Biography
Radek Buben is the Head of Department of Latin American Studies (OLAS / former Center for Ibero-American Studies) Faculty of Arts, Charles University. He also served as the head of Department of Political Science of the same faculty.
In the academic year of 2014/2015, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Queen Mary University of London. He teaches modern history and politics of Latin America and Southern Europe and theories of autocratic rule. He focuses on comparative politics and contemporary political development of the Americas and Southern Europe.
He published a monograph on populism and several articles on politics in Latin America, especially on Nicaragua. His works were published by Current History, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Revista de Ciencia Política and others.