In his latest article, Vojtěch Bahenský covers the Western debate on how to approach Russia and argues, that the mismatch between strategic goals and resources explains why the war could not be prevented. Read here.
New publication: "Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe"
Does partisan ideology influence whether Europeans are willing to use nuclear weapons, and if so, how? Michal Onderčo, Tom W. Etienne and Michal Smetana conducted a survey in Germany and Netherlands and found, that voters of right-wing parties are more likely to approve of the use of nuclear weapons in both countries. The article was published in Foreign Policy Analysis and is available here.
New study on conspiracy beliefs and health
New study ‘A longitudinal analysis of conspiracy beliefs and Covid-19 health responses’ was published in Psychological Medicine! Michal Onderčo was part of the research team led Jan Willem van Prooijen that worked on discovering relationships between conspiracy beliefs and health outcomes. Congratulations!
One or Many? Disentangling the Puzzle of Pro-Government Militia Deployment
In the new article by Kamil Klosek and Emil Souleimanov, you’ll learn why some countries harbor pro-government militias, while others do not. The study was published in the Studies in Conflict & Terrorism and you can now read it right here!
The lesser evil? Experimental evidence on the strength of nuclear and chemical weapon “taboos”
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?’