People

Department head

Petr Kaniok

department head

  • EU politics coordination
  • Role of the national parliaments in the EU
  • EU institutions legitimacy

Vratislav Havlík

department vice-head

  • Europeanisation of substate actors
  • party Euroscepticism
  • Europeanisation of political systems

Peter Spáč

department vice-head

  • transparency in politics
  • local politics and elections
  • Slovak politics

Professors

  • non-democratic regimes
  • modern Russian politics
  • contemporary Central and Eastern European history
  • EU politics coordination
  • Role of the national parliaments in the EU
  • EU institutions legitimacy
  • political parties
  • Czech and Slovak politics after 1989
  • comparative politics
  • international security
  • civil-military relations
  • history of world politics

Associate professors

  • experimental PS
  • electoral systems, voting
  • political attitudes, political behavior
  • Europeanisation of substate actors
  • party Euroscepticism
  • Europeanisation of political systems
  • environmental security
  • global environmental politics
  • civil society and social movements
  • political networks
  • climate scepticism
  • advocacy coalitions
  • energy transition
  • energy markets
  • political economy of energy
  • elections and electoral behaviour
  • political elites
  • territorial politics
  • political parties
  • civil service politicization
  • roles and functions of ministerial adviser
  • transparency in politics
  • local politics and elections
  • Slovak politics
  • Balkan politics and security
  • Russia and the hybrid warfare
  • far right and radicalism

Assistant professors

  • security cooperation
  • regional security dynamics in the Caucasus
  • frozen conflicts in the post-Soviet space
  • European defence industry
  • defence cooperation
  • international sanctions
  • political communication and marketing
  • media representations of political issues
  • voting behavior
  • disinformation
  • political marketing
  • political communication in times of pandemic
  • conditions of conflict escalation
  • civil wars
  • quantitative methods
  • energy security
  • geopolitics
  • energy policy of key global actors
  • (social) cybersecurity
  • governance and role of the state in cyberspace
  • propaganda and disinformation
  • participatory democracy in the EU
  • European Parliament
  • migration policy and discourse
  • radicalization and political extremism
  • disinformation, psyops and malign external interference
  • resilience of the state and society against hybrid threats
  • local politics and populism
  • electoral behaviour and polarisation
  • electoral geography

Junior researchers

  • Cognitive Warfare and PSYOP
  • Disinformation and hybrid threats
  • Non-state armed actors in the Middle East
  • Political discourse
  • Brexit
  • United Kingdom - European Union relations
  • EU crisis discourse and crisification
  • political discourse and legitimization
  • European identity and citizens’ identification with the EU
  • international regionalism
  • political parties in International Relations
  • international relations in Central Europe

Administration

  • economic and personnel administration
  • project support
  • technical editorial staff of the Czech Journal of Political Science

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