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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 7h

❗️Zadržení flotily aktivistů mířící do Gazy, včetně Češky Šárky Přikrylové, bylo podle naší výzkumnice Nikoly Kurkové Klímové v rozporu s mezinárodním právem. Izrael tak dál porušuje rezoluce RB OSN i závazné smlouvy, píše
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Zadržení flotily aktivistů? Izrael nebyl v právu, říká odbornice - VOXPOT: reportáže, které spojují Česko se světem

Část zajatých posádek z humanitární flotily směřující do Gazy byla izraelskými úřady deportována. Celý incident, který se týká i české aktivistky Šárky Přikrylové, byl přitom v rozporu s mezinárodním ...

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 3d

🕊️ 20 years after Israel’s Gaza disengagement, what did it really achieve?

In a new article, Rob Geist Pinfold argues it wasn’t a failed peace plan, but a way to freeze the peace process while grasping more control over the West Bank.

📄 Full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Failure of Containment: Israel’s Gaza Withdrawal After 20 Years

Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza is increasingly remembered as a failed peace initiative. Recently, Israeli commentators have even argued that the policy directly precipitated the Hamas-led at...

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 6d

You can find more information about the INTERFER project here: www.interfer-project.eu

Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 6d

📢 Job opportunity: Postdoctoral Researcher!

Join the @iirprague.bsky.social INTERFER team and delve into foreign interference research with a focus on technology.

💼 Full-time position until Dec 2028
💶 64,600 CZK gross/month + travel funds
🗓 Apply by 12 Oct 👉 www.prcprague.cz/news/2025/9/...

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 7d

The essays point to the interconnected nature of nuclear challenges across the globe and the vital role that domestic politics plays in shaping nuclear politics.

➡️ Full roundtable here: tnsr.org/roundtable/n...

Navigating the New Nuclear Map - Texas National Security Review

The global nuclear order is undergoing rapid and complex transformations, driven by the expansion of arsenals, evolving doctrines, and the interplay of domestic and international politics. This roundt...

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 7d

🚀 How to navigate the new nuclear map? @laurensukin.bsky.social and Rohan Mukherjee (LSE) published a 7-essay roundtable in Texas National Security Review on shifts in the global nuclear order across Europe, Latin America, Middle East, South Asia, China & the Korean Peninsula.

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 8d

This op-ed article in @warontherocks.bsky.social is co-authored with Gregory Winger (University of Maryland) and Miguel Gomez (National University of Singapore).

Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 8d

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Despite Trump's affirmations of U.S. defense commitments to countering China in the Indo-Pacific, our reseacher @laurensukin.bsky.social
claims that relative relief felt by Indo-Pacific allies is premature. Many key mechanisms and personnel are deteriorating. warontherocks.com/2025/09/wash...

Washington’s Ironclad Commitments Are Rusting in the Indo-Pacific

The recent wave of meetings between U.S. officials and allies in the Indo-Pacific have been studies in the duality of American diplomacy under President

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 20d

His main conclusions are:

🌎 What researchers experience in fieldwork is shaped by their preexisting position within the global order.

🏡 Fieldwork impacts the researcher's understanding of home and makes them question the distinction between themselves and the researched.

Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 20d

🛸 Using his fieldwork experience from the Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank and Mary Doria Russell's novels, Jakub Záhora argues that both sci-fi and fieldwork research are about what happens when one encounters "the Other".

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · 20d

📢 New article from Jakub Záhora in the @cambridgecria.bsky.social: How can science fiction help us understand the experience of conducting fieldwork in international relations?

Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

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Does CFSP co-ordination foster convergence? Voting behavior on nuclear weapons at the UN General Assembly

Although the European Union (EU) has sought to promote the approximation of the foreign policy positions of member states since it established its Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) with the...

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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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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Sep 8

🎙️ Náš @vbahensky.bsky.social byl hostem #SpotlightNews Aktuálně. Reagoval na proslov Marka Rutteho na Pražském obranném summitu, který opakovaně varoval před ruským zbrojením. Jak moc je realistické, že by Rusko mohlo opravdu obsadit například Lotyšsko?
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Straší šéf NATO zbytečně? Vpád Rusů do Lotyšska je reálný, varuje analytik | Aktuálně.cz

Mark Rutte opakovaně varoval před ruským zbrojením. „Strašení má trošičku v popisu práce,“ komentuje to Vojtěch Bahenský.

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Sep 4

🎙️ Co přinesl summit v Číně, kterého se kromě Vladimira Putina zúčastnili také zástupci Íránu, Indie, Běloruska či Turecka? Podle našeho výzkumníka Karla Svobody
zejména to Putinovu sílu a to, že část světa odmítá hegemonii USA. @ims.fsv.cuni.cz dvojka.rozhlas.cz/rusista-kare...

Rusista Karel Svoboda: Čínský summit ukázal Putinovu sílu i to, že část světa odmítá dominanci USA

Vojenské přehlídce v Pekingu, která připomněla 80 let od konce druhé světové války, předcházel summit Šanghajské organizace pro spolupráci. Zúčastnili se ho zástupci Ruska, Íránu, Indie, Běloruska či ...

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Sep 3

➡️ Celý program najdete tady: fb.me/e/3dw8XixGM

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Sep 3

🥳 Srdečně vás zveme na další večer plný debat TO JE KRIZE! Tentokrát s @voxpot.bsky.social, @amoklima.bsky.social a @iirprague.bsky.social. Těšit se můžete na debaty o AI a klima dezinformacích, české politice vůči Izraeli, oligarchizaci politiky a morálce v současných konfliktech.

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Aug 22

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Winning Hearts and Minds? How the United States Reassured During the Russo-Ukrainian War - Lauren Sukin, Stephen Herzog, Alexander Lanoszka, 2025

Decades of scholarship hold that great powers shore up global confidence during crises with strong demonstrations of resolve. A much smaller literature critique...

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Aug 22

Through surveys in 24 countries over 6 continents, they found that perceptions of U.S. restraint - rather than resolve - during this period of the war was the most appealing driver of support for Washington's policies.

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Aug 22

✒️ New #OpenAccess article in the JCR by our @laurensukin.bsky.social, co-authored by
@herzogsm.bsky.social and @lanoszka.bsky.social!

They examined the efficacy of US attempts to reassure allies and the public during the war in Ukraine, questioning whether restraint or resolve was more effective.

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Aug 22

🇺🇦 Co by se stalo, kdyby Ukrajina neměla jasně dané bezpečnostní záruky? O tom, ale i o Trumpovi, Putinovi a Aljašce mluvil náš ředitel @smetanamichal.bsky.social s
@jbelicek.bsky.social v @denikalarm.bsky.social.

➡️ Celý rozhovor: denikalarm.cz/2025/08/trum...

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Aug 21

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Peace Research Center Prague @prcp.cuni.cz · Aug 21

✍️ @zuzanakrulichova.bsky.social just published a new article in @coco-journal.bsky.social: She presents a systematic literature review on narrative approaches in IR, introducing agency-centric and structure-centric approaches.

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

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