EU IDEA: EU Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability
2019–2021 · Selected past project
Funder: Horizon 2020
Role: Research team member
EU IDEA examined differentiated integration as a feature of contemporary European governance and assessed its implications for effectiveness, accountability, and democratic legitimacy. My work focused particularly on differentiation from the perspective of smaller member states and on informal differentiated integration in EU foreign and security policy.
Authors
Research Director; Associate Professor
I am a political scientist and Research Director at the Institute of International Relations Prague. My research examines European integration and EU governance, political parties and elections, politicisation, migration, and political communication, with particular attention to Central and Eastern Europe. A recurring theme in my work is how European and other politically contested issues interact with domestic political competition and are represented in political and media discourse. My research draws primarily on quantitative methods, complemented by qualitative approaches to political discourse and framing. I also teach European politics and international relations at the University of New York in Prague.