doc. PhDr. Smetana Michal Ph.D.

I am an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Director of the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP), and Head Researcher at the Experimental Lab for International Security Studies (ELISS). My research and teaching focuses on topics at the intersection of security studies, international relations and political psychology, particularly in the context of armed conflicts, nuclear and chemical weapons, arms control and disarmament, WMD proliferation, the deterrence theory, international norms and experimental survey methods.