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Peer-reviewed publications dedicated to PRCP by Year:

2025

• Onderčo, M., & Tago, A. (2025). Friends as neighbors? Geographic closeness improves support to other governments. Conflict Management and Peace Science

• Pinfold, R. G., Jones, C. & Ehteshami, A. (2025). Collision Course: How Iran and Israel Brought the Middle East to the Brink of War. Global Policy

• Svoboda, K. (2025). Authoritarian economic soft power: the case of russian and chinese investments in Central Europe. Post-Communist Economies.

• Plíštilová, T., & Lizcová, Z. (2025). Adopted or contested? Examining Israel’s strategic narratives in German media. Media, War & Conflict.

• Kocián, J., Mlynář, J., Maliukov, H., & Hofmeister, R. (2025). Story alteration in oral history retellings: Methods of comparative work. Narrative Inquiry.

• Pinfold, R. G. (2025). Myth Busting in a Post-Assad Syria. Middle East Policy.

2024

• Sukin, L. & Woohyeok, S. (2024). East Asia’s Alliance Dilemma: Public Perceptions of the Competing Risks of Extended Nuclear Deterrence. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

• Pinfold, R. G. (2024). ‘Warfare in the Middle East’, in Michael Charney and Kaushik Roy (Eds.)The Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare. Oxford: Routledge, pp. 427-449.

• Pinfold, R. G. & Peters, J. (2024). The Routledge Handbook on Israel’s Foreign Relations. Oxon: Routledge.

• Exner, J. (2024). The Europeanisation of Clean Sport: How the Council of Europe and the European Union Shape the Proportionality of Ineligibility in the World Anti-Doping Code. In Duval, A., Lindholm, J., Krüger, A.: The European Roots of the Lex Sportiva: How Europe Rules Global Sport. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 153-18.

• Kalhousová, I., Finkel, E. & Kocián, J. (2024). Historical analogies, traumatic past and responses to the war in Ukraine. International Affairs

• Kalhousová, I., Komasová, S., Plíštilová, T., Smetana, M. & Vranka, M. (2024). Elite-public gaps in attitudes towards Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: new evidence from a survey of Czech parliamentarians and citizens. East European Politics

• Ullrichová, E. (2024). New intergovernmentalism: European council and environmental policy. Journal of European Integration

• Onderčo, M. & Vignoli, V. (2024). Leader ideology and state commitment to multilateral treaties. The Review of International Organizations

• Frollová, N., Tkáčik, M. & Houdek, P. (2024). The leadership fallacy: How misattribution of leadership leads to a blaming game. Journal of Economic Psychology

• Smetana, M., Vranka, M. & Rosendorf, O. (2024). Elite-public gaps in support for nuclear and chemical strikes: New evidence from a survey of British parliamentarians and citizens. Research & Politics

• Hornát, J. (2024). Governmentality in the liberal international order: the responsibilization of small states. International Politics

• Onderco, M. & Vignoli, V. (2024). Regional socialization and disarmament preferences: Explaining state positions on the nuclear ban treaty. Contemporary Security Policy

• Kadlecová, L. (2024). Cyber Sovereignty: The Future of Governance in Cyberspace. Stanford University Press

• Pinfold, R. G, & Eiran, E. (2024). Annexation Attempts as a Two-Level Game: Israel and the West Bank in 1967 and 2020. Journal of Global Security Studies

• Daniel, J. (2024). The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon. Middle East Critique, 1–19

• Ludvik, J., & Bahensky, V. (2024). The Russia-Ukraine frozen conflict: Evidence from an expert survey, Comparative Strategy

• Onderco, M. (2024). Nuclear regime complex and state relations in nuclear ordering, Cambridge Review of International Affairs

• Hornat, J. (2024). 'In Defense of the Liberal International Order', The Prospect Foundation, Kajima Institute of International Peace, Institute for Security & Development Policy

• Hornat, J. (2024). Survival and status in the liberal international order: the grantors of recognition. J Int Relat Dev.

• Smetana, M. (2024). Microfoundations of domestic audience costs in nondemocratic regimes: Experimental evidence from Putin’s Russia. Journal of Peace Research

• Bruner, T. (2024). How to Conclude a Valid Peace Treaty for Ukraine? Právník, 2/2024, 170-183.

• Laryš M., & Svoboda K. (2024), Delegation of Economic Statecraft to Private Enterprises: Russia, China, and Turkey in Africa, International Studies Review.

• Hornat, J. (2024). Status enhancement and attention-seeking in the transatlantic relationship: the Visegrad states and the Trump administration. J Transatl Stud.

2023

• Heibach, J. & Jermanová, T. (2023). Coalition Maintenance during Democratization: Comparative Insights from Tunisia and Yemen. Middle East Law and Governance

• Pinfold, R. G. (2023). Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupation and Exits.

• Hornat, J. (2023). Beyond the Hub and Spokes: The Networking Logic and the Operationalization of US Indo-Pacific Strategy, Asian Affairs

• Hornat, J., Csicsmann, L., & Starzyk-Sulejewska, J. (2023). The Political Elite’s Thematic Framing of China in Recent Central European Elections. Issues & Studies

• Hornát, J., Šlosarčík, I., Tomalová, E., & Váška, J. (2022). International Organisations as Status Enhancers: The Case of the Czech Republic. Europe-Asia Studies

• Pospieszna, P., Onderco, M., & Van der Veer, R. (2023). Comparing public attitudes towards internal and external EU sanctions: the role of populism, trust and Euroscepticism, East European Politics

• Arndt, A. C., Horovitz, L., & Onderco, M. (2023). Russia’s Failed Nuclear Coercion Against Ukraine, The Washington Quarterly

• Smetana, M., Vranka, M., & Rosendorf, O. (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

• Onderčo, M., Smetana, M., & Etienne, T. W. (2023). Hawks in the making? European public views on nuclear weapons post-Ukraine. Global Policy

• Haverland, M., Van der Veer, R., & Onderčo, M. (2023). Is this crisis different? Attitudes towards EU fiscal transfers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. European Union Politics

2022

• Tomášek, M. (2022). Roots of Chinese Doctrine of International Law. The Lawyer Quarterly

• Onderčo, M., & Portela, C. (2022). External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear nonproliferation regime affects member states alignment. Contemporary Security Policy

• Pinfold, R. G. (2022). Security, Terrorism, and Territorial Withdrawal: Critically Reassessing the Lessons of Israel's “Unilateral Disengagement” from the Gaza Strip. International Studies Perspectives

• Bahenský, V. (2022). Can ‘Realists’ and ‘Hawks’ Agree? Half-measures and Compromises on the Road to Invasion of Ukraine. Central European Journal of International and Security Studies

• Onderčo, M., Etienne T. W., & Smetana M. (2022). Ideology and the Red Button: How Ideology Shapes Nuclear Weapons’ Use Preferences in Europe. Foreign Policy Analysis

• Van Prooijen, J. W., Amodio, D. M., Boot, A., Eerland, A., Etienne, T., Krouwel, A. P. M., Onderco, M., Verkoeijen, P., & Zwaan R. A. (2022). A longitudinal analysis of conspiracy beliefs and Covid-19 health responses. Psychological Medicine

• Smetana, M., Vranka, M., & Rosendorf, O. (2022). The lesser evil? Experimental evidence on the strength of nuclear and chemical weapon “taboos”. Conflict Management and Peace 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

• Rosendorf, O., Smetana, M., & Vranka, M. (2022). Autonomous weapons and ethical judgments: Experimental evidence on attitudes toward the military use of “killer robots”. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

• Klosek, K. C., & Souleimanov, E. A. (2022). One or Many? Disentangling the Puzzle of Pro-Government Militia Deployment. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

2021

• Bahenský V. Kritika konceptu hybridní války [Critique of the Hybrid Warfare Concept]. In: Kurfürst J., Paďourek J. Za zrcadlem: hybridní válka jako staronový fenomén mezinárodních vztahů [Behind the Mirror: Hybrid Warfare as an Old-New Phenomenon of International Relations]. Academia

• Hornat J. Hegemonic stability in the Indo-Pacific: US-India relations and induced balancing. International Relations

• Rosendorf O., Smetana M., Vranka M. Disarming Arguments: Public Opinion and Nuclear Abolition, Survival, 63:6, 183-200

• Onderco M., Smetana M., van der Meer S., Etienne T. W. When do the Dutch want to join the nuclear ban treaty? Findings of a public opinion survey in the Netherlands. The Nonproliferation Review

• Smetana M., O’Mahoney J. NPT as an antifragile system: How contestation improves the nonproliferation regime. Contemporary Security Policy

• Onderco M. Networked nonproliferation: making the NPT permanent. Stanford University Press

• Smetana M., Onderco M., Etienne T. Do Germany and the Netherlands want to say goodbye to US nuclear weapons?, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 77(4), 215-221

• Onderco M., Smetana M. German views on US nuclear weapons in Europe: public and elite perspectives, European Security

• Smetana M., Wunderlich C. Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons in World Politics: Toward the Third Generation of “Nuclear Taboo” Research. International Studies Review

• Smetana M., Vranka M. How moral foundations shape public approval of nuclear, chemical, and conventional strikes: new evidence from experimental surveys. International Interactions. 47(2) 374-390

• Onderco M., Van der Veer R. No more Gouda in Moscow? Distributive effects of sanctions imposition. Journal of Common Market Studies

• Onderco M., Giumelli F. States, firms, and security: How private actors implement sanctions, lessons learned from the Netherlands. European Journal of International Security. 6(2) 190-209

• Ostermann F., Kučmáš K., Onderco M., Smetana M., et al. Voting on the use of armed force: Challenges of data indexing, classification, and the value of a comparative agenda. In: D. Deschaux-Dutard (Ed.), Research Methods in Defence Studies: A Multidisciplinary Overview. Routledge, London

• Bahenský V. Potenciální Čínsko-americká válka a evropská obrana: Diskuse možných implikací a hrozeb [Potential China-US War and European Defense: Discussion of Possible Implications and Threats]. Obrana a strategie. 21(1) 53-70

2020

• Wunderlich C., Müller H. Nuclear disarmament without the nuclear weapon states: The nuclear ban treaty. Daedalus. 149(2) 171-189

• Martínková H., Smetana M. The Dynamics of Norm Contestation in the Chemical Weapons Convention: The Case of “Non-Lethal” Agents. Politics. 40(4) 428-443

• Parizek M., Stephen M. The Representation of BRICS in Global Economic Governance: Reform and Fragmentation of Multilateral Institutions. In: Soo Y. K. The Political Economy of the BRICS Countries. World Scientific. Vol. 2. 361-389

• Klosek K. C. Military Interventions in Civil Wars: Protecting Foreign Direct Investments and the Defence Industry. Civil Wars. 22(1) 87-113

• Doboš B., Pražák J., Němečková M. Atomic Salvation: Case for nuclear planetary defense. Astropolitics. 18(1) 73-91

• Müller H. What Are the Institutional Preconditions for a Stable Non-Nuclear Peace?. In: Sauer T., Kustermans J., Segaert B. (eds) Non-Nuclear Peace. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

• Onderco M. Nuclear Ban Treaty: Sand or Grease for the NPT?. In: Sauer T., Kustermans J., Segaert B. (eds) Non-Nuclear Peace. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

• Duffy F., Klosek K.C., Nardin L.G., Wagner G. Rebel Group Protection Rackets: Simulating the Effects of Economic Support on Civil War Violence. In: Deutschmann E., Lorenz J., Nardin L., Natalini D., Wilhelm A. (eds) Computational Conflict Research. Computational Social Sciences. Springer, Cham.

• Tomášek M. Právní systémy Dálného východu II. Karolinum - Charles University Press

• Hornát J. Kýrová L. America first: příčiny a kontext volebního vítězství Donalda Trumpa. Karolinum - Charles University Press

• Tomášek M. Formation of the Silk Road ­– Formation of Euro-Asian Business Relations. The Lawyer Quarterly. 10(2)

• Smetana M. Nuclear weapons and Peaceful Change. In: Paul, T. V., Larson, D. W., Trinkunas, H. A., Wivel, A. and Emmers, R. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations. Oxford University Press.

• Onderco M., Stoeckel F. Conspiratorial thinking and foreign policy views: evidence from Central Europe. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

• Faude B., Parízek M. Contested multilateralism as credible signaling: how strategic inconsistency can induce cooperation among states. The Review of International Organizations.

• Eberle J., Miskimmon A. International Theory and German Foreign Policy: Introduction to a Special Issue. German Politics. 30(1), 1-13.

• Eberle J., Miskimmon A. Conclusion: German Foreign Policy in the (post-)Corona World. German Politics. 30(1), 140-148

• Smetana M. (De-)stigmatizing the Outsider: Nuclear-armed India, United States, and the Global Non-Proliferation Order. Journal of International Relations and Development. 23, 535-558

2019

• Bláhová P. Nagorno-Karabakh: Obstacles to the resolution of the frozen conflict. Asia Europe Journal. 17(1) 69-85

• Smetana M., Ludvík J. Between War and Peace: A Dynamic Reconceptualization of ‘Frozen Conflicts’. Asia Europe Journal. 17(1) 1-14

• Ludvík J. Closing the Window of Vulnerability: Nuclear Proliferation and Conventional Retaliation. Security Studies. 28(1) 87-115

• Smetana M. Nuclear Deviance: Stigma Politics and the Rules of Nonproliferation Game. Palgrave Macmillan

• Wunderlich C. Rogue States as Norm Entrepreneurs: Black Sheep or Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing? Springer

• Hobza M., Vondráčková A. Target Market under MiFID II: The Distributor’s Perspective. Capital Markets Law Journal.

• Karlas J. Podávání zpráv v rámci lidskoprávních smluv: analýza hlavních univerzálních smluv. Czech Journal of International Relations.

• Klosek K. C. Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars: The use of States as Proxies in Military Interventions. Czech Journal of International Relations.

• Ludvik J. Strategic Patience Revisited: The Counterforce Effect. The Washington Quarterly. 42(4) 91-106

• Ganguly S., Smetana M., Abdullah S. & Karmazín A. India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute: Unpacking the Dynamics of South Asian Frozen Conflict.  Asia Europe Journal. 17(1) 129-143

• Müller H. Justice from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: The Impact of the Revolution in Human Sciences on Peace Research and International Relations. In: Fehl C., Peters D., Wisotzki S., Wolff J. (eds) Justice and Peace. Studien des Leibniz-Instituts Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden

• Parízek M. Negotiations in the World Trade Organization: Design and Performance. Routledge

• Smetana M., Onderčo M. Bringing the Outsiders in: Interactionist Perspective on Deviance and Normative Change. Cambridge Review of International Affairs. 31(6) 516-536

• Smetana M., Ludvík J. Theorising Indirect Coercion: The Logic of Triangular Strategies. International Relations. 33(3) 455-474

• Müller H. Justice and the nonproliferation regime. In: Harrington, A, Knopf, JW (eds) Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons. University of Georgia Press. 135-158

• Müller H. The Contestation of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime. In: Stephen M. D. & Zürn M. Contested World Orders: Rising Powers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-State. 202-241

• Onderco M. Variation in Delegation Size in Multilateral Diplomacy. British Journal of Politics & International Relations. 21(2) 421-438

• Smetana M. Weapons of Mass Protection? Rogue Asteroids, Nuclear Explosions in Space, and the Norms of Global Nuclear Order. In: Schmidt N. (eds) Planetary Defense. Space and Society. Springer, Cham

2018

• Müller H., Wunderlich C. Not lost in contestation: How norm entrepreneurs frame norm development in the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Contemporary Security Policy. 39(3), 341-366

• Lantis J. S., Wunderlich C. Resiliency dynamics of norm clusters: Norm contestation and international cooperation. Review of international studies. 44(3), 570-593

• Klosek K. C. Catalysts of violence: How do natural resource extractive technologies influence civil war outbreak and incidence in sub-Saharan Africa? The Extractive Industries and Society. 5(2), 344-353

• Stephen M. D., Parízek M. New Powers and the Distribution of Preferences in Global Trade Governance: From Deadlock and Drift to Fragmentation. New Political Economy. 24(6), 735-758

• Müller H. Response to Lewis A. Dunn’s Proposal of 'Strategic Elimination'. The Nonproliferation Review. 24(5-6), 435-443

• Smetana M. A Nuclear Posture Review for the Third Nuclear Age. The Washington Quarterly. 41 (3). 137-157

• Smetana M. The Prague Agenda: An Obituary? New Perspectives. 26 (1) 16-22