Michal Smetana
Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University and Director, Peace Research Center Prague
Michal Smetana is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Director of the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP) and Head Researcher at Experimental Lab for International Security Studies (ELISS). He was previously a Fulbright Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). His main research interests include security studies, international relations and political psychology, with a specific focus on war, nuclear weapons in world politics, arms control and disarmament, norm contestation, frozen conflicts, and public opinion. His articles have been published in major scholarly and policy journals and he is frequently invited to comment on international security, geopolitics and foreign policy in media and podcasts. He is the author of Nuclear Deviance.
