Czech-german Perspectives

Episode 1 - Interview with Vladimír Handl (IIR) on the state of Czech-German Relations Vladimír Handl is Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague. He also works as a part-time lecturer at the Institute of International Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies of the Charles University, Prague. A candidate of History (1990) from Moscow State Institute of International Relations, he was a research fellow at the Institute of German Studies (University of Birmingham) in 1996–2000/2002–03, and was a visiting fellow at a number of German research institutions (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, Helmut Schmidt Universität der Bundeswehr in Hamburg among others). His main research interests are German foreign, security, and European policy, Czech–German relations, Czech foreign and security policy, and transition of the communist parties in Central Europe. http://www.iir.cz/en/static/vladimir-handl