PhDr. Petr Suchý, Ph. D.

Director of the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. After completing his master’s studies in political science at the Faculty of Social Studies in 1998, he did his doctoral studies in 1998 – 2002 at the Department of Political Science at the FSS MU. He concentrates mainly on foreign policy of the USA from the end of World War II to the present, with special focus on the Reagan administration; and on security issues – the role and development of nuclear weapons, anti-missile systems, the arms control process, and disarmament between the superpowers during the Cold War and after the end of bipolarity. In summer 2002 he took part in the Fulbright Institute’s American studies program on the topic “U.S. Foreign Policy: Foundations and Formulations” held at the Walker Institute for International Studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He is the author of Reagan a říše zla [Reagan and the Evil Empire] (2004) and Strategie zadržování v Americké zahraniční politice [The Strategy of Containment in American Foreign Policy] (2005), and editor of the studies Zahraniční politika USA v devadesátých letech dvacátého století [Foreign Policy of the USA in the 1990s] (2001) and Vývoj a výsledky procesů kontroly zbrojení a odzbrojování. Marnost nad marnost? [History and Results of the Arms Control Process: All in vain? (with Petra Kuchyňková, 2005).

Room 443, phone (+420) 549 49 8126, e-mail: psuchy@fss.muni.cz