Michal Smetana

Michal Smetana is an Associate Professor at Charles University, Director of the Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP), Head Researcher at the Experimental Lab for International Security Studies (ELISS), and a Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project “Microfoundations of Collective Defence” (MICROCODE). Previously, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). 

His main research interests lie at the intersection of security studies, international relations, and political psychology, with a specific focus on nuclear weapons in world politics, arms control and disarmament, norm contestation, frozen conflicts, and public opinion. His articles have been published in Security Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Affairs, Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Review, Contemporary Security Policy, Research & Politics, Conflict Management and Peace Science, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Interactions, Survival, The Washington Quarterly, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and many other scholarly and policy journals. He is the author of Nuclear Deviance.