Dr Oldrich Bures

Academic and Research Career

Dr Oldrich Bures holds an MA degree in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame in the United States and a PhD in Political Science from Palacky University in the Czech Republic. He has experience in working with NGOs and has been a visiting lecturer at the Charles University, Prague, and Masaryk University, Brno.

Dr Bures is a member of the academic advisory board of the Journal of Global Change and Governance and on the editorial board of Defense and Strategy. He is currently head of the Department of International Relations and European Studies, Metropolitan University Prague, where is also head of the Centre for Security Studies.

He was elected a CES Research Fellow in May 2010.

Research Interests

His research interests and publications are focussed on European Union counter-terrorism, post-conflict reconstruction and United Nations’ peacekeeping operations.

Principal Publications

Books

Editor, Teorie a praxe postkonfliktní rekonstrukce [Theory and Praxis of Post-Conflict Reconstruction] (Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2008).

United Nations Peacekeeping: Bridging the Capabilities-Expectations Gap (Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag, 2008).

Journal Articles

'European Arrest Warrant: Implications for EU Counterterrorism Efforts', Central European Journal of Internation and Security Studies, 3 (Spring 2009), pp. 21-43

'Europol's Fledgling Counterterrorism Role', Terrorism and Political Violence, 20 (Winter 2008), pp. 498-517

Research Projects

Co-author, ‘UN Peacekeeping Operations’, research project for the Infoservis division of the ‘People in Need’ Foundation, Prague, Nov. 2002 – Feb. 2003.

Contact

Dr Bures is a Research Fellow in the Centre for European Security and can be contacted via the Centre or at o.bures@mup.cz