International interactions: relations, security, and space ****************************************************************************************** * International interactions: relations, security, and space ****************************************************************************************** Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Leading representatives of the research team: doc. PhDr. Jan Karlas, M.A., Ph.D. (guaranto RNDr. Nik Hynek, M.A., PgDip Res, Ph.D.; doc. PhDr. Běla Plechanovová, CSc.; PhDr. Michael Contacts: Jan Karlas (jk.kurzy@seznam.cz [ URL "mailto:jk.kurzy@seznam.cz"] ), Nik Hynek (nikola.hynek@fsv.cuni.cz [ URL "mailto:nikola.hynek@fsv.cuni.cz"] ), Běla Plechanovová (bela.plechanovova@fsv.cuni.cz [ URL "mailto:bela.plechanovova@fsv.cuni.cz"] ), Michael Romancov(michael.romancov@gmail.com [ URL "mailto:michael.romancov@gmail.com"] ). This research programme deals with three areas that all concern international interactions relations, international security, and geopolitics. In the area of international relations team concentrates on the analysis of international institutions. It proceeds from an assum international institutions facilitate the mutual coordination of states’ policies. In this help to the resolution of global problems, which cannot be anymore tackled by the independ individual states. Apart from global institutions, the members of the research team also p the European integration process. In the area of security, the research programme concentrates especially on strategic studi security analysis. Strategic studies deal e.g. with the role of military technologies in i politics. The concern with strategic studies is balanced with the research in critical sec This stream brings to the study of security the emphasis on the ideational and discursive security. The geopolitical part of the programme explores the relationship between international pol geography. It examines the key theories of geopolitics, as well as the relations between s in the key regions of the contemporary world. It aims at uncovering the dynamics that resu global character of the current world and from its constantly shifting internal boundaries ****************************************************************************************** * Selected outputs ****************************************************************************************** • Hynek, Nik (2015), Czech Strategic Narrative on Afghanistan: Ideological Reactiveness an Political Contestation, in Beatrice de Graaf et al., Strategic Narratives, Public Opinio London: Routledge: 118-137. • Hosli, Madeleine – Kreppel, Amie – Plechanovová, Běla – Verdun, Amy (2015), Decision mak before and after the Lisbon Treaty, London: Routledge. • Romancov, Michael (2014), Evropský rozměr společenských tendencí součastnosti aneb jaká je svět? - Geopolitický pohled, Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Iuridica, 60 (1): 71-80.