Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

O udržateľnosti trvalo udržateľného rozvoja
Tomáš Profant na 51. konferenci vodohospodářů v půmyslu, která se konala 11. - 13. 11. 2019, přednášel o (ne)udržitelnosti trvale udržitelného rozvoje.

The European Union in Central Asia: Balancing Competing Actors and Opportunities for the V4 Countries
Alica Kizeková, PhD., researcher at the IIR, published a policy paper within the framework of a platform Think Visegrad, which deals with the strategy of European Union in Central Asia and the opportunities for the states of Visegrád Group.

In-between domestic terrorism, al-Qaeda, and ISIS...
Elena Zhirukhina in her chapter "In-between domestic terrorism, al-Qaeda, and ISIS, or how Russia sees prospects of security cooperation with the EU" explores that how security cooperation is portrayed publicly indicates the message one actor wants its counterpart to receive. Public discourse following terrorist attacks, inter alia, constitutes a great resource for promoting a state’s agenda utilizing an emerged international attention.

„Terapeuti“ konfliktů přijíždějí do Prahy
Dnešní svět i společnosti uvnitř států rozdělují čím dál hlubší příkopy. Namísto dialogu a komunikace jsme svědky konfrontačního přístupu a nárůstu izolacionismu. Jeho nejflagrantnějším příkladem je čím dál uzavřenější Amerika Donalda Trumpa. V Británii rozdělil společnost brexit, znesvářil celé rodiny, a utržená rána se celkově ukazuje být hlubší, než se původně zdálo. Nemusíme však chodit pro příklad tak daleko: v samotném Česku pomalu, ale jistě bodují politická uskupení, podporující ideologii uzavírání Česka proti vnějšímu světu a vystoupení z větších systémů jako je EU a NATO. Lidé spolu přestávají umět mluvit - třeba proto, že každý volil jiného prezidentského kandidáta.  Problémů je mnoho, přesto hlavní lék na řešení a prevenci konfliktů zůstává jen jeden: komunikace. Mezi národy, mezi náboženstvími, prostě mezi lidmi.  

Call for Application: EU NPDC Internship at the IIR
The Institute of International Relations Prague (IIR) has been the leading academic institution for the study of international relations in the Czech Republic since 1957. An active member of international research networks, the Institute’s mission is to conduct excellent academic research in the field of international relations and other related disciplines.

An International Politics of 'Czech' Architecture
Why look to international politics if you want to understand architecture? Taking examples from the late Habsburg era to the present.

Foreign Fighters from Central Asia: Between Renunciation and Repatriation
Central Asia represents the third biggest source of foreign fighters to Iraq and Syria. Facing the need to deal with returnees - foreign fighters and their associates, the Central Asian states transitioned from taking a peremptory position of no return and citizenship deprivation for those who travelled to the war zones to providing an active assistance in bringing them back, domestically prosecuting or rehabilitating them. This commentary outlines adopted polices and addressing dilemma of hard and soft approaches to this matter.

"30 Years Since the Fall of the Iron Curtain" event in Ljubljana
Our colleague Alica Kizekova represented the Institute at the conference "30 Years Since the Fall of the Iron Curtain" in Ljubljana on 17 October 2019.  The event was organised by the Embassy of the Czech Republic and the Embassy of the Slovak Republic and took place in the House of the European Union in the Slovene capital. The conference focused on the integration of the Central European countries into the Euro-Atlantic structures, geopolitical change of the Central European region in the past 30 years and the transition of the states and societies towards democracy and market economy. 

A new book on Kosovo features a chapter by IIR´s Senior Researcher Tomas Dopita
We are proud to announce that our colleague Tomáš Dopita is the author of the chapter analysing the Czech attitudes towards Kosovo in the new essential read „The Politics of Recognition and Engagement: EU Member State Relations with Kosovo“.

Veronika Bílková Co-authored the Opinion on the Istanbul Convention
On 11 October 2019, the European Commission for Democracy Through Law of the Council of Europe, conventionally known as the Venice Commission, adopted the Opinion on the Constitutional Implications of the Ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention).