Forget Emulation, and Start Creating! The Future of Czech IR Research

Abstract

The article argues for a new strategy for Czech IR research which would
stimulate local scholars to produce innovative contributions to the
international IR discipline. The strategy is supposed to go beyond the
emulation of the Anglo-American IR, which currently prevails and which,
despite occasional successes, failed in its goals. It aims at innovative
contributions with a maximum utilisation of the Czech domestic conditions
which embed the research. The strategy argues that the relations between
Czech IR and the international discipline need to be sustained and even
strengthened. At the same time, the Czech research should focus on the
Czech political experience by examining the political phenomena by which
this experience has been constituted and drawing on the traditions of
Czech political thought.