Strengthening Democratic Resilience Through Digital Twins (TWIN4DEM)
TWIN4DEM brings together scholars of the social sciences and humanities, computational social sciences (CSS) and democracy stakeholders to jointly address one of the most pressing contemporary issues: what causes democracies…
Microfoundations of Collective Defence (MICROCODE)
Does the success of military alliances ultimately hang on the whims of public opinion? The historical record shows that allied states often do not honour their collective defence commitments, but…
Forging Peace in the Shadows: Czechoslovak Pugwash and Pugwash in Czechoslovakia
This research proposal explores the history of the Czechoslovak Pugwash committee and Pugwash in Czechoslovakia, highlighting the pivotal role of both in promoting science diplomacy in the Soviet bloc. It…
Negotiating ‘Serbhood’: Layers of memories among the Serbs in the post-Yugoslav and postwar space
This project examines the interaction between individual memories of interethnic violence in the Yugoslav Wars and the politics of memory channeled through grand ethnonationalist narratives among people of Serbian ethno-national…
Beyond Borders: Roles of Local Government in the Long-term Integration of UkrainianRefugees. Insights from Poland and the Czech Republic
The primary scientific objective of the project is to carry out an in-depth analysis of the rolesplayed by municipalities in Poland and the Czech Republic in the long-term integration of…
A Subaltern That Sings: From Sound Resistance to Musical Diplomacy in Wartime Ukraine
The project brings together two academic discipline: cultural diplomacy and postcolonial studies – to reveal how Ukrainian musicians and activists use acoustic means to raise their visibility on a global level…
Peace Research Center Prague II.
The transformation of the international order represents the most profound challenge to world politics in decades, undermining the prospects of peace and collaboration on the global scale and in Europe…
Transforming and Defending Multilateralism: European Union Support for more Robust, Effective and Democratic Global Governance (ENSURED)
The European Union (EU) and its members have long been key supporters of global governance. Yet the rules-based international order and multilateralism are widely believed to be in crisis. The…
An Expert Network for Global Strategic Trends Analysis
STRAT:FORS will link social scientific expertise with application potential of leading academic institutions in Czechia for the purpose of strategic analysis of external trends, risks and opportunities. The objective will…
Specialisation in EU small states’ foreign and security policy
The project aims at investigating the process, politics, and consequences of EU small states’ specialisation in foreign and security policy. Employing a comparative method and embedded in the institutionalist theory,…