People
Department head
Vratislav Havlík
department vice-head
- Europeanisation of substate actors
- party Euroscepticism
- Europeanisation of political systems
Peter Spáč
department vice-head
- transparency in politics
- local politics and elections
- Slovak politics
Professors
Stanislav Balík
- local politics
- state-church relations
- modern Czech politics
Vít Hloušek
- Euroscepticism
- political parties
- contemporary European history
Jan Holzer
- non-democratic regimes
- modern Russian politics
- contemporary Central and Eastern European history
Lubomír Kopeček
- political parties
- Czech and Slovak politics after 1989
- comparative politics
Zdeněk Kříž
- international security
- civil-military relations
- history of world politics
Associate professors
Monika Brusenbauch Meislová
- political discourse
- legitimacy of EU institutions
- United Kingdom - European Union relations
Roman Chytilek
- experimental PS
- electoral systems, voting
- political attitudes, political behavior
Vratislav Havlík
- Europeanisation of substate actors
- party Euroscepticism
- Europeanisation of political systems
Petr Ocelík
- political networks
- climate scepticism
- advocacy coalitions
Jan Osička
- energy transition
- energy markets
- political economy of energy
Michal Pink
- elections and electoral behaviour
- political elites
- territorial politics
Marek Rybář
- political parties
- civil service politicization
- roles and functions of ministerial adviser
Peter Spáč
- transparency in politics
- local politics and elections
- Slovak politics
Věra Stojarová
- Balkan politics and security
- Russia and the hybrid warfare
- far right and radicalism
Assistant professors
Zinaida Bechná
- security cooperation
- regional security dynamics in the Caucasus
- frozen conflicts in the post-Soviet space
Martin Chovančík
- European defence industry
- defence cooperation
- international sanctions
Otto Eibl
- political communication and marketing
- media representations of political issues
- voting behavior
Miloš Gregor
- disinformation
- political marketing
- political communication in times of pandemic
Martin Jirušek
- energy security
- geopolitics
- energy policy of key global actors
Jan Kleiner
- (social) cybersecurity
- governance and role of the state in cyberspace
- propaganda and disinformation
Hedvika Koďousková
- energy poverty
- energy policies
- energy transition
Miriam Matejova
- environmental security
- global environmental politics
- civil society and social movements
Veronika Velička Zapletalová
- EU Energy Policy
- energy governance
- Euroscepticism and EU Climate Policy
Vladimir Vučković
- euroscepticism
- small states/geopolitics
- populism in the Western Balkans
Junior researchers
Pavlína Kutnarová
- euroskepticismus
- Baltic states
- political identity
