PSSI has published its report on the 2021 Czech parliamentary elections, continuing its project series "Czech Elections in the Era of Disinformation".

Dr. Pasco, Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research, will deliver an online guest lecture on December 13, 2021. The lecturer will provide a perspective on the "European strategic culture", with a view on its foundations as well as its limitations and dilemmas, in the context of space.

PSSI is offering a Project Assistant position in its Regional Security Program. The candidate should be well versed in research, analysis and policy-making in disinformation, information warfare, strategic communication and regulation of digital platforms. He/she should be able to work part-time (up to 20 hr./week) starting in January 2021. The expected duration of the internship is six months with the possibility of extension. The position is located in Prague and is suitable for university students in M.A. and Ph.D. programs, as well as young professionals.

Mr. Stefano Iannitti, Head of the Security Department at European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), will deliver an online guest lecture entitled “The Link Between Space and Security: The Role and the Experience of the EU Agency for the Space Programme” on December 6, 2021. 

Prague Security Studies Institute uspořádal 24. listopadu debatu o perspektivách české bezpečnosti. V rámci akce byla představena studie mapující odolnost zemí střední a východní Evropy vůči vlivovému působení autoritativních států. Následoval kulatý stůl zaměřený na výhledy do budoucna a úkoly pro budoucí politickou reprezentaci.

The Index measures vulnerability towards foreign influence in eight countries: Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia.

The Prague Security Studies Institute is honored to be recognized by Prospect Magazine for its prodigious, original work in uncovering and analyzing China's malign use of global capital markets, particularly those of the G-7 democracies, as well as its efforts in countering the disinformation activities of adversaries.

PSSI Perspective #14 discusses how the EU and the US can use capital market sanctions to prevent Chinese and Russian firms from financially underwriting the Taliban regime.

The Prague Security Studies Institute would like to cordially invite you to a lecture evening entitled “Economics and Technology: Emerging New Threats” which will take place on November 9, 2021, 18:00 - 19:30 CET, at the American Center (Tržiště 13, Prague 1).

In PSSI Perspective #13, our Managing Director, Dr. Jana Robinson, argues that the space governance discussions need to go beyond emerging technologies to include fundamental principles, such as the protection of sovereignty, free and fair trade, and the independence of fledgling and other space-faring nations.