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How does today’s Russia function – and why might its regime not collapse despite serious challenges?

In an interview for Seznam Zprávy, a.s., Prof. Paul Chaisty, a leading expert on Russian and…

Current global issues – crises and conflicts shaping the world – also resonate with high school students!

Our researchers Jan Daniel and Jakub Koláček from the Department of Middle Eastern…

How does the conflict in the Middle East affect one of the world’s major powers – India?

The Israeli-American attack on Iran is not only #reshaping regional dynamics, but also having consequences…

Prof. Mariana Llanos, an expert on political institutions in Latin America from the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), delivered her lecture to the students as part of the…

Our ERA-AREAS project coordinator Karel Kouba took part in the ERA Chairs Projects in Czechia Workshop at the Filosofický ústav Akademie věd ČR | Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences,…

We are monitoring the current developments related to the situation in Venezuela following the intervention of the U.S. military, which transported Venezuela’s authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro…

Tensions in the Middle East are escalating significantly. An Israeli-American strike on Iran at the end of February killed several political and military representatives of the regime, including…

Four years have passed since the beginning of the full-scale Russian–Ukrainian war at the end of February. What was expected to be a military operation achieving its objectives within a relatively…

What are the greatest challenges facing democracy in Central America? And what does its gradual erosion look like in countries such as Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador?