Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

A Security Threat or an Economic Consequence?
An article by Jan Kovář was published in International Communication Gazette. In the article, the author tests the securitisation of the immigration thesis in the coverage of the refugee crisis in Czech and Slovak media through an analysis of the relative importance of immigration-related frames, and shows that the security-threat frame is the dominant frame in the media, while economic framing is significantly less frequent, and that the security-threat frame is more prominent in tabloids.

Think Visegrad Fellowship – Call for proposals 2019
Expert fellows from non-Visegrad countries with at least five years’ experience in their field of research are eligible. Preference will be given to applicants who have already made a significant contribution in their field. Application dossiers consisting of the application form, structured CV (including the list of publications) and a motivation letter (maximum 300 words) are to be submitted to thinktank@sfpa.sk by April 14, 2019.

New Visiting Researcher: Christofer Berglund
In March (4th-22nd), the IIR will host Christofer Berglund, Assistant Professor at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, where he is affiliated with the Platform for Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCARR).

Religion as a Weapon: Invoking Religion in Secularized Societies
New article by professor Petr Kratochvíl in The Review of Faith & International Affairs. The author comes up with the controversial claim that the high levels of secularization can, under certain conditions, make religious arguments stronger, and not weaker as generally assumed. In three case studies, the article shows how religious conservatives forge alliances with secular xenophobic populists, in which culturally defined Christianity becomes the main vehicle for the building of communities of exclusion.

Russian Political War: moving beyond the hybrid
New book by Mark Galeotti cuts through the misunderstandings about Russia’s geopolitical challenge to the West, presenting this not as ‘hybrid war’ but ‘political war.’

Finding a Visegrad added value in the new Cohesion Policy, 2021-27
Daniel Šitera - vedoucí Centra globální politické ekonomie se ve svém policy briefu zabývá rozpočtem EU pro období 2021-2027 a možnými důsledky pro kohezní politiku.

From Prague Spring to 2019: Years of Change in Europe
Jakub Eberle participated at an event organised by the Heinrich Boell Foundation Brussels. He spoke at a panel that aimed to take stock of the situation in the Visegrad countries 30 years after 1989 and just before the European elections.

The System of Operation of International Criminal Justice Fora, in Particular of the International Criminal Court
Tamás Lattmann in his chapter titled "The System of Operation of International Criminal Justice Fora, in Particular of the International Criminal Court – will the Future be Governed by Politics, Orders or Law?" provides an overview of the legal-historical-political foundations and developments leading to the creation of the International Criminal Court in its current form, and of its operation of the first one and a half decade.

Energy infrastructure as a target of terrorist attacks from the IS
Attacks on energy sectors and transport infrastructure are an important part of the strategy of Islamist militant and terrorist organizations, such as Al Qaeda and its offshoots or the Taliban. The article by Lukáš Tichý focuses on the attitude of the global Salafi-jihadist Islamist terrorist and militant group the Islamic State (IS) toward terrorism specifically targeting transport infrastructure and energy sectors, since it makes use of such terrorism as a political instrument of its strategy in the Middle East.

Souhrnná výzkumná zpráva za rok 2018 vypracovaná v rámci projektu TA ČR ÉTA TL01000432
Tato souhrnná výzkumná zpráva je výsledkem aplikovaného výzkumu Ústavu mezinárodních vztahů, v.v.i., pro Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí České republiky (MZV) v rámci projektu TA ČR ÉTA TL01000432: Migrace z oblasti Blízkého východu, subsaharské Afriky a Asie: geopolitické a bezpečnostní souvislosti, důsledky a doporučení pro ČR.