Radek taught economic history, history of international relations, economic policy, introduction to economics, and introduction to management at the University of Economics, Metropolitan University (Prague), the University of Technology and Economics (České Budějovice), and Jan Evangelista Purkyně University (Ústí nad Labem) (UJEP). He is currently the director of the Laboratory of Behavioural Studies at UJEP.  

Radek focuses on political-economic analysis (electoral systems, party financing, and impact assessment of economic regulation), the history of economic thought, and modern European history. 

He has been involved in project management for a long time and has extensive experience in managing national and international projects (GAČR, TAČR, OPVV, OPJAK, COST, Interreg, Horizon). Since 2022, he has held the position of director of research at AAU.

His research focuses on international economics, finance, monetary policy, and institutional economics. He has published in internationally recognized journals such as the Journal of International Economics and the Review of World Economics. According to the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) ranking, he is among the top 50 Czech economists in terms of publications over the past decade.

From 2023 to 2025, Jiří served as principal investigator of the grant project Survey of Short-Term and Long-Term Inflation Expectations of Czech Households (TQ01000396), funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, with Charles University and the Czech National Bank as co-investigators. He is also a co-investigator on two Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) projects: Disentangling p-hacking from publication bias in finance research (24-11583S, with Charles University as principal investigator) and Understanding Household Responses to Inflation: Insights from Randomized Controlled Trials after High Inflation (25-17769S, with the Czech Academy of Sciences as principal investigator).

Outside of his professional work, Jiří is a father of two young children. In rare quiet moments, he enjoys reading fantasy literature and playing video games.

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Currently she researches the impact of the Arab Spring on the political, economic and social development in the MENA region as well as the relations between the MENA countries and China within the Belt and Road Initiative. Her recent publications include edited volume „Untangling the Mayhem: Crises and Prospects of the Middle East“ (Peter Lang 2018) and a co-authored book chapter on states-to-be as foreign policy actors in Charountaki-Irrera: Mapping Non-State Actors in International Relations (Springer 2022). She gave lectures at several universities in Europe within the Erasmus+ program (Slovakia, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Sweden) and participated in a research stay in China. 

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Currently, she is working on two projects. The first began its life under the auspices of SCRIPTS (Contestations of the Liberal Script) Center of Excellence at the Free University Berlin. The central question it addresses is whether states can have responsibilities in a global public realm, an idea traceable to Kant’s theory of international right. The proposal is to examine the tensions between public authorities (states) and private authorities (private networks, private military companies, transborder functional regimes) in the global realm from the normative standpoint of responsibility and by moving away from conventional accounts of legitimacy.

The second project, supported by the IREF institute, sets out to elucidate the relationship between trust, government, and technology. Its point of departure is the rise of social credit systems which are technologically advanced but radically depoliticized. As a new form of social organization, they threaten to undermine the bond of trust formed between the citizenry and publicly authorized rulers. This line of argument reflects Lechner’s interest in the ethics of technology and critiques of late modernity voiced by first-generation Critical Theory (Adorno).

Monographs and Special Issues

Oliver Eberl and Silviya Lechner, editors, Special Issue: Der Naturzustand zwischen Kontext und Konstruktion – Methodische Bedingungen Politischer Theoriebildung, Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie Vol. 14 (1) June 2024, pp. 3-104.

Oliver Eberl and Silviya Lechner, ‘Editorial‘, Der Naturzustand zwischen Kontext und Konstruktion – Methodische Bedingungen Politischer Theoriebildung, Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie Vol. 14 (1) June 2024, pp. 3-18.

Silviya Lechner, Hobbesian Internationalism: Anarchy, Authority and the Fate of Political Philosophy.  Palgrave 2019

Silviya Lechner and Mervyn Frost, Practice Theory and International Relations. Cambridge University Press, 2018  

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Michel Foucault, Political Philosophy, Identity Politics, Late Ottoman Politics, poststructuralism/postmodernism, Memory Politics, Democratization.

After 10 years of teaching Kateřina felt the need for change so she packed her things and moved to Prague.

Kateřina joined AAU as HR assistant and in a few months later she added Research Coordinator to it as well. Now she works for the research department and you can contact her with everything research related.

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His PhD thesis was published in 2012 as A European Frontier Elite: The Nobility of the English Pale in Tudor Ireland, 1496-1566 (Hannover). He also edited, with Ondřej Pilný, a collection of essays on Ireland and the Czech Lands: Connections and Comparisons in History and Culture (Bern, 2014).

Dr. Power’s research interests have recently broadened to encompass problems in modern British foreign policy. He has published studies on the reception of Margaret Thatcher in the Czech lands and British cultural diplomacy in the Middle East, and is currently researching princely education as a diplomatic tool in the British world of the late Empire and Cold War.

Dr. Power organizes the popular Meet the Ambassador series at AAU, which brings together students and diplomats in open discussion, and has been chair of the Department of History and Philosophy since 2022.

He welcomes students wishing to research theses in the areas of early modern history, British imperial history, the history of education, cultural diplomacy/soft power, and Britain and the Arab Gulf.

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British and Irish history, European history, history of British foreign policy, cultural diplomacy, Tudor British Isles

Select Publications:

POWER, Gerald. ‘The British Council, English Language Teaching and Britain’s Struggle for Educational Influence in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, 1955-69.’ Middle Eastern Studies 59.5 (2023): 777-789

POWER Gerald. ‘Education, Culture, and the British Position in the Arabian Gulf: The Establishment of the British Council in Kuwait, 1952-1955’. Britain & The World 15.1 (2022): pp. 47-65.

POWER Gerald and WEINFURTER Jaroslav. ‘Czech Responses to Thatcher and Thatcherism: The Evidence of the Newspapers, 1984-2013’, Central European Journal of International and Security Studies 11.4 (2017):. 44-65.

POWER Gerald. ‘Legitimizace moci na anglickém trůně [Legitimacy of the power of the English crown].’ In BĚRÁNEK Ondřej, ČERMANOVÁ Pavlína and HRUBY Jakub (eds.) Jedno slunce na nebi, jeden vládce na zemi: legitimace moci ve světě 14. století [One sun in heaven, one government on earth: the legitimization of power in the world of the fourteenth century], Prague: Academia, 2017. pp. 106-26.

POWER Gerald and MAGINN Christopher (eds). Frontiers, States and Identity in Early Modern Ireland and Beyond. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2016, pp. 240.

POWER Gerald and WEINFURTER Jaroslav. Thatcherismus v českých zemích: Vývoj a recepce [Thatcherism in the Czech Lands: development and reception]. Prague: Libri, 2015, pp. 164.

POWER Gerald and PILNÝ Ondřej (eds). Ireland and the Czech Lands: Contacts and Comparisons in History and Culture. Bern: Peter Lang, 2014, pp. 235.

POWER Gerald. ‘Gypsies and Sixteenth-Century Ireland’. Romani Studies 21.2 (2014): 203-9.

POWER Gerald. A European Frontier Elite: The Nobility of the English Pale in Tudor Ireland, 1496-1566. The Formation of Europe vol. 4. Hannover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2012, pp. 215.

He was Assistant and Associate Professor at Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio, USA (1995-2000) and Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the University of South Bohemia (2002-2008).

He joined Anglo-American University in Prague in 2009. He is Senior Lecturer in both the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Law.

Jurisprudence, Legal Theory, Philosophy of Law

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