Email: michal.kolmas@mup.cz
Michal Kolmaš is an Associate Professor and the head of the Asian studies department at Metropolitan University Prague, and the editor-in-chief of the Czech Journal of International Relations (cjir.iir.cz). He graduated in International Relations from Masaryk University Prague and received a doctorate from Charles University Prague. During that time, he spent two years as a researcher in Japan. In 2017, he served as visiting fellow at the Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University in Beppu, in 2018 he was a visiting fellow at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Between 2021 and 2022, he was a fellow at University of Massachusetts in Boston, USA. He focuses on climate change in international politics, security in Asia, Japanese domestic and foreign politics and theories/methods of research in IR. His works were published in the most prestigious journals including Global Environmental Politics, The Pacific Review, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Social Science Japan Journal, Australian Journal of International Affairs, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific and others. His latest authored monograph titled National identity and Japanese revisionism was published by Routledge in 2019. He was the recipient of several grant projects, including a few Czech Science Foundation projects, an ERA grant and one Japan Foundation grant. Currently, he is the co-investigator of a CSF project “Under Pressure: Crisis, emotions and political transformations around climate change” (2022-2024).