Due to unforeseen circumstances, Prof. Newman will not be able to join us in Prague on November 24th. The event is, therefore, canceled.
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On November 24th, we will welcome professor Abraham Newman from Georgetown University to discuss the changes and challenges of the increasing use of economics as a tool in geopolitical contests among major powers.
In his latest publication, Rob Geist Pinfold critiques the supposed lessons and the underlying logic of Israel's "unilateral disengagement" from Gaza. The article titled ‘Security, Terrorism, and Territorial Withdrawal: Critically Reassessing the Lessons of Israel's “Unilateral Disengagement” from the Gaza Strip’ was published in International Studies Perspectives.
In his latest article, Vojtěch Bahenský covers the Western debate on how to approach Russia and argues, that the mismatch between strategic goals and resources explains why the war could not be prevented. Read here.
Does partisan ideology influence whether Europeans are willing to use nuclear weapons, and if so, how? Michal Onderčo, Tom W. Etienne and Michal Smetana conducted a survey in Germany and Netherlands and found, that voters of right-wing parties are more likely to approve of the use of nuclear weapons in both countries. The article was published in Foreign Policy Analysis and is available here.
New study ‘A longitudinal analysis of conspiracy beliefs and Covid-19 health responses’ was published in Psychological Medicine! Michal Onderčo was part of the research team led Jan Willem van Prooijen that worked on discovering relationships between conspiracy beliefs and health outcomes. Congratulations!
In the new article by Kamil Klosek and Emil Souleimanov, you’ll learn why some countries harbor pro-government militias, while others do not. The study was published in the Studies in Conflict & Terrorism and you can now read it right here!
A new article by Michal Smetana, Marek Vranka, and Ondřej Rosendorf has been published in Conflict Management and Peace Science! Our researchers present the results of a survey experiment, seeking to answer the question of whether people are more averse to the use of nuclear or chemical weapons.
At our new webpage nuclear-taboo.eu you can now search through a database of academic literature that examines one of the most intriguing puzzles in our field: Why have nuclear weapons not been used in military conflict since 1945?