Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

New policy paper: Turmoil in Egypt
Egypt is in turmoil. Who is reponsible for the current state of affairs? What role have the Arab states of the Persian Gulf played in the unfolding developments of the Arab Spring, especially those in Egypt? Maté Szalai's new policy paper tries to answer these questions.

China’s Comeback in Former Eastern Europe
Rudolf Fürst and Filip Tesař are editors of a new book "China’s Comeback in Former Eastern Europe: No Longer Comrades, Not Yet Strategic Partners".

The Ideational Clinch of the Roman Catholic Church and the EU.
New article by Petr Kratochvíl and Tomáš Doležal entitled “The Ideational Clinch of the Roman Catholic Church and the EU. The Europeanization of the Catholic clergy’s discourse?” explores the so far largely ignored question of the political relations between the European Union and the Roman Catholic Church.

The 2014 EP Election Campaign in the Member States: National Debates, European Elections
The new TEPSA report by Mirte van den Berge, which is based on contributions from various member states, focuses on the character of the electoral campaign before the elections to the European Parliament.

Karabakh’s Twenty Years Crisis: The EU Should Do More. New policy paper by Ondřej Ditrych.
Twenty years have passed since an armistice in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict was concluded. The EU, while designing an ambitious agenda to create a ring of peaceful and prosperous states in its neighbourhood, has so far eschewed more direct engagement. This policy paper argues that it should eschew it no longer, and outlines how it can do so without excessive commitmenton its part.

New publication: Tracing the Discourses of Terrorism
"Tracing the Discourses of Terrorism. Identity, Genealogy and State" is a new publication by Ondřej Ditrych.

Recruitment of Research Fellows
Announcement for the recruitment of Research Fellows in the field of international security.

JDI 2014
JDI Youth Dialogue Conference 2014. This year with Petr Drulák, the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vít Beneš, Researcher from our Institute.

Perspectives Review: Europeanization via Discursive Practice – Articulation of EU Norms in the Domestic Policy Debate on Territorial Reforms in the Czech Republic and Slovakia (by Senka Neuman Stanivuković)
Original article by: Senka Neuman Stanivuković, Ph.D. candidate in Rijksuniversiteit in Groningen Review by: Jana Kotasová, PR assistant at IIR

Perspectives Review: Turn the Other Greek. How the Eurozone Crisis Changes the Image of Greeks and What Visual Representations of Greeks Tell Us about European Identity (by Daniela Chalániová)
Original article by: Daniela Chalániová, PhD student in the study programme International Relations and European Studies at Metropolitan University Prague/the Institute of International Relations in Prague; lecturer at the Anglo-American University. Review by: Anja Grabovac, PR assistant at IIR