Kamil Klosek

Affiliate Researcher


Kamil Klosek is a postdoctoral researcher at Peace Research Center Prague and a lecturer at the Department of Security Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University


RESEARCH FOCUS

In his research, Kamil Klosek currently focuses on how financial flows and corporate activities influence civil war dynamics. In a further project, he analyzes causes of military interventions in civil wars with a focus on foreign direct investments and arms trade. Lastly, Kamil is part of the Frozen Conflict research team and responsible for the development and maintenance of the Frozen Conflict Dataset.

In his dissertation, Kamil was devoted to analyze driving factors of military interventions in civil wars from a political-economic perspective. Prior projects encompassed political-economic interactions of rebel groups during civil wars, the role of extractive industries on civil war onset and incidence and the use of states as proxies in military interventions.


selected publications

KLOSEK K. C., SOULEIMANOV E. A. (2022). One or Many? Disentangling the Puzzle of Pro-Government Militia Deployment. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.

DUFFY, F., KLOSEK, K. C., NARDIN, L. G. and WAGNER, G. (2020). Rebel Group Protection Rackets: Simulating the Effects of Economic Support on Civil War Violence, In: Deutschmann, E. Lorenz, J., Nardin L.G., Natalini, D. Wilhelm, A.F.X., (eds.), Computational Conflict Research, Springer

KLOSEK, Kamil. (2019). Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars: The Use of States as Proxies in Military Interventions. Czech Journal of International Relations, 54(4), 5–26.


BACKGROUND

Kamil Klosek studied Political Science at the University of Mannheim including a brief period at the University of Malta for his Bachelor. He then proceeded to receive a double degree in International Security Studies and International Administration and Conflict Studies from Charles University and University of Konstanz. In 2019, Kamil received his Ph.D. from Charles University. During his time as Ph.D. candidate, he was visiting researcher at the University of Coimbra (Portugal).



Contact

Email address: kamil.klosek@cuni.fsv.cz