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Curriculum vitae — record dated April 21, 2026

Curriculum Vitae

Vendulka Kubálková — Full Professor (tenured) of International Studies, University of Miami.

Personal

Date
April 21, 2026
Name
Vendulka Kubálková
Current academic rank
Full Professor tenured (of International Studies)
Primary department
Department of International Studies, CAS, University of Miami
Secondary or joint appointments
  • Director of MAIA, interdisciplinary (IGS) MA professional program (which I created) until November 31, 2009
  • Assistant Provost for university-wide international studies until November 31, 2009
  • Research Affiliate, Visiting Professor at VŠE, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic, teaching during UM semester breaks intensive MA theory course for students drawn from across Europe, interrupted due to COVID 2016 –
Citizenship
US, Australian, British permanent residence
Visa type (if non-citizen)

Higher Education

Institutional

institution; degree; date conferred

  • 1966First class (Gold Medal), in musicState Conservatoire, Prague
  • 1969First-class honors in law (the equivalent of Magna cum Laude)Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague
  • 1969JUDr, International Law (by dissertation) — special awardFaculty of Law, Charles University, Prague
  • 1974Ph.D. International PoliticsUniversity of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Non-Institutional

description, dates

N/A

Certification, licensure

description; board or agency; dates

  • 1991 –Member of Czech barBar Association of the Czech Republic

Experience

Academic

institutions; rank/status; dates

  • 1966–69Tutor and Research AssistantFaculty of Law, Charles University, Prague
  • 1969–72Department of East and Southeast European StudiesUniversity of Lancaster
  • 1974–76Postdoctoral Research FellowDepartment of Political Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • 1977–81Postdoctoral Research FellowDepartment of International Relations, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra
  • 1981–84Lecturer in Political ScienceDepartment of Government, University of Queensland, Brisbane
  • 1980–81Visiting FellowDepartment of International Relations, Australian National University
  • 1980–81Visiting FellowBalliol College, Oxford, U.K.
  • 1984–89Senior Lecturer in Political ScienceDepartment of Government, University of Queensland, Brisbane
  • 1987–88Associate Professor, Reader in Political Science (equivalent U.S. full Professor)
  • 1987 (Fall)Visiting ScholarHoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
  • 1987–88Research AssociateThe University of California, Berkeley
  • 1988–89Senior Research FellowCenter for Russian and East European Studies, Stanford University
  • 1988–89Visiting ProfessorThe University of Miami, the Graduate School of International Relations, Coral Gables, Florida
  • 1989 –Professor of International Studies (tenured)University of Miami, Coral Gables, Graduate School of International Studies, then School of International Studies, then Department of International Studies
  • 2016 –Research Affiliate, Visiting ProfessorVŠE, University of Economics, Prague — Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, Czech Republic

Non-Academic

N/A

Military

N/A

Publications

Please note the major new initiative giving access to more than 140 teaching/learning videos at https://www.globalinternationalrelations.com/ announcing a new “turn” in the post Gutenberg era — the “visual turn.”

Books

  • 1980V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, Marxism-Leninism and Theory of International Relations, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, and Boston, 1980, pp. 411.
  • 1981V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, International Inequality, Croom Helm, London, 1981, pp. 293.
  • 1985V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, Marxism and International Relations, Oxford University Press, 1985, pp. 281 (in “Marxist Introductions” series, eds. S. Lukes and Raymond Williams).
  • 1989V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, Marxism and International Relations, (revised edition with two new chapters), Oxford Paperback, Oxford University Press, 1989, pp. 297.
  • 1989V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, Thinking New about Soviet “New Thinking,” Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1989.
  • 1998V. Kubálková, Onuf, N. G., Kowert P. eds. International Relations in a Constructed World. 1998, 214pp. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe.
  • 2001V. Kubálková ed. 2001, Foreign Policy in a Constructed World, Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe.
  • 2003V. Kubálková, et al. ed. 2003 (eBook) International Relations in a Constructed World, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1998. Product ID 1648, eBook ISBN: 0585022844, ISBN: 0765602970.
  • V. Kubálková, Onuf, N. G., Kowert P. eds. Los Relaciones Internacionales en el mondo construido (translation from English International Relations in a Constructed World. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. 1998).
  • (In Chinese): 建构世界中的国际关系 (International Relations In a Constructed World) — 温都尔卡•库芭科娃,尼古拉斯•奥鲁夫,保罗•科维特(编辑),肖锋(译) (Vendulka Kubálková, Nicholas Onuf and Paul Kowert eds, Feng Xiao translated).
  • 2006V. Kubálková, 2006, What Has Gone Wrong with Transitions in Post Communist Eastern Europe?: Lessons for Cuba, published simultaneously in English and Spanish as a monograph by the Cuba Transition Project (CTP), Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami.
  • 2015V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, Marxism-Leninism and Theory of International Relations, reissued in October 2015 as a part of a special edition of 10 books for world libraries (originally Routledge and Kegan Paul, London and Boston, 1980, pp. 411.).

Just published

Juried or refereed journal articles, book chapters, and exhibitions

  • 1977V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, “A Double Omission,” British Journal of International Studies, 3 (1977) October, pp. 286-307.
  • 1978V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, “The Soviet Concept of Peaceful Coexistence: Some Theoretical and Semantic Problems,” The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. XXIV, No. 2, August 1978, pp. 184-199.
  • 1979V. Kubálková, “Moral Precepts of Soviet Politics,” in R. Pettman (ed.) Moral Claims in World Affairs, Croom Helm, London, 1979.
  • 1980V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, “Detente: Not with Hindsight,” Australian Outlook, Vol. 34, No. 2, August 1980, pp. 131-141.
  • 1981V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, “Marxist Perspectives in Studies of International Relations: A Rejoinder,” Review of International Studies, 1981, 7, 51-7 (the renamed British Journal of International Studies).
  • 1983V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, “Australia and Eastern Europe,” in R. Angel and P. Boyce (eds.) Independence and Alliance: Australia in World Affairs, Vol. 6, 1976-80, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, London, New York, 1983, pp. 169-189.
  • 1983V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, “The Brezhnev Doctrine and Eastern Europe,” World Review, 1983, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 21-32.
  • 1983V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, “Australia and Eastern Europe,” World Review, 1983, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 107-124.
  • 1985V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, “The Soviet Idea of Peace and Peaceful Co-existence,” in J. D. Frodsham (ed.), Interdisciplinary Approaches to Peace, PWPA, 1985, pp. 233-249.
  • 1986V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, “The ‘New Cold War’ in ‘Critical International Relations Studies,’” Review of International Studies, July 12, 1986, pp. 163-185.
  • 1987V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, “International Relations Studies in the South Pacific,” Australian Outlook, Vol. 41, No. 2, August 1987.
  • 1989V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, “A Rambo come to judgment: Marxist International Relations theory and Fred Halliday,” Review of International Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, 1989.
  • 1989V. Kubálková, “Marxism and Dependency” in Edward Weissband ed., Poverty amidst Plenty, Westview Press, Colorado, 1989.
  • 1990V. Kubálková, “Soviet Thinking on International Relations and the 28th CPSU Congress,” The Oxford International Review, Vol. I., No 2., 1990.
  • 1992V. Kubálková, “The Post-Cold War Geopolitics of knowledge: International Studies in the Former Soviet Bloc,” Studies in Comparative Communism, Vol. XXV, No 4, December 1992, pp. 407-417.
  • 1994V. Kubálková, “A Requiem for the Soviet Union,” in M. Mesbahi (ed.), Russia and the Third World in the Post-Soviet Era, University Press of Florida, 1994, pp. 19-44.
  • 1994V. Kubálková, “The experience of Eastern Europe: seven lessons for Cuba,” in Jaime Suchlicki and Antonio Jorge eds., Investing in Cuba: Problems and Prospects, Transaction Publishers, 1994.
  • 1998V. Kubálková (with N. Onuf and P. Kowert), “Constructing Constructivism” in International Relations in a Constructed World, eds. V. Kubálková, Onuf, N. G., Kowert P. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. 1998.
  • 1998V. Kubálková, “The Twenty Years Catharsis: E.H. Carr and IR,” in International Relations in a Constructed World, eds. V. Kubálková, Onuf, N. G., Kowert P. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
  • 1998V. Kubálková, “Reconstructing the Discipline: Scholars as Agents,” in International Relations in a Constructed World, eds. V. Kubálková, Onuf, N. G., Kowert P. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. 1998.
  • 2000V. Kubálková, 2000, “Towards an International Political Theology,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Special Issue on Religion and International Relations. Vol. 29, No 3, pp. 675-702.
  • 2001V. Kubálková, “Introduction”, in V. Kubálková ed., Foreign Policy in a Constructed World, Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.
  • 2001V. Kubálková, “Foreign Policy, International Relations and Constructivism,” in V. Kubálková ed., Foreign Policy in a Constructed World, Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.
  • 2001V. Kubálková, “A Constructivist Primer,” in V. Kubálková ed., Foreign Policy in a Constructed World, Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.
  • 2001V. Kubálková, “‘New Thinking’ and the End of the Cold War: Five Explanations,” in V. Kubálková ed., Foreign Policy in a Constructed World, Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.
  • 2001V. Kubálková, “A Tale of Two Constructivisms at the end of the Cold War,” Columbia onLine, 2001.
  • 2003V. Kubálková, Towards an International Political Theology, in Religion in International Relations: the Return from Exile, Palgrave, eds. Pavlos Hatzopoulos and Fabio Petito, Macmillan, London, 2003.
  • 2006V. Kubálková, “International Political Theology,” Brown Journal of World Affairs, a paper commissioned by the Journal, Winter/Spring 2006 • Volume XII, Issue 2.
  • 2006V. Kubálková, What Has Gone Wrong with Transitions in Post Communist Eastern Europe?: Lessons for Cuba, published in 2006 simultaneously in English and Spanish as a monograph by the Cuba Transition Project (CTP), Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami.
  • 2009V. Kubálková, (2009). “A ‘Turn to Religion’ in International Relations?” Perspectives, Special Issue 2: 13-63.
  • 2009V. Kubálková, 2009 “The ‘take off’ of the Czech IR discipline,” a special issue about studies of IR in the former Soviet bloc. Journal of International Relations and Development 12, 205–220.
  • 2013V. Kubálková and Mika Luoma-aho 2013 “Religion and the Realist Tradition of International Relations in a constructed world” in Jodok Troy ed. Realism, Religion, and International Relations, Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics: From Political Theology to International Relations Theory and Back. https://www.routledge.com/Religion-and-the-Realist-Tradition-From-Political-Theology-to-International/Troy/p/book/9780415529433
  • 2013V. Kubálková, 2013 (December) “The “Turn to Religion” in International Relations Theory and its Increasing Importance to the Scholarship”, commissioned by E-International Relations. http://www.e-ir.info/author/vendulka-kubalkova/
  • 2015V. Kubálková, 2015 “Framing R.W. Cox. Framing International Relations” in a Special Issue of Globalization, Vol. 13 Issue 5, called Robert W. Cox’s contribution to World Politics and IPE.
  • 2015V. Kubálková and A.A. Cruickshank, 2015 Marxism-Leninism and Theory of International Relations, reissued as a part of a special edition of 10 books for world libraries (originally Routledge and Kegan Paul, London and Boston, 1980, pp. 411.).
  • 2017V. Kubálková 2017 “Framing Robert W. Cox, Framing International Relations,” in From International Relations to World Civilizations, edited by Shannon Brincat, Routledge – 2017. In Routledge Series: Rethinking Globalizations.
  • 2018V. Kubálková, 2018 “R. Scott Appleby: From a Footnote to the International Studies Association (ISA) 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award”, The Review of Faith & International Affairs.
  • 2019V. Kubálková: 2019 “What Constructivism?” in Shahram Akbarzadeh (ed.) Routledge Handbook of International Relations in the Middle East, 1st edition, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-International-Relations-in-the-Middle-East/Akbarzadeh/p/book/9780415317283
  • 2019V. Kubálková 2019, “International Political Theology should be…”, The Tehran Times, February 11. https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/432808/International-Political-Theology-should-be-
  • 2021V. Kubálková, 2021. “A letter from the IR pandemic ‘zoomroom’”. Academia Letters, Article 140. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL140
  • 2021V. Kubálková and Renat Shaykhutdinov, 2021, “Essays in Honor of Daniel Philpott: An Introduction in Two Parts”, The Review of Faith & International Affairs (RFIA), Article ID: RFIA 1989813.
  • 2021V. Kubálková and Renat Shaykhutdinov, 2021, “Religion and International Relations in Today’s Marketplace (or Industry?) of Ideas”, The Review of Faith & International Affairs (RFIA) volume 19, number 4 (2021).
  • 2021V. Kubálková — created an award video. https://danielphilpott.info/award-video/
  • 2021V. Kubálková 2021 “The 20th anniversary of 9/11 is an urgent reminder of the importance of global awareness to students”, 9 Sept, Op-Ed, The Miami Hurricane.

Other works, publications, abstract

Unpublished post-graduate theses and dissertation

  • 1969“Travaux preparatoires” v interpretaci mezinarodnich smluv (“Travaux preparatoires” in interpretation of international treaties), Charles University, Prague, 1969.
  • 1968“Pravni aspekty Organizace Africke jednoty” (Juridical aspects of the Organization of African Unity), Charles University, Prague, 1968.

Newsletters for GIRS / International Studies Association

Videos for International Studies Association

GIRS webinars produced by me and with my participation.

V. Kubálková — 140 teaching/learning videos at https://www.globalinternationalrelations.com/ announcing a new “turn” in the post Gutenberg era — the “visual turn.”

Professional

Funded Research Performed

including all grants received in the last five years, identifying the principal investigator and the amounts and dates of the awards

  • 1985–87Recipient of Australian Federal Government Award for Research (ARGS Scheme) on a project dealing with “Soviet and Third World influences on International Law and Order”
  • 1986International Court of Justice, The HagueNov–Dec
  • 1987–88Senior Fulbright Scholar (one of seven only awards to Australians)

Since the arrival to the USA

  • 1990University of Miami research grant
  • 1990–91Director of the Czechoslovak segment of $700,000 US government project for country management training of US people in business in Czechoslovakiaa part of CIBER, principal investigator Dr. Robert Grosse
  • 1991Co-director of a project submitted to the A.I.D. for business and management training in Czechoslovakia by the University of Miami School of Business
  • 1991Olin/RFE research visitorship for one month in Munich in Summer
  • Completed a 1994-5 series of public lectures entitled “International Political Theology” by her own public lecture, and received a $5,000 grant to continue the series of lectures in
  • A personal gift of $2,500 for bringing speakers to GSIS classes
  • 2000Involved in getting $100,000 for the MAIA Program at SIS
  • 2001Involved in obtaining a $200,000 grant for EUC
  • 2002Instruction advancement grant, $5,000
  • 2005IT grant from UM Provost, $100,000
  • 2008Gift addressed to me for MAIA by Rev. Marta Weeks for $100,000

Editorial responsibilities

Senior Academic Editor, “International Relations in a Constructed World Series,” M.E. Sharpe — actively involved in editing, improving, changing the following volumes. Eight volumes published, all published by M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, New York:

  1. Vendulka Kubálková; Nicholas Onuf; Paul Kowert (eds.) International Relations in a Constructed World, 1998
  2. Ralph Pettman, Commonsense Constructivism, or the Making of World Affairs, 2000
  3. Karin Fierke; Knud Erik Jorgensen (eds.) Constructing International Relations: The Next Generation, 2001
  4. Vendulka Kubálková (ed.) Foreign Policy in a Constructed World, 2001
  5. Daniel M. Green (ed.) Constructivism and Comparative Politics, 2002
  6. Francois Debrix (ed.) Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed World, 2003
  7. Mahmood Monshipouri; Neil Englehart; Andrew J. Nathan; Kavita Philip (eds.) Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization, 2003
  8. Audie Klotz and Cecilia Lynch, Strategies for Research in Constructivist International Relations, 2007

V. Kubálková and Renat Shaykhutdinov, guest editors, 2021, A Symposium in Honor of Daniel Philpott, The Review of Faith & International Affairs (RFIA) volume 19, number 4 (Peter Katzenstein, Kuru, Nukhet Sandal, Ron Hassner, Jonathan Agensky, Hertzke, Betizza, Kristen Noa).

Professional and Honorary Organizations

member; officer; date

  • 1977–89Member of Board of the Faculty of Law, University of Queensland
  • 1988 –International Studies Association (ISA), member of the Committee for Transnational ActivitiesChair: Professor Takashi Inoguchi, Japan
  • 1990 –Honorary President, Czechoslovak Association for International Relations Studies
  • 1990 –Committee for International Relations of the Vice-President of Charles University, Prague
  • 1990 –Member of President Havel’s wife’s “Goodwill Committee”
  • 1994 –Member of the board of Dante Fascell fellowships of the State Department, Washington D.C.
  • 1994 –A judge on the panel of the board of the National Education Security Program (NSEP) administered by the Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.

2005–2006

  • Program co-chair (with Professor Onuf) for the ISA South Conference and the chief conference organizer, held in Miami in November 2005
  • Vice-President for 2005 of International Studies Association South
  • Elected President for 2006 of International Studies Association South
  • Member of the governing council of International Studies Association (national)
  • Member of the organizing Committee of the 2007 conference of (national) ISA conference
  • Member of the program committee of the 2007 conference of (national) ISA conference
  • Editor of E-Newsletter of ISA South, to be distributed to upward of 1000 members of the ISA South
  • Member of the task force of APSIA (chair, Dean of Johns Hopkins) for improving undergraduate IR teaching
  • Vice-Chair, Committee RC 43, IPSA/AISP; Editor of Newsletter

Honors and Awards

  • 2008A Businesswoman of the Year, Coral Gables, runner up
  • 1969The three-year scholarship award (Soroptimist International)
  • 1996 –Invited Member of Alpha Epsilon Lambda — National Graduate Societyfor contribution to graduate studies at UM
  • 2017Awarded a Distinguished Medal for Expertise in International Relations — the Jan Masaryk medal, “Pro Amicitia Inter Naciones”https://www.as.miami.edu/news-and-events/news-archive/index.html

Postdoctoral Fellowships

  • 1974–76Postdoctoral Research FellowDepartment of Political Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • 1977–81Postdoctoral Research FellowDepartment of International Relations, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra

Other Professional Activities

papers presented; performances; conference proceedings; seminar or conference panel member; catalogue work

  • 1970–74Extensive lecture tours (International politics, Soviet foreign policy) in all areas of the U.K. under the aegis of Soroptimist International
  • 1977“The Soviet and Marxist Concept of World Society”Seminar Series on “World Society” by Professor Hedley Bull, held at the Australian National University
  • 1978“The Soviet Union and the Third World”the “Marxism in Asia” Conference, held in Canberra, CCE, Australian National University
  • 1979“The Soviet Epistemology”ANU Conference, Australian National University (organizer Hedley Bull)
  • 1979“International Political Economy: the Marxist approach”Conference paper, Australian National University
  • 1979“Legitimation of Soviet Foreign Policy”ANU Conference, Australian National University
  • Aug 1980“International Inequality”Australian Political Science Association
  • Sep 1980“Australia and the USSR”Seminar at the Australian National University
  • Sep 1980“The Soviet and Chinese Approaches to World Politics”Seminar at the Australian National University
  • 1980“The End of Detente”Australian Institute of International Affairs
  • Jan 1981“The International Political Economy of Inequality”Balliol College, Oxford
  • Apr 1982“The USSR: Persisting Ideological Objectives in Foreign Policy”Griffith University, Australia
  • Nov 1982“Superpower Update: USSR”British Broadcasting Corporation Series (one hour program), broadcast
  • Apr 1984“The Soviet involvement in Asia”Griffith University, Australia, April 13, 1984
  • Apr 1984“The Marxist doctrine of International Law”Conference at the Australian National University
  • Aug 1986“International Relations: the State of the Art in Australia”Australasian Political Science Association, Brisbane
  • Nov 1987“Soviet Foreign Policy in the South Pacific”the Institute for Soviet and East European Studies, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables
  • Nov 1987“Soviet Foreign Policy in the South Pacific”The University of Florida, Gainesville
  • Oct 1987“Soviet Policy in the South Pacific”Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, October 29, 1987
  • Jan 1988“Soviet ‘New Thinking’ on International Relations” — a series of three public lecturesCenter for Russian and East European Studies, Stanford University. 1. January 25, 1988: Elements of Soviet Thinking on International Relations. 2. January 26, 1988: Soviet Thinking on International Relations as a Theory of International Relations. 3. January 28, 1988: Continuity and Change in Soviet Thinking on International Relations
  • Feb 1988“The Soviet ‘New Thinking’ on International Relations”USC Center for International Studies, February 3, 1988
  • Mar 1988“Soviet ‘New Thinking’”Center for Russian and East European Studies, UCLA (a dinner-lecture), March 8, 1988
  • Mar 1988“The ‘New Thinking’ in Soviet Foreign Policy”RAND/UCLA Center for the Study of Soviet International Behavior, March 9, 1988
  • Mar 1988“Realism and its Soviet Critics”Institute of International Studies and the Berkeley-Stanford Program on Soviet International Behavior, March 14, 1988
  • Apr 1989US International Studies Association / British International Studies Association, a joint conference, London — two papers1. “Perspectives of International Relations studies in the South Pacific” (panel of the Committee for Transnational Activities of the ISA). 2. “Soviet ‘New Thinking’ on International Relations and the Western ‘third paradigm’ of International Relations studies.”
  • Mar 1992US International Studies Association, annual conference, Atlantachair of a panel on East Europe; paper on trends in post-Soviet thought on IR
  • Mar 1994US International Studies Association, annual conferencepaper on “International Political Idiocies” (panel of Kratochwil, Lapid, Pettman, and Ferguson)
  • Feb 1995US International Studies Association, annual conference, Chicagochairing a panel on East Europe
  • 1994–5Completed a 1994-5 series of public lectures entitled “International Political Theology” by my own public lecture
  • 1990–97Organized for the GSIS students (and fully funded myself) non-credit lectures of leading International Relations specialistsincluding Andrzej Korbonski (UCLA), Alker (then President of ISA), Ladd Hollist (then Executive director of ISA), James Rosenau (USC), Pauline Rosenau (U of Texas), Andre Gunder Frank, James Parkinson (University of London), Ralph Pettman (ANU), Susan Strange (LSE), Kal Holsti (University of British Columbia), Ninian Smart (University of California at Santa Barbara), R.B. Walker, etc.
  • Spr 1997Round table Co-Chair: “Miami theory Group”Southern ISA, FIU, North Campus
  • Dec 1997Presented a paper, “National or cultural/civilizational parochialism in IR discipline?: Twenty years after Stanley Hoffmann’s 1977 article”the Joint Conference ISA-AMEI (Mexican International Studies Association) entitled “World Cooperation: The Americas by the end of the XX century,” Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, December 11-13, 1997
  • Dec 1997Panel chair: “International Studies: still as American as apple pie?”the Joint Conference ISA-AMEI (Mexican International Studies Association) entitled “World Cooperation: The Americas by the end of the XX century,” Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico, December 11-13, 1997
  • 2000Lessons from East Europe, a lecture for the Cuban American Studies Center
  • May 2000“Towards International Political Theology,” a lecture (by invitation) at London School of Economicsin a conference on religion and IR
  • Oct 2000“A Tale of Two Constructivisms at the Cold War’s end”REGIS Series, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • Feb 2001Constructivism and Inequality — A Key Theme PanelDiscussants Ralph Pettman (chair), Kurt Burch, Karen Fierke, Jutta Weldes. “International Relations and the New Inequality,” 42nd Annual ISA Convention, Chicago IL, 20-24 February 2001
  • Teaching International Relations in the era of globalization: A New Concept and Model of Teaching IR for Small IR Programswith Dr. Andy S. Gomez, Interim Dean. Presented at a panel “Pedagogy and International Relations.” Panelists: Joseph Rallo (Chair), Covadonga Meseguer, Victor H. Assai, Craig T. Cobane, Jennifer S. Wood
  • Feb 2001Religion and International Relations — a panel of the Millennium, LSE42nd Annual ISA Convention, Chicago IL, 20-24 February 2001
  • 2002–03ISA 2002 Portland, Oregon — Keynote panel chair: ConstructivismInvited by program co-chair to organize a panel on the convention theme (THE CONSTRUCTION AND CUMULATION OF KNOWLEDGE) for the February 2003 International Studies Association (ISA) Annual 44th Convention in Portland, Oregon, February 25 – March 1, 2003. The panel’s title I chaired was “Constructivist Conversations I: Constitution, Causation, Cumulation.”
  • Sep 2003Invited by Professor Konstantin Khudoley, Dean, School of International Relations, St Petersburg, Russia, to give a paper at the 16th Nordic and 4th Baltic Peace Research Conferenceunder the title “New Security Challenges as Challenges to Peace Research,” held in St. Petersburg, Northwest Russia, on September 11-13, 2003. Invitation accepted. Presented a paper called Russia and Constructivism
  • Oct 2003Invited by David Ellis to take part in a roundtable on constructivism and realismat the University of Florida, Gainesville, hosting the 2003 ISA South conference. No stipend was offered. Invitation accepted
  • Mar 2004Invited by Dean of the School of International Relations to take part in the 10th Anniversary of School of International Relations celebrations, St. Petersburg State University, Russiatitled “International Relations and Foreign Policy in XXI century”, March 27, 2004. I have given a paper entitled “Russia’s Contribution to the Theory of International Relations.” Other participants: Konstantin Khudoley (St Petersburg), Celeste Wallender (CSIS, USA — the only other participant from the US), Heinz Timmermann (Germany), Ni Shixiong (Fudan, China), Hubertus Neuschaeffer (Switzerland), Valeriy Mikhailenko (Moscow), Esko Antola (Finland), Anton Giulio de Roberti’s (Italy), Bojko Bucar (Slovenia), Sun Zhe (China). All cost in St Petersburg was paid by the organizers
  • Oct 2004ISA South, Columbus, South Carolina
  • Nov 2005ISA South, Miami
  • 2006IPSA/AISP, Fukuoka, Japan
  • Oct 2006ISA South, Birmingham
  • Dec 2011Conference on Evil in International Relations, Rovianami, Finlandfully paid from a Finnish grant
  • 2012IPSA/AISP Madrid World Congress — presenting a paper and discussing another two
  • 2013ECPR 2013 Annual Convention, Bordeaux, France — chairing and organizing and discussing presentationsISA Montreal — paper on R.W. Cox apropos of his award in the IR theory section
  • ISA New Orleans — paper on R.W. Cox, paper on the religion and IR panel
  • 2016Chair of the Committee for the best graduate student paper, Section of Religion and IR, ISA2016 European Consortium of Political Research, September, Prague, 2016
  • 2016Chair of the Committee for the best book, Section of Religion and IR, ISA
  • 2016–7Member of the Committee for the award of the best book — R.W. Cox award
  • 2017ISA Baltimore Convention — Chair of a presidential theme panel
  • 2018ISA San Francisco — several panels
  • 2019ISA Toronto — chair of the Committee for the best book, Section of Religion and IR, ISADiscussant on a couple of panels
  • 2019CEEISA-ISA 2019 Joint International Conference, Belgradetheme: “International Relations in the Age of Anxiety” — roundtable Anxiety of the “shores” of the International Relations Discipline. Chair. Discussant on two more panels
  • Participation in all ISA events, now also a co-chair of a section and thus a member of the General Council of ISA

Teaching

Teaching Awards

  • 1999Nominated for the UM Excellence in teaching award
  • 2018Graduate Students Teaching Award
  • 2018Award for excellence in teaching at Economics University (Pametni medajle), Prague

Teaching Specialization

courses taught

Courses taught at the University of Miami — Soviet

  1. Domestic Context of Soviet Foreign Policy
  2. Soviet domestic politics
  3. International Order without the Soviet Union
  4. Soviet New Thinking
  5. International Political Economy of the Soviet Union and East Europe
  6. The legacy of Socialism in the former Soviet bloc
  7. Our Common European Home
  8. International Political Economy of Eastern Europe
  9. Political change in the Soviet bloc
  10. Soviet policy in Asia-Pacific

Theory of International Relations

  1. Purpose and scope
  2. World Society
  3. International Political Economy
  4. International Order without the Soviet Union
  5. Soviet New Thinking
  6. International Ethics
  7. World Affairs
  8. International Organizations
  9. World Cultures and Religions
  10. International Relations beyond IR

Elsewhere

  • Theory of International Relations
  • International Political Economy
  • Soviet Foreign Policy
  • Soviet Domestic Policy
  • International Law
  • Introduction to International Relations
  • Conceptions of World Politics
  • Soviet Foreign Policy in Asia-Pacific
  • East European Politics
  • Foreign Policies of the Great Powers
  • International Communism
  • European Marxism
  • Modern Political Ideology
  • Music (theory and keyboard instruments)

In MAIA program

  • IGS 614 — World Affairs
  • IGS 611 — International Organizations
  • IGS 613 — World Cultures, Religions and Communication

In INS Program (by Department of Geography), Director Richard Grant

  • INS — Transnational Social Movements
  • INS — Civilizations, ideologies, religion
  • INS — courses with no names

Thesis and Dissertation Advising / Postdoctoral student supervision

chairman or committee member; topic; student name; date

Overview (1989 – 2008)

26 Ph.D. (chair of 19 dissertation committees). Ex officio academic member of internship Reports/theses Committees, at least 60 MAIA. For the list of 2007-8 MIA reports of which I was either member of the Committee or chair.

January 2005 — completed M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations (topic, current job)

  • 1990Fenner, M.A.South East Asia — works in the private sector
  • 1992Kline M., Ph.D.Soviet Marxism-Leninism, deception and FP — CIA
  • 1993Hamman H., Ph.D.Mathematics and theory of IR — private business, associate director of MAIA UM (published as a chapter in a book)
  • 1993Tomov C., M.A.Member of the Committee — drug trafficking in Canada
  • 1993Wang H., M.A.Neoauthoritarianism — private sector
  • 1994Idahmed Abdula, Ph.D.Waltz and IR theory — Sudanese diplomat (published as a book)
  • 1994Ziegenhorn Frank, M.A.E.H. Carr and unification of Germany — doctoral studies in Germany
  • 1995Castle R., M.A.Drug trafficking and theory — looking for a job in the UK
  • 1995Domask, J., M.A.Continued Ph.D. studies, completed 1997, see below
  • 1995Kozloski, L., Ph.D.Privatization of telecommunications in LA and East Europe — CEO of Ryder, in charge of East European business, now a professor at FIU
  • 1996Sarduy, Naisy, M.A.Islam as a theory of IR — Research Position at FIU
  • 1996Singh, D., Ph.D.Math and theory of IR — Consultant in a Wall Street firm
  • 1996Bonter, D., M.A.Biodiversity and IR theory — a Ph.D. student at the best department in his field (SUNY)
  • 1996Gladel, C., M.A.Voting of the former Soviet bloc countries in the GA of the UN — research position in the UN
  • 1996Gudani, M.A.South African politics — a position in South African Government
  • 1997Domask J., Ph.D.Structural theory of IR and environment protection of Amazon river — NGO, now a professor at American university
  • 1997Koldys, Greg, Ph.D.New Institutionalism and Central Asia — election officer US AID, Kazakhstan
  • 1997Zaphar Mithavayani, M.A.Sex workers in Thailand — job not known
  • 1997Hallock, S., Ph.D.Ecofeminism — adjunct professor
  • 1997Kristol, J., Ph.D.Middle East — a federal judge; his dissertation published twice as a book
  • 1997Milan Joe, Ph.D.Religion, culture, and environmental protection in Mexico — job not known
  • 1998Flagler, S., Ph.D.Ukraine, Kazakhastan and Belorussia transition and world-system theory — CIA
  • 1998Life, J., M.A.Small business privatization — CEO, Braman Honda
  • 1998Messari, N., Ph.D.Identity in IR: Islam cases — formerly Professor at a University in Rabat, Morocco, now Professor in Brazilia, Brazil; published as a chapter in a book
  • 2000Arlene Tickner, Ph.D.IR Studies in Latin America (committee member but de facto chair)
  • 2000Vanessa Gray, Ph.D.Committee member
  • 2003Fred Perry, Ph.D.Trucking, Nafta and Constructivism
  • 2003Jenkins, E., Ph.D.Slovakia — member
  • 2003Messersmith Erik, Ph.D.Member
  • 2004Glendene Lemard, Ph.D.Member
  • 2004Greg Rickman, Ph.D.Chair — Holocaust retributions
  • 2004Xiao Feng, Ph.D.Chair — China and Constructivism
  • 2005Tanya Mastrapa, Ph.D.Member of the Committee
  • 2005Orlando Gutierrez, Ph.D.Member of the Committee
  • 2006Craig Simon, Ph.D.Chair
  • 2020Kristen Noah, M.A.Chair — International Political Musicology: Juche and North Korea

Ex officio participation on over 150 MAIA theses. For the list, see Appendix.

Service

University Committee and Administrative Responsibility

  • 1978–89Director, International Relations Program, University of Queensland
  • 1977–89Member of Board of the Faculty of Law, University of Queensland
  • 1985–87Member of (four-member) all-University sub Committee on Promotions to full professor, University of Queensland
  • 1987Member, Search Committee, Law School, University of Queensland
  • 1987Member, Search Committee, The Chair and Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Queensland
  • 1990 –The University of Miami — Member of the Oversight Committee of the undergraduate program (honors) in International Relationsnow dissolved?
  • 1994Chair, Search Committee for a GSIS Assistant Professor
  • 1995Member of Search Committee, GSIS Assistant Professor
  • 1997Member of Search Committee, SIS IA and IPE Assistant/Associate Professor
  • 1990–95, 1997Member of the Curriculum Committee
  • 1994Member of the internal review committee of the graduate program of the School of Communications
  • 1993Member of the promotion committee, dept. of History
  • 1995–1997GSIS co-chair of the SACS committee
  • Summer 1996Coordinator, GSIS International Relations Program (curriculum reform)
  • 1997Curriculum MA IA task force
  • 1997General GSIS curriculum committee
  • 1996–7University Search committee, GSIS Dean
  • 1996–7IR undergraduate program committeewith Drs Schofield, and Blaney, Bagley, and Weisskoff
  • 1997Member of SIS committees for misc. searches
  • 1998Curriculum committee, member
  • 1998Committee on faculty workload evaluation, member
  • 1998Committee on student evaluations of faculty, member
  • 1998Committee for guest lectures
  • 1999Chair, Search Committee, IR Assistant/Associate Professor
  • 1999Member, UM Committee for Faculty Evaluation by students
  • 2000Coordinator, MAIA program
  • Nov 2000 – Jan 2002Interim Chair, ICS Department, SIS
  • Jan 2002 – Nov 2002Chair, DIS, CAS
  • Jul 2003 – 2010Director of MAIA
  • Jul 2003 – 2010Assistant Provost for University-wide International Studies
  • 2001–2003GER committee
  • Provost committee for special grants
  • Perri Lee Roberts committee on academic women
  • Summa cum laude honors committee

Community Activities

  • Frequent TV interviews about Russia in time of any crisis there, particularly in 1989, 1990, and 1991, on all local channels and many radio stations.
  • Two-hour long television appearances in 1990 and 1991 discussing issues of the Soviet Union (Channel 4); daily appearances early in the morning of one of the local channels.
  • Lectures throughout the last five years to dozens of community organizations, retired professionals, women organizations, rotary clubs, university alumni, Florida Bar Association, Forum – Boca Raton, Miami education organizations, NATO training in Fort Pierce in 1994, Czech Chamber of Commerce. Completed a 1994-5 series of public lectures entitled “International Political Theology” by my own public lecture in the University Episcopal Center, attended by public.
  • Organist of the Episcopal Church Center (1991-1997) and second organist of the Presbyterian Riviera Church.

Additional Activities

  • Papers: ISA South, Miami 2005 — Program chair.
  • Roundtable, Teaching IR for the 21st Century — Chair a couple of panels.
  • Seminar on Constructivism and IR, FIU, November 6, 2005 — constructivist analysis of the post-communist transition.
  • December 3, 2005 — paper presented at the APSIA deans and directors meeting about teaching IR.
  • Accepted paper for the ISA Conference in San Diego, March 2006, where also acting as a discussant.
  • Invited to propose, and accepted, a paper to be presented in the 2006 world IPSA Congress, Fukuoka, Japan, World Conference — Religion returning to the IR classroom.
  • Member of APSIA task force for improving IR undergraduate teaching.
  • Editor of ISA South Newsletter.
  • Editor of IPSA/AISP Newsletter on Religion and Politics.
  • Program Co-Chair of ISA-South Conference held in Miami, 3-5 November 2005.
  • Vice President of ISA-South, 2005.
  • President of ISA South, 2006.
  • Member of the Governing Council of ISA (national), 2006.
  • Member of the organizing Committee of ISA Convention for 2007.
  • Member of Board of Trustees of Korbel School of International Studies, Denver, Colorado, for ten years.
  • Vice-Chair of the Research Committee 43 for Religion and Politics, IPSA/AISP.
  • Member of the Executive, Religion, and IR, ISA — reelected for 2020-2022.
  • Member of many editorial boards.

A new ISA Section

Member of the Working Group proposing a new ISA Section, other members drawn from across the world: Štěpánka Zemanová, University of Economics, the Czech Republic; Vendulka Kubálková, University of Miami, US; Pinar Bilgin, Bilkent University, Turkey; Amitav Acharya, American University, USA; Beatrix Futák-Campbell, Leiden University, the Netherlands; Antje Wiener, Universität Hamburg, Germany; Thomas Tieku, King University of Western Ontario, Canada; Tang Shiping, Fudan University, China; Navnita Chadha Behera, University of Delhi, India; Arlene Beth Tickner, Universidad del Rosario, Columbia; Maria Lagutina, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia; Nizar Messari, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco; Kenki Adachi, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

The Section had support from 56 countries and was finalized in March 2022 at the ISA Convention. It was my idea to create the Section, and I was one of its original chairs.

Appendix

A list of MAIA students on whose committees I ex officio served (reprinted from the webpage) — this was one of the first-ever professional IR masters programs, described as the most innovative program in the Southern United States.