Academic research

Published (selected)

•  China’s response to international pressure regarding Xinjiang re-education camps

• Labour transfers of Uyghurs as a method of ‘civilising’ ethnic minorities, and online 'offers' of Uyghur workers

• The democratization potential of the middle class in Russia?

Under review 

• China’s image in Czech disinformation groups on Facebook (with Anita Tusor) 

• The democratizing effects of ICT in China and imperfections of China's digital authoritarianism 

• Gender-based hate speech in Czech disinformation groups on Facebook 

• Digital diplomacy of China, Russia, and the USA regarding the war in Ukraine (with Petr Kratochvíl and Ondřej Ditrych)

• Danish and Czech digital sovereignty discourse after Trump's re-election (with Linda Monsees and Tobias Liebetrau)

• China’s planetary defence programme, its drivers and limitations (with Nikola Schmidt and Timna Michlmayr)

In progress (selected)

• Prominence of Chinese narratives on domestic repression among the Taiwanese public 

• China and Russia’s justification of their colonialist policies through anti-Western sentiments (with Martin Laryš) 

• North Korea’s tactical policy shifts in response to international pressure regarding its human rights abuses

Academic theses (translated automatically)

• PhD thesis, 2022: Information and communication technologies as a means of strengthening authoritarianism (translated automatically)

• Master thesis, 2018: Modern communication technologies as a tool for social control (translated automatically)

• Bachelor thesis, 2017: Security integration processes in the post-Soviet space:  Collective Security Treaty Organization 

• Bachelor thesis, 2015: Color revolutions in the post-Soviet region: the case of Georgia (translated automatically)