Michal Kolmaš

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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 ...

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...

Otevřený dopis ANO ohledně výběru nového ministra životního prostředí - kde žádáme, aby nebombardovali dlouho budovanou politiku ochrany prostředí. sites.google.com/view/dopis-k...

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.

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...

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...

Scatterlings In This journey, someone will get lost, someone will gi…

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...

A Horizon meeting @cidape.bsky.social in Tartu under way. With a lot of great people!

Finally.

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...

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...

Lunch

View of the Czech side from Decinsky sneznik

Since 1990s, we started planting deciduous forests like birches to get rid of susceptible spruce monocultures. Looks much better now

Borders look way more friendly than a few decades ago. Germany to the left, Czechia to the right

Much of the ecological reconstruction here has been financed by the EU

Cottages have somewhat been reconstructed

Forest cover has expanded significantly here in the last few decades, esp. after the communists stopped cutting it down for whatever bs industrial reasons in 1970s and 1980s

Border between Czechia and Germany

As expected

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.

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...

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...

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...

Anyone knew aloes grow trees?

Not bad, ei?

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)

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.

Our forum on why is Czechia so pro-Izraeli has just been published in CJIR! Lowdown below.

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...

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

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/...

Crazy how this is not socially condemned