Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

2018 – Future of Europe
The Czech Council on Foreign Relations in cooperation with the Institute of International Relations Prague and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung is pleased to announce an international art contest on the topic of “2018 – The Future of Europe.” Students of colleges and universities focussing on art can express their opinion on this issue via a poster design. The students can, in a creative way, transfer their vision to a poster of 100 x 70 centimetres. This required format is the same for all the participants. The resulting works of art will be seen as impulses and sources of inspiration for starting a public debate connected to the subject of the contest.

IIR library opening hours prolonged!
Opening hours of the IIR library have been prolonged recently. Now you can visit the library until 7pm on Wednesdays. In addition, we would like to ask you to fill in our questionnaire, which you can find below, that will serve as grounds for further adjustments of the library's opening hours. We very much appreaciate your interest. 

Brand-new issue of New Perspectives (3/2017) is now available!
We are delighted to present issue 03/2017 of New Perspectives, a peer-reviewed journal published three times a year in English, which primarily focus on interdisciplinary research of Central and East European politics.

Think Visegrad Fellowship – Call for proposals 2018
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 March 20, 2018.

The Decline of the Big Five
Is the supremacy of the Big Five, inherited from the mid-20th century, on the brink of its decline? Have the Big Five started to lose informal privileges which have been bestowed upon them over the past 70 years? Will that be followed by the reduction in, or even total abolition of, formal privileges? While answering all these questions in the affirmative would certainly be too audacious, there are signs indicating that the privileged position of the Big Five is no longer accepted without reserves. Veronika Bílková analyzes this current trend in her reflection.

Journals of the Institute of International Relations are freely available to the public from now on
The Institute of International Relations is a public research institute which aims to support research in the area of international relations and to convey its results to the broadest possible audience, which would consist of both professionals in the IR field and the nonprofessional public. We not only serve the academic community and professionals, but we also strive to contribute to improving the level of education of the Czech society and its level of knowledge about international relations as well. We also believe that the society has the right to open access to the results of research funded by their taxes, and particularly, we would like to make the results of our research accessible to the broadest possible group of users and readers, whether they be researchers, diplomats, professionals or members of the broader public.

The controversial question of Jerusalem from the point of view of international law
What is the basis for the concept of recognition in international law and does an act of recognizing a capital city even exist? Read our newest reflection by Veronika Bílková and learn about the way Israel claims Jerusalem, which is by the majority of the international community considered to be the capital of both states, i.e. the state of Israel and the future state of Palestine. The author also presents and critically examines the arguments of the Trump administration for relocating the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

The American President Donald Trump and “The Worst” Deal
International law reflection of Miroslav Tůma, analyzing the Iran nuclear deal 

The Czech Republic: Receiving the First Relevant Chinese Investments
New report prepared by the European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC) is out with a chapter from our senior researcher and coordinator of the Centre for EU-Asia Relations, Rudolf Fürst. Institute of International Relations Prague is proud to be a contributor to ETNC´s joint publications.

Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 9
Our Associate Researcher Michal Cenker has produced a chapter for the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 9, published by Brill.