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Paul Kratochvil

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ID333592
NAMEPaul Kratochvil
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEKratochvil
SIGNATUREKRATOCHVIL P
AFFILIATIONSInstitute of International Relations Prague
ORCID0000-0002-3326-3814
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS25
TOTAL CITATIONS90
AUTHOR COUNT25
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6
  • International Approaches to Regulating the Introduction of New Buildings into Historic Environments. Current Trends from the Perspective of a Historian of Contemporary Architecture

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl•ARTICLE•Zprávy památkové péče•2026

    lnek se zabv zahraninmi pstupy k regulaci nov vstavby v historickm prosted. Rozebr dokumenty z vybranchnmecky a anglicky mluvcch zem, kter formuluj principy, jak doshnout vhodnho vztahu starho a novho. Nen vak ambicani v monostech tto stat pokouet se o celkovou komparativn analzu een tohoto problmu v rznch sttech. Jejm smyslemje poukzat na zkladn pstupy, kter se v tchto dokumentech ukazuj, a ilustrovat je charakteristickmi pklady. Sta se vnujeped…

  • Determinants of political polarisation in the context of democratic renewal: A study of public attitudes in Poland

    Katarzyna Kochlöffel, Pelin Ayan Musil et al.•ARTICLE•Third World Quarterly•2026•References: 44

    This article examines the dynamics of political polarisation in Poland in the context of democratic backsliding (2015–2023) and subsequent democratic renewal following the 2023 parliamentary elections. Drawing on newly released ActEU public opinion data, we demonstrate that the primary driver of polarisation during Poland’s democratic renewal was not the division between democratic and autocratic attitudes but rather a deep cultural conflict betw…

  • Religion and (Global) Politics: The State of the Art and Beyond

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl•ARTICLE•International Studies Review•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 38

    The religion–politics nexus has become a thriving field within the study of global politics. However, the fast development has translated only into a moderate diversification of the research. Building on Bourdieu’s analysis of the social field, this paper argues that this limited pluralization is related to the strong heteronomy of the field. This heteronomy has three “concentric” sources—the dependence on the field of politics, the continued inf…

  • Political economy of Catholicism: The case of the sacred-market network at World Youth Day in Panama

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Cooperation and Conflict•2022•References: 4

    This article explores the everyday political economy of the Catholic World Youth Day in Panama, which was organized in January 2019. The aim is to shed more light on the relationship between the market and the religious sphere and, in particular, on the everyday experience of the WYD participants, and their encounters with the market and market practices. In doing so, the article challenges several commonly held assumptions, such as the priority …

  • The Patriotic Turn in Russia: Political Convergence of the Russian Orthodox Church and the State

    Open Access•Gaziza Shakhanova, Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Politics and Religion•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 19

    Following two decades of a state-supported patriotic campaign, the Russian Orthodox Church has dramatically increased its presence in the public sphere: in the Armed Forces, in public schools and universities, and even in retirement houses and prisons. The Church's recent activities seem to have no territorial limits: they reach up to the space station “Mir” and the Russian Antarctic Station, as well as the (Russian) Orthodox believers in 62 stat…

  • Temporality and Geopolitics: The Case of Global Catholicism

    Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 63

    This article explores the role of temporality in geopolitics, particularly in geopolitics of religion. It argues that the spatial dimension of politics is always connected to temporality, as temporal politics is essential to the actors ́ spatial moves, since it legitimizes them and gives them meaning. To show the practical relevance of temporality in geopolitics, the article sheds light on the geo-temporal narratives of the largest religious acto…

  • Geopolitics of Catholic Pilgrimage: On the Double Materiality of (Religious) Politics in the Virtual Age

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl•ARTICLE•Religions•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 11

    This article explores geopolitical aspects of Catholic pilgrimage in Europe. By exploring the representations of pilgrimage on Catholic social media, it shows that the increasing influence of the virtual is accompanied by a particular reassertion of the material aspects of pilgrimage. Two types of Catholic pilgrimage emerge, each with a particular spatial and political orientation. The first type of pilgrimage is predominantly politically conserv…

  • The Patriotic Turn and Re-Building Russia’s Historical Memory: Resisting the West, Leading the Post-Soviet East

    Paul Kratochvil, Gaziza Shakhanova•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2020•Cited by: 11•References: 11

    In 2017, the draft of the law on patriotic education was submitted to the State Duma. The document clearly signaled that Russian authorities were starting to prepare for long-term resistance to external threats, both military and cultural. This development follows the adoption of five decrees with a similar focus. Exploring this “patriotic turn,” our research will focus on how power shapes collective memory and how the Russian patriotic campaign …

  • The end of democracy in the EU? The Eurozone crisis and the EU’s democratic deficit

    Paul Kratochvil, Zdeněk Sychra•ARTICLE•Journal of European Integration•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 20

    This article explores the impact of the Eurozone crisis on the EU ́s ‘democratic deficit’. It starts with a presentation of the main scholarly views of the EU ́s democratic deficit, distinguishing between four broad camps and showing how they differ in terms of their diagnoses as well as their solutions. Then the article moves to discussing the current relevance of the so-called ‘upgraded standard version’ of democratic deficit. Building on this …

  • Religion as a Weapon: Invoking Religion in Secularized Societies

    Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•The Review of Faith & International…•2019•References: 4

    This article explores how religion is invoked as a political weapon in Europe’s highly secularized societies. It claims that the new European populism has succeeded in rhetorically reconciling Christianity and a peculiar form of secularism as markers of a “civilized” identity, while merging Islam and specific “Oriental” ethnic features as the key signs of barbarism. As a result, the new cleavage does not run along the classic dichotomy of religio…

  • Papal Geopolitics: The World According to Urbi et Orbi

    Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl et al.•ARTICLE•The Review of Faith & International…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 36

    The Catholic Church (or the Church, in this article) is, despite appearances, one of the most influential geopolitical actors in the world. Its leaders are seen as moral and political authorities b

  • Newcomer, Normal Player or Regional Leader? Perceptions of Poland in the EU

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Matúš Mišík•ARTICLE•Politics in Central Europe•2015•References: 35

    This study analyses the status of the new EU member states and, in particular, Poland as it is perceived by the representatives of the older EU members. On a theoretical level, it argues that the transformation of the newcomers into “normal players” or even “regional leaders” is dependent on five specific conditions that each of these countries must fulfil. These range from (1) simple compliance with the EU’s basic norms and (2) a sufficient leve…

  • Nothing Is Imposed in This Policy!”: The Construction and Constriction of the European Neighbourhood

    Open Access•Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň, Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Alternatives Global Local Political•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 8

    The article argues that postcolonial, postdevelopment, Balkanist and East–West slope theories, which reflect the asymmetric relations between “Europe” and its former colonies or other regions on the periphery of the continent, are most likely to give an accurate analysis of the mechanism of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). We offer a new conceptualization of the European Neighborhood and suggest that the European Union (EU) constructs its …

  • The ideational clinch of the Roman Catholic Church and the EU: The Europeanization of the Catholic clergy’s discourse

    Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Politics•2014•References: 9

    The article explores the so far largely ignored question of the political relations between the European Union and the Roman Catholic Church. It analyzes the deeper mutual ideational influences of the two entities, asking whether there has been a convergence of views about several basic political notions between the Church and the EU. The analysis centres on the Church’s approach to four fundamental notions related to the EU – (1) secularism, (2)…

  • The EU as a ‘Framing Actor’: Reflections on Media Debates about EU Foreign Policy

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl et al.•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2011•Cited by: 17•References: 23

    This article explores the EU's ability to frame the public debates about its external policies. The article begins by broadening the current discussions about the three aspects of actorness – legitimacy, attractiveness and recognition – by introducing the EU's framing power as a fourth aspect of actorness. Then it proceeds to an empirical analysis of framing, which is based on a discourse analysis of the news coverage of Ukraine (2002–07) in prin…

  • The Lisbon Treaty and the Czech Republic: Past imperfect, future uncertain

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Mats Braun•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary European…•2009•References: 5

    This article explores the problems with the Lisbon Treaty (LT) ratification process in the Czech Republic and its repercussions for the EU. We will proceed in four steps: First, we will describe the recent developments in the Czech domestic scene regarding the elites ́ attitudes towards the European Union. Second, we will present a more detailed analysis of the Czech debates about the LT. In the third step, we will sketch some probable scenarios …

  • La politique orientale de la République tchèque et la Politique européenne de voisinage

    Paul Kratochvil, Elsa Tulmets•ARTICLE•Revue d’études comparatives…•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    Après 1989, les pays d’Europe centrale et orientale ont tous redéfini les priorités de leur politique étrangère, les orientant vers l’Ouest. Que sont devenues les relations avec les pays de l’ancien bloc soviétique ? Cet article est consacré à la politique de la République tchèque à l’Est et à la participation de ce pays à la Politique européenne de voisinage (PEV). La PEV, lancée en 2003 par l’Union européenne, s’adresse aux pays voisins de l’Un…

  • La politique orientale de la République tchèque et la Politique européenne de voisinage

    Paul Kratochvil, Elsa Tulmets•ARTICLE•Revue d’études comparatives…•2009•References: 2

  • The Discursive Resistance to EU-Enticement: The Russian Elite and (the Lack of) Europeanisation

    Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Europe Asia Studies•2008•Cited by: 14•References: 12

    This article explores the discourse of the Russian elite on foreign policy in general and on the European Union in particular, and identifies the main reasons for Russia's resistance to Europeanisation. At a theoretical level, the article builds upon the study of discourse conceived in ‘structural’ terms, and argues that discursive incompatibility at a deeper discursive level prevents the socialisation of elite members to attitudes more sympathet…

  • George Liska and political realism: On the tension between history and structure, and between norms and power

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2007•Cited by: 5•References: 38

  • Foreign policy, rhetorical action and the idea of otherness: The Czech Republic and Russia

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl et al.•ARTICLE•Communist and Post-Communist…•2006•Cited by: 2•References: 7

    This article employs the concept of rhetorical action in an analysis of the recent developments in Czech-Russian political relations. Through the discourse analysis of key Russian political speeches and official documents related to the Czech Republic, as well as Czech speeches tackling the same issues, we look at two different rhetorical actions employed by Russia to induce changes in Czech policy. The attempts to make Czech policy unacceptable …

  • Tone 4 and Tone 3 Discrimination in Modern Standard Chinese

    Open Access•Eva Gårding, Paul Kratochvil et al.•ARTICLE•Language and Speech•1986•Cited by: 13•References: 5

    Productions of Tone 4 and Tone 3 ( mài/măi, ‘sell’/‘buy’) in comparable sentences suggest that although the two tones are realized in different ways by different speakers in different speech acts, some features are constant. Tone 3 is connected with a low pitch level throughout the second half of the vowel and Tone 4 with a gradual fall over the main part of the vocalic segment. These observations were tested in a series of manipulations of pitch…

  • Stress Shift Mechanism and its Role in Peking Dialect

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Modern Asian Studies•1974•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    This paper explores the relationship between stress patterns of disyllabic constructions in the Peking Dialect of Modern Chinese and their grammatical structure. It suggests that the existing diverse stress patterns represent different stages of stress shift which is the mechanism employed to signal a formative grammatical process leading from loose syntactical to close morphological constructions. It finally proposes that, apart from the well-kn…

  • A Grammar of Spoken Chinese

    Paul Kratochvil, Yuen Ren Chao•ARTICLE•Language•1970

  • The Chinese Language Today: Features of an Emerging Standard

    Scott A Thompson, Sandra Annear Thompson et al.•ARTICLE•Language•1969

  • The EU as a ‘Framing Actor’: Reflections on Media Debates about EU Foreign Policy

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl et al.•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2011•Cited by: 17•References: 23

    This article explores the EU's ability to frame the public debates about its external policies. The article begins by broadening the current discussions about the three aspects of actorness – legitimacy, attractiveness and recognition – by introducing the EU's framing power as a fourth aspect of actorness. Then it proceeds to an empirical analysis of framing, which is based on a discourse analysis of the news coverage of Ukraine (2002–07) in prin…

  • The Discursive Resistance to EU-Enticement: The Russian Elite and (the Lack of) Europeanisation

    Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Europe Asia Studies•2008•Cited by: 14•References: 12

    This article explores the discourse of the Russian elite on foreign policy in general and on the European Union in particular, and identifies the main reasons for Russia's resistance to Europeanisation. At a theoretical level, the article builds upon the study of discourse conceived in ‘structural’ terms, and argues that discursive incompatibility at a deeper discursive level prevents the socialisation of elite members to attitudes more sympathet…

  • Tone 4 and Tone 3 Discrimination in Modern Standard Chinese

    Open Access•Eva Gårding, Paul Kratochvil et al.•ARTICLE•Language and Speech•1986•Cited by: 13•References: 5

    Productions of Tone 4 and Tone 3 ( mài/măi, ‘sell’/‘buy’) in comparable sentences suggest that although the two tones are realized in different ways by different speakers in different speech acts, some features are constant. Tone 3 is connected with a low pitch level throughout the second half of the vowel and Tone 4 with a gradual fall over the main part of the vocalic segment. These observations were tested in a series of manipulations of pitch…

  • The Patriotic Turn and Re-Building Russia’s Historical Memory: Resisting the West, Leading the Post-Soviet East

    Paul Kratochvil, Gaziza Shakhanova•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2020•Cited by: 11•References: 11

    In 2017, the draft of the law on patriotic education was submitted to the State Duma. The document clearly signaled that Russian authorities were starting to prepare for long-term resistance to external threats, both military and cultural. This development follows the adoption of five decrees with a similar focus. Exploring this “patriotic turn,” our research will focus on how power shapes collective memory and how the Russian patriotic campaign …

  • The end of democracy in the EU? The Eurozone crisis and the EU’s democratic deficit

    Paul Kratochvil, Zdeněk Sychra•ARTICLE•Journal of European Integration•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 20

    This article explores the impact of the Eurozone crisis on the EU ́s ‘democratic deficit’. It starts with a presentation of the main scholarly views of the EU ́s democratic deficit, distinguishing between four broad camps and showing how they differ in terms of their diagnoses as well as their solutions. Then the article moves to discussing the current relevance of the so-called ‘upgraded standard version’ of democratic deficit. Building on this …

  • Nothing Is Imposed in This Policy!”: The Construction and Constriction of the European Neighbourhood

    Open Access•Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň, Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Alternatives Global Local Political•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 8

    The article argues that postcolonial, postdevelopment, Balkanist and East–West slope theories, which reflect the asymmetric relations between “Europe” and its former colonies or other regions on the periphery of the continent, are most likely to give an accurate analysis of the mechanism of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). We offer a new conceptualization of the European Neighborhood and suggest that the European Union (EU) constructs its …

  • George Liska and political realism: On the tension between history and structure, and between norms and power

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2007•Cited by: 5•References: 38

  • The Patriotic Turn in Russia: Political Convergence of the Russian Orthodox Church and the State

    Open Access•Gaziza Shakhanova, Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Politics and Religion•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 19

    Following two decades of a state-supported patriotic campaign, the Russian Orthodox Church has dramatically increased its presence in the public sphere: in the Armed Forces, in public schools and universities, and even in retirement houses and prisons. The Church's recent activities seem to have no territorial limits: they reach up to the space station “Mir” and the Russian Antarctic Station, as well as the (Russian) Orthodox believers in 62 stat…

  • Geopolitics of Catholic Pilgrimage: On the Double Materiality of (Religious) Politics in the Virtual Age

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl•ARTICLE•Religions•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 11

    This article explores geopolitical aspects of Catholic pilgrimage in Europe. By exploring the representations of pilgrimage on Catholic social media, it shows that the increasing influence of the virtual is accompanied by a particular reassertion of the material aspects of pilgrimage. Two types of Catholic pilgrimage emerge, each with a particular spatial and political orientation. The first type of pilgrimage is predominantly politically conserv…

  • Religion and (Global) Politics: The State of the Art and Beyond

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl•ARTICLE•International Studies Review•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 38

    The religion–politics nexus has become a thriving field within the study of global politics. However, the fast development has translated only into a moderate diversification of the research. Building on Bourdieu’s analysis of the social field, this paper argues that this limited pluralization is related to the strong heteronomy of the field. This heteronomy has three “concentric” sources—the dependence on the field of politics, the continued inf…

  • Temporality and Geopolitics: The Case of Global Catholicism

    Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 63

    This article explores the role of temporality in geopolitics, particularly in geopolitics of religion. It argues that the spatial dimension of politics is always connected to temporality, as temporal politics is essential to the actors ́ spatial moves, since it legitimizes them and gives them meaning. To show the practical relevance of temporality in geopolitics, the article sheds light on the geo-temporal narratives of the largest religious acto…

  • Foreign policy, rhetorical action and the idea of otherness: The Czech Republic and Russia

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl et al.•ARTICLE•Communist and Post-Communist…•2006•Cited by: 2•References: 7

    This article employs the concept of rhetorical action in an analysis of the recent developments in Czech-Russian political relations. Through the discourse analysis of key Russian political speeches and official documents related to the Czech Republic, as well as Czech speeches tackling the same issues, we look at two different rhetorical actions employed by Russia to induce changes in Czech policy. The attempts to make Czech policy unacceptable …

  • Papal Geopolitics: The World According to Urbi et Orbi

    Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl et al.•ARTICLE•The Review of Faith & International…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 36

    The Catholic Church (or the Church, in this article) is, despite appearances, one of the most influential geopolitical actors in the world. Its leaders are seen as moral and political authorities b

  • La politique orientale de la République tchèque et la Politique européenne de voisinage

    Paul Kratochvil, Elsa Tulmets•ARTICLE•Revue d’études comparatives…•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    Après 1989, les pays d’Europe centrale et orientale ont tous redéfini les priorités de leur politique étrangère, les orientant vers l’Ouest. Que sont devenues les relations avec les pays de l’ancien bloc soviétique ? Cet article est consacré à la politique de la République tchèque à l’Est et à la participation de ce pays à la Politique européenne de voisinage (PEV). La PEV, lancée en 2003 par l’Union européenne, s’adresse aux pays voisins de l’Un…

  • Stress Shift Mechanism and its Role in Peking Dialect

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Modern Asian Studies•1974•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    This paper explores the relationship between stress patterns of disyllabic constructions in the Peking Dialect of Modern Chinese and their grammatical structure. It suggests that the existing diverse stress patterns represent different stages of stress shift which is the mechanism employed to signal a formative grammatical process leading from loose syntactical to close morphological constructions. It finally proposes that, apart from the well-kn…

  • The Chinese Language Today: Features of an Emerging Standard

    Scott A Thompson, Sandra Annear Thompson et al.•ARTICLE•Language•1969

  • A Grammar of Spoken Chinese

    Paul Kratochvil, Yuen Ren Chao•ARTICLE•Language•1970

  • Stress Shift Mechanism and its Role in Peking Dialect

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Modern Asian Studies•1974•Cited by: 1•References: 1

    This paper explores the relationship between stress patterns of disyllabic constructions in the Peking Dialect of Modern Chinese and their grammatical structure. It suggests that the existing diverse stress patterns represent different stages of stress shift which is the mechanism employed to signal a formative grammatical process leading from loose syntactical to close morphological constructions. It finally proposes that, apart from the well-kn…

  • Tone 4 and Tone 3 Discrimination in Modern Standard Chinese

    Open Access•Eva Gårding, Paul Kratochvil et al.•ARTICLE•Language and Speech•1986•Cited by: 13•References: 5

    Productions of Tone 4 and Tone 3 ( mài/măi, ‘sell’/‘buy’) in comparable sentences suggest that although the two tones are realized in different ways by different speakers in different speech acts, some features are constant. Tone 3 is connected with a low pitch level throughout the second half of the vowel and Tone 4 with a gradual fall over the main part of the vocalic segment. These observations were tested in a series of manipulations of pitch…

  • Foreign policy, rhetorical action and the idea of otherness: The Czech Republic and Russia

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl et al.•ARTICLE•Communist and Post-Communist…•2006•Cited by: 2•References: 7

    This article employs the concept of rhetorical action in an analysis of the recent developments in Czech-Russian political relations. Through the discourse analysis of key Russian political speeches and official documents related to the Czech Republic, as well as Czech speeches tackling the same issues, we look at two different rhetorical actions employed by Russia to induce changes in Czech policy. The attempts to make Czech policy unacceptable …

  • George Liska and political realism: On the tension between history and structure, and between norms and power

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2007•Cited by: 5•References: 38

  • The Discursive Resistance to EU-Enticement: The Russian Elite and (the Lack of) Europeanisation

    Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Europe Asia Studies•2008•Cited by: 14•References: 12

    This article explores the discourse of the Russian elite on foreign policy in general and on the European Union in particular, and identifies the main reasons for Russia's resistance to Europeanisation. At a theoretical level, the article builds upon the study of discourse conceived in ‘structural’ terms, and argues that discursive incompatibility at a deeper discursive level prevents the socialisation of elite members to attitudes more sympathet…

  • The Lisbon Treaty and the Czech Republic: Past imperfect, future uncertain

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Mats Braun•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary European…•2009•References: 5

    This article explores the problems with the Lisbon Treaty (LT) ratification process in the Czech Republic and its repercussions for the EU. We will proceed in four steps: First, we will describe the recent developments in the Czech domestic scene regarding the elites ́ attitudes towards the European Union. Second, we will present a more detailed analysis of the Czech debates about the LT. In the third step, we will sketch some probable scenarios …

  • La politique orientale de la République tchèque et la Politique européenne de voisinage

    Paul Kratochvil, Elsa Tulmets•ARTICLE•Revue d’études comparatives…•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 3

    Après 1989, les pays d’Europe centrale et orientale ont tous redéfini les priorités de leur politique étrangère, les orientant vers l’Ouest. Que sont devenues les relations avec les pays de l’ancien bloc soviétique ? Cet article est consacré à la politique de la République tchèque à l’Est et à la participation de ce pays à la Politique européenne de voisinage (PEV). La PEV, lancée en 2003 par l’Union européenne, s’adresse aux pays voisins de l’Un…

  • La politique orientale de la République tchèque et la Politique européenne de voisinage

    Paul Kratochvil, Elsa Tulmets•ARTICLE•Revue d’études comparatives…•2009•References: 2

  • The EU as a ‘Framing Actor’: Reflections on Media Debates about EU Foreign Policy

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl et al.•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2011•Cited by: 17•References: 23

    This article explores the EU's ability to frame the public debates about its external policies. The article begins by broadening the current discussions about the three aspects of actorness – legitimacy, attractiveness and recognition – by introducing the EU's framing power as a fourth aspect of actorness. Then it proceeds to an empirical analysis of framing, which is based on a discourse analysis of the news coverage of Ukraine (2002–07) in prin…

  • Nothing Is Imposed in This Policy!”: The Construction and Constriction of the European Neighbourhood

    Open Access•Ondřej Horký-Hlucháň, Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Alternatives Global Local Political•2014•Cited by: 7•References: 8

    The article argues that postcolonial, postdevelopment, Balkanist and East–West slope theories, which reflect the asymmetric relations between “Europe” and its former colonies or other regions on the periphery of the continent, are most likely to give an accurate analysis of the mechanism of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). We offer a new conceptualization of the European Neighborhood and suggest that the European Union (EU) constructs its …

  • The ideational clinch of the Roman Catholic Church and the EU: The Europeanization of the Catholic clergy’s discourse

    Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Language and Politics•2014•References: 9

    The article explores the so far largely ignored question of the political relations between the European Union and the Roman Catholic Church. It analyzes the deeper mutual ideational influences of the two entities, asking whether there has been a convergence of views about several basic political notions between the Church and the EU. The analysis centres on the Church’s approach to four fundamental notions related to the EU – (1) secularism, (2)…

  • Newcomer, Normal Player or Regional Leader? Perceptions of Poland in the EU

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Matúš Mišík•ARTICLE•Politics in Central Europe•2015•References: 35

    This study analyses the status of the new EU member states and, in particular, Poland as it is perceived by the representatives of the older EU members. On a theoretical level, it argues that the transformation of the newcomers into “normal players” or even “regional leaders” is dependent on five specific conditions that each of these countries must fulfil. These range from (1) simple compliance with the EU’s basic norms and (2) a sufficient leve…

  • Papal Geopolitics: The World According to Urbi et Orbi

    Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl et al.•ARTICLE•The Review of Faith & International…•2017•Cited by: 1•References: 36

    The Catholic Church (or the Church, in this article) is, despite appearances, one of the most influential geopolitical actors in the world. Its leaders are seen as moral and political authorities b

  • The end of democracy in the EU? The Eurozone crisis and the EU’s democratic deficit

    Paul Kratochvil, Zdeněk Sychra•ARTICLE•Journal of European Integration•2019•Cited by: 8•References: 20

    This article explores the impact of the Eurozone crisis on the EU ́s ‘democratic deficit’. It starts with a presentation of the main scholarly views of the EU ́s democratic deficit, distinguishing between four broad camps and showing how they differ in terms of their diagnoses as well as their solutions. Then the article moves to discussing the current relevance of the so-called ‘upgraded standard version’ of democratic deficit. Building on this …

  • Religion as a Weapon: Invoking Religion in Secularized Societies

    Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•The Review of Faith & International…•2019•References: 4

    This article explores how religion is invoked as a political weapon in Europe’s highly secularized societies. It claims that the new European populism has succeeded in rhetorically reconciling Christianity and a peculiar form of secularism as markers of a “civilized” identity, while merging Islam and specific “Oriental” ethnic features as the key signs of barbarism. As a result, the new cleavage does not run along the classic dichotomy of religio…

  • The Patriotic Turn and Re-Building Russia’s Historical Memory: Resisting the West, Leading the Post-Soviet East

    Paul Kratochvil, Gaziza Shakhanova•ARTICLE•Problems of Post-Communism•2020•Cited by: 11•References: 11

    In 2017, the draft of the law on patriotic education was submitted to the State Duma. The document clearly signaled that Russian authorities were starting to prepare for long-term resistance to external threats, both military and cultural. This development follows the adoption of five decrees with a similar focus. Exploring this “patriotic turn,” our research will focus on how power shapes collective memory and how the Russian patriotic campaign …

  • Geopolitics of Catholic Pilgrimage: On the Double Materiality of (Religious) Politics in the Virtual Age

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl•ARTICLE•Religions•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 11

    This article explores geopolitical aspects of Catholic pilgrimage in Europe. By exploring the representations of pilgrimage on Catholic social media, it shows that the increasing influence of the virtual is accompanied by a particular reassertion of the material aspects of pilgrimage. Two types of Catholic pilgrimage emerge, each with a particular spatial and political orientation. The first type of pilgrimage is predominantly politically conserv…

  • Political economy of Catholicism: The case of the sacred-market network at World Youth Day in Panama

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Cooperation and Conflict•2022•References: 4

    This article explores the everyday political economy of the Catholic World Youth Day in Panama, which was organized in January 2019. The aim is to shed more light on the relationship between the market and the religious sphere and, in particular, on the everyday experience of the WYD participants, and their encounters with the market and market practices. In doing so, the article challenges several commonly held assumptions, such as the priority …

  • The Patriotic Turn in Russia: Political Convergence of the Russian Orthodox Church and the State

    Open Access•Gaziza Shakhanova, Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Politics and Religion•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 19

    Following two decades of a state-supported patriotic campaign, the Russian Orthodox Church has dramatically increased its presence in the public sphere: in the Armed Forces, in public schools and universities, and even in retirement houses and prisons. The Church's recent activities seem to have no territorial limits: they reach up to the space station “Mir” and the Russian Antarctic Station, as well as the (Russian) Orthodox believers in 62 stat…

  • Temporality and Geopolitics: The Case of Global Catholicism

    Paul Kratochvil•ARTICLE•Geopolitics•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 63

    This article explores the role of temporality in geopolitics, particularly in geopolitics of religion. It argues that the spatial dimension of politics is always connected to temporality, as temporal politics is essential to the actors ́ spatial moves, since it legitimizes them and gives them meaning. To show the practical relevance of temporality in geopolitics, the article sheds light on the geo-temporal narratives of the largest religious acto…

  • Religion and (Global) Politics: The State of the Art and Beyond

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl•ARTICLE•International Studies Review•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 38

    The religion–politics nexus has become a thriving field within the study of global politics. However, the fast development has translated only into a moderate diversification of the research. Building on Bourdieu’s analysis of the social field, this paper argues that this limited pluralization is related to the strong heteronomy of the field. This heteronomy has three “concentric” sources—the dependence on the field of politics, the continued inf…

  • International Approaches to Regulating the Introduction of New Buildings into Historic Environments. Current Trends from the Perspective of a Historian of Contemporary Architecture

    Open Access•Paul Kratochvil, Petr Kratochvíl•ARTICLE•Zprávy památkové péče•2026

    lnek se zabv zahraninmi pstupy k regulaci nov vstavby v historickm prosted. Rozebr dokumenty z vybranchnmecky a anglicky mluvcch zem, kter formuluj principy, jak doshnout vhodnho vztahu starho a novho. Nen vak ambicani v monostech tto stat pokouet se o celkovou komparativn analzu een tohoto problmu v rznch sttech. Jejm smyslemje poukzat na zkladn pstupy, kter se v tchto dokumentech ukazuj, a ilustrovat je charakteristickmi pklady. Sta se vnujeped…

  • Determinants of political polarisation in the context of democratic renewal: A study of public attitudes in Poland

    Katarzyna Kochlöffel, Pelin Ayan Musil et al.•ARTICLE•Third World Quarterly•2026•References: 44

    This article examines the dynamics of political polarisation in Poland in the context of democratic backsliding (2015–2023) and subsequent democratic renewal following the 2023 parliamentary elections. Drawing on newly released ActEU public opinion data, we demonstrate that the primary driver of polarisation during Poland’s democratic renewal was not the division between democratic and autocratic attitudes but rather a deep cultural conflict betw…

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