Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum vitae

Name, first names, scientific degrees

• PhDr. Pavel Pšeja, Ph.D.

Department/Faculty/University

• Department of Political Science and International Relations

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

• 12/2020 - now: Member of the Supervisory Board, Forum 2000 Foundation. Prague 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 10/2006 – now: Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and IR, School of Political Studies – CEVRO Institute, Prague

Teaching activities

• Selected courses: Mezinárodní vztahy, Vybrané problémy mezinárodní politiky, Dějiny mezinárodní politiky, 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

Most significant professional accomplishments

• see sections above

Major publications

• 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
• 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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