Jan Daniel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3877414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Daniel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Daniel |
| SIGNATURE | DANIEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of International Relations Prague |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1019-5644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Daily rhythm of the population mobility
Publishing Political Science and International Relations journals in Central and Eastern Europe
The concluding article of this collection (Debate) summarises the preceding contributions and puts forward a scalar perspective on the position of CEE Political Science and International Relations journals. It draws attention to the interactions and tensions between international, national and local scales and discusses how journals navigate their positions on these scales. The article is structured around three questions that concern the purpose…
Introduction
This article introduces the Debate on editing and publishing (in) Political Science and International Relations journals in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The Debate brings together editors of PoliSci and IR journals published in four CEE countries to examine the practice of publishing (in) these disciplines and explore the diverse strategies journals, and their editors employ to navigate the semiperipheral context of CEE. Going beyond structu…
What can socialist geography contribute to the history of global geography? The interplay between continuity and change in post-war Czechoslovakia
Exploring the Role of Street Names in the Reproduction of Deinstitutionalised Regions
Looking theoretically at regions as historically contingent entities that have been evolving over time, this article aims to explore the relationship between the identities of old regions and their symbols through an innovative employment of street names. Methodologically, this study employed Geographic Information System tools, alongside a case study focusing on deinstitutionalised historical regions in the Czech Republic. In this context, stree…
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion
The article explores Lebanon's adoption of the Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE) agenda in the second half of the 2010s and the consequences of the agenda's focus on weak social cohesion.Employing the concepts of problematization and the assemblage perspective on intervention, the article analyzes the dominant focus and formation of the PVE agenda in Lebanon, as well as the heterogeneous group that contributed to the shaping of the agenda.It …
Politics of Hybrid Warfare
Revolutionaries and Global Politics
Revolutionaries and Global Politics
This is a book about discontents of the global order. Building on the innovative reading of ISIS as an international revolutionary actor, it explores the movement’s everyday political practices and confronts them with other global revolutionaries to arrive at a novel understanding of revolutionary agency in global politics. Benefiting in particular from Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of war machine and employing it for a discussion of hybridity in…
Conclusion
Regional assemblage in the postwar Czechoslovakia
Politics of Hybrid Warfare
Anxiety geopolitics
Speaking of hybrid warfare
What do we speak of when we speak of ‘hybrid warfare’, a notion that has become prominent in discussions of European security? The article shows that this question is difficult to answer, as the hybrid warfare discourse is not only vague, but also consists of multiple, and at times contradictory, narratives. While talking and writing about supposedly the same thing, participants in the hybrid warfare debate often suggest markedly different ideas …
Forging Civil–Military Cooperation
The article investigates the development and circulation of knowledge on civil–military co-operation (CIMIC) between different training sites and foreign military operations. It explores contexts in which the understandings of the military personnel’s own role vis-a-vis the civilian population as well as knowledge on CIMIC more generally are created. Based on the interviews with CIMIC officers in the UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebano…
Putin, You Suck
Using the case of the Czech narrative on “Russian hybrid warfare” (RHW), this article contributes to the broader question of why narratives succeed. Building on Lacanian psychoanalysis, narrative scholarship, and affect/emotions research in International Relations, we suggest that narrative success is facilitated also by two interrelated factors: embedding in broader cultural contexts and the ability to incorporate and reproduce collectively circ…
Hybrid Warriors
This article analyses the ascent of 'Russian hybrid warfare' (RHW) as a notion that transformed the understanding of national security in the Czech Republic in the short period of 2014-2016. It argues that the emergence of RHW as a specifically understood prime security threat was the result of contingent and often unruly social interactions across different settings, rather than a linear and centralised response to Russia's actions. To capture t…
Building sovereigns? The UN peacekeeping and strengthening the authority of the state in Lebanon and Mali
This paper contributes to the debate on the recent ‘stabilization turn’ in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping by inquiring into a changing set of practices by which the UN intends to ‘strengthen the authority of the state.’ Drawing on Piiparinen’s notion of sovereignty-building as an emerging paradigm of conflict management, the study analyses the support for state authority and sovereignty in two modalities of contemporary UN peace operations – UN…
Synthetic Experiences
Many researchers assert that popular culture warrants greater attention from international relations scholars. Yet work regarding the effects of popular culture on international relations has so far had a marginal impact. We believe that this gap leads mainstream scholars both to exaggerate the influence of canonical academic sources and to ignore the potentially great influence of popular culture on mass and elite audiences. Drawing on work from…
Security expertise
International Political Sociology
Critical security studies have become increasingly popular among Czechscholars, but most studies in this field are based on securitization theoryand other discursive approaches to security analysis. This paper argues forbroadening the scope of theoretical approaches to security studies andintroduces International Political Sociology as a promising strand ofresearch in this respect. International Political Sociology is based on thestudy of securit…
Burke and Clausewitz on the limitation of war
Restraining the violence of war is difficult under the best of circumstances. In their observations on the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, Edmund Burke and Carl von Clausewitz consider the peculiar violence of wars fought for abstract and world-transformative goals. While the beliefs that animated those wars have faded, in this essay we argue that Burke and Clausewitz offer insight into the ways that modern political violence becomes unmoo…
The Imitation Game
For decades, China has been countering U.S. naval strengths with asymmetric capabilities, not by matching them. Yet, China is now building aircraft carriers. Why? It is not a sign of strength but rather history is replete with examples, including two from the Cold War, of weaker states imitating more advanced rivals rather than pursuing their own "disruptive" innovations
Through a Glass, Darkly
Statesmanship and the Problem of Theoretical Generalization
In this article we argue that in their quest for parsimony and through their denial of human agency, international relations scholars often endorse deterministic theories. The field of international relations suffers greatly for its devotion to excessive theoretical generalization. In rejecting the more pluralistic methodology of early international relations work, scholars may produce superficially valid predictive theories. Yet these theories r…
Synthetic Experiences
Many researchers assert that popular culture warrants greater attention from international relations scholars. Yet work regarding the effects of popular culture on international relations has so far had a marginal impact. We believe that this gap leads mainstream scholars both to exaggerate the influence of canonical academic sources and to ignore the potentially great influence of popular culture on mass and elite audiences. Drawing on work from…
Putin, You Suck
Using the case of the Czech narrative on “Russian hybrid warfare” (RHW), this article contributes to the broader question of why narratives succeed. Building on Lacanian psychoanalysis, narrative scholarship, and affect/emotions research in International Relations, we suggest that narrative success is facilitated also by two interrelated factors: embedding in broader cultural contexts and the ability to incorporate and reproduce collectively circ…
Speaking of hybrid warfare
What do we speak of when we speak of ‘hybrid warfare’, a notion that has become prominent in discussions of European security? The article shows that this question is difficult to answer, as the hybrid warfare discourse is not only vague, but also consists of multiple, and at times contradictory, narratives. While talking and writing about supposedly the same thing, participants in the hybrid warfare debate often suggest markedly different ideas …
Hybrid Warriors
This article analyses the ascent of 'Russian hybrid warfare' (RHW) as a notion that transformed the understanding of national security in the Czech Republic in the short period of 2014-2016. It argues that the emergence of RHW as a specifically understood prime security threat was the result of contingent and often unruly social interactions across different settings, rather than a linear and centralised response to Russia's actions. To capture t…
Anxiety geopolitics
Statesmanship and the Problem of Theoretical Generalization
In this article we argue that in their quest for parsimony and through their denial of human agency, international relations scholars often endorse deterministic theories. The field of international relations suffers greatly for its devotion to excessive theoretical generalization. In rejecting the more pluralistic methodology of early international relations work, scholars may produce superficially valid predictive theories. Yet these theories r…
Forging Civil–Military Cooperation
The article investigates the development and circulation of knowledge on civil–military co-operation (CIMIC) between different training sites and foreign military operations. It explores contexts in which the understandings of the military personnel’s own role vis-a-vis the civilian population as well as knowledge on CIMIC more generally are created. Based on the interviews with CIMIC officers in the UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebano…
Daily rhythm of the population mobility
Regional assemblage in the postwar Czechoslovakia
Negro Political Behavior and Community Political and Socioeconomic Structural Factors
In analyzing Negro political mobilization and its relationship to the political and socio-economic structure of Alabama communities, it was found that substantial changes have been made since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Negro political mobilization has increased in practically every county of Alabama, being facilitated by the presence of candidates acceptable to Negroes and the presence of federal examiners. Traditional relationshi…
Statesmanship and the Problem of Theoretical Generalization
In this article we argue that in their quest for parsimony and through their denial of human agency, international relations scholars often endorse deterministic theories. The field of international relations suffers greatly for its devotion to excessive theoretical generalization. In rejecting the more pluralistic methodology of early international relations work, scholars may produce superficially valid predictive theories. Yet these theories r…
International Political Sociology
Critical security studies have become increasingly popular among Czechscholars, but most studies in this field are based on securitization theoryand other discursive approaches to security analysis. This paper argues forbroadening the scope of theoretical approaches to security studies andintroduces International Political Sociology as a promising strand ofresearch in this respect. International Political Sociology is based on thestudy of securit…
Burke and Clausewitz on the limitation of war
Restraining the violence of war is difficult under the best of circumstances. In their observations on the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, Edmund Burke and Carl von Clausewitz consider the peculiar violence of wars fought for abstract and world-transformative goals. While the beliefs that animated those wars have faded, in this essay we argue that Burke and Clausewitz offer insight into the ways that modern political violence becomes unmoo…
The Imitation Game
For decades, China has been countering U.S. naval strengths with asymmetric capabilities, not by matching them. Yet, China is now building aircraft carriers. Why? It is not a sign of strength but rather history is replete with examples, including two from the Cold War, of weaker states imitating more advanced rivals rather than pursuing their own "disruptive" innovations
Through a Glass, Darkly
Security expertise
Building sovereigns? The UN peacekeeping and strengthening the authority of the state in Lebanon and Mali
This paper contributes to the debate on the recent ‘stabilization turn’ in United Nations (UN) peacekeeping by inquiring into a changing set of practices by which the UN intends to ‘strengthen the authority of the state.’ Drawing on Piiparinen’s notion of sovereignty-building as an emerging paradigm of conflict management, the study analyses the support for state authority and sovereignty in two modalities of contemporary UN peace operations – UN…
Synthetic Experiences
Many researchers assert that popular culture warrants greater attention from international relations scholars. Yet work regarding the effects of popular culture on international relations has so far had a marginal impact. We believe that this gap leads mainstream scholars both to exaggerate the influence of canonical academic sources and to ignore the potentially great influence of popular culture on mass and elite audiences. Drawing on work from…
Hybrid Warriors
This article analyses the ascent of 'Russian hybrid warfare' (RHW) as a notion that transformed the understanding of national security in the Czech Republic in the short period of 2014-2016. It argues that the emergence of RHW as a specifically understood prime security threat was the result of contingent and often unruly social interactions across different settings, rather than a linear and centralised response to Russia's actions. To capture t…
Putin, You Suck
Using the case of the Czech narrative on “Russian hybrid warfare” (RHW), this article contributes to the broader question of why narratives succeed. Building on Lacanian psychoanalysis, narrative scholarship, and affect/emotions research in International Relations, we suggest that narrative success is facilitated also by two interrelated factors: embedding in broader cultural contexts and the ability to incorporate and reproduce collectively circ…
Forging Civil–Military Cooperation
The article investigates the development and circulation of knowledge on civil–military co-operation (CIMIC) between different training sites and foreign military operations. It explores contexts in which the understandings of the military personnel’s own role vis-a-vis the civilian population as well as knowledge on CIMIC more generally are created. Based on the interviews with CIMIC officers in the UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebano…
Speaking of hybrid warfare
What do we speak of when we speak of ‘hybrid warfare’, a notion that has become prominent in discussions of European security? The article shows that this question is difficult to answer, as the hybrid warfare discourse is not only vague, but also consists of multiple, and at times contradictory, narratives. While talking and writing about supposedly the same thing, participants in the hybrid warfare debate often suggest markedly different ideas …
Anxiety geopolitics
Politics of Hybrid Warfare
Revolutionaries and Global Politics
Revolutionaries and Global Politics
This is a book about discontents of the global order. Building on the innovative reading of ISIS as an international revolutionary actor, it explores the movement’s everyday political practices and confronts them with other global revolutionaries to arrive at a novel understanding of revolutionary agency in global politics. Benefiting in particular from Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of war machine and employing it for a discussion of hybridity in…
Conclusion
Regional assemblage in the postwar Czechoslovakia
Politics of Hybrid Warfare
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion
The article explores Lebanon's adoption of the Prevention of Violent Extremism (PVE) agenda in the second half of the 2010s and the consequences of the agenda's focus on weak social cohesion.Employing the concepts of problematization and the assemblage perspective on intervention, the article analyzes the dominant focus and formation of the PVE agenda in Lebanon, as well as the heterogeneous group that contributed to the shaping of the agenda.It …
Daily rhythm of the population mobility
Publishing Political Science and International Relations journals in Central and Eastern Europe
The concluding article of this collection (Debate) summarises the preceding contributions and puts forward a scalar perspective on the position of CEE Political Science and International Relations journals. It draws attention to the interactions and tensions between international, national and local scales and discusses how journals navigate their positions on these scales. The article is structured around three questions that concern the purpose…
Introduction
This article introduces the Debate on editing and publishing (in) Political Science and International Relations journals in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The Debate brings together editors of PoliSci and IR journals published in four CEE countries to examine the practice of publishing (in) these disciplines and explore the diverse strategies journals, and their editors employ to navigate the semiperipheral context of CEE. Going beyond structu…
What can socialist geography contribute to the history of global geography? The interplay between continuity and change in post-war Czechoslovakia
Political science (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · International relations (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)