Michal Smetana
Director
Michal is the Head Researcher and Coordinator of Peace Research Center Prague. He is also an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, and Head Researcher at the Experimental Lab for International Security Studies (ELISS).
RESEARCH FOCUS
In his research, Michal focuses on nuclear and chemical weapons in world politics, arms control and disarment, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, deterrence theory, political psychology, interstate wars, foreign policy attitudes, and norms and deviance in international affairs.
selected publications
Rosendorf, O., Smetana, M., & Vranka, M. (2023). Algorithmic aversion? Experimental evidence on the elasticity of public attitudes to “Killer robots.” Security Studies, 1–31.
Smetana, M., Vranka, M., Rosendorf, O. (2023). The “Commitment Trap” Revisited: Experimental Evidence on Ambiguous Nuclear Threats. Journal of Experimental Political Science
Smetana M., Onderco M. (2022). From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO. Journal of Conflict Resolution
Smetana M., Onderco M. (2022) Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians. International Studies Quarterly
Smetana M., O’Mahoney J. (2021). NPT as an antifragile system: How contestation improves the nonproliferation regime. Contemporary Security Policy
Smetana M., Wunderlich C. (2021). Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons in World Politics: Toward the Third Generation of “Nuclear Taboo” Research. International Studies Review
Smetana, Michal. (2019). Nuclear Deviance: Stigma Politics and the Rules of the Nonproliferation Game. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
contact:
Email address: michal.smetana@fsv.cuni.cz