Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum vitae

Name, first names, scientific degrees

• PhDr. Pavel Pšeja, Ph.D.

Department/Faculty/University

• Department of Security Studies

Function, current position

• Assistant Professor

Education and academic qualifications

• 2003 - Ph.D./PhDr. Subject: Political Science Degrees at the School of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno Dissertation Thesis: Stranický systém eské republiky v létech 1989-1998. Analýza vývojových trend a možnosti teoretického zaazení (Party System of the Czech Republic in 1989-1998. Analysis of Developmental Trends and Possibilities of Theoretical Understanding) 1996 - M.A. Subject: Political Science Degree at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno Masters Thesis: Stranický systém eské republiky pod listopadu 1989 (Party System of the Czech Republic after November 1989)

Professional experience

• 10/2021 – now: Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science and Anglophone Studies, Metropolitan University Prague 10/2006 – now: Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and IR/Department of Security Studies, CEVRO University, Prague 10/1999 – now: Assistant Professor/Hosting Lecturer, Department of IR and European Studies, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno

Teaching activities

• Selected courses: International Relations, History of International Politics, Democratization and (De)Democratization in Globalized World, International Election Observation, Making of European Idea, Politics in Central Europe

Research activities

• Academic: Comparative Political Science (Political Parties and Party Systems), Comparative Democratization, Regime Changes and Transitions, Central European Politics, International Relations Practical: Project Management and Administration, Electoral Observation, Field Trainings, NGO Advocacy

Professional stays abroad

• 5/2019 - Series of lectures on Comparative Democratization University of Wroclaw, Institute of International Studies, Poland 11/2017 - Course on “Post-Communist Transformation in Central Europe and its Foreign Policy Implications”, Taras Shevchenko National University, Institute of International Relations, Kiev, Ukraine 3/2014–6/2014 - Visiting Lecturer, teaching a full course on “Transitions to Democracy: Post-Communist Central Europe Experience” University of Vienna, Institute of Political Science, Vienna, Austria 12/2013–1/2014 - Visiting Lecturer, course on “Democratization in Central and Eastern Europe”, University of Haifa, Israel, Faculty of Law 5/2013 - An intensive course on “Transitions towards Democracy”, University of Porto, Faculty of Arts, Portugal 6/2011 - Visiting Lecturer, teaching a full course on “Central European Politics”, University of Vienna, Institute of Political Science, Vienna, Austria 1/2006-6/2006 - Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (three courses, e.g. “Comparative Politics: Central Europe” taught through two semesters) Hawai’i Pacific University, College of International Studies, Honolulu, USA 4/2005-12/2005 - Commerzbank Professor in Political Science (four courses, e.g. “Central European Politics”), Otto von Guericke Universität, Institut für fremdsprachliche Philologien, European Studies, Magdeburg, Germany

Other academic activities, research projects, grants

• - Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel, August 2015, Research Fellowship, Masaryk Distinguished Chair - Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel, May 2014, Research Fellowship, Masaryk Distinguished Chair - Armed Conflicts in International Relations since the End of Cold War, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, Research Grant Award of app. 160.000 USD, 2009-2012 (co-solver) - Political Science in Central Europe, Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, Research Grant Award of app. 50.000 USD, 2007-2009 (co-solver) Political Parties and Representation of Interests in Contemporary European Democracies, Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, 2005-2007, Member of the Major Research Group

Non-university activities

• 9-10/2020 - Invited Expert Evaluator, Latvian Council of Science, Riga, Latvia 12/2018-3/2020 - Expert at the Committee of the Regions, Brussels Advisory to the Opinion “Regions' and cities' contribution to the development of Africa” Since 1/2017- Member of National Pool of OSCE/EU International Electoral Observers, Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, field missions to Armenia, 3/2017-4/2017, and Russia, 3/2018 Since 2016 - Monitoring and management of task groups of evaluators European Research Agency of European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Since 2016 - Evaluation of research and CSO project proposals, Supervision of research projects, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic 7-8/2011 - Invited Expert Evaluator, Research and Innovation Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus

Other significant professional accomplishments

• Since 3/2021 - Expert at Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-government, Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, Council of Europe, Strassbourg 12/2020 - now: Member of the Supervisory Board, Forum 2000 Foundation. Prague 12/2018-3/2020 - Expert at the Committee of the Regions, Brussels Advisory to the Opinion “Regions' and cities' contribution to the development of Africa” Since 11/2016 - Invited Country Expert for Varieties of Democracy Database www.v-dem.net, Gothenburg University, Sweden 9/2016 – now: Expert Evaluator, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, Prague 9/2014 – 9/2020: Chair/Member of the Board of Directors, Association for Democracy Assistance and Human Rights (DEMAS), Prague 3/2008 – now: Vice Chair/Expert Evaluator for the 7th Framework Program and Horizon2020, European Commission, Brussels

Major publications

• PŠEJA, Pavel. „‘Tři králové‘ české politologie devadesátých let a výzkum politického stranictví“ („Three Kings“ of the Czech Political Science in 1990s and the Research of Political Partisanship). In Michal Kubát, Stanislav Balík a Tomáš Lebeda. O demokracii a o všem, co s ní souvisí. Miroslav Novák sedmdesátiletý. Praha: Karolinum, 2024, p. 237-244. ISBN 978-80-246-5955-8. info
• HAVLÍK, Vlastimil and Pavel PŠEJA. Stranicko-politický systém (od roku 1989) (The party system (since 1989)). In Karel Schelle; Jaromír Tauchen. Encyklopedie českých právních dějin. XVI. svazek, Správa veřejná - Suché. 1st ed. Plzeň; Ostrava: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk a Key Publishing, 2019, p. 828-839. ISBN 978-80-7380-761-0. info
• BALÍK, Stanislav, Vít HLOUŠEK, Jan HOLZER, Lubomír KOPEČEK, Pavel PŠEJA and Andrew Lawrence ROBERTS. Od Palackého k Babišovi : Česká politika 19. až 21. století (From Palacký to Babiš : Czech politics from the 19th to the 21st century). 1. vyd. Praha, Brno: Dokořán, Masarykova univerzita, 2019, 349 pp. ISBN 978-80-7363-968-6. URL info
• BALÍK, Stanislav, Vít HLOUŠEK, Lubomír KOPEČEK, Jan HOLZER, Pavel PŠEJA and Andrew Lawrence ROBERTS. Czech Politics : From West to East and Back Again. Opladen: Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2017, 278 pp. ISBN 978-3-8474-0585-6. web nakladatele info
• KOŘAN, Michal, Jan BLINKA, Vít BORČANY, Vít DOSTÁL, Pavlína JANEBOVÁ, Jana JUZOVÁ, Petr KOLÁŘ, Šárka MICHKOVÁ, Michal MOCHŤAK, Barbora PADRTOVÁ, Michaela PAVLÍKOVÁ and Pavel PŠEJA. Aktéři a tvorba české zahraniční politiky (Actors and making of the Czech Foreign policy). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016, 413 pp. Politologická řada, sv. č. 63. ISBN 978-80-210-8774-3. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel, Petr SUCHÝ, Oldřich KRPEC and Zdeněk KŘÍŽ. Moc a zájmy v mezinárodním systému. Procesy, aktéři a problémy v mezinárodních vztazích (Power and Interests in the International System. Processes, Actors, and Issues in the International Relations). Brno: CDK, 2015, 368 pp. ISBN 978-80-7325-409-4. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel and Zuzana VRÁNOVÁ. Příčiny války optikou teorií MV: na cestě k jednotě či různosti? (The causes of war as viewed by IR theories: on the road towards unity or divergence?). Politologický časopis. Brno: MU, 2012, XIX., No 1, p. 67-85, 18 pp. ISSN 1211-3247. info
• HOLZER, Jan and Pavel PŠEJA. Twenty Years of Czech Political Science: On the Edge of Maturity. In Political Science in Central-East Europe. Diversity and Convergence. 1st ed. Opladen & Farmington Hills: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2010, p. 103-118. IPSA AISP. ISBN 978-3-86649-293-6. info
• HLOUŠEK, Vít and Pavel PŠEJA. Europeanization of Political Parties and the Party System in the Czech Republic. In HAUGHTON, Tim. Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe. Does EU Membership Matter? Abingdon: Routledge, 2010, p. 101-127. NA. ISBN 978-0-415-56749-7. info
• HLOUŠEK, Vít and Pavel PŠEJA. Europeanization of Political Parties and the Party System in the Czech Republic. Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. Abingdon: Routledge. Taylor and Francis Group, 2009, vol. 25, No 4, p. 513-539. ISSN 1352-3279. info
• KOPEČEK, Lubomír and Pavel PŠEJA. Czech Social Democracy and its cohabitation with the Communist Party: The story of a neglected affair. Communist and post-communist studies. Los Angeles: Elsevier, 2008, vol. 41, No 3, p. 317-338. ISSN 0967-067X. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel. Holding the Ground: Communism and Political Parties in the Post-Communist Czech Republic. In BACKES, Uwe, Tytus JASKULOWSKI and Abel POLESE. Totalitarismus und Transformation. Defizite der Demokratiekonsolidierung in Mittel- und Osteuropa. 1st ed. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, p. 135-154. Schriften des Hannah-Arendt-Instituts, 37. ISBN 978-3-525-36911-1. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel and Miroslav MAREŠ. Partis agrariens et paysans en République tcheque (Agrarian and Rural Parties in the Czech Republic). In SEILER, Daniel-Louis and Jean-Michel DE WAELE. Les partis agrariens et paysans en Europe. 1st ed. Bruxelles: Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 2008, p. 139-151. Science Politique. ISBN 978-2-8004-1436-2. info
• HLOUŠEK, Vít and Pavel PŠEJA. Evropeizace politických stran a stranického systému v České republice (Europeanization of political parties and party system in the Czech Republic). Politologický časopis. Brno: MU, 2008, XV, No 4, p. 299-317. ISSN 1211-3247. info
• HOLZER, Jan and Pavel PŠEJA. Na cestě ke světlým zítřkům aneb česká politologie patnáct let po (On the Road Towards a Glorious Future, or Czech Political Science Fifteen Years Later). Politologický časopis. Brno: MU, 2007, XIV, No 1, p. 61-70. ISSN 1211-3247. info
• HOLZER, Jan and Pavel PŠEJA. Politologia Czeska: pietnasce lat rozwoju (Czech Political Science: Fifteen Years of Development). In Politologia w Polsce. Stan badaň i perspektywy. 1st ed. Wroclaw: Wydawnictwo UW, 2007, p. 109-131. sv. 5. ISBN 83-914951-4-0. info
• HAVLÍK, Vlastimil and Pavel PŠEJA. Evropeizace jako předmět výzkumu v sociálních vědách (Europeanization as a research object in social science). Sociální studia. Brno: Fakulta sociálních studií, 2007, vol. 2007, No 3, p. 7-16, 7 pp. ISSN 1214-813X. info
• KOPEČEK, Lubomír and Pavel PŠEJA. ČSSD a KSČM: na cestě ke spojenectví? Nástin souvztažností vývoje a vzájemných vlivů (The Czech Social Democratic Party and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: On the Road Towards Partnership? An Outline of Mutual Influence and Correlations in their Development). Politologická revue. Praha: Česká společnost pro politické vědy, 2007, XIII, No 2, p. 35-59. ISSN 1211-0353. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel. Vývoj ODS a jejího postavení ve stranickém systému ČR (Civic Democratic Party: Development of its Position in the Party System of the Czech Republic). In BALÍK, Stanislav and A KOL. Občanská demokratická strana a česká politika. ODS v českém politickém systému v letech 1991-2006. 1st ed. Brno: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury, 2006, p. 7-17. CDK. ISBN 80-7325-079-9. info
• FIALA, Petr, Vít HLOUŠEK, Markéta PITROVÁ, Pavel PŠEJA and Petr SUCHÝ. Evropeizace politických stran a zájmových skupin: základní problémy a směry analýzy (The Europeanization of Political Parties and Pressure Groups: Basic Problems and Directions of Analysis). Politologický časopis. Brno: MU, 2006, XIII, No 1, p. 3-26. ISSN 1211-3247. info
• KRPEC, Oldřich and Pavel PŠEJA. Ekonomika jako aspekt výzkumu v mezinárodních vztazích – Mezinárodní politická ekonomie (Economy as an Aspect of International Relations Study - International Political Economy). In KRPEC, Oldřich and Pavel PŠEJA. Mezinárodní politická ekonomie. Brno: Mezinárodní politologický ústav, 2006, p. 7-21, 14 pp. Studie 44. ISBN 80-210-4121-8. info
• KRPEC, Oldřich and Pavel PŠEJA. Mezinárodní politická ekonomie (International Political Economy). 1st ed. Brno: MPÚ MU, 2006, 159 pp. Studie 44. ISBN 80-210-4121-8. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel and Stanislav BALÍK. Perechod k demokratii – češskij opyt (Transition towards Democracy: Czech Experience). 1st ed. Brno: CDK, 2006, 315 pp. není. ISBN 80-7325-104-3. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel. Stranický systém České republiky. Politické strany a jejich vývoj 1989-1998 (Party System of the Czech Republic. Political Parties and their Development 1989-1998). Brno: CDK, 2005, 201 pp. Srovnávací politologie. ISBN 80-7325-069-1. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel. Některé otázky výzkumu politických stran České republiky (Some Issues in Political Parties Research in the Czech Republic). In FIALA, Petr and Maxmilián STRMISKA. Víceúrovňové vládnutí: teorie, přístupy, metody. Brno: CDK, 2005, p. 242-253. ISBN 80-7325-074-8. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel. Al-ahzáb as-sijásíja wa 'intiqál al-Džumhúríja 't-tšíkíja ilá 'd-dímuqrátíja (Political Parties, Czech Republic and Transition to Democracy). In BALÍK, Stanislav and Pavel PŠEJA. `amalíjat biná' al-mu'assasát ad-dímuqrátíja: Dirását min al-Džumhúríja 't-tšíkíja. 1st ed. Brno-Baghdad: Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury-International Republican Institute, 2005, p. 165-178. ISBN 80-7325-058-6. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel. Vývoj a povaha teorie mezinárodních vztahů (Evolution and Nature of International Relations Theory). In PŠEJA, Pavel. Přehled teorií mezinárodních vztahů. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, Mezinárodní politologický ústav, 2005, p. 11-23. ISBN 80-210-3837-3. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel. Přehled teorií mezinárodních vztahů (Theories of International Relations: An Overview). Brno: MPU MU, 2005, 160 pp. Studie 36. ISBN 80-210-3837-3. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel and Stanislav BALÍK. Amalíjat biná' al-mu'assasát ad-dímuqrátíja: Dirását min al-Džumhúríja 't-tšíkíja. 1st ed. Brno/Baghdad: CDK/IRI, 2005, 259 pp. ISBN 80-7325-058-6. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel. Občanské fórum jako katalysátor vývoje stranického systému ČR (Civic Forum as an Agency in the Development of the Czech Party System). Politologický časopis. Brno: MU, 2004, XI, No 3, p. 316-327. ISSN 1211-3247. info
• PŠEJA, Pavel. Občanská demokratická strana jako hlavní dědic OF a agens stranického systému ČR (1991-1998) (Civic Democratic Party as the Major Heir to the Civic Forum and an Agent of the Party System of the Czech Republic). Politologický časopis. Brno: MU, 2004, XI, No 4, p. 453-472. ISSN 1211-3247. info
• HOLZER, Jan and Pavel PŠEJA. First decade of Czech political science - issues, research, methods. In CABADA, Ladislav. Contemporary Questions of Central European Politics. Plzeň: FHS ZČU, 2003, p. 234-248. ??? ISBN 80-86473-27-9. info
• HOLZER, Jan and Pavel PŠEJA. Political Science - Czech Republic. In KAASE, Max and Vera SPARSCHUH. Three Social Science Disciplines in Central and Eastern Europe. Handbook on Economics, Political Science and Sociology (1989-2001). Bonn/Berlin - Budapest: Social Science Information Centre - Collegium, 2002, p. 226-245. ??? ISBN 3-8206-0139-2. info
• FIALA, Petr, Miroslav MAREŠ and Pavel PŠEJA. Formation of the System of Political Parties in the Czech Republic 1989-1992. Studia Polityczne. Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk, 2001, vol. 1, No 12, p. 145-162. ISSN 1230-3135. info
• FIALA, Petr, Miroslav MAREŠ and Pavel PŠEJA. The development of political parties and the party system. In VEČERNÍK, Jiří and Petr MATĚJŮ. Ten years of rebuilding capitalism: Czech society after 1989. Praha: Academia, 1999, p. 273-294. ISBN 80-200-0774-1. info
• FIALA, Petr, Jan HOLZER, Miroslav MAREŠ and Pavel PŠEJA. Komunismus v České republice. Vývojové, systémové a ideové aspekty působení KSČM a dalších komunistických organizací v české politice (Communism in Czech Republic. Development, System and Idea Aspects of the Activities of KSČM and other Communist Organizations in Czech Politics). 1st ed. Brno: MPÚ MU, 1999, 315 pp. monografie. ISBN 80-210-2249-3. info

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