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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 10h

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...

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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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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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 18d

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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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 20d

A Horizon meeting @cidape.bsky.social in Tartu under way. With a lot of great people!

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Aug 17

Finally.

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Aug 15

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...

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 30

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...

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 16

Lunch

Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 16

View of the Czech side from Decinsky sneznik

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 16

Since 1990s, we started planting deciduous forests like birches to get rid of susceptible spruce monocultures. Looks much better now

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 16

Borders look way more friendly than a few decades ago. Germany to the left, Czechia to the right

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 16

Much of the ecological reconstruction here has been financed by the EU

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 16

Cottages have somewhat been reconstructed

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 16

Forest cover has expanded significantly here in the last few decades, esp. after the communists stopped cutting it down for whatever bs industrial reasons in 1970s and 1980s

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 16

Border between Czechia and Germany

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 15

As expected

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 15

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.

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 5

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...

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jul 3

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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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jun 30

Anyone knew aloes grow trees?

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jun 23

Not bad, ei?

Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social · Jun 23

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
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jun 13

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)

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jun 7

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.

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · Jun 6

Our forum on why is Czechia so pro-Izraeli has just been published in CJIR! Lowdown below.

Jan Daniel @horalistani.bsky.social · Jun 6

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

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