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.
Complete records of publication activities of the members of Department of the International Relations and European Studies FSS MU are available here in Masaryk University Information System.
Some of the most significant publications of the Department members are mentioned below.
This book brings unique empirical findings on how often, in what way and with what consequences Czech apex judges work with the ECtHR’s case law. It moves beyond the narrow concept of compliance and develops a new three-level methodology for analysing the role played by domestic courts in the implementation of ECtHR case law.
This book offers a thorough comparative analysis of such ‘business-firm’ and sometimes oddly memberless parties in Western and East-Central Europe, assessing the considerable corpus of literature on the growing band of political entrepreneurs. The authors offer a unique typology based on two characteristics: whether the party receives private financial, media or other investment; and the nature of its membership and territorial structure.
The book titled „Russian Oil Enterprises in Europe: Investments and Regional Influence“ deals with activities of Russian oil companies in southeastern Europe and their role in the Russian foreign policy. The book thus addresses a widely debated issue of the tie between Russian foreign policy and energy sector.
This book provides an analysis of the EP elections 2019 with a focus on East-Central European countries. The authors offer conceptual insights into Euroscepticism and discuss traditionally familiar concepts in a new light.
In the last decade, Russia and the West have made a number of mutual accusations of politicization of energy supplies. These accusations came on the heels of a general deterioration of mutual relations between these two blocs...
Neither the Czech Republic nor Slovakia has any significant domestic resources of crude oil, leaving both countries at the mercy of foreign sources for the overwhelming majority of their oil. Since 1962, the majority of crude oil has been transported to the countries via the Druzhba Pipeline, the longest pipeline on Earth...
Since the German unification in 1990 and essential changes in the international security environment, researchers have been engaged in an important debate about the new role of Germany in the current world. Academic literature offers many theoretical approaches that enable to conceptualize this new role of Germany...
What is the nature of energy security of the energy hungry newcomers China and India? How is their rapid growth perceived by Japan – former leading Asian consumer? What are the main features of the energy policy of Russia – one of the biggest energy producers and exporters?...
In response to the accident in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Merkel's coalition government decided on the immediate closure of 8 out of17 German nuclear power plants, while planning to decommission the remaining ones until 2022. This step is a part of long-term strategy of Germany...
The book analyses activities of Russian state-owned energy companies in the region of the Central and Eastern Europe and offers a complex analysis of their behavioural patterns with regard to the operational environment. The main incentives for making this study were traditionally strong ties between the Russian Federation and the region as well as currently worsening relations between Russia and the West
The publication attempts to interpret the position of European economy in international economic and political relations. The historical perspective aims to reflect the complicated process of formation of Europe’s unique position from the Middle Ages to Industrial Revolution, the dramatic decline of its dominant position in the first half of 20th century and the current effort to find an appropriate position in the contemporary world.
The second edition of the best-selling and the most complex publication about the European Union in the Czech Republic, while its first edition is not missing in any of the research libraries. The authors – renowed researchers in the field of European policy-making – introduce the reader the history of the European integration process, development, current form and functions of the particular European institutions
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)...
The development of the relations between Superpowers in the 80s of the 20th century belongs to the most significant phenomena of the last decade of the Cold War. Policy of the Reagan administration had an uncompromising impact on their transformation and on the change of Soviet attitudes and policies. US foreign policy towards the Soviet Union is the main topic of the publication...
The strategy of containment represents probably the most characteristic and the most well-known element in the US foreign policy during the Cold War era. Its long-term presence in the US foreign policy, quite a long-lasting consensus between the two major party camps – Republicans and Democrats – in case of its implementation in the first stage of the Cold War, thus from its beginning to the .... of the so called „Cold War Consensus“...
This book focuses on the Nord Stream, South Stream and Nabucco gas pipelines, the system of interconnectors within the North-South Gas Corridor and the two LNG terminals in Poland and Croatia. The aim of the study is to outline possible impact of these projects on the gas flows in Central Europe. The book consists of SWOT analyses of the Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak gas sectors
This book examines international trade and the trade policies of nation states using an interdisciplinary approach – it uses the findings of economic history and recognizes the role played by state interests and by political power. The primary goal of this text is to present an alternative explanation of the relationship between these phenomena, since other analyses of the international trade system omit many issues...
The book contributes to the debate on Europeanisation of the Czech politics which has been taking part for more than a decade. The goal of authors was not to analyse Europeanisation in general but, using the particular example of the strategy Europe 2020, to show whether and how the Czech political actors cope with challenges and commitments of the strategy and analysing this to demonstrate what are the deficits and flaws in the Czech approach to European integration...