D.CENT Karl Deutsch Centre for International Political and Social Research

D.CENT Karl Deutsch Centre for International Political and Social Research at Institut politologických studií FSV UK cordially invites you to a public lecture 'Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win' delivered by Prof. Peter Krause (Boston College, MIT). The lecture will be held on Nov. 8 at 9.30 a.m. at the Jinonice campus of Charles University (J2080).

Continental theory meets the ethnopolitical conflict and the Caucasus in a new academic article D.CENT's former coordinator Ondrej Ditrych. It features a reinterpretation of 'frozen conflicts' as binding together and strategically orienting a variety of components from human and nonhuman estates, and using this perspective to reexamine the conflict in ; and it is retrievable in full at https://rdcu.be/3Dc4.

Georgia’s frosts: ethnopolitical conflict as assemblage

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Novinky - Ústav mezinárodních vztahů The Institute of International Relations Prague (IIR) has been the leading Czech academic institution in the field of international studies since 1957. An active member of international research networks, the IIR engages in state-of-the-art academic research in the fields of International Relations,...

A new issue (1/2017) of New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of CEE Politics and IR has just been published, featuring a number of critical interventions as well as the first translation into English of 'Absolute Gravedigger' by Vitezslav Nezval, one of the leading Czech poets of the 20th century.

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New Perspectives 01/2017 is Online and Ready to Read!
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1. Editorial: Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light - Benjamin Tallis
2. Twilight of the Proletariat: Reading Critical Balkanology as Liberal Ideology - Rade Zinaić
3. Helsinki Syndrome: The Parachronistic Renaissance of Finlandization in International Politics - Tapio Juntunen
4. and the World: 2017 IMEMO Forecast - IMEMO, Russian Academy of Sciences
5. Forum - On New Travels in Space-Time: Theoretical Rediscoveries after the Crisis in (Comparative) Capitalism(s)
Richard Westra, Ian Bruff, Matthias Ebenau & Daniel Šitera
6. Cultural Cut: 'The Absolute Gravedigger' - Vítězslav Nezval, first translation into English by Stephan Delbos & Tereza Novicka

Published by the Institute of International Relations Prague / Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

Ondrej Ditrych's article "Bracing for Cold Peace: U.S.-Russia Relations after Ukraine" published in the International Spectator was included in a new Routledge collection of research on Russia since USSR's collapse (free downloads for couple months): http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/pgas/soviet-union-collapse-25-years-on-post-soviet/.

Check out the recently founded Global Arena Research Initiative, which includes researchers at many excellent research institutions in the Czech Republic and abroad, with the participation also of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University and the Deutsch Security Square.

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The Centre's Ondrej Ditrych was a guest today at Český rozhlas Plus' prime interview on the recent wave of terrorist violence in Europe. While tragic, he argued, these attacks must be seen against broader global context (74% of all terrorist victims are Muslims living in just five countries, all outside Europe, according to the ) and considered against Europe's historical experience with terrorism (http://www.rozhlas.cz/plus/interviewplus/_zprava/utoky-v-evrope-je-duvod-k-panice-evropa-neni-epicentrem-nasili-odpovida-politolog-ditrych--1636057).

The Square's Ondrej Ditrych argues in a new article for International Politics that the discipline of International Relations will be better off without Hobbes. He criticises the instrumentalisation of intellectual history in international relations (IR) that clouds issues of contemporary politics rather than illuminating them. He proposes that international relations were of no particular interest to Hobbes, and challenges the view of the 'monster of Malmesbury' as the author for the field's foundational difference between domestic politics and the 'outside' of international relations. An he concludes that the field must cure itself of its 'Hobsession' and forget Hobbes to open space for rethinking international politics.

International Politics - Abstract of article: Forget Hobbes International Politics defines itself as critical in character, truly international in scope, and totally engaged with the central issues facing the world today. Taking as its point of departure the simple but essential notion that no one approach has all the answers, it aims to provide a global for…

In a pioneering conversation in a new series of Deutsch Security Square occasional exchanges on topical security issues of the day, Nikola Schmidt and Bohumil Dobos discuss the future of European astropolitics. In the course of the conversation, Schmidt challenges Dobos’ case for desirability of ‘colonising’ the Moon to prevent access denial of space exploration by potentially hostile actors by pointing to several political, legal and technical issues that problematise this position. This leads to dialectical development of Dobos’ argument and situating it in a broader context of EU’s strategy. Have a read!

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The terrorist attacks committed in Paris sent shockwaves throughout Europe and the world. In the Square's new brief, Katarina Svitkova proposes what can be done by European cities and their inhabitants to counter this form of terrorist threat. Katarina argues that a part of the strategy to reduce the risks associated with the political violence Europe now faces should be adopting resilience thinking in governing urban security, designing specific contingency plans for cities, maintaining psychological resilience for immediate response, pursuing resilience by design in urban planning, and supporting long-term and city-specific public awareness.

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The Square's Katarina Svitkova gave a talk about securing cities, surveillance, militarization and human security at the International Seminar of Global Sociology at Valladolid (Spain) last week. Look forward to Katarina's upcoming brief on urban security and designing resilient cities against the background of the latest tragic events in Paris.

Next year will mark six decades of the United Nations' engagement in international peacekeeping operations, the future of which was debated in New York this September. In the Square's new brief, Dagmar Rychnovska with Jan Daniel argue that UN peacekeeping operations do have a role in helping to mitigate and stabilize armed conflicts but should not be seen as a universal solution to political and military crises. To be effective, partnerships with regional organizations must be further developed together with the engagement of local communities on the principles of equality and transparency. The peacekeepers, they conclude, must also be ready to familiarize themselves with the established and functioning practices of the local communities. Check more D.SQ recent security briefs at http://deutschsquare.fsv.cuni.cz/DSS-33.html.

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