Institute
ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
The Institute of International Studies (IMS) is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague (FSV UK), which was established in 1990 to respond to the current needs of the society. The IMS was founded in 1994 as the youngest part of the FSV UK. Its current structure is the result of a long-term process characterized, among others, by the deliberate formation of a new field of study "Area Studies." It is also positively influenced by the rising and changing demand of students, i.e. by satisfying the increasingly urgent "social demand" of the missing field of area studies, which is so important for further development in the practice of the Czech foreign and domestic politics.
Graduates of the study fields which are taught at the IMS are characterized by a contextually, regionally and methodologically based knowledge of modern history and of the legal, political, economic and socio-cultural background in those regions which are the contents of the Institute's scientific and pedagogical work. Furthermore, they orientate themselves in the practical consequences of recent historical events and essential contemporary problems and are equipped with basic analytic-interpretive skills. The graduates of these fields find jobs in all types of governmental and non-governmental institutions that focus on the issues of the respective regions, both domestic and foreign, in their historical and contemporary context.
News
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Decree of the IMS Director on Selection Proceedings within the Erasmus+
The Decrees of the IMS Director on Selection Proceedings within the Erasmus+ are available now -
Decree of the IMS Director on the study in SS 2021
The Decree of the IMS Director on the study in SS 2021 is available now. -
Book: IMAGINING BOSNIAN MUSLIMS IN CENTRAL EUROPE: Representations, Transfers and Exchanges
František Šístek from the Department of Russian and East European Studies is an editor of a new book IMAGINING BOSNIAN MUSLIMS IN CENTRAL EUROPE: Representations, Transfers and Exchanges. -
Book: IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT WAR: Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923
Ota Konrád from the Department of German and Austrian Studies co-edited a new book IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT WAR: Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917–1923. -
Transatlantic Seminar: The Biden Strategy and U.S. Global Strategy
Institute of International Studies cooperates with the EU4+ alliance universities on organizing a series joint international seminars entitled "The Biden Strategy and U.S. Global Strategy". -
Prof. Kučera received a silver medal from Charles University
Congratulations to Prof Jaroslav Kučera for receiving the UK silver commemorative medal for his life's work in the development of knowledge in modern history and for the development of FSV UK.
