Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP)

PRCP is an interdisciplinary research Center of Excellence in the tradition of continental Peace Research. Our common analytical and normative focus is on the prevention, management, and transformation of conflicts in world politics. PRCP pursues three main aims: first, to advance theoretical and empirical knowledge in peace and conflict studies; second, to build a permanent platform for collaborative interdisciplinary research at Charles University; third, to provide an opportunity for junior scholars to develop their academic career.

Research areas

peace and conflict studies, international relations, security studies, area studies, international law, international political economy, political science, political psychology

Project members

• doc. PhDr. Michal Smetana, Ph.D.
• prof. Dr. Harald Müller
• prof. Michal Onderčo, Ph.D.
• prof. JUDr. PhDr. Michal Tomášek, Ph.D.
• doc. PhDr. Tomáš Weiss, Ph.D.
• Dr. rer. pol. Michal Parízek, M.Sc., Ph.D.
• Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Ludvík, Ph.D.
• Mgr. Vojtěch Bahenský, Ph.D.
• PhDr. Irena Kalhousová, Ph.D.
• PhDr. Jan Hornát, Ph.D.
• Mgr. Lucie Kadlecová, Ph.D.
• Mgr. Jakub Tesař, Ph.D.
• Mgr. Kamil Klosek, Ph.D.
• Mgr. Ing. Marek Vranka
• PhDr. Sarah Komasová, Ph.D
• Mgr. Ondřej Rosendorf
• Mgr. Tereza Plíštilová
• Mgr. Nikola Kurková Klímová
• Mgr. Barbara Dufková, LLM
• Bc. Barbora Srbová
• Bc. Barbora Novotná
• Mgr. Eliška Pohnerová

Selected publications

• Smetana M., O’Mahoney J. NPT as an antifragile system: How contestation improves the nonproliferation regime. Contemporary Security Policy
• Onderco M. Networked nonproliferation: making the NPT permanent. Stanford University Press
• Klosek K. C., Bahenský, V., Smetana M., Ludvík J. Frozen conflicts in world politics: A new dataset. Journal of Peace Research. 58(4), 849–858
• Smetana M., Wunderlich C. Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons in World Politics: Toward the Third Generation of “Nuclear Taboo” Research. International Studies Review
• Klosek, K. C. (©2022). Military interventions in Civil Wars: The Role of Foreign Direct Investments and the Arms Trade. Routledge
• Faude B., Parízek M. Contested multilateralism as credible signaling: how strategic inconsistency can induce cooperation among states. The Review of International Organizations.
• Wunderlich C., Müller H. Nuclear disarmament without the nuclear weapon states: The nuclear ban treaty. Daedalus. 149(2) 171-189
• Ludvík J. Closing the Window of Vulnerability: Nuclear Proliferation and Conventional Retaliation. Security Studies. 28(1) 87-115
• Hornat, J. Hegemonic stability in the Indo-Pacific: US-India relations and induced balancing. International Relations
• Onderco M., Van der Veer R. No more Gouda in Moscow? Distributive effects of sanctions imposition. Journal of Common Market Studies
• Onderco M., Smetana M., van der Meer S., Etienne T. W. When do the Dutch want to join the nuclear ban treaty? Findings of a public opinion survey in the Netherlands. The Nonproliferation Review
• Smetana M., Onderco M., Etienne T. Do Germany and the Netherlands want to say goodbye to US nuclear weapons?, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 77(4), 215-221
• Onderco M., Smetana M. German views on US nuclear weapons in Europe: public and elite perspectives, European Security
• Onderco M., Giumelli F. States, firms, and security: How private actors implement sanctions, lessons learned from the Netherlands. European Journal of International Security. 6(2) 190-209
• Martínková H., Smetana M. The Dynamics of Norm Contestation in the Chemical Weapons Convention: The Case of “Non-Lethal” Agents. Politics. 40(4) 428-443
• Parizek M., Stephen M. The Representation of BRICS in Global Economic Governance: Reform and Fragmentation of Multilateral Institutions. In: Soo Y. K. The Political Economy of the BRICS Countries. World Scientific. Vol. 2. 361-389
• Klosek K. C. Military Interventions in Civil Wars: Protecting Foreign Direct Investments and the Defence Industry. Civil Wars. 22(1) 87-113
• Smetana M. (De-)stigmatizing the Outsider: Nuclear-armed India, United States, and the Global Non-Proliferation Order. Journal of International Relations and Development. 23, 535-558
• Smetana M., Ludvík J. Between War and Peace: A Dynamic Reconceptualization of ‘Frozen Conflicts’. Asia Europe Journal. 17(1) 1-14
• Smetana M. Nuclear Deviance: Stigma Politics and the Rules of Nonproliferation Game. Palgrave Macmillan
• Wunderlich C. Rogue States as Norm Entrepreneurs: Black Sheep or Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing? Springer
• Müller H., Wunderlich C. Not lost in contestation: How norm entrepreneurs frame norm development in the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Contemporary Security Policy. 39(3), 341-366
• Lantis J. S., Wunderlich C. Resiliency dynamics of norm clusters: Norm contestation and international cooperation. Review of international studies. 44(3), 570-593

Contact

Peace Research Center Prague
Institute of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University
Doc. PhDr. Michal Smetana, Ph.D.
Office: Voršilská 144 – floor 5, Office no. 503
Phone: +420 224 090 511 (office), +420 723 065 858 (Michal Smetana)
E-mail: prcp@fsv.cuni.cz

More information

https://www.prcprague.cz

We are open to collaboration with new PhD students