Dr. Irena Kalhousová

Dr. Irena Kalhousová

Posts:

  • Department of Political Science
  • Secretariat of the Institute of International Studies

E-mail: irena.kalhousova@fsv.cuni.cz

Telephone: +420 267 224 264

Website

Supervised thesis

Rooms: No. C622, Jinonice, building C

Consultations

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4446-1867

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Monographs

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Contributions in the conference proceedings

Israel: Politics and Society (winter 2022), The Israeli-Arab/Palestinian Conflict (winter 2022), History, Memory, and Politics: Central Europe and Israel (spring 2023), Israel’s Foreign Policy Towards the US, Europe and Russia (spring 2023)

Israel, Central Europe/EU/USA and Relations with Israel, Contemporary Conflicts in the Middle East

2022-2026 PRIMUS: A four-year research grant, Charles University, CZ
Interdisciplinary research at the intersection of foreign policy and memory politics focused on how traumatic events affect international relations of European states.
- Primary Investigator: Lead an international, seven-member research team.
- Topic: “The Past is Present: The Use and Misuse of Traumatic Historical Events in Foreign Policy.”
- Budget: $490.000

2020-2023 e-NOTE: European Network on Teaching Excellence, funded by the EU’s Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership Framework Research focused on “teaching excellence” in Higher Education in the EU. In cooperation with six universities across Europe.
- Research Fellow: Develop best practices in the field of online and offline teaching

2020 – to date Peace Research Center Prague, Charles University Center of Excellence Focused on the prevention, management, and transformation of conflicts in world politics.
- Research Fellow: Write academic papers and analyses on Israel and Israel and Europe.

Irena specializes in Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and in relations between Central European countries and Israel. In her PhD thesis (LSE 2019), she looked at relations between Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Israel. Using IR theory which builds on constructivism, historical analysis, and politics of memory, she analysed historical roots of foreign policies of the three Central European countries towards Israel. In her current research (PRIMUS) she compares how politicians in Central European countries use and misuse traumatic past experiences to justify foreign policy positions.

Israel, Middle East, Central Europe and Israel, Foreign Policy, Nationalism, Politics of Memory, Constructivism in IR