Michal Kolmaš
@michelpoiccard.bsky.social
Associate Professor of IR, editor of CJIR (cjir.iir.cz) and @jird-jour.bsky.social. Environmental/climate politics, Asia, EU. Prague.
New issue of the Czech Journal of International Relations is out and feautres, inter alia, this wonderful book forum on Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards. Much recommended, and as usual, Open Access: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
December 3, 2025 at 11:10 AM
New issue of the Czech Journal of International Relations is out and feautres, inter alia, this wonderful book forum on Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards. Much recommended, and as usual, Open Access: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
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CfP: 'Political #Emotions in Times of Conflict', 11-12 March 2026 in Florence @sns.it @cidape.bsky.social
@sonjablum.bsky.social and I invite papers for our panel 'Emotional conflicts around Energy transitions in Europe: #Policy narratives and policymaking dynamics'.
👉Deadline 31.12.2025
@sonjablum.bsky.social and I invite papers for our panel 'Emotional conflicts around Energy transitions in Europe: #Policy narratives and policymaking dynamics'.
👉Deadline 31.12.2025
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
CfP: 'Political #Emotions in Times of Conflict', 11-12 March 2026 in Florence @sns.it @cidape.bsky.social
@sonjablum.bsky.social and I invite papers for our panel 'Emotional conflicts around Energy transitions in Europe: #Policy narratives and policymaking dynamics'.
👉Deadline 31.12.2025
@sonjablum.bsky.social and I invite papers for our panel 'Emotional conflicts around Energy transitions in Europe: #Policy narratives and policymaking dynamics'.
👉Deadline 31.12.2025
Reposted by Michal Kolmaš
Looking forward to a new colleague at the University of Vienna!:) New post doc position in Political Text Analyses with @chriswratil.bsky.social 👇
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
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You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
1/4 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Looking forward to a new colleague at the University of Vienna!:) New post doc position in Political Text Analyses with @chriswratil.bsky.social 👇
Youve got to love Vienna
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Youve got to love Vienna
Reposted by Michal Kolmaš
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Our new article is out - we conducted experimental Citizen-Expert Panels to find out, how mini-publics on climate change work. And we've come up with a neat typology of mini-publics mechanisms. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Our new article is out - we conducted experimental Citizen-Expert Panels to find out, how mini-publics on climate change work. And we've come up with a neat typology of mini-publics mechanisms. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Michal Kolmaš
📚 Want to publish a guest-edited Special Issue or Special Collection with us?
📆 Don’t miss the submission deadline for this year’s annual call on 30 October 2025!
👉 You can find more information on how to prepare your proposal here: link.springer.com/journal/4126...
📆 Don’t miss the submission deadline for this year’s annual call on 30 October 2025!
👉 You can find more information on how to prepare your proposal here: link.springer.com/journal/4126...
October 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📚 Want to publish a guest-edited Special Issue or Special Collection with us?
📆 Don’t miss the submission deadline for this year’s annual call on 30 October 2025!
👉 You can find more information on how to prepare your proposal here: link.springer.com/journal/4126...
📆 Don’t miss the submission deadline for this year’s annual call on 30 October 2025!
👉 You can find more information on how to prepare your proposal here: link.springer.com/journal/4126...
Well played, new chemistry Nobel laureate Susumu Kitagawa: "I chose chemistry as a career because … chemists understand the difference between ethanol and methanol" www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/people/14...
Susumu Kitagawa | People | Kyoto University iCeMS
institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) strives to 1) create a new integrated discipline of cell-material sciences based on the cross-disciplinary field of chemistry, physics and cell ...
www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp
October 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Well played, new chemistry Nobel laureate Susumu Kitagawa: "I chose chemistry as a career because … chemists understand the difference between ethanol and methanol" www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/people/14...
Otevřený dopis ANO ohledně výběru nového ministra životního prostředí - kde žádáme, aby nebombardovali dlouho budovanou politiku ochrany prostředí. sites.google.com/view/dopis-k...
Dopis k MŽP
Vážený pane předsedo, vážený pane prezidente,
Česko od nové vlády očekává odborně kompetentní, praktickou politiku. Ministerstvo životního prostředí se v letech, kdy ho řídilo hnutí ANO, staralo o k...
sites.google.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Otevřený dopis ANO ohledně výběru nového ministra životního prostředí - kde žádáme, aby nebombardovali dlouho budovanou politiku ochrany prostředí. sites.google.com/view/dopis-k...
I got a chapter in this book that has 5.069 pages and costs 1.999 USD. will give it to my students as compulsory reading. wth. link.springer.com/referencewor...
Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
The Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation presents the scientific background and current technologies in this multi-disciplinary area.
link.springer.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I got a chapter in this book that has 5.069 pages and costs 1.999 USD. will give it to my students as compulsory reading. wth. link.springer.com/referencewor...
New in CJIR! Cross-national Salience of Marine Environmental Issues: Evidence from UN General Assembly Debates, 1993–2020 by Jan Karlas and Jan Mazač, both at @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz. Open Access: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
Cross-national Salience of Marine Environmental Issues: Evidence from UN General Assembly Debates, 1993–2020
| Czech Journal of International Relations
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September 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New in CJIR! Cross-national Salience of Marine Environmental Issues: Evidence from UN General Assembly Debates, 1993–2020 by Jan Karlas and Jan Mazač, both at @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz. Open Access: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
A little difficult to get into, but definitely worth it - a debut book by young South African poet Rešoketšwe Manenzhe. Brings a sad, poetic story of multiracial couple in early 20th century budding-apartheid SA. Recommended. www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
Scatterlings
In This journey, someone will get lost, someone will gi…
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September 20, 2025 at 6:31 AM
A little difficult to get into, but definitely worth it - a debut book by young South African poet Rešoketšwe Manenzhe. Brings a sad, poetic story of multiracial couple in early 20th century budding-apartheid SA. Recommended. www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
A Horizon meeting @cidape.bsky.social in Tartu under way. With a lot of great people!
September 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A Horizon meeting @cidape.bsky.social in Tartu under way. With a lot of great people!
New article alert 🚨
With @aleskarmazin.bsky.social and @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social, we surveyed the deepening cooperation between the EU and ASEAN, as well as its limits. Came out in Asia Europe Journal.
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
With @aleskarmazin.bsky.social and @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social, we surveyed the deepening cooperation between the EU and ASEAN, as well as its limits. Came out in Asia Europe Journal.
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
August 15, 2025 at 5:59 AM
New article alert 🚨
With @aleskarmazin.bsky.social and @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social, we surveyed the deepening cooperation between the EU and ASEAN, as well as its limits. Came out in Asia Europe Journal.
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
With @aleskarmazin.bsky.social and @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social, we surveyed the deepening cooperation between the EU and ASEAN, as well as its limits. Came out in Asia Europe Journal.
Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New article just published - together with @evrop-anka.bsky.social, @sonjablum.bsky.social , @maartenhajer.bsky.social, O. Císař and Till Hilmar, we introduce the concept of "political emotions" and show how it helps us understand the climate crisis. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
New article just published - together with @evrop-anka.bsky.social, @sonjablum.bsky.social , @maartenhajer.bsky.social, O. Císař and Till Hilmar, we introduce the concept of "political emotions" and show how it helps us understand the climate crisis. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Border between Czechia and Germany
July 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Border between Czechia and Germany
On my way to journey Czech mountains for a few days, 25km/day, mostly via Stezka Ceskem - a thousands km long path circeling the country.
July 15, 2025 at 5:08 AM
On my way to journey Czech mountains for a few days, 25km/day, mostly via Stezka Ceskem - a thousands km long path circeling the country.
Our new book's ready for preorder - and includes three wonderful endorsements by Amitav Acharya, Linus Hagstrom ( @linushagstrom.bsky.social) and Dewi Fortuna Anwar. Hope it will be useful to all interested in the Indo-Pacific. www.routledge.com/Understandin...
Understanding International Relations in the Indo-Pacific
Karmazin, Kolmaš, and Qiao-Franco deconstruct the concept of the Indo-Pacific and offer a timely, comparative, and multidimensional exploration of the region’s international relations.
Addressing fund...
www.routledge.com
July 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Our new book's ready for preorder - and includes three wonderful endorsements by Amitav Acharya, Linus Hagstrom ( @linushagstrom.bsky.social) and Dewi Fortuna Anwar. Hope it will be useful to all interested in the Indo-Pacific. www.routledge.com/Understandin...
Just in: We just publihed an obituary of Joseph Nye, who died a few weeks ago. It reviews Nye's work ranging from regimes, through soft power to US foreign policy analysis, appreciating the many contributions Nye's work has had on IR. RIP. cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
Obituary: Joseph S. Nye Jr. (1937–2025)
| Czech Journal of International Relations
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July 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Just in: We just publihed an obituary of Joseph Nye, who died a few weeks ago. It reviews Nye's work ranging from regimes, through soft power to US foreign policy analysis, appreciating the many contributions Nye's work has had on IR. RIP. cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
Anyone knew aloes grow trees?
June 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Anyone knew aloes grow trees?
Not bad, ei?
Thinking about publishing with JIRD? Now you have all the more reason to do so!
According to this year’s Journal Citation Reports, we are
🏆 in Q1
🏆 with an Impact Factor of 2.5,
🏆 ranking 28th out of 169 in International Relations.
📄 👉 Submit your article with us here: shorturl.at/GdAUM
According to this year’s Journal Citation Reports, we are
🏆 in Q1
🏆 with an Impact Factor of 2.5,
🏆 ranking 28th out of 169 in International Relations.
📄 👉 Submit your article with us here: shorturl.at/GdAUM
June 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Not bad, ei?
Our textbook coming up soon! Finally a proper resource for all interested in the Indo-Pacific (or so we hope with @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social and @aleskarmazin.bsky.social)
June 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Our textbook coming up soon! Finally a proper resource for all interested in the Indo-Pacific (or so we hope with @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social and @aleskarmazin.bsky.social)
I played a softball tournament today and being a European I lost everything. Though we played a Japanese team and ended 1:2 in 8th inning in a thrilling finale.
June 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I played a softball tournament today and being a European I lost everything. Though we played a Japanese team and ended 1:2 in 8th inning in a thrilling finale.
Our forum on why is Czechia so pro-Izraeli has just been published in CJIR! Lowdown below.
I have often been asked about the reasons for the Czech Republic’s uncritical support of Israeli actions.
I am happy that I can now refer to the forum published by the Czech Journal of International Relations that features a range of experts on different aspects of the Czech policy on Israel 🧵 1/7
I am happy that I can now refer to the forum published by the Czech Journal of International Relations that features a range of experts on different aspects of the Czech policy on Israel 🧵 1/7
June 6, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Our forum on why is Czechia so pro-Izraeli has just been published in CJIR! Lowdown below.