Ústav mezinárodních vztahů

Summary

• Employment
• Education
• Languages
• Areas of Interest
• Publications
• Conferences and Seminars

∆ Employment

November 2017–present: board member & policy director, Progresívne Slovensko
2015 - October 2017: senior researcher, IIR Prague
2011 - 2014: foreign policy advisor (accredited assistant) to Members of the European Parliament, Brussels
2013 - 2014: visiting researcher, Center For European Policy Studies, Brussels
2011: visiting lecturer, Comenius University, Bratislava
2010: visiting lecturer, Charles University, Prague
2007 - 2010: political risk analyst (part time), Exclusive Analysis, London 

2004 - 2006: researcher, Financial Times, Prague
2002 - 2004: correspondent and editor, daily SME, Bratislava

∆ Education

2008 - 2012: D.Phil (PhD), University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Department of Politics and International Relations, thesis: “Exporting Post-Communist Experience: Intra-Regional Diffusion and Learning in Eastern Europe, 2003-2011”
2006 - 2008: M.Phil (with distinction), University of Oxford, St Antony's College, Russian and East European Studies 

2003 - 2006: BA, Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, political science and international relations


∆ Languages

Czech/Slovak – mother tongue 

English – fluent

German – passive
Russian – passive

∆ Areas of Interest

Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU
European Neighbourhood Policy
EU integration and enlargement 

Foreign policies of new EU member states
Politics of the post-Soviet region 

Theories of democracy and democratization

∆ Publications

• “The Missionary Zeal of Recent Converts: Norm Entrepreneurs and Atlanticist Foreign Policy in Central Europe” (co-author Kristina Mikulova). In: Europe-Asia Studies 65:6, 2013.
• "Diffusion and Civil Society Mobilization in Eastern Europe’s Colored Revolutions”, In: CEU Political Science Journal, Vol. 4, No. 10, 2009.

Other publications

• (2016): European Strategic Autonomy: Distant but Irresistible. IIR Policy Paper, 12/2016.
• Šimečka, Michal – Tallis, Benjamin (2016): Czech Strategic Partnerships: A Practice in Need of a Vision. Policy paper of the IIR, September 2016.
• "Slovakia in the EU: An Unexpected Success Story" (co-authors Milan Nič and Marek Slobodník). In: DGAP Analyse No 6, May 2014.
• "The Visegrad Group and Germany: Towards a New Paradigm". In: CEPS Commentaries, 28 November, 2013.
• "Slovakia: Fewer Problems, More Europe, No Initiative". In: CEPS Commentaries, March 7, 2013.

∆ Conferences and Seminars

• Kulatý stůl: Proměny německé zahraniční politiky: ČR, Evropa, Svět. Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, 26. 9. 2017.
• Diskusia o umiernenej a radikálnej ľavici. Satori Stage, 13. 3. 2017. Záznam: http://poleblog.sk/diskusia-umiernenej-radikalnej-lavici-audiozaznam/
  
• Střední Evropa 2036: ještě pořád postkomunistická. Jak bude vypadat Evropa a svět za dvacet let. Ústav mezinárodních vztahů. 9. 11. 2016.
• Czech Foreign Policy in Turbulent Times 2. 8th International Symposium "Czech Foreign Policy". Czernin Pallace of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, 22. 9. 2016.
• The Czech-German Strategic Relationship. 8th International Symposium "Czech Foreign Policy". Czernin Pallace of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, 21. 9. 2016.
• The Czech-Polish Strategic Relationship. 8th International Symposium "Czech Foreign Policy". Czernin Pallace of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, 21. 9. 2016.
• “Making Revolutionary Waves? Structural Variables and the Diffusion of Mobilization Techniques in Colored Revolutions”, ASN Annual Conference, University of Columbia, NY, 15 – 17 April 2010.
• “The Missionary Zeal of Recent Converts: Norm Entrepreneurs and Atlanticism in Central Eastern Europe”, ASN Annual Conference, University of Columbia, NY, 15 – 17 April 2010 (jointly with Kristina Mikulova).
• “Diffusion and Civil Society Mobilization in Colored Revolutions”, ECPR 2009 General Conference, Potsdam, 10 – 12 September 2009.