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Michal Kolmaš

@michelpoiccard.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of IR, editor of CJIR (cjir.iir.cz) and @jird-jour.bsky.social. Environmental/climate politics, Asia, EU. Prague.

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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We've published a new article on the fallout of Trump's Venezuelan operation on the non-intervention norm. We believe this does not constitute the norm's death. Open Access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Venezuela, the United States, and the performativity of the non-intervention norm in international relations
Does the 2026 U.S. intervention in Venezuela mark the death of the non-intervention norm? We argue that the more precise question concerns the practices through which states acknowledge a norm even...
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚨 The Czech Journal of International Relations has just published a new article that provides a dataset of all instances when diplomatic missions raised rainbow flags 🏳️‍🌈. May seem unlikely now, but the US leads the pack. Full access here: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
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Jan Daniel @horalistani.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The Czech Journal of International Relations invites proposals for special issues to be considered for publication in upcoming volumes! Please send your proposal and a brief CV of the editor(s) to the CJIR editor-in-chief at michal.kolmas@mup.cz by February 28, 2026. cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
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Call for Special Issues | Czech Journal of International Relations
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New issue of the Czech Journal of International Relations is out and feautres, inter alia, this wonderful book forum on Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards. Much recommended, and as usual, Open Access: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
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Book Forum on Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right | Czech Journal of International Relations
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Nora Habelitz @nhabelitz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
CfP: 'Political #Emotions in Times of Conflict', 11-12 March 2026 in Florence @sns.it @cidape.bsky.social @sonjablum.bsky.social and I invite papers for our panel 'Emotional conflicts around Energy transitions in Europe: #Policy narratives and policymaking dynamics'. 👉Deadline 31.12.2025
Call for Papers for the International Conference entitled 'Political Emotions in Times of Conflict: Climate, Inequality, and Democracy', which will take place at Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) on 11–12 March 2026. Call for Papers for the International Conference entitled 'Political Emotions in Times of Conflict: Climate, Inequality, and Democracy', which will take place at Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) on 11–12 March 2026.
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Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Looking forward to a new colleague at the University of Vienna!:) New post doc position in Political Text Analyses with @chriswratil.bsky.social 👇
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Youve got to love Vienna
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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Our new article is out - we conducted experimental Citizen-Expert Panels to find out, how mini-publics on climate change work. And we've come up with a neat typology of mini-publics mechanisms. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📚 Want to publish a guest-edited Special Issue or Special Collection with us? 📆 Don’t miss the submission deadline for this year’s annual call on 30 October 2025! 👉 You can find more information on how to prepare your proposal here: link.springer.com/journal/4126...
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Well played, new chemistry Nobel laureate Susumu Kitagawa: "I chose chemistry as a career because … chemists understand the difference between ethanol and methanol" www.icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/people/14...
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Susumu Kitagawa | People | Kyoto University iCeMS
institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) strives to 1) create a new integrated discipline of cell-material sciences based on the cross-disciplinary field of chemistry, physics and cell ...
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Otevřený dopis ANO ohledně výběru nového ministra životního prostředí - kde žádáme, aby nebombardovali dlouho budovanou politiku ochrany prostředí. sites.google.com/view/dopis-k...
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Dopis k MŽP
Vážený pane předsedo, vážený pane prezidente, Česko od nové vlády očekává odborně kompetentní, praktickou politiku. Ministerstvo životního prostředí se v letech, kdy ho řídilo hnutí ANO, staralo o k...
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I got a chapter in this book that has 5.069 pages and costs 1.999 USD. will give it to my students as compulsory reading. wth. link.springer.com/referencewor...
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Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
The Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation presents the scientific background and current technologies in this multi-disciplinary area.
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
New in CJIR! Cross-national Salience of Marine Environmental Issues: Evidence from UN General Assembly Debates, 1993–2020 by Jan Karlas and Jan Mazač, both at @fsv.charlesuni.cuni.cz. Open Access: cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
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Cross-national Salience of Marine Environmental Issues: Evidence from UN General Assembly Debates, 1993–2020 | Czech Journal of International Relations
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
A little difficult to get into, but definitely worth it - a debut book by young South African poet Rešoketšwe Manenzhe. Brings a sad, poetic story of multiracial couple in early 20th century budding-apartheid SA. Recommended. www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...
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Scatterlings
In This journey, someone will get lost, someone will gi…
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
A Horizon meeting @cidape.bsky.social in Tartu under way. With a lot of great people!
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Finally.
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
New article alert 🚨 With @aleskarmazin.bsky.social and @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social, we surveyed the deepening cooperation between the EU and ASEAN, as well as its limits. Came out in Asia Europe Journal. Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
New article just published - together with @evrop-anka.bsky.social, @sonjablum.bsky.social , @maartenhajer.bsky.social, O. Císař and Till Hilmar, we introduce the concept of "political emotions" and show how it helps us understand the climate crisis. Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Border between Czechia and Germany
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
On my way to journey Czech mountains for a few days, 25km/day, mostly via Stezka Ceskem - a thousands km long path circeling the country.
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Our new book's ready for preorder - and includes three wonderful endorsements by Amitav Acharya, Linus Hagstrom ( @linushagstrom.bsky.social) and Dewi Fortuna Anwar. Hope it will be useful to all interested in the Indo-Pacific. www.routledge.com/Understandin...
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Understanding International Relations in the Indo-Pacific
Karmazin, Kolmaš, and Qiao-Franco deconstruct the concept of the Indo-Pacific and offer a timely, comparative, and multidimensional exploration of the region’s international relations. Addressing fund...
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Just in: We just publihed an obituary of Joseph Nye, who died a few weeks ago. It reviews Nye's work ranging from regimes, through soft power to US foreign policy analysis, appreciating the many contributions Nye's work has had on IR. RIP. cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
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Obituary: Joseph S. Nye Jr. (1937–2025) | Czech Journal of International Relations
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Anyone knew aloes grow trees?
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Not bad, ei?
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Our textbook coming up soon! Finally a proper resource for all interested in the Indo-Pacific (or so we hope with @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social and @aleskarmazin.bsky.social)
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I played a softball tournament today and being a European I lost everything. Though we played a Japanese team and ended 1:2 in 8th inning in a thrilling finale.
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Our forum on why is Czechia so pro-Izraeli has just been published in CJIR! Lowdown below.
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Why is Czechia so pro-Israeli? In a new forum of the Czech Journal of International Relations, we decided to find out. Several articles will come out soon, mapping narratives, historical roots, legacies of communism and others. The first one was just published open access cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
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Czechoslovak Support for the Founding of Israel in the Late 1940s: the Myth of Everlasting Friendship? | Czech Journal of International Relations
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Linus Hagström @linushagstrom.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The Swedish Defence University advertises a postdoc focused on ”narrative geopolitics” - or how widespread and emotionally charged narratives influence international security, great power relations, and geostrategic rivalry. Deadline August 31: fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Postdoc with a focus on narrative geopolitics
Description The postdoctoral position is part of the interdisciplinary research environment on narrative geopolitics, established with funding from the Swedish Armed Forces. The role involves interdis
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Crazy how this is not socially condemned
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
From this perspective, my research aligns most closely with the ethnographic approach often referred to as “deep hanging out”, where the researcher's sustained presence in the field becomes central to the ethnographic experience itself. -- Deep hanging out ftw.
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Just received a paper into my journal ending with the sentence: "And remember: Putin is a monster who feeds on your fears." welllllllllllllll....
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The French study of 15,000 people shows men emit 26% more pollution due to eating red meat and driving more. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Car use and meat consumption drive emissions gender gap, research suggests
The French study of 15,000 people shows men emit 26% more pollution due to eating red meat and driving more
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Zrovna jsme obdrželi zprávu z Národního akreditačního úřadu, že MUP získává akreditaci k jmenování docentů a profesorů v oboru Mezinárodní vztahy. V ČR jsme v tomto první a zároveň jediní ze soukromých škol. Požadavky budou relativně tvrdé, ale proces rychlý a férový. Stay tuned.
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Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🎉 Our March Issue is out! 🎉 It contains five original research articles on topics ranging from peace narratives in South Korea, populist diplomacy, and the role of sexuality in EU militarism to Azerbaijan's political economy and Sweden's NATO membership. 📚 Read here ➡️ shorturl.at/Avvv0
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New issue of the Czech Journal of IR has just been published celebrating the anniversary of 60 years of publishing the journal! It's a special issue edited by @nckc.bsky.social. Titled Grappling with the Climate Crisis in IR: Existentially, Psychologically, Interdisciplinarily - a short 🧵below
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Pavel Vondra @pavelvond.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Filipínský exprezident Rodrigo Duterte má pořád dost příznivců. Dnes o sobě dali vědět masovými akcemi u příležitosti jeho 80. narozenin. On u toho ale nebyl. Sedí ve vazební věznici v Haagu a čeká na soud. A my mu s @michelpoiccard.bsky.social věnujeme čerstvé vydání podcastu Asie v souvislostech👇
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Asie v souvislostech 66 - 3/2025 - Duterte v Haagu
Asie v souvislostech · Episode
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DG MEME @ecmemes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Comes with an impact assessment and nutriscore #madeinEU (from an idea by Der Postillon)
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New publication alert: I contributed to Handbook of mitigation and adaptation with a chapter on "Climate impacts of armed conflicts". Its an overview of the literature and a case study of the war in Ukraine. link.springer.com/referencewor...
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Climate Change Impacts of Armed Conflicts
While significant attention has been given to understanding how environmental degradation contributes to the onset and severity of armed conflict, much less has been written about how armed conflicts ...
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Two great new articles published in CJIR! Short 🧵: 1) editorial to the special issue by @nckc.bsky.social shows that the discipline of IR has been unable to cope with climate crisis, because it hasn't sufficiently appreciated its psychological and existential implications cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
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Grappling with the Climate Crisis in IR: Existentially, Psychologically, Interdisciplinarily | Czech Journal of International Relations
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Tohle je super - Vltava vydala namluvene povidky od nekterych z nejlepsich japonskych autoru. Doporucuju vltava.rozhlas.cz/kenzaburo-oe...
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Kenzaburó Óe, Šiniči Hoši, Osamu Dazai a Rjúnosuke Akutagawa. Mistři japonské povídky na Vltavě
Nobelista Óe, mistr šóto-šóto Hoši i oba klasici moderní literatury Dazai a Akutagawa patří k nejvýznamnějším japonským spisovatelům. Vedle domácí tradice na jejich tvorbu silně působila i západní lit...
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The fact that some people are considering Canada joining the EU is funny, cool and depressing at the same time. Im all in for some closer cooperation though. www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc....
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With its U.S. alliance under pressure, could Canada join the EU?
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Journal of International Relations and Development @jird-jour.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Pssst! 🤫👋 Curious about what topics JIRD’s March Issue may cover? We offer you a sneak peek into our article production with a first view of the upcoming cover page. Stay tuned for more…
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Last week to submit proposals to the CJIR Special Issue on Gender-based violence (especially in CEE). Go for it! cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cj...
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Call for Papers: A Special Issue on gender-based violence in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe | Czech Journal of International Relations
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Bluey is the best show for kids ever. m.imdb.com/title/tt7678...
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Bluey (TV Series 2018– ) ⭐ 9.3 | Animation, Family
7m | TV-Y
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
My new article has been published in Asian Perspective! It asks why Japan consistently ranks bad in animal protection lists despite long tradition of animal right norms. I argue that animal prot's been understood as a Q of individual ethics rather than policy necessity. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Project MUSE - Contested Environmental Norms: Cultural Narratives and Animal Protection in Modern Japan
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The Starmer - Macron idea of mediating between US and Ukraine seems quite logical and feasible to me. Would be beneficial to both and would return EU to discussion. Fingers crossed the demented US administration won't bombard it since they hate the EU so much.
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
On our way to Chicago #isa2025
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Michal Kolmaš @michelpoiccard.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is truly horrible for anyone with the slightest experience with similar unequal deals. The US should be ashamed of forcing Ukraine into signing it www.ft.com/content/1890...
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Ukraine agrees minerals deal with US
Kyiv hopes agreement on jointly exploring resources will improve relations with Trump administration
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