doc. Jakub Eberle, Ph.D.

Jakub Eberle is an Associate Professor at the Institute of International Studies & Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Centre Prague. Jakub's research is situated at the intersection of international relations theory, social theory and politics of Central Europe. In particular, he is interested in the questions of ontological security, politics of subjectivity, discourse and emotions, critical security studies, hybrid warfare, digital sovereignty, as well as Czech and German foreign policy. He is the author or co-author of three monographs and more than a dozen articles published in International Political Sociology, International Studies Review, Foreign Policy Analysis, Political Geography, Political Psychology, and elsewhere. He had lectured at universities in Antwerp, Warwick, Düsseldorf and Prague.

Selected publications:

a) Books

• Eberle, Jakub – Daniel, Jan (2023). Politics of Hybrid Warfare: The Remaking of Insecurity in Czechia after 2014. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Eberle, Jakub – Miskimmon, Alister (eds., 2022) International Theory and German Foreign Policy. London and New York: Routledge. Originally published as German Politics special issue (30: 1)
• Eberle, Jakub – Handl, Vladimír (2020). Rozpolcená mocnost: Krize a rozpory německé zahraniční politiky. Prague: Charles University Press.
• Eberle, Jakub (2019). Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War. London and New York: Routledge.

b) Articles

• Eberle, Jakub (2023) Understanding German Foreign Policy in the (Post-)Merkel Era — Review Essay. International Studies Review. Vol. 25, No 2.
• Eberle, Jakub – Daniel, Jan (2022) Anxiety geopolitics: Hybrid warfare, civilisational geopolitics, and the Janus-faced politics of anxiety. Political Geography. Vol. 92, 102502.
• Daniel, Jan – Eberle, Jakub (2021). Speaking of hybrid warfare: Multiple narratives and differing expertise in the ‘hybrid warfare’ debate in Czechia. Cooperation and Conflict. Vol. 56, No. 4, 432-453.
• Eberle, Jakub – Smekal, Hubert – Ocelík, Petr – Krpec, Oldřich (2021). Political science in Central and Eastern Europe: integration with limited convergence in Czechia. European Political Science. Vol 20, No. 1, 183-203.
• Eberle, Jakub – Handl, Vladimír (2020). Ontological Security, Civilian Power, and German Foreign Policy Toward Russia. Foreign Policy Analysis. Vol 16, No. 1, 41-58.
• Eberle, Jakub (2019). Narrative, desire, ontological security, transgression: Fantasy as a factor in international politics. Journal of International Relations and Development. Vol 22, No. 1, 243–268.
• Eberle, Jakub – Daniel, Jan (2019). “Putin, You Suck”: Affective Sticking Points in the Czech Narrative on “Russian Hybrid Warfare”. Political Psychology. Vol 40, No. 6, 1267-1281
• Eberle, Jakub (2018) Desire as Geopolitics: Reading The Glass Room as Central European Fantasy. International Political Sociology. Vol. 12, No. 2, 172–-189.
• Daniel, Jan – Eberle, Jakub (2018). Hybrid Warriors: Transforming Czech Security through the ‘Russian Hybrid Warfare’ Assemblage. Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review, Vol. 54 6/2018, 907–932.

Monographs

• Eberle J., & Handl V. (2020). Rozpolcená mocnost. Krize a rozpory německé zahraniční politiky. Karolinum.

Chapters in monographs

Articles

• Eberle J. (2021). Germany as a Dividual Actor: Competing Social Logics and their Political Articulations. German Politics, 30(1), 14-30. UT-WOS link
• Eberle J., & Miskimmon A. (2021). International Theory and German Foreign Policy: Introduction to a Special Issue. German Politics, 30(1), 1-13. UT-WOS link
• Eberle J., & Handl V. (2020). Ontological Security, Civilian Power, and German Foreign Policy Toward Russia. Foreign Policy Analysis, 16(1), 41-58. UT-WOS link
• Eberle J., & Miskimmon A. (2021). Conclusion: German Foreign Policy in the (post-)Corona World. German Politics, 30(1), 140-148. UT-WOS link
• Eberle J., & Handl V. (2017). Völkerrecht statt Einflusszonen! Der "Plurale Frieden" fällt in altes Denken zurück. OSTEUROPA, 67(3-4), 121-127. UT-WOS link

Contributions in the conference proceedings

2017     Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize, British International Studies Association
Award for the best dissertation in International Studies defended at a UK university

2012    Sir Menzies Campbell Prize for International Relations, University of St Andrews
Award for the best MLitt Dissertation at School of International Relations

German domestic politics and foreign policy, Czech foreign and security policy, foreign policy analysis, European security, International Relations theory, social theory, politics of Central Europe.

2025-2028        INTERFER: Foreign Interference of Foreign Powers in the Context of Contemporary Geopolitical and Technological Changes – Team Member

2023-2025        Digital Sovereignty and Central Europe. Czech Science Foundation – Principal Investigator                      

2023-2025         RECLAIM: Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in Europe. Horizon Europe – Team Member.

2019-2022         Transforming Security in the Age of Uncertainty: Understanding the Rise of Hybrid Warfare in the Czech Republic. Czech Science Foundation – Principal Investigator.

2016-2018         Identities and Practices of a Dividual Actor: Interpreting Germany's Current Foreign Policies. Czech Science Foundation – Team Member