Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

Western Balkans and the EU Enlargement Process
Let us cordially invite you to public panel discussion held tomorrow "Western Balkans and the EU Enlargement Process: Main Challenges, Achievements and Expectations" organized by Europeum Institute for European Policy in cooperation with DG NEAR and Particip GmbH with Michal Šimečka as one of the speakers. The discussion will strive to generate debate about the deeper ramifications of EU enlargement in relation to contemporary and future challenges, while providing a good opportunity to analyse and discuss the achievements and perspectives on the Western Balkans transition towards EU membership.

European Identity and Citizenship
We are proud to present new publication by our Associate Research Fellow Sanja Ivic: European Identity and Citizenship Between Modernity and Postmodernity. This book, published by the prestigious Routledge publishing house, uses a theoretical and empirical approach to explore the philosophies of European citizenship and European identity. The author applies a focused analytical framework to argue that European identity and citizenship should be perceived as postmodern categories which are multi-layered, dynamic and fluid.

New video "The Politics of Intimacy"
The Institute of International Relations Prague in cooperation with the New Perspectives Journal was proud to host  Senior Researcher Fellow from the University of Vienna Dr. Anna Durnová. 

“Vision for Europe” Award
Vision for Europe is the annually bestowed award for distinguished personalities who have, in the course of their lives, devoted substantial energies to the establishment and development of European ideals such as strengthening peaceful cooperation among European nations, developing a fair institutional arrangement of European integration, making European integration more accessible to European publics, and overcoming prejudices and misconceptions related to the integration process.

New International Law Reflections
We would like to introduce to you the new series of outputs of the Centre for International Law of the Institute of International Relations Prague: The International Law Reflections. These reflections would expound the pressing actual international law issues to the general public in the Czech Republic. The first two deal with the fate of Nadiya Savchenko and the system of the levels of the terrorist threat to the Czech Republic.

Towards an EU global strategy – Consulting the experts
We present to you a special analysis of the EU Global Strategy by the IIR Director Petr Kratochvíl and other selected experts. Petr Kratochvíl was among the very few top EU experts selected to provide an opinion on the new EU Global Strategy, and his commentary was published on the website of the European Commission devoted to this topic. Now the resulting contributions of all the experts are collectively reproduced in one volume and offer a rich selection of independent views intended to nurture the drafting of the strategy. 

New Issue of the New Perspectives