Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

Employment

2018–present: senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague and the head of its Centre for European Security
2016–2018: lecturer in strategic studies, Baltic Defence College, Tartu (Estonia)
2015: science section editor, SME newspaper, Bratislava
2011–2015: assistant professor, Institute of European Studies and International Relations, Bratislava

Education

2007–2011: Ph.D. in International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague
2002–2007: Mgr. in Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
2003–2006: Bc. in European Studies, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava

Languages

Slovak
English
German
French

Areas of Interest

Deterrence theory
Strategic studies
NATO  and European security
Critical geopolitics
Game theory
Complex systems

Publications

Edited Volumes

• (2014): Geopolitické omyly dvadsiateho storočia [Geopolitical Mistakes of the 20th Century]. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo Univerzity Komenského.

Peer-reviewed Articles

• (2019): Proving a negative: why deterrence does not work in the Baltics. European Security, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 431-448.
• (2019): Love your neighbor: Nazi soldiers and Femmes Fatales in Czech cinema. Social & Cultural Geography, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 242-264.
• (2018): A Model Disagreement: The Fall of the Slovak Government during the Eurozone Crisis in 2011. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 70, No. 9., pp. 1472-1495.
• (2018): Balancing against threats in interactions determined by distance and overall gains. Advances in Complex Systems, Vol. 21, No. 5.
• (2015): In Error We Trust: An Apology of Abductive Inference. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 701-720.
• (2014): Searching for the perfect footnote: Friedrich Ratzel and the others at the roots of Lebensraum. Geopolitics, 19 (1): 1-18.
• (2011): Vznik kooperácie vo väzňovej dileme [Emergence of Cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma]. Mezinárodní vztahy, 46 (1): 31-50.
• (2009): Post Scriptum on Relative and Absolute Gains. Perspectives: Review of International Affairs, 17 (1): 27-55.
• (2006): Európska zahraničná politika: porovnanie dvoch teoretických modelov [European Foreign Policy: Comparison of Two Theoretic Models]. Mezinárodní vztahy, 41 (4): 48-66.

Chapters in Books

• Halás, Matúš – Navrátil, Matej (2015): Political Science in Slovakia: A Field Divided or champ doublé? In: Krauz-Mozer, Barbara – Kulakowska, Malgorzata – Borowiec, Piotr – Ścigaj, Pawel (eds.): Political Science in Europe at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, pp. 449-476.
• (2015): A Place for Postmodern Identity in Slovakia. In: Baptista, Maria Manuel (ed.): Identity. Concepts, Theories, History and Present Realities (a European overview). Coimbra: Grácio Editor, pp. 51-67.
• (2009): Another Twenty Years´ Crisis? In: Korba, Matúš (ed.): Europe After the Caucasus Crisis. Bratislava: Centre for Security Studies, pp. 94-108.

Selected Columns and Media Appearances

• Zmení sa len málo alebo bude Čína lídrom? Tri scenáre, SME.sk, 21. 4. 2020.
• NATO nemá boj s pandemií v popisu práce. V řešení koronakrize hraje jen malou roli, říkají experti, Euractiv.cz, 21. 4. 2020.
• Shock exchange. US and Iran decide whether to start a war. RFE/RL, 8. 1. 2020.
• The Battle of Poltava for Britain. ‘Hard‘ Brexit and European security. RFE/RL, 21. 8. 2019.
• K veci: Bezpečnostná stratégia a jej význam. Slovenský Rozhlas, 10. 6. 2019.
• Russian issues of the ´Eastern Partnership´. EU and its neighbors 10 years later. RFE/RL, 7. 5. 2019.
• 70 let od založení NATO. Horizont ČT24, 4. 4. 2019.
• 20 let od vstupu ČR do NATO. Studio ČT24, 12. 3. 2019.
• K veci: Peniaze na vojenské letiská. Slovenský Rozhlas, 11. 3. 2019.
• Where are the NATO soldiers going? 20 years later: talks of a big war in Europe. RFE/RL, 7. 3. 2019.
• Členství v NATO podle analytiků zakotvilo Česko na Západě. ČTK, 22. 2. 2019.
• K veci: Povinná základná vojenská služba. Slovenský Rozhlas, 7. 1. 2019.
• Americký sebecký záujem môže Európu zobudiť. SME, 9. 11. 2018.
• Rusko se chová jako v 19. století, EU by si měla vzít příklad z Izraele. Info.cz, 26. 8. 2018.
• Manuál na vydieranie Spojených štátov. SME, 7. 9. 2017.
• Británia zopakuje mocenský úpadok Švédska. SME, 17. 3. 2017.
• Amerika, neustupuj Rusku. SME, 17. 2. 2017.

Research Projects

• (2020-22): Adapting the framework for strategic analysis to contemporary security environment. GAČR.
• (2014): Securing copyrights for the geopolitics reader, Slovenská sporiteľňa.
• (2012): Influence of social Darwinism upon German political geography, Comenius University grant for young scholars.
• (2010): Game theoretic modelling of the international relations system. GA UK project No. 73710.
• (2006): Translating crucial texts of the classical geopolitics, Konto Orange foundation.

Conferences and Seminars

• 13th ECPR General Conference. Wroclaw, 4-7 September 2019.
• NATO after the Warsaw Summit. CÉRIUM, Montréal, 18 November 2016.
• 10th ECPR General Conference. Prague, 7-10 September 2016.
• 23rd IPSA World Congress of Political Science. Montréal, 19-24 July 2014.
• 6th Russian Congress of Political Science. Moscow, 22-24 November 2012.
• RGS-IBG Annual International Conference. Edinburgh, 3-5 July 2012.
• 6th ECPR General Conference. Reykjavík, 25-27 August 2011.
• Coping with Crises in Complex Socio-Economic Systems. Zurich, 20-24 June 2011.
• European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Krakow, 7-10 June 2011.
• European Conference on Complex Systems, Lisbon, 13-17 September 2010.
• Ideas of/for Europe, Chemnitz, 6-9 May 2009.