Research

International space law and policy, space security, the Artemis Accords, and the foreign policy of small and middle states in space.

• 2026 The Chinese dream of a responsible and strong space power from the perspective of its planetary defense program
• 2026 Testing the International Mechanism for Responding to an Asteroid Impact Threat
• 2026 Review of J. C. Moltz, The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests (4th ed.), Stanford University Press

Projects: FOGOS COST Action

Governance of the asteroid impact threat: international warning and mission planning mechanisms (IAWN, SMPAG), the Responsibility to Defend Earth, and the politics of deflection technologies.

• 2027 Emergent Cosmopolitanism Through Planetary Defense: Scientific Knowledge, Normative Innovation, and the Rearticulation of the Social Contract
• 2026 The Chinese dream of a responsible and strong space power from the perspective of its planetary defense program
• 2026 Testing the International Mechanism for Responding to an Asteroid Impact Threat

Projects: Governing Planetary Defense · TACR-PD: Planetary Defense · READI

Cosmopolitan political theory and the responsible cosmopolitan state as a foreign policy for planetary-scale challenges.

• 2027 Emergent Cosmopolitanism Through Planetary Defense: Scientific Knowledge, Normative Innovation, and the Rearticulation of the Social Contract
• 2024 Responsibility to defend Earth as a core principle of the planetary defense security regime
• 2024 A Cosmopolitan Theory for Space Policy and Governance

Legal and political frameworks for space mining: social licence to operate, benefit-sharing and the multilateral alternative to national appropriation.

• 2025 Těžba ve vesmíru: Korporátní autokracie nebo globální solidarita?
• 2022 Breaking the Deadlock in the Space Mining Legal Debate
• 2022 From Terrestrial to Celestial: Social Licence to Operate as a Space Mining Enabler

Projects: TACR-PD: Planetary Defense

Political systems, ethics and governance of future settlements on the Moon and Mars.

• 2024 Mars Historical and Ethical Context: Past, Present, and Imagination
• 2024 Mars as a Science Base: Towards a Small Permanent Outpost
• 2024 Towards Permanent Settlements on Mars (from 1000 to 100,000 People)

Cyber security as a national security agenda, international regimes in cyberspace and hybrid warfare.

• 2022 The EU as a Leader of Global Cyber Security Policy
• 2018 Czech Republic: Expert Perception of National Cyber Policies
• 2015 A Sociological Approach to Cyberspace Conceptualization and Implications for International Security

Projects: SIMARGL · Hybrid warfare · Cyber deterrence

Dual-use high-energy systems in space, directed energy and the Peaceful Use of Lasers in Space (PULS) initiative.

• 2024 The dual-use dilemma and high-energy systems in space
• 2023 Simulating asteroid impacts and meteor events by high-power lasers: from the laboratory to spaceborne missions
• 2022 Space Community as an Enabler of Cosmopolitan Ideas Through Large Technical Systems

Projects: TACR-PD: Planetary Defense

AI-mediated information ecosystems, autonomous alternative reality manufacturing machines (AARMM), disinformation and democracy.

• 2027 Autonomous alternative reality manufacturing machines (AARMM): A futures concept for anticipatory governance of AI-mediated information ecosystems
• 2026 Reinstating Expert Authorities and Their Institutions in Tackling Autonomous Alternative Reality Manufacturing Machines
• 2021 Artificial Intelligence and Foreign Policy Challenges

Projects: COREmind · STRAT:FORS · RECLAIM

Scientific knowledge and political authority: epistemic authority, stigmatization of expertise and the rearticulation of the social contract.

• 2026 Reinstating Expert Authorities and Their Institutions in Tackling Autonomous Alternative Reality Manufacturing Machines
• 2019 Kick-Starting Cosmopolitan Governance Through Science: The Case of a Giant Laser System

Projects: COREmind · RECLAIM · HR-JUST

Transitional justice and post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan.

• 2013 The Flaws of Transitional Justice in Afghanistan
• 2012 Sociálně citlivý přístup k postkonfliktní rekonstrukci: Afghánistán