Jan Daniel Senior Researcher

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Jan Daniel is a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague. His research interests include politics and security in the Middle East (with a particular focus on Lebanon and Syria), peacekeeping, peacebuilding and statebuilding, Czech foreign and security policy towards the MENA countries and the debate on hybrid warfare. He regularly comments on the topics in both Czech and international media through interviews and articles.

He is the Head of the Centre for the Study of Global Regions at the institute and coordinates its Middle East and Africa Politics Research Unit.

He obtained his PhD in International Relations at the Institute of Political Studies at the Charles University. He has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute, Free University of Berlin or Orient-Institut Beirut. He is a member of Editorial Team of the Czech Journal of International Relations and the IIR liaison point to the Euromesco network.

Theoretically, he is mostly interested in anthropological and post-structuralist approaches to international politics and international political sociology.

Books

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Articles

Daniel, J. (2025). The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion: Preventing Violent Extremism in Lebanon. Middle East Critique, 34(1), 121–139. (Link)
Eberle, J., & Daniel, J. (2022). Anxiety geopolitics: Hybrid warfare, civilisational geopolitics, and the Janus-faced politics of anxiety. Political Geography, 92, 102502. (Link)
Daniel, J., & Presl, D. (2022). Russian Civilian Outreach and Information Operations in Syria. NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence. (Link)
Daniel, J., & Eberle, J. (2021). Speaking of hybrid warfare: Multiple narratives and differing expertise in the ‘hybrid warfare’ debate in Czechia. Cooperation and Conflict, 56(4), 432–453.(Link)
Daniel, J., & Wittichová, M. (2020). Forging Civil–Military Cooperation: Domestic and International Laboratories of CIMIC Knowledge and Practice. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 14(5), 596–614. (Link)
Eberle, J., & Daniel, J. (2019). “Putin, You Suck”: Affective Sticking Points in the Czech Narrative on “Russian Hybrid Warfare”. Political Psychology, 40(6), 1267–1281. (Link)
Daniel, J., & Eberle, J. (2018). Hybrid Warriors: Transforming Czech Security through the ‘Russian Hybrid Warfare’ Assemblage. Sociologický Časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 54(6), 907–932. (Link)
Daniel, J. (2017). Building sovereigns? The UN peacekeeping and strengthening the authority of the state in Lebanon and Mali. Global Change, Peace & Security, 29(3), 229–247. (Link)
Daniel, J. (2015). Criminal Governance and Insurgency: The Rio de Janeiro Experience. Central European Journal of International and Security Studies, 9(4). (Link)
Daniel, J., & Rychnovská, D. (2015). O mapách, moci a marginalizaci: Význam mezinárodní politické sociologie v českém výzkumu zahraniční a bezpečnostní politiky. Mezinárodní vztahy, 50(4), Article 4. (Link)
Daniel, J., & Rychnovská, D. (2015). Mezinárodní politická sociologie: Výzkum praxe bezpečnosti. Mezinárodní Vztahy, 50(1), 26–45. (Link)
Daniel, J. (2014). Vládnutí nestátních ozbrojených aktérů v selhávajících státech: Případ Hizballáhu. Mezinárodní Vztahy, 49(2), 32–51. (Link)

Research Projects

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The EU and its neighbours: how to develop relations in times of heightened geopolitical tensions?

28. 11. 2024 Jan Daniel Martin Laryš Jan Švec Pelin Ayan Musil

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Czech and Norwegian Perspectives on Resilience in a Post-invasion-of Ukraine Context

1. 6. 2023 Jan Daniel Eskil Jakobsen Pernille Rieker

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