Our researchers publish in prestigious academic journals and write chapters and books published by renowned publishing houses. 

Peer-reviewed publications published by PRCP researchers by Year:

2026

• Hornát, J. (2026). Broken Mirrors: How the European Union Reflected the United States – Until Trump. Survival

• Sukin, L., Rodriguez, J. L., & Herzog, S. (2026). Rethinking the Deterrence-Disarmament Dichotomy: The Complex Landscape of Global Nuclear Weapons Preferences. Perspectives on Politics

• Pinfold, R. G., & Lizcová, Z. (2026). Grand strategic change after critical situations: Israel and Czechia after the October 7th attacks and Russia’s Ukraine invasion. European Journal of International Security

• Pohnerová, E. (2026). Looking the other way: what happened to the weaponization of water? Water International

• Onderčo, M. (2026). Europe’s Nuclear Umbrella: Contesting Nuclear Sharing Since 2010. Cambridge University Press.

2025

• Kolar, D. (2025). Poverty in the Czech Republic: unemployment, pensions, and regional differences. Post-Communist Economies

• Smetana, M., Sukin, L., Herzog, S., & Vranka, M. (2025). Atomic responsiveness: How public opinion shapes elite beliefs and preferences on nuclear weapon use. European Journal of International Security

• Rzazade, Z. (2025). Whose “drone revolution”? Expert-media gaps in perceptions of drone warfare. European Security

• Exner, J. (2025). Sports arbitration, doping and the GDPR: Tightening the judicial independence of non-judicial bodies in NADA and Others. Common Market Law Review

• Pinfold, R. G. (2025). Failure of Containment: Israel’s Gaza Withdrawal After 20 Years. Survival

• Tomášek, M., & Kotous, J. (2025). The European Union and the Holy See. Leges

• Sukin, L., & Mukherjee, R. (2025). Navigating the New Nuclear Map. Texas National Security Review

• Záhora, J. (2025). Between the field and home: fieldwork, science fiction and encounters with alterity in international relations. Cambridge Review of International Affairs

• Portela, C., Onderčo, M. & Vignoli, V. (2025). Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly. Contemporary Security Policy

• Sukin, L., Herzog, S. & Lanoszka, A. (2025). Winning Hearts and Minds? How the United States Reassured During the Russo-Ukrainian War. Journal of Conflict Resolution

• Krulichová, Z. (2025). Charting the narrative landscape: Distinguishing agency-centric and structure-centric approaches to narrative research in International Relations. Cooperation and Conflict

• Risse, T. (2025). Democracy and State Support for Arms Control. Foreign Policy Analysis

• Tomášek, M. (2025). Customs and Monetary Relations Between the European Union and Neighboring Microstates. The Lawyer Quarterly

• Gomez, M. A., Winger, G. & Sukin, L. (2025). Allies and partners: US public opinion and relationships in the Indo-Pacific. Contemporary Security Policy

• Smetana, M., Vranka, M., & Rosendorf, O. (2025). Public support for arms control in the third nuclear age: cross-national survey and elite cues experiment in NATO countries. European Journal of International Relations

• Risse, T. (2025). Interstate rivalry, major power status, and state support for arms control. International Interactions

• Samuel, S., & Sukin, L. (2025). Deemphasizing Nuclear Weapons in Nuclear Deterrence: The Case for Conventional Counterforce. Journal fo Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

• Kadlecová, L., & Paggio, V. (2025). Russia’s Weak Spots in Cyber Sovereignty: How the West Can Keep Russian Citizens’ Access to Online Information Free from the Kremlin Interference. Democracy and Security

• Lizcová, Z., Urbanová, J., & Müller, K. B. (2025). Shaping Bilateral Relationships From Below: Civil Society Actors and Their Motivations in the Czech-German Context. German Politics

• Záhora, J., & Daniel, J. (2025). Czech Foreign Policy towards Israel, Gaza and Palestine: An Introduction. Czech Journal of International Relations

• Plíštilová, T. (2025). Reassessing the Czech Public Attitudes towards Israel and the Israel-Palestinian Conflict. Czech Journal of International Relations

• Pinfold, R. G., & Jones, C. (2025). Israel and the Politics of Intelligence Failure on 7 October. The RUSI Journal

• Pinfold, R. G. (2025). The US Facing Israel: From Restrainer to Enabler. Global Politics and Strategy

• Smetana, M. & Onderčo, M. (2025). “Hope the Russians Love Their Children Too”: Russian Public Support for the Use of Nuclear Weapons after the Invasion of Ukraine. Journal of Global Security Studies

• Onderčo, M., & Tago, A. (2025). Friends as neighbors? Geographic closeness improves support to other governments. Conflict Management and Peace Science

• Pinfold, R. G., Jones, C. & Ehteshami, A. (2025). Collision Course: How Iran and Israel Brought the Middle East to the Brink of War. Global Policy

• Svoboda, K. (2025). Authoritarian economic soft power: the case of russian and chinese investments in Central Europe. Post-Communist Economies.

• Plíštilová, T., & Lizcová, Z. (2025). Adopted or contested? Examining Israel’s strategic narratives in German media. Media, War & Conflict.

• Kocián, J., Mlynář, J., Maliukov, H., & Hofmeister, R. (2025). Story alteration in oral history retellings: Methods of comparative work. Narrative Inquiry.

• Pinfold, R. G. (2025). Myth Busting in a Post-Assad Syria. Middle East Policy.

2024

• Sukin, L. & Woohyeok, S. (2024). East Asia’s Alliance Dilemma: Public Perceptions of the Competing Risks of Extended Nuclear Deterrence. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

• Pinfold, R. G. (2024). ‘Warfare in the Middle East’. The Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare

• Pinfold, R. G. & Peters, J. (2024). The Routledge Handbook on Israel’s Foreign Relations. Oxon: Routledge

• Exner, J. (2024). The Europeanisation of Clean Sport: How the Council of Europe and the European Union Shape the Proportionality of Ineligibility in the World Anti-Doping Code. The European Roots of the Lex Sportiva: How Europe Rules Global Sport

• Kalhousová, I., Finkel, E. & Kocián, J. (2024). Historical analogies, traumatic past and responses to the war in Ukraine. International Affairs

• Kalhousová, I., Komasová, S., Plíštilová, T., Smetana, M. & Vranka, M. (2024). Elite-public gaps in attitudes towards Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: new evidence from a survey of Czech parliamentarians and citizens. East European Politics

• Ullrichová, E. (2024). New intergovernmentalism: European council and environmental policy. Journal of European Integration

• Onderčo, M. & Vignoli, V. (2024). Leader ideology and state commitment to multilateral treaties. The Review of International Organizations

• Frollová, N., Tkáčik, M. & Houdek, P. (2024). The leadership fallacy: How misattribution of leadership leads to a blaming game. Journal of Economic Psychology

• Smetana, M., Vranka, M. & Rosendorf, O. (2024). Elite-public gaps in support for nuclear and chemical strikes: New evidence from a survey of British parliamentarians and citizens. Research & Politics

• Hornát, J. (2024). Governmentality in the liberal international order: the responsibilization of small states. International Politics

• Onderco, M. & Vignoli, V. (2024). Regional socialization and disarmament preferences: Explaining state positions on the nuclear ban treaty. Contemporary Security Policy

• Kadlecová, L. (2024). Cyber Sovereignty: The Future of Governance in Cyberspace. Stanford University Press

• Pinfold, R. G, & Eiran, E. (2024). Annexation Attempts as a Two-Level Game: Israel and the West Bank in 1967 and 2020. Journal of Global Security Studies

• Daniel, J. (2024). The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon. Middle East Critique

• Ludvik, J., & Bahensky, V. (2024). The Russia-Ukraine frozen conflict: Evidence from an expert survey. Comparative Strategy

• Onderco, M. (2024). Nuclear regime complex and state relations in nuclear ordering. Cambridge Review of International Affairs

• Hornat, J. (2024). 'In Defense of the Liberal International Order'. The Prospect Foundation, Kajima Institute of International Peace, Institute for Security & Development Policy

• Hornat, J. (2024). Survival and status in the liberal international order: the grantors of recognition. Journal of International Relations and Development

• Smetana, M. (2024). Microfoundations of domestic audience costs in nondemocratic regimes: Experimental evidence from Putin’s Russia. Journal of Peace Research

• Bruner, T. (2024). How to Conclude a Valid Peace Treaty for Ukraine? Právník

• Laryš M., & Svoboda, K. (2024), Delegation of Economic Statecraft to Private Enterprises: Russia, China, and Turkey in Africa. International Studies Review

• Hornat, J. (2024). Status enhancement and attention-seeking in the transatlantic relationship: the Visegrad states and the Trump administration. Journal of Transatlantic Studies

2023

• Heibach, J. & Jermanová, T. (2023). Coalition Maintenance during Democratization: Comparative Insights from Tunisia and Yemen. Middle East Law and Governance

• Pinfold, R. G. (2023). Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupation and Exits.

• Hornat, J. (2023). Beyond the Hub and Spokes: The Networking Logic and the Operationalization of US Indo-Pacific Strategy. Asian Affairs

• Hornat, J., Csicsmann, L., & Starzyk-Sulejewska, J. (2023). The Political Elite’s Thematic Framing of China in Recent Central European Elections. Issues & Studies

• Hornát, J., Šlosarčík, I., Tomalová, E., & Váška, J. (2022). International Organisations as Status Enhancers: The Case of the Czech Republic. Europe-Asia Studies

• Pospieszna, P., Onderco, M., & Van der Veer, R. (2023). Comparing public attitudes towards internal and external EU sanctions: the role of populism, trust and Euroscepticism. East European Politics

• Arndt, A. C., Horovitz, L., & Onderco, M. (2023). Russia’s Failed Nuclear Coercion Against Ukraine. The Washington Quarterly

• Smetana, M., Vranka, M., & Rosendorf, O. (2023). Algorithmic aversion? Experimental evidence on the elasticity of public attitudes to “Killer robots.” Security Studies

• Smetana, M., Vranka, M., & Rosendorf, O. (2023). The “Commitment Trap” Revisited: Experimental Evidence on Ambiguous Nuclear Threats. Journal of Experimental Political Science

• Onderčo, M., Smetana, M., & Etienne, T. W. (2023). Hawks in the making? European public views on nuclear weapons post-Ukraine. Global Policy

• Haverland, M., Van der Veer, R., & Onderčo, M. (2023). Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. European Union Politics

2022

• Tomášek, M. (2022). Roots of Chinese Doctrine of International Law. The Lawyer Quarterly

• Onderčo, M., & Portela, C. (2022). External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment. Contemporary Security Policy

• Pinfold, R. G. (2022). Security, Terrorism, and Territorial Withdrawal: Critically Reassessing the Lessons of Israel's “Unilateral Disengagement” from the Gaza Strip. International Studies Perspectives

• Bahenský, V. (2022). Can ‘Realists’ and ‘Hawks’ Agree? Half-measures and Compromises on the Road to Invasion of Ukraine. Central European Journal of International and Security Studies

• Onderčo, M., Etienne T. W., & Smetana M. (2022). Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe. Foreign Policy Analysis

• Van Prooijen, J. W., Amodio, D. M., Boot, A., Eerland, A., Etienne, T., Krouwel, A. P. M., Onderco, M., Verkoeijen, P., & Zwaan R. A. (2022). A longitudinal analysis of conspiracy beliefs and Covid-19 health responses. Psychological Medicine

• Smetana, M., Vranka, M., & Rosendorf, O. (2022). The lesser evil? Experimental evidence on the strength of nuclear and chemical weapon “taboos”. Conflict Management and Peace Science

• Smetana, M., & Onderco, M. (2022). From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO. Journal of Conflict Resolution

• Smetana, M., & Onderco, M. (2022). Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians. International Studies Quarterly

• Rosendorf, O., Smetana, M., & Vranka, M. (2022). Autonomous weapons and ethical judgments: Experimental evidence on attitudes toward the military use of “killer robots”. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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

2021

• Bahenský, V. (2021). Kritika konceptu hybridní války [Critique of the Hybrid Warfare Concept]. Za zrcadlem: hybridní válka jako staronový fenomén mezinárodních vztahů [Behind the Mirror: Hybrid Warfare as an Old-New Phenomenon of International Relations]

• Hornat, J. (2021). Hegemonic stability in the Indo-Pacific: US-India relations and induced balancing. International Relations

• Rosendorf, O., Smetana, M., & Vranka, M. (2021). Disarming Arguments: Public Opinion and Nuclear Abolition, Survival

• Onderco, M., Smetana, M., van der Meer, S., & Etienne, T. W. (2021). When do the Dutch want to join the nuclear ban treaty? Findings of a public opinion survey in the Netherlands. The Nonproliferation Review

• Smetana, M., & O’Mahoney, J. (2021). NPT as an antifragile system: How contestation improves the nonproliferation regime. Contemporary Security Policy

• Onderco, M. (2021). Networked nonproliferation: making the NPT permanent. Stanford University Press

• Smetana, M., Onderco, M., & Etienne T. Do Germany and the Netherlands want to say goodbye to US nuclear weapons?, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

• Onderco, M., & Smetana, M. (2021). German views on US nuclear weapons in Europe: public and elite perspectives. European Security

• Smetana, M., & Wunderlich, C. (2021). Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons in World Politics: Toward the Third Generation of “Nuclear Taboo” Research. International Studies Review

• Smetana, M., & Vranka, M. (2021). How moral foundations shape public approval of nuclear, chemical, and conventional strikes: new evidence from experimental surveys. International Interactions

• Onderco, M., & Van der Veer, R. (2021). No more Gouda in Moscow? Distributive effects of sanctions imposition. Journal of Common Market Studies

• Onderco, M., & Giumelli, F. (2021). States, firms, and security: How private actors implement sanctions, lessons learned from the Netherlands. European Journal of International Security

• Ostermann, F., Kučmáš, K., Onderco, M., & Smetana M., et al. Voting on the use of armed force: Challenges of data indexing, classification, and the value of a comparative agenda. In: D. Deschaux-Dutard (Ed.), Research Methods in Defence Studies: A Multidisciplinary Overview. Routledge, London

• Bahenský V. Potenciální Čínsko-americká válka a evropská obrana: Diskuse možných implikací a hrozeb [Potential China-US War and European Defense: Discussion of Possible Implications and Threats]. Obrana a strategie

2020

• Wunderlich C., & Müller H. (2020). Nuclear disarmament without the nuclear weapon states: The nuclear ban treaty. Daedalus

• Martínková H., & Smetana M. (2020). The Dynamics of Norm Contestation in the Chemical Weapons Convention: The Case of “Non-Lethal” Agents. Politics

• Parizek M., & Stephen M. (2020). The Representation of BRICS in Global Economic Governance: Reform and Fragmentation of Multilateral Institutions. In: Soo Y. K. The Political Economy of the BRICS Countries. World Scientific

• Klosek, K. C. (2020). Military Interventions in Civil Wars: Protecting Foreign Direct Investments and the Defence Industry. Civil Wars

• Doboš, B., Pražák, J., & Němečková, M. (2020). Atomic Salvation: Case for nuclear planetary defense. Astropolitics

• Müller, H. (2020). What Are the Institutional Preconditions for a Stable Non-Nuclear Peace?. In: Sauer T., Kustermans J., Segaert B. (eds) Non-Nuclear Peace. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

• Onderco, M. (2020). Nuclear Ban Treaty: Sand or Grease for the NPT?. In: Sauer T., Kustermans J., Segaert B. (eds) Non-Nuclear Peace. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

• Duffy, F., Klosek, K.C., Nardin, L.G., Wagner, G. (2020). Rebel Group Protection Rackets: Simulating the Effects of Economic Support on Civil War Violence. In: Deutschmann E., Lorenz J., Nardin L., Natalini D., Wilhelm A. (eds) Computational Conflict Research. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, Cham.

• Tomášek, M. (2020). Právní systémy Dálného východu II. Karolinum - Charles University Press

• Hornát, J., & Kýrová L. (2020). America first: příčiny a kontext volebního vítězství Donalda Trumpa. Karolinum - Charles University Press

• Tomášek, M. (2020). Formation of the Silk Road ­– Formation of Euro-Asian Business Relations. The Lawyer Quarterly

• Smetana, M. (2020). Nuclear weapons and Peaceful Change. In: Paul, T. V., Larson, D. W., Trinkunas, H. A., Wivel, A. and Emmers, R. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations. Oxford University Press

• Onderco, M., & Stoeckel, F. (2020). Conspiratorial thinking and foreign policy views: evidence from Central Europe. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

• Faude, B., & Parízek, M. (2020) Contested multilateralism as credible signaling: how strategic inconsistency can induce cooperation among states. The Review of International Organizations

• Eberle, J., & Miskimmon, A. (2020). International Theory and German Foreign Policy: Introduction to a Special Issue. German Politics

• Eberle J., & Miskimmon A. (2020). Conclusion: German Foreign Policy in the (post-)Corona World. German Politics

• Smetana, M. (2020). (De-)stigmatizing the Outsider: Nuclear-armed India, United States, and the Global Non-Proliferation Order. Journal of International Relations and Development

2019

• Bláhová, P. (2019). Nagorno-Karabakh: Obstacles to the resolution of the frozen conflict. Asia Europe Journal

• Smetana, M., & Ludvík, J. (2019). Between War and Peace: A Dynamic Reconceptualization of ‘Frozen Conflicts’. Asia Europe Journal

• Ludvík, J. (2019). Closing the Window of Vulnerability: Nuclear Proliferation and Conventional Retaliation. Security Studies

• Smetana, M. (2019). Nuclear Deviance: Stigma Politics and the Rules of Nonproliferation Game. Palgrave Macmillan

• Wunderlich, C. (2019). Rogue States as Norm Entrepreneurs: Black Sheep or Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing? Springer

• Hobza, M., & Vondráčková, A. (2019). Target Market under MiFID II: The Distributor’s Perspective. Capital Markets Law Journal

• Karlas, J. (2019). Podávání zpráv v rámci lidskoprávních smluv: analýza hlavních univerzálních smluv. Czech Journal of International Relations

• Klosek, K. C. (2019). Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars: The use of States as Proxies in Military Interventions. Czech Journal of International Relations

• Ludvik, J. (2019). Strategic Patience Revisited: The Counterforce Effect. The Washington Quarterly

• Ganguly, S., Smetana, M., Abdullah, S., & Karmazín, A. (2019). India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute: Unpacking the Dynamics of South Asian Frozen Conflict.  Asia Europe Journal

• Müller, H. (2019). Justice from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: The Impact of the Revolution in Human Sciences on Peace Research and International Relations. In: Fehl C., Peters D., Wisotzki S., Wolff J. (eds) Justice and Peace. Studien des Leibniz-Instituts Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. Springer

• Parízek, M. (2019). Negotiations in the World Trade Organization: Design and Performance. Routledge

• Smetana, M., & Onderčo, M. (2019). Bringing the Outsiders in: Interactionist Perspective on Deviance and Normative Change. Cambridge Review of International Affairs

• Smetana M., & Ludvík J. (2019). Theorising Indirect Coercion: The Logic of Triangular Strategies. International Relations

• Müller, H. (2019). Justice and the nonproliferation regime. In: Harrington, A, Knopf, JW (eds) Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons. University of Georgia Press

• Müller, H. (2019). The Contestation of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime. In: Stephen M. D. & Zürn M. Contested World Orders: Rising Powers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-State

• Onderco, M. (2019). Variation in Delegation Size in Multilateral Diplomacy. British Journal of Politics & International Relations

• Smetana, M. (2019). Weapons of Mass Protection? Rogue Asteroids, Nuclear Explosions in Space, and the Norms of Global Nuclear Order. In: Schmidt N. (eds) Planetary Defense. Space and Society. Springer, Cham

2018

• Müller, H., & Wunderlich, C. (2018). Not lost in contestation: How norm entrepreneurs frame norm development in the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Contemporary Security Policy

• Lantis, J. S., & Wunderlich, C. (2018). Resiliency dynamics of norm clusters: Norm contestation and international cooperation. Review of international studies

• Klosek, K. C. (2018). Catalysts of violence: How do natural resource extractive technologies influence civil war outbreak and incidence in sub-Saharan Africa? The Extractive Industries and Society

• Stephen, M. D., & Parízek, M. (2018). New Powers and the Distribution of Preferences in Global Trade Governance: From Deadlock and Drift to Fragmentation. New Political Economy

• Müller, H. (2018). Response to Lewis A. Dunn’s Proposal of 'Strategic Elimination'. The Nonproliferation Review

• Smetana, M. (2018). A Nuclear Posture Review for the Third Nuclear Age. The Washington Quarterly

• Smetana, M. (2018). The Prague Agenda: An Obituary? New Perspectives