doc. PhDr. Jan Hornát, Ph.D.

Jan Hornat is the Head of the Department of North American Studies at Charles University and a researcher within the Peace Research Center Prague. He focuses on Transatlantic relations, US foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific, and the role of status in international affairs. In 2022-2023 he was a Fulbright-Masaryk scholar at the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University and in 2024 a "Europe and America Fellow" at the University of Regensburg. He has published monographs with Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan and his work has appeared in Survival, Journal of International Relations and Development, International Relations, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Asian Affairs, International Politics and others. Prior to joining the academia, he was a head of department at the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic.