Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

Assoc. Prof. Emil Aslan is now the research director at the IIR
Associate Professor Emil Aslan, Ph.D. has become the new research director at the IIR.

Analysis of the Centre for International Law about US Withdrawal from the JCPoA.
Miroslav Tůma from the Center for International Law writes in his new Policy Brief about the US withdrawal from JCPOA and the international consequences of such actions.

What Role for the Czech Republic in EU Military Missions?
Policy paper by Ondřej Ditrych seeks to capture how recent strategic trends and Russia’s assertive revisionism in the Eastern approaches – a manifestation of a more general transition of the international system to a less multilateral and more multipolar one, combined with uncertainty about the future role of the U.S. in European security in particular play out in the case of the Czech Republic’s future role in EU military operations in the near- to medium term.

Prague European Summit 2018 Study: The Future EU Multiannual Financial Framework
Daniel Šitera coordinated the Prague European Summit 2018 Study - The Future EU Multiannual Financial Framework: A Comprehensive Economic Policy Vehicle to Support a Real EU Added Value. The study was presented on the 2018 Prague European Summit. 

Jakub Eberle: member of Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of German Politics
Jakub Eberle, IIR Researcher, was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Study of German Politics (IASGP).

Desire as Geopolitics: Reading The Glass Room as Central European Fantasy
Jakub Eberle's article was published by the prestigious academic journal International Political Sociology. It focuses on the affective dimension of the tension between the Central European aspiration for a Western identity and the failure to achieve it.

Moscow’s Gold: Russian Corruption in the UK
Mark Galeotti is quoted regarding Russian corruption in the UK in report from the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs.

Dr. Ditrych has been appointed as the new director of the IIR
Dr. Ondřej Ditrych has been appointed as the new director of the Institute of International Relations, Prague, a leading public research institution founded in 1957.

ECOSOC Preparatory Meeting March 26 - 27, Prague
The Institute of International Relations is outstandingly pleased to have co-hosted the ECOSOC Preparatory Meeting which took place in Prague on 26th March 2018. It forms part of the special initiative of the Czech ECOSOC presidency on sustainable, resilient and inclusive societies through participation of all, an initiative which will contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This meeting provided the participants with a platform to share best practices on participation and concrete examples of policy action, as well as to discuss the impact of the involvement of civil society and other non-state actors in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

New exhibition at IIR
Freedom of speech and its limits, security and extremism, active citizenship, political responsibility, tolerance and social issues. Is Arab society facing the similar challenges like the Czech one? And is their perception so different from ours?