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            The Deutsch Security Square is a research centre established at the Department of Internat
            Institute of Political Studies [ URL "http://ips.fsv.cuni.cz/ipseng-1.html"] , Faculty of 
            Sciences [ URL "http://fsveng.fsv.cuni.cz"] of the Charles University in Prague [ URL "htt

            uken-1.html"] . It has been founded with the aim to promote collective research of securit
            tradition of the scholarship of Karl Deutsch seeking, in his words, "more knowledge for gr
            and more compassion."

            While Karl Deutsch (1912-1992) rose to academic fame as one of the titans of political sci
            United States, the Charles University, one of the oldest and most renowned universities in

            Eastern Europe, proudly recognizes him as its alumnus. It was at the university’s Law Facu
            fluent in both German and Czech, received his juris doctor degree (1938) before fleeing th
            that was about to befall his homeland. He would not come back, and following a long and di

            career, he ended his days in Cambridge, Massachussetts. To pay tribute to Deutsch's intell
            the Charles University was one of the convenors of a Prague conference celebrating his cen
            and the Centre has recently become entrusted with the custody of his personal library, a r

            books from a wide variety of fields of human interest that his family wished was moved to 
            passing.
            The square in the Centre’s name metaphorically alludes to an agora as a space where ideas 

            traded and shared, and where those who enter can join in a dialogue. It also refers to fou
            collective research interest: conflict resolution and transformation, strategic studies, s
            security and critical security studies agenda including inquiries into the interplay of se

            technology in today’s global politics.
            We strive for academic excellence without prejudice in terms of methodology as long as the
            theoretically sound, innovative and thorough. The ethos of Deutschian scholarship we seek 

            one that rests less on methodological assumptions about the possibility of measuring and m
            reality; and more on the emphasis of rigorous, transparent, collective and transdisciplina
            We take inspiration from Karl Deutsch's liberal approach to security, and take seriously t

            the realist paradigm by striving to zoom in and out of the ‘leviathan’ of the modern state
            about security, stressing the importance of both norms, ideas and discourses; and of socia
            (in)security. The focus on the latter situates our inquires at the intersection of interna

            and international political sociology that thinks beyond the state institutions and even e
            and knowledges. (If you wish to read more about the currency of Deutschian scholarship and
            directions of following Karl Deutsch's intellectural heritage, we invite you to read intro

            by Richard Ned Lebow, here [ URL "DSS-5-version1-lebow_essay.pdf"] , and Ondrej Ditrych, h
            version1-ditrych_essay.pdf"] .)
            In addition to academic endeavour traditionally conceived, we seek also to speak to broade

            to cultivate the debate on security issues and policies. This is being done by means of re
            of our security briefs that provide concise, theoretically informed and practically releva
            on global security issues of the day; and public events where outcomes of our academic res

            mediated to the broader interested public.
            It is a great honour and commitment for us to have assembled, upon the Centre’s founding, 
            illustrious scholars to serve on its advisory board:


                                                                                                      
                                     RICHARD NED LEBOW (CHAIRMAN)                                     
                                                                                                      
                                     Professor of International Political Theory, King's College Londo
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      
                                     ANDREI S. MARKOVITS                                              
                                                                                                      
                                     Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Pr
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      
                                     PETER KATZENSTEIN                                                
                                                                                                      
                                     Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, Corne
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      
                                     EMANUEL ADLER                                                    
                                                                                                      
                                     Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies and Professo
                                                                                                      
                                     MIROSLAV HROCH                                                   
                                                                                                      
                                     Professor of Modern History, Charles University in Prague        
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      
                                     FRIEDRICH KRATOCHWIL                                             
                                                                                                      
                                     Visiting Professor, Central European University and former profes
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      
                                     MICHAEL ZÜRN                                                     
                                                                                                      
                                     Director of the Global Governance research unit, Wissenschaftszen
                                                                                                      
                                     JAN RUZICKA                                                      
                                                                                                      
                                     Director of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International