List of topics of IMESS dissertations successfully defended at Charles University in 2009-2014 A blip on the radar? Conceptualising the Czech Republic in the United States before and after the missile defence shift A Holistic Analysis of Polish Return Migration Programs. Armenia’s accession to the Customs Union: Gains and Losses? Assessment of East German Uprising of 1953 from 1989 Perspective in Germany Civic engagement in Romania – testing the applicability of mainstream theories on the winter protests of 2012 Cleavage politics and Europeanisation-induced transformation of the national political space - the case of the Czech Republic Constructing Nagorno-Karabakh: a diachronic analysis of official Armenian discourse Convergence across the four Central and Eastern European states: Panel Data Approaches Convergence or Divergence: The Analysis of Economic Growth in the CIS Countries Differences Between National Memory of Communism in Poland and the Czech Republic Discursive Energy Security: Narratives and Public Relations in Natural Gas Pipelines. Nabucco vs. South Stream Case Study Does Banking Concentration Lead to Banking Stability in the CEE Countries? Does the high government debt hurt long-term economic growth? Economic Integration in the EU: Competitiveness and Convergence Ethnicity, Territoriality, and Conflict in the South Caucasus - A Qualitative Comparative Analysis European Security at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century: At the Crossroads of the US and Russian Foreign Policies Financial Globalization and Macroeconomic Volatility: an Empirical Study of the Effects of Foreign Bank Presence on the Volatility of Consumption and Growth First Teachers, Then Students: Media Education in the Czech Republic Galloping behind Europe: benefits and burdens of EU rule transposition in Bulgaria and Czech Republic Growth-Enhancing Mechanism in Transition Countries: Cooperative Effect of Foreign Direct Investment and Financial Development Health care: necessity or luxury good? A meta-regression analysis Health Systems in Transition: Priorities, Policies and Health Outcomes Hungary - Russia - EU. Bilateral versus multilateral relations in Hungarian natural gas policy Hybrid Model for Regulating Carbon Chechnya, Iraq and the US-Russian "relationship" Irregular Female Labour Migration from Ukraine for Labour to the Elderly Care Sector in Italy Is development aid the most effective tool in poverty alleviation and economic development? Macroeconomic factors and stock returns: Evidence from three Central and East European countries Old Master, New Neighbor: Putin's Russia in the Czech Foreign Policy Discourse Producing and Consuming the Nation: ethnography of a Czech National Memorial Russia-OSCE relations: a Balance between National Interests and Security Commitments State-Islam relations in Russia The Determinants of Private Savings in the EU: The Case of the Group of Eight Entrant Countries The effects of International Broadcasting on the Soviet Audience At Glasnost and Perestroika Period: The Case of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty The European Union, a Normative Empire: the case of Croatia’s accession The Changing Security Relationship Between CEE and the US from 2001 to the Present – New Allies, New Challenges The Impact of the EU Accession Process in Shaping Democratization: The case of Albania The Lisbon Strategy and Europe 2020:Where is the information society? The Role of State Ownership in Commercial Banks: Experience of CEE Transition Countries