trends, but also about deeper understanding of the present in terms of the process. Putting emphasis on new not so much explored topics goes hand in hand with the developing research of European politics...
An influential Czech political scientist and rector emeritus of Masaryk University reacts with his collection of original essays on the crisis of Europe and weakening of the West and the challenge our European society faces. He also clearly describes the problems of our foreign policy caused by the current government with its internal conflicts and conceptual insufficiency...
The aim of this collection of works is to carry out at least a partial evaluation and a framework comparison between the national politics and the relation between the majority and the minority in Central and Eastern Europe after ten years of changes the region has undergone. The states included in the collection are divided into three categories based on various determinants (historical, political and social) as well as various approaches to the national politics.
The book is concerned with the role that national parliaments of EU Member states have had as a collective actor in the EU political system. The publication explains the historical development of this actorness and analyses its current form. In this regard, this monograph evaluates the use of instruments that have been provided to the national parliaments by the Lisbon Treaty...
Two decades have passed since the transition to democracy began in Central and Eastern Europe. Today, West and East-Central European countries share a common political space - the European Union. This has created a fascinating opportunity for analysis of the similarities and differences between these countries. In this book, Vít Hloušek and Lubomír Kopecek critically apply the party families approach to political parties
In last two decades, most countries of Central and Eastern Europe have witnessed an ongoing development of democratic governance, and have thereby acquired a status of stable democracies. They no more face problems connected with post-communist transition and the challenges they have to deal with arise rather from present political situation. Current economic crisis challenges the traditional position of various political actors...
The publication focuses on the analysis of the nuclear weapons programme development and their production in the states, which are not among the original nuclear powers of the Cold War. It is characteristic for these state that they were not accepted as the official members of the „nuclear club“ and their nuclear programs were viewed with considerable concern by the international community in the 1990s...
The study deals with the principal tensions in the concept of minority rights that oscillates between the universalism of individual human rights and particularism of individual affiliation to the certain social minority group. This tension is being illustrated on the philosophical sources of minority protection (the cobnroversy between liberalism and communitarism)...