Other Projects

Domestic or International Projects in Which Researchers of the IIR Take Part

Globalization and the Czech Republic (the project has already been finished)

Project Head Researcher
Zuzana Lehmannová

Project Fellow Researchers
Jan Eichler

The project’s aim was to capture the main areas of globalization: economics, politics, ecology, culture, and security. Nine authors participated altogether. Mr. Eichler’s contribution was entitled “Globalization and international security relations.” On 42 pages, he focused predominantly on changes of understanding security after the Cold War. Further on, it evaluated the most important armed conflicts of this period. A special attention was paid to terrorism and WMD proliferation as the most serious security threats of the 21st century.

History of the Occupied Czech Borderland – Regions Excluded from Third Reich Sudetenland District (the project has already been finished)

Project Head Researcher
Zdeněk Radvanovský, Václav Kural

This project started in 2002 and focused on the Czech-German relations development, especially in the time of Munich (and the role SdP played), and the political and economic history of the Czech borderland that were occupied but not made part of the Third Reich Sudetenland District between 1938 and 1945.

Case studies for international economic relations (the project has already been finished)

Project Head Researcher
Ingeborg Němcová

Project Fellow Researchers
Ondřej Horký

Beneficiary: University Development Fund (FRVŠ)
Time frame: January 2006 - December 2006
Project description: The creation of three case studies for students who study courses of the Department of World Economy.
Outcomes:
Horký, Ondřej - Němečková Tereza. "Transformace sociální péče v Srbsku" [The Transformation of Social Care in Serbia]. In: Němcová, Ingeborg (ed.). Případové studie pro mezinárodní ekonomické vztahy [Case Studies for International Economic Relations]. Prague: University of Economics, 2006. ISBN 80-245-1148-7.