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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · Apr 1

🔴 We join @charlesuni.cuni.cz in leaving the X network and moving to the Bluesky platform.

👉 We will stop actively managing the existing X account in the coming months.

😍 Don't forget to follow our profiles here on Bluesky in both Czech and English.

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Charles University @charlesuni.cuni.cz · Mar 31

📢 We are leaving X

Freedom of speech, critical thinking, and open discussion are core values of the university community. In recent months, these principles have become less and less compatible with the algorithms and policies of X.

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · 1d

🔴 Tomáš Karásek was elected candidate for the Dean of #FSVUK for the 2026–2030 term!

👏🏻 Congratulations and all the best.

➡️ Read more: fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/toma...

Tomáš Karásek was elected candidate for the Dean of FSV UK for the 2026–2030 term | Fakulta sociálních věd UK

On Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at a meeting of the Academic Senate of FSV UK, Tomáš Karásek, the current dean of the faculty, was elected as the candidate for the position of Dean of the Faculty of Soci...

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · 1d

🧐 Our political analyst Michel Perottino weighs in on how Andrej Babiš’s ANO party could form a coalition with SPD and the Motorists party — and what it means for the future government.

👉 Read the full interview.

Radio Prague International @radiopraguefr.bsky.social · 2d

Quel futur gouvernement pour la Tchéquie ? Entretien avec le politologue M. Perottino @fsv.unikarlova.cuni.cz @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz @unikarlova.cuni.cz
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Futur gouvernement tchèque : résoudre l’équation Babiš 2.0 + SPD + Automobilistes

Pour faire un point en ce lundi post-électoral, RPI a posé quelques questions à Michel Perottino, directeur du département de science politique de l’Université Charles.

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Jakub Stauber @stauberj.bsky.social · 1d

Join us today!

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Jean-michel De Waele @dewalius1961.bsky.social · 16d

Nouveau webinaire sur les elections en Tchequie.

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · 6d

👉 Dive into a new study by our academics, which explores how countries prioritize marine environmental issues in UN General Assembly debates from 1993 to 2020.

Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 9d

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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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · 6d

👏 Our economists published an article in Nature Communications, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals.

👉 The study introduces a new meta-analysis method designed for the social sciences.

😍 Congratulations on this achievement!

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Economists from FSV UK published in one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals | Fakulta sociálních věd UK

Economists Zuzana Havránková and Tomáš Havránek from the Institute of Economic Studies at FSV UK have achieved a remarkable scientific success. Together with international colleagues, they published a...

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Centrum veřejných financí @verejnefinance.bsky.social · 12d

Great to host colleagues from @oecd-ocde.bsky.social and @taxobservatory.bsky.social in Prague! We’re advancing research on how multinational firms react to tax systems, especially in allocating functions across borders.
#GlobalTax #LepsiVerejneFinance
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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · 26d

👉 We are happy to share a new article by our academic Michal Onderčo from @ims.fsv.cuni.cz.

Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 29d

🎓 Just published in @cspjournal.bsky.social:
Does CSFP co-ordination foster convergence?

By analyzing EU voting behavior on nuclear weapons in the UNGA 1979–2022, @profonderco.bsky.social
and his colleagues find that while convergence hardly increases, the level of consensus remains stable.

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · 29d

👉 Check out the latest report by our academic Michal Parízek from the Institute of Political Studies.

ENSURED @ensured.bsky.social · Sep 4

The WTO is under pressure to address trade-related agendas on development, the environment & inclusiveness. But with members divided, what's the best way forward?

In a new ENSURED report, @claraweinhardt.bsky.social, Michal Parizek & Jayati Srivastava explore these agendas.

Full report 👇

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Expanding the WTO’s Scope in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape: An Appraisal of Development, Environment, and Inclusiveness Agendas - Research Report | ENSURED

The WTO is under pressure to address agendas on development, the environment, and inclusiveness. But with members divided, progress may rely on informal cooperation rather than new rules.

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Emilija Tudzarovska @tudzarovska.bsky.social · Aug 27

Glad to see my work consulted in NATO Defense College report & why we need to revisit the EU history and the policy-making of the 1990s.

#academia #policymaking #collectiveactions

@compeurpol.bsky.social @ims.fsv.cuni.cz @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · Aug 22

🧐 What do physics and social sciences have in common? More than you’d expect.

😍 Our expert Jakub Tesař shows how the principles of quantum physics can help us better understand the way society works.

👉 Read more about his research on our science website: science.fsv.cuni.cz/en/social-sc...

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Charles University @charlesuni.cuni.cz · Aug 19

🎓 Did you know that...

The facade of the @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz building in Jinonice features the university's historical emblem, the university seal. And this is no ordinary decoration: with a diameter of 7.6 meters, it is the largest of its kind on a building in the capital. 📐

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · Aug 19

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · Aug 19

🤩 Jana Sehnálková from #FSVUK has become the new director of the Fulbright Commission in Czechia.

🤝 “My goal is to continue to firmly uphold the values that have long defined the Fulbright Program: quality, equality, mutual understanding, and democratic principles."

➡️ fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/jana...

Jana Sehnálková from FSV UK has become the new executive director of the Fulbright Commission in the Czech Republic | Fakulta sociálních věd UK

Jana Sehnálková has been teaching at the Department of North American Studies IMS FSV UK since 2011. She continues to focus on the study of Sino-American relations in the context of the Taiwan Strait ...

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Aug 9

🚨 Just published: the first global quantitative study on the relationship between democracy and state support for arms control from @tobiasrisse.bsky.social!

➡️ Read the full article here (open access): academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...

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Democracy and State Support for Arms Control

Abstract. This article presents the first global quantitative study of the relationship between states’ level of liberal democracy and their support for ar

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · Aug 8

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · Aug 8

🏳️‍🌈 To mark Prague Pride 2025, the latest De Facto podcast features two FSV UK experts discussing LGBTQ+ life in Czechia.

👉 They explore diversity and cultural representation, cyberbullying, and the invisibility of older LGBTQ+ people.

👀 Check it out: science.fsv.cuni.cz/en/lgbtq-in-...

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · Jul 31

🤩 The Czech Science Foundation will support an international project led by our professor Kateřina Králová.

🧐 The research team will explore how societies in Poland, Serbia, and Greece reflect on their histories of displacement and current migration crises.

👉 fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/fsv-...

FSV UK succeeds with an international project in the grant competition of the Czech Science Foundation | Fakulta sociálních věd UK

The Czech Science Foundation (GACR), in cooperation with its partner agency from Poland (Narodowe Centrum Nauki – NCN), will support a project led by Professor Kateřina Králová from the Institute of I...

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Jul 30

🎓 Just published! @laurensukin.bsky.social and her colleagues find that in case of Chinese aggression against a regional state, the US public would support intervening on behalf of allies.

➡️ Such willingness however stems from alliance, not from an adversarial relationship with Beijing.

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · Jul 18

📑 This week, we had the honour of co-hosting the 9th Annual Meeting of @memstudiesassoc.bsky.social.

👉 The event brought more than 1,200 academics, artists, and activists from nearly 100 countries to Prague.

➡️ Read more on our page about science at #FSVUK: science.fsv.cuni.cz/en/rememberi...

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Jul 15

They test their theory using a cross-national survey and a follow-up survey experiment. @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz

➡️ Full article (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Michal Smetana @smetanamichal.bsky.social · Jul 13

1/2 Our new paper (w/ @mvranka.bsky.social & @ondrejrosendorf.bsky.social) on public support for nuclear arms control has just been published in @ejir.bsky.social (open access link to the full article is in the next post)

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · Jul 8

Congrats! 👏

Štěpán Jabůrek @stepanjaburek.bsky.social · Jul 8

🥳Extremely happy that I have been accepted for a PhD position in International Relations at @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz. I will (hopefully) research the politicization of international economic cooperation in Europe using NLP and quantitative methods in a IR + party politics setting 🔽

Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · Jul 7

🤩 Two projects from #FSVUK succeeded in the 10th round of the Primus @charlesuni.cuni.cz competition.

👉 Our scientists @jaroslavbilek.bsky.social and Jade Hutchinson from the Institute of Political Studies received support.

🥳 Congratulations on your success!

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Two projects from FSV UK succeeded in the Primus competition | Fakulta sociálních věd UK

Jaroslav Bílek and Jade Hutchinson succeeded in the 10th round of the Primus university competition, which Charles University has been announcing since 2017. The competition is designed for young prom...

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · Jul 4

😍 “Studying discourse was love at first sight. I knew that we were meant to be together,” says Nico Carpentier, extraordinary professor at @charlesuni.cuni.cz.

👀 Discover his research and how he connects science with art on our page about science at #FSVUK.

👉 science.fsv.cuni.cz/en/nico-carp...

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Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz · Jun 27

🏅 #FSVUK Dean announces the public competition for Josef Vavroušek Award, subtitled Human Values and Civilization Development Problems.

📅 Competition will include Bachelor‘s, Master‘s, Rigorosum and Dissertation theses. The deadline is 25 July 2025.

👉 More information: fsv.cuni.cz/en/news/fsv-...

FSV UK Dean announces the 30th Josef Vavroušek Award | Fakulta sociálních věd UK

The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University announces the 30th public competition for Josef Vavroušek Award, subtitled Human Values and Civilization Development Problems. Competit...

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