A new article by Michal Smetana, Marek Vranka, and Ondřej Rosendorf has been published in Conflict Management and Peace Science! Our researchers present the results of a survey experiment, seeking to answer the question of whether people are more averse to the use of nuclear or chemical weapons.
Let us introduce the Nuclear Taboo Database!
At our new webpage nuclear-taboo.eu you can now search through a database of academic literature that examines one of the most intriguing puzzles in our field: Why have nuclear weapons not been used in military conflict since 1945?
New Publication: "From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO."
A new paper by Michal Smetana & Michal Onderčo has just been published in Journal of Conflict Resolution! The paper reports findings from the 2021 survey experiment in Russia, which investigated Russian public support for nuclear weapon use in the hypothetical conflict with NATO in the Baltics. Read here!
PRCP Policy Brief #017
Nikola Kurková Klímová wrote our new Policy Brief titled ‘Special tribunal for Ukraine: A way forward for international criminal justice?’
PRCP Annual Conference 2022
The Annual Conference of the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP) is organized together with the Institute of Political Studies, Political Science Club, and Common Law Society.
This year, our distinguished speakers will discuss various aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian War, namely, its implications for the future of the world order and the potentiality of nuclear escalation.
“Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons” - new publication in International Studies Quarterly
We are proud to announce the publication of a new article by Michal Smetana and Michal Onderčo. The article “Elite-Public Gaps in Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons: New Evidence from a Survey of German Citizens and Parliamentarians” was published in the prestigious journal International Studies Quarterly and it systematically examines the differences between elite and public views of nuclear weapons in Germany.
Czech Attitudes towards Israel - a new study by PRCP and HCIS scholars
We are excited to share with you a report containing the results of our latest study on Czech attitudes towards Israel. The study emerged from a tight collaboration with the Herzl Center for Israeli Studies and as a part of larger project whose goal is to map public attitudes toward Israel in Central European countries, particularly in the V4 countries and Germany.
Federal Cross of Merit for Harald Müller
On May 3, our principal investigator and supervisor, Harald Müller, was awarded the Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Congratulations, Harald!