Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

Employment

2017 – present: research fellow, Institute of International Relations
2015 – present: assistant professor, Department of North American Studies, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
2014 – 2015: Head of Unit, Department of European Programmes, Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic
2013 – 2014: Project coordinator, Forum 2000 Foundation

Education

2013 – 2017: Ph.D. International area studies, Faculty of social sciences, Charles University
2013 – 2014: Robinson-Martin Security Scholars Program, Prague Security Studies Institute
2011 – 2013: PhDr. American studies summa cum laude, Faculty of social sciences, Charles University

Memberships

2018

• Transatlantic Studies Association

Languages

Czech – mother tongue
English – level C2
French – level C1
Modern Greek – level A1
Mandarin Chinese – level A1

Areas of interest

Domestic and foreign policies of the USA
Theories of democratization
American political thought
Transitions
Development support
USA-Asia-Pacific realtions
Territorial disputes – South China Sea, East China Sea, Arctic area
Geopolitics of the Indian Ocean

Publications

Books

• Hornát, Jan (2018): Transatlantic Democracy Assistance: Promoting Different Models of Democracy. London: Routledge.
• Hornát, Jan – Kindl, Lukáš (2018): Global competition or convergence? ideological and economic interactions of a rising China and the U.S. Prague: Charles University, Karolinum Press.
• Hornát, Jan – Kýrová, Lucie (eds.): Amerika na prvním místě: Historický a společenský kontext prezidenství Donalda Trumpa. Praha: Karolinum, forthcoming 2018.
• Hornát, Jan – Kindl, Lukáš (forthcoming 2017): The Rise of China: Mutual Interactions with the US. Praha: Karolinum, forthcoming 2017.
• Fiřtová, Magdalena – Hornát, Jan – Sehnálková, Jana (eds.): Prezidenství Baracka Obamy: Naplněné vize? Praha: Karolinum, 2017.

Book chapters

• (2017): Pod tlakem vnějších událostí: Obamova podpora demokracie ve třetích zemích. In: Fiřtová,Magdalena – Hornát, Jan – Sehnálková, Jana (eds.): Prezidenství Baracka Obamy: Naplněné vize? (Praha: Karolinum, 2017).
• (2014): Democracy Promotion: Competing Perspectives with GraveConsequences. In: Kozak, Krystof - Toth, Gyorgy (eds.): US as a Divided Nation: Past and Present, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt, 2014.
• (2013): Úpadek USA jako tichomořské velmoci? Současný vývoj situace v Jihočínském moři. In: Fiřtová,Magdalena – Kozak, Krystof et al.: Spojené státy v úpadku? Praha: Dokořán.

Scholarly Articles (in peer-reviewed journals and journals with impact factor)

• (2019): Transatlantic “Othering”: European External Action Identity and the Trump Administration, Studia Europejskie – Studies in European Affairs 23 (1), 2019: 27-42.
• (2016): Closing the Closing Space: Sustaining democracy promotion in European Foreign Policy. Global Affairs, 2 (3), 2016: 273-285.
• (2015): The Power Triangle in the Indian Ocean: China, India and the United States. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 3. ledna, 2015.
• (2012): Is Beijing a Responsible Stake holder? A Critical Assessment of China’s Role in the International Systém of the 21st century according to the United States. Archiv Orientální 80/3, 2012, s. 435-473.
•  (2012): Peking jako zodpovědný podílník: Americká představa role ČLR v mezinárodněpolitickém systému 21. století. Juvenilia Territorialia IV, 2012, s. 135-176.

Other Scholarly Articles

• (2019): Women in democratic transitions: The case for including female empowerment in democracy assistance, April 2019, IIR Research paper.
• (2018): Konec éry liberálního internacionalismu v USA. Mezinárodní politika, 1. 11.2018.
• (2018): Consolidating Democracy through Education: the Case of the Czech Republic. In: Wagner, Péter (ed.): Consolidating Democracy and Market. Conference Report on the Visegrad Four Countries’. Experiences in Transition. Budapest: Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade.
• (2017): Uspořádání světa podle Donalda J. Trumpa. Mezinárodní politika, 27. 1. 2017.
• (2014): Čína a Vietnam: Napětí mezi komunistickými sousedy. Mezinárodní politika(5), 2014.

Columns and Media Appearances

2020

• Tři scénáře pro svět po pandemii: Hlubší spolupráce, rivalita i „nový středověk“, ČT24.cz, 9. 5. 2020.

2019

• Spor USA a Číny o osud Ujgurů, Horizont ČT 24, 4.12.2019.
• KLDR opět ukazuje svaly. Trump nemá na Kima čas, na řadu tak přichází vojenské hrátky. Info.cz, 25. 7. 2019.
• Hlasování o rozpočtu USA. Večerní zprávy Seznam.cz, 14.2.2019.
• Trump se plácá po zádech, jak se mu s KLDR daří. Kim s ním přitom hraje 25 let starou hru. Info.cz, 6. 2. 2019.

2018

• Konec jedné americké éry. Lidové noviny, 15. 10. 2018.
• Transatlantic tensions and its implications for NATO enlargement. RFE/RL, 30. 9. 2018.
• Obraty Donalda Trumpa. Horizont ČT24, 18. 7. 2018.
• Summit USA a Ruska: změna rovnováhy? Horizont ČT24, 28. 6. 2018.
• US House Speaker Paul Ryan’s visit to Prague seen as impulse for Czech-American relations. Radio Prague, 26. 3. 2018.
• Americko-indické obavy z čínské Nové Hedvábné stezky. Mezinárodní politika, 16. 1. 2018.

Older

• Tibet, symbolism and the Czech Republic. openDemocracy, April 28, 2016.
• The Prague Café: a brief incursion into Czech presidential discourse. openDemocracy, November 11, 2015.
• US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion: From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama. Studia Territorialia 15, no. 1–2 (2015).
• The EU’s Instruments in Assisting Democracy in Ukraine. Policy Brief, EUROPEUM, March 2015.
• Challenges to Visegrad’s Democracy Assistance: Ukraine and Beyond. Policy Paper, Forum 2000, March 2015.
• Visegrad Platform for Dialogue on Democracy, Human Rights and Civil Society. Briefing Paper, Forum 2000, October 2014.
• Democratic Transitions and the Role of Visegrad Countries. Forum 2000 Policy Paper, May 2014.
• Say No to a Balance of Power in Asia. The National Interest, March 31, 2014.
• When to Promote Democracy. The National Interest, October 24, 2013.
• A Czech election with consequences. openDemocracy, October 14, 2013.
• The Relevance of Henry David Thoreau's Thought in the 21st century. POST, October 13
• Czech Republic: when a political scandal is a sign of better times. openDemocracy, July 4, 2013.
• Russian vodka and Czech crown jewels. openDemocracy, May 17, 2013.
• EU flag over Prague Castle. openDemocracy, April 25, 2013.
• Reconstructing the Czech state. openDemocracy, March 27, 2013.
• Obama's ‘Reset’ with Russia: Failure or Lost Opportunity? POST, March 15, 2013.
• Czech presidential vote: a society divided. openDemocracy, January 30, 2013.
• Czech nuclear power in the shadow of geopolitics. openDemocracy, January 9, 2013.
• What to expect from the Czech presidential election. openDemocracy, November 13, 2012.
• Chinese Democracy is no Goal. The National Interest. November 23, 2012.

Conferences and Seminars

• EU cohesion and paradigm shifts in Transatlantic relations. EU in the Time of Changes: Czech and Polish Perspectives. Czech Academy of Sciences, 6. 12. 2018.
• "Othering" the US? EU External Action Identity and the Presidency of Donald Trump. European Identity and Multispeed Europe from Polish and Czech Perspectives. Centre for Europe, University of Warsaw, 4. 10. 2018.
• India and China in Trump administration's Indo-Pacific Strategy. International Relations in Indo-Pacific Region: in Searching for New Balance of Power. University of Warsaw, 8. 5. 2018.
• Whither Democracy? Taking Stock of Democratic Governance in Central Europe. IIR Prague, 16. 5. 2018.
• Debata k filmu Poslední rok. Jeden svět, Ponrepo, 14. 3. 2018.
• India-China-US – Triangle of Powers in Indian Ocean Region. Global Aspirations of Emerging Asian Powers: Comparative Analysis of International Status of China and India. University of Warsaw Library, 24. 11. 2017.
• “Consolidating Democracy and Market” Conference. Institute for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Budapest, 8. 11. 2017.
• Transform or be transformed: US role in European integration from a Jeffersonian perspective. Presented at conference Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan: Past and Current Challenges of the Transatlantic Alliance in Prague, 26. 5. 2017.
• The Role of Democracy Assistance in EU's Foreign Policy: Reaffirming the Union's identity. Presented at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, 4-5 April, 2016. "The European Union as a Credible Global Actor" workshop.
• Challenges to Visegrad's Democracy Assistance: Ukraine and Beyond. Presented at the Center for EU Enlargement Studies, Central European University, Budapest, May 14, 2015.
• The EU's Approach to Democracy Assistance: A Sign of 'Hollow Hegemony'?. Presented at conference "Social and cultural embedding of politics: East-West-perspectives at the challenges of a sustainable democracy", Reichenau an der Rax, Austria, October 30 – November 2, 2014.
• Democratic Transitions and the Role of Visegrad Countries: The Way Forward. Presented at the Center for EU Enlargement Studies, Central European University, Budapest, May 14, 2014.
• Is the United State in decline? Presented at the American Center of the Embassy of the United States, Prague, June 6, 2013.