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Annual report 2009
PSSI Annual Report 2009
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President Václav Havel
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
The global financial crisis made for
a challenging 2009, but PSSI continued its
programs without interruption or cut-backs.
This is, in large measure, due to creative and
tireless efforts of my fellow Co-Founder,
Roger Robinson. The Institute’s robust
Outreach Program, overseen by PSSI
Program Director, Jiří Schneider, was one
of the highlights of 2009 with an intense
schedule of conferences, workshops
and
informal
gatherings
involving
representatives of over a dozen nations.
PSSI’s Security Scholars Program, the
centerpiece of the Institute’s academic
training, also continued its tradition of
excellence with some seventeen handpicked security scholars enrolled in the
Institute’s two-semester course. This is the
ninth year of the program and our alumni
list of accomplished professionals and
advanced degree holders has expanded
into a sizeable tribe. In 2009, the first
nine students gained their PSSI-sponsored
Master’s Degree in Security Studies at
prestigious Charles University.
I am also pleased to report that the
process of obtaining accreditation for
our Master’s Degree program in English
gained the support of the Czech Ministry
of Education, making it possible to launch
this new dimension of the program in the
academic year 2011–2012.
As I am preparing this message in 2010, it
says a good deal about the positioning we
accomplished in 2009, as it permitted the
Institute to successfully co-organize three
major conferences in the first two months
of this year (i.e. Afghanistan, the NATO
Concept, and Czech-Israeli relations). As
PSSI is now approaching the decade mark
since its founding, it has identified its niche
in the global security community and how
to make contributions to policy-makers,
academics, journalists and security-minded
professionals disproportionate to its size –
the right kind of asymmetry.
…I wish to take this
opportunity to express my
gratitude for your many years
of public policy service to the
Czech Republic.
By co-founding PSSI you
hugely contributed to the
training of some of our
finest university students
and young professionals in
national security studies and
policy–making. These efforts
will yield important future
benefits for the country in
safeguarding our hard-fought
freedoms…
From a letter by then-President Václav
Havel to PSSI Co-Founder Roger W.
Robinson Jr.
As in the past, we fully appreciate that
PSSI’s cutting-edge work would not be
possible without the generous support of
our donors. These individuals, foundations,
policy groups, corporations and governments
have recognized the value of supporting
PSSI and we are immensely grateful for
their loyalty, even in difficult times. PSSI
has become, with their help, an important
regional hub for security policy and studies –
which achieves our original goal.
Oldřich Černý
PSSI Executive Director and Co-Founder
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PSSI’s Executive Director Oldřich Černý and Karel Kovanda, Deputy Director General for External Relations, European Commission addressing RMSSP students
Security Scholars Program
Robinson-Martin Security
Scholars Program
PSSI launched its Security Scholars
Program in early 2002, seeking to fill
a void with respect to security studies
programs at major Czech universities.
Similar to past years, in 2009, the Institute
successfully recruited seventeen highlyqualified students to participate in our
two-semester Security Scholars Program.
PSSI’s Security Scholars Program is
presently comprised of a series of lectures
and seminars led by a distinguished
list of former and current senior policy
professionals from the Czech Republic and
other countries, who are recognized experts
in their respective fields. The content and
sequencing of over twenty lectures convened
at PSSI each academic year are coordinated
by the Institute’s Executive Director and CoFounder, Oldřich Černý. Reading lists and
written assignments accompany the lecture
topics. Our Security Scholars Program is
unusual in that it provides our students with
direct access to a range of security policy
luminaries in small group settings.
Among the recognized experts, who
participated in the Institute’s 2009 Security
Scholars Program were Karel Kovanda,
Deputy Director General for External
Relations, European Commission; Luboš
Dobrovský, Former Czech Ambassador to
Russia; Václav Bartuška, Ambassador at
Large for Energy Security; Carol Dumaine,
Director of Energy and Environmental
Security at the US Department of
Energy; David Robson, Head of Energy
and Environmental Foresight of the
Scottish Government; Jan Ruml, Former
Czech Minister of Interior; and Evgueni
Novikov, Senior Fellow at the Jamestown
Foundation.
James Q. Whitaker Special
Course at the Faculty
of Social Science
The primary purpose of James Q. Whitaker
Security Lecture series named after
a principal supporter of the PSSIsponsored Master’s Degree Program in
Security Studies at Charles University,
is to bring security policy practitioners
from around the world into the classroom
to share their analyses, expertise, and
first-hand experience with this talented
group of students. On April 6–8, 2009,
Carol Dumaine, Director of Energy
and Environmental Security at the US
Department of Energy and David Robson,
Head of Energy and Environmental
Foresight of the Scottish Government,
delivered a series of lectures on “National
and Global Security in a Volatile World:
Shared Risks, Uncommon Challenges,
New Opportunities.” Both guest lecturers
examined how the contemporary security
environment has been shaped over the
course of the 20th century and what new
challenges confront regional and global
policy-makers in the period ahead.
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“The James Q. Whitaker
Special Course was a great
chance to learn more – both
from the perspective of
theory and practice – about
the national security in
the volatile world (how the
decisions are taken, what
is shaping them, impact of
environmental issues, etc.)
and, in the second part,
about irregular warfare. The
lectures were unique not only
because of the personalities
of the presenters, but also
thanks to their deep insight
into the given topics.”
František Šulc, Foreign Policy Editor of
Czech weekly “Týden”
and Founder of onwar.eu blog
In April 2009, Professor Richard Shultz
from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University continued
the series with his lectures on “Armed
Groups and Irregular Warfare: A Major 21st
Century Security Challenge.” He outlined
in detail how the irregular and asymmetric
forms of warfare strategies and armed nonstate actors have proliferated over the past
two decades and the dangers they pose
to the international security environment.
Throughout the seminars, a new security
paradigm was discussed as were new
doctrines and strategies developed by US
security community. Questions included:
How will war be fought in the future by
both regular and irregular means? What
lessons can be gleaned from the current
security challenges that countries face
from irregular warfare and non-state
actors? Special attention was given to the
global insurgency and terrorism activities
of the Salafi Jihad movement.
PSSI’s 2009 NATO Summer School
The fifth PSSI NATO Summer School was
convened on July 12 – July 17 in Telč and was
dedicated to exploring the topic “Security
Challenges in XXI Century.” The program,
sponsored by the NATO Public Diplomacy
Division, offered an opportunity for Czech
and international graduate students to
discuss current security issues with senior
Czech and other foreign government
officials and attend lectures delivered by
distinguished former policy practitioners
and scholars from leading universities and
think tanks. The NATO Summer School
has become one of PSSI’s traditional
strengths and differentiators, namely
providing venues for close, often one on
one, interaction between our students and
policy-makers and scholars from the region
and around the world.
The participants represented the following
countries: France, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech
Republic, USA, Estonia, Armenia, Georgia,
Uzbekistan, Ukraine, China, Ireland,
Colombia, Moldova and Iceland.
The five-day program consisted of
eleven sessions and four workshops. The
principal topics included NATO missions
and policies, and energy security. The
opening session, chaired by Jiří Schneider,
PSSI’s Program Director, was followed
by a lecture on NATO’s past, present
and future by Petr Luňák (PDD NATO).
Veronika Kuchyňová-Šmigolová, Director
of Security Policy Department at the Czech
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provided
special insights into the management of
the energy security crises that occurred
during the 2009 Czech EU presidency.
On the second day, Michael Romancov
of Charles University lectured our
students on the intersection of energy,
geopolitics and geo-economics. The next
lecture, conducted by Charles Blaha of
the US Embassy in Prague, dealt with
the US strategies and priorities, American
military engagement in Afghanistan, the
US policy towards Iran and China, as well
as US-Russian relations. The students then
spent the afternoon attending a two-part
interactive workshop led by Jiří Schneider.
The third day commenced with lecture
by Yuri E. Fedorov of the Royal Institute
of International Studies on current foreign
and security policy issues, focusing on the
future of US-Russia relations under the
Obama administration. The next speaker,
Radoslav Jahoda from the Czech Ministry
of Defense, spoke about the Czech
contributions to NATO military operations.
This presentation was aptly reinforced by
a practitioner’s view of the work of the
provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) in
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One of the workshops at the PSSI’s Summer School
Afghanistan. This was provided by Karla
Štěpánková who worked for the Czech
PRT in Logar between 2008–2009.
PSSI Ranked 18th among
the 30 Leading Central and
Eastern European Think
Tanks, according to the “2009
Global Rankings of Think
Tanks”. The index published
by the Civil Society
Programs at the University
of Pennsylvania.
evaluated a total of 6305
think tanks worldwide. Close
to 400 organizations were
nominated and ranked by
a global panel of 300 experts.
On Thursday, the program began
with the lecture on “Energy Security –
Central
European
Perspective”
by
Václav Bartuška, Czech Ambassador at
Large for Energy Security. Among other
subjects, he described why technological
innovation is a necessary prerequisite in
the effort to lessen energy dependency.
Václav Bartuška’s lively presentation
was followed by Vladimir Socor from
Jamestown Foundation, who spoke about
Eastern Europe’s perspective on energy
security and Russia as an energy supplier.
Filip Černoch, a PhD student at Masaryk
University specializing in international
relations and energy security delivered
a talk on the January 2009 natural gas
crisis between Russia and the Ukraine.
PSSI’s Petr Lang led the afternoon
workshop on energy security.
The Summer School succeeded in
providing its participants with better
understanding of some of the most
prominent security challenges of the
Twenty-First Century (mainly energy
security and NATO missions and
operations) and networking opportunities
with leading experts in several fields.
PSSI Security Scholar
Exchange with Taiwan: The
Visit To Taipei in November 2009
As part of a three-year program of scholarly
exchanges between PSSI and the Foreign
Ministry of Taiwan (represented by the
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office
in Prague), the Institute selected Alice
Savovová to visit Taiwan in November 2009.
Ms. Savovová has a distinguished academic
background, including participation in
the Security Scholars program of PSSI in
2004. She received her Master’s Degree in
European Integration from University of
Economics in Prague and later served as
Managing Director of the Association for
International Affairs (AMO).
For the purpose of the visit, Alice chose
to research differences in the approach of
former Taiwanese President Chen Shuibian
and the current President, Ma Ying-jeou,
to the country’s priority security concerns.
In her comparative analysis she examined
a number of dimensions of Taiwan’s security
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Carol Dumaine, Director of Energy and Environmental Security at the US Department of Energy and David Robson,
Head of Energy and Environmental Foresight of the Scottish Government during the James Q. Whitaker Security Lecture
portfolio: differing perceptions of the
principal threats faced by Taiwan; the
policy positions of these distinctly
different administrations to membership
in international organizations; cross-strait
economic relations; the regional context of
Taiwan-Mainland relations; as well as the
management of the Taiwan-EU relationship.
Ms. Savovová presented a lecture at
Tamkang University on the successes and
shortfalls of the Czech EU Presidency.
The Taiwanese students posed a number
of questions, mainly about the Czech
Republic’s transition to democracy over
the past two decades. PSSI benefited
significantly from Ms. Savovová’s candid
and thoughtful outline of her findings on
this visit. We believe that her stay in Taipei
contributed significantly to the kind of
productive exchanges PSSI has enjoyed
with our partners at TECO Prague over
this period.
PSSI Alumnus Participating
in WPA Fellowship Program
For the third time in recent years, an
alumnus of PSSI’s Robinson-Martin
Security Scholars Program took part in
a fellowship program with Washington
Policy & Analysis (WPA). Founded
by William F. Martin, Chairman
of PSSI’s Corporate Council, this
international consulting firm provides
strategic business intelligence, analysis,
and advisory services to companies, trade
associations, and governments worldwide.
In July 2009, Tomáš Šindelář joined the
WPA team in Washington, D.C. working on
a policy project for the International Energy
Agency (IEA). In parallel, he conducted
separate research on US-EU relations,
meeting experts from the State Department,
the Department of Defense and the National
Defense University. Moreover, Tomáš had
the opportunity to become acquainted
with other US governmental and nongovernmental
institutions,
including
the Council on Foreign Relations, the
Department of Energy and PSSI Washington.
He concluded the two-week program
by writing a report on the International
Energy Agency’s legal status. Courtesy of
Bill Martin’s support, Tomáš became the
latest of a series of PSSI’s Security Scholars
that have gained substantial insight into
US foreign and security policy-making
structures and processes.
PSSI Washington, an independent,
tax-exempt organization located in
Washington DC that was established
in 2006, maintains a close working
relationship with PSSI Prague. It is
the first such US presence for a Czech
foreign/security policy institution. Led
by PSSI’s Co-Founder, Roger Robinson,
PSSI Washington has maintained an
especially cordial relationship with the
Czech Embassy in Washington and has
engaged in substantial networking with
like-minded public policy organizations in
the US.
In this connection, PSSI Washington
began to support actively an initiative
of Czech Ambassador, Petr Kolář, to
strengthen the intellectual and policy-related
presence of the United States in Prague
and the region. To accomplish this worthy
objective, several prominent US think
tanks and academic institutions continue
to be approached to gauge their interest in
what has been termed an “America House”
or “American Institute” umbrella concept
located in Prague. Specifically, this concept
involves inviting a variety of US think
tanks and academic institutions to take
advantage of PSSI’s almost decade-long
presence in Prague to help reduce costs
and increase the frequency and scope of
their programmatic activities in the region
(e.g. conferences, seminars, fellowships,
scholarships, exchanges, etc.). Such a new
umbrella organization, initially in the form
of a PSSI program, is eventually envisioned
to break off as a separate institution to
help coordinate a range of activities for
its American institutional participants or
members.
Finally, PSSI Washington assists with
Prague’s strategic planning exercises and
dedicates a substantial amount of time to
attracting and administering grants, several
of which are directed to PSSI Prague for
general operating support.
Outreach
NATO’s Winter Academy
2009: “NATO at 60: From
Experience to Initiative”
In February 2009, PSSI, in cooperation
with the Moscow-based Centre of European
Security and NATO Public Diplomacy
Division, organized NATO’s Winter
Academy for more than 30 students
from Russia, the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS) countries, the
Czech Republic and the United States.
The principal objective of the Winter
Academy was to provide the participants
from Russia and the CIS with detailed
analyses of NATO’s history and its
present and future role in the European
security system. Among the topics
discussed were: NATO’s adaptation to the
changing security environment; future of
NATO’s enlargement; and cooperation
with Russia. The speakers included NATO
Assistant Secretary General Jiří Šedivý,
representatives of NATO’s Policy Planning
unit and Public Diplomacy Divisions,
officials from the Czech and Russian
Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense
and representatives of various European
and Russian think tanks.
Collegiate Network 2009
In June 2009, PSSI organized its
fifth annual Collegiate Network GeoStrategic Journalism Course. Supported
by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
(ISI), this course was undertaken by
that organization‘s Collegiate Network
(CN). CN has evolved into a respected
national program in the US for student
editors and journalists, and links nearly
100 independent student newspapers
across the USA. Over the course of one
intensive week, PSSI exposes these student
journalists and editors to high-level Czech
politicians, policy practitioners, scholars,
opinion leaders and journalists.
During the 2009 CN program, designed
by PSSI’s Executive Director Oldřich
Černý, some fifteen students met with
representatives of People in Need and
Civic Belarus, both Czech human rights
organizations. Oldřich Černý was joined
by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Tomáš Pojar, PSSI’s Program Director Jiří
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PSSI’s Executive Director Oldřich Černý and Collegiate Network Students (Photo by John Stevenson)
Schneider and the US Embassy’s Political
and Economic Counselor Charles Blaha, in
discussions related to Czech-US relations
and prominent international security
issues. The students also met with Head
of External Communication of Škoda
Auto, Radek Špicar, NYU Professor and
journalist, Jan Urban, and a US journalist
residing in Prague, Dinah Spritzer. They
also visited the office of the former Czech
President Václav Havel as well as the
Czech Senate.
Kosovo Workshop
In December 2009, PSSI organized,
together with the Geneva Center for the
Democratic Control of Armed Forces
(DCAF), a three-day workshop on Security
Sector Governance for government officials
and security community representatives
from Kosovo. The aim of the event was to
raise awareness amongst the participants
of key issues relating to Security Sector
Governance including security sector
coordination, national security strategy
implementation and intelligence oversight.
It was also designed to foster debates on
subject matters of particular relevance to
security sector reform in Kosovo.
Special Events
Roundtable Discussion:
“Prospects for EURussia Relations”
In May 2009, PSSI and the EU-Russia
Centre organized a roundtable discussion
entitled “Prospects for EU-Russia Relations”.
This gathering featured: Dr Fraser Cameron,
Director of EU-Russia Centre, Brussels;
Maria Ordzhonikidze, Professor at the
Friendship University, Moscow; and Veronika
Kuchyňová-Šmigolová, Director of Security
Policy Department at the Czech Ministry
of Foreign Affairs. The roundtable offered
interesting perspectives on a number of
priority issues in the relationship on the eve
of the EU-Russia summit in Siberia.
International Conference:
“Forging a Strategic US-EU
Partnership” under the
auspices of Jan Kohout,
Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Czech Republic
In June 2009, PSSI helped organize
an international conference entitled
“Forging a Strategic US-EU Partnership”
in cooperation with the Center for
Transatlantic Relations at the John
Hopkins University. Other co-sponsors
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Former Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Alexandr Vondra
of this event included the Centre for
European Policy Studies, Real Instituto
Elcano, the Atlantic Council of the
United States and The Swedish Institute
of International Affairs. Among the topics
discussed were transatlantic relations
and the rise of the BRIC countries (i.e.
Brazil, Russia, India and China), energy
security, climate change and global
flashpoints faced by the EU and the US.
The panelists included: Tomáš Pojar, First
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Dan
Hamilton, John Hopkins University;
Fran Burwell of the Atlantic Council of
the US; Michael Dóczy, Senior Adviser
of EU Policy Unit; Tom Melia, Freedom
House; and Igor Blaževič, People in
Need.
International Conference:
“The Real G2? Enhancing
a Transatlantic Strategic
Partnership”
Vilémov Talks: Czech-Polish
Foreign Policy Objectives
In the framework of the newly established
Czech-Polish Forum, PSSI and the Polish
Centre of International Relations organized
an informal gathering of policymakers and
representatives of think tanks at Vilémov
Castle in September 2009. The purpose of
this gathering was to discuss priority foreign
and security policy issues (e.g. Eastern
policy, transatlantic relations, energy
security, etc.) and means of enhancing
Czech-Polish cooperation in the EU and
NATO. Czech participants included former
Foreign Ministers Karel Schwarzenberg
and Alexandr Vondra, and Chairman of
the Foreign Relations Committee of the
Chamber of Deputies, Jan Hamáček. The
follow-up event was held in November
2009 in Jablonne, Poland.
International Conference:
“Clean Coal, Smart Grids:
Possible Czech Contribution
to the EU’s Energy Security”
On December 10, PSSI’s Jiří Schneider
participated in a follow-up conference
entitled “The Real G2? Enhancing PSSI, in cooperation with Europeuma Transatlantic Strategic Partnership” Institute for European Policy, organized
organized in Washington DC by the
an international conference entitled
Center for Transatlantic Studies at the “Clean Coal, Smart Grids: Possible Czech
Johns Hopkins University in cooperation
Contribution to the EU’s Energy Security”
with the Institute for Eastern Studies. which took place in November 2009 at
Mirek Topolánek, former Czech Prime
the CERGE Institute in Prague.
Minister, was among the speakers. A joint
Both the Czech Foreign Ministry and US
publication “Shoulder to Shoulder: Embassy in Prague kindly offered support
Forging a Strategic US-EU Partnership”, for this gathering. The objective of the
edited by project’s coordinator Daniel
conference was to explore the political,
Hamilton, was presented at the
security, environmental and economic
conference.
dimensions of the clean coal and smart grids
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PSSI’s Program Director Jiří Schneider and Václav Bartuška, Czech Ambassador at Large for Energy Security at the “Clean Coal, Smart Grids” Conference
technologies. The conference was attended
by more than 60 participants, including
diplomats, government officials, journalists,
think tank representatives, universities
and students. It provided a valuable
opportunity for a number of stakeholders
to network and establish partnerships.
Among the speakers were: Václav Bartuška,
Czech Ambassador at Large for Energy
Security; Petr Pudil, President of Euracoal;
Pavel Šolc, Chief Advisor to the Minister
of Industry and Trade; Kalliopi Kalesi of
European Commission (DG TREN); Giles
Dickson of Alstom, Ondřej Žák of IBM;
Colin Imrie of the Scottish Government;
Lawrence E. Jones of AREVA T&D Inc.;
Ivan Beneš of CityPlan, and Miroslav Vrba
of Czech Transmission Operator – ČEPS.
Workshop: “V4 and EU-Russia
Relations: Contributing
to Common Policy?”
This workshop was convened in November
2009 at the Czech Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. It was the third such event of the
joint project, “Visegrad Countries, the EU
and Russia: Challenges and Opportunities
for a Common Security Identity”. The coorganizers of this project are PSSI, the
Research Center of the Slovak Foreign
Policy Association in Bratislava, the
Center for International Relations (CSM)
in Warsaw and the Manfred Wörner
Foundation for Security in Democratic
Societies in Budapest. Previous conferences
addressed global security challenges
(Bratislava, September 2008) and energy
security (Budapest, May 2009). The main
purpose of the Prague workshop was
to debate V4 perspectives and possible
contributions to the security side of EURussia relations in the framework of the USRussia “reset”, the NATO strategic concept
debate and EU internal policy processes
and changes.The project was supported by
the International Visegrad Fund.
Opinion Surveys on
Czech Energy Security
In March 2009, PSSI, in cooperation with
Factum Invenio polling company, conducted
an opinion survey among the Czech general
public and business community focused on
their views of the Ukraine-Russia gas crisis
in January 2009, their stance towards various
sources of energy and the main internal and
external challenges to Czech energy security.
The follow-up survey was conducted in
November 2009. According to the results
of both opinion surveys, the majority of the
Czech population and companies do not
favor increasing its dependency on imported
natural gas.
BRIEFING PAPER ON CZECH
ENERGY SECURITY
In November 2009, PSSI published a policy
brief entitled “How to Enhance Czech Energy
Security”. The paper by the Institute’s Program
Director Jiří Schneider and PSSI’s Program
Coordinator Petr Lang is based on the results
of the two opinion surveys conducted by
the polling company Factum Invenio and
contains several recommendations to advance
the energy security of the Czech Republic.
Funding Sources
The Prague Security Studies Institute
wishes to thank the following foundations,
individuals, organizations and
corporations for their generous support of
the Institute.
• Dr. James Q. Whitaker
• NATO
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Czech Republic
• The Carthage Foundation
• Czech Coal
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The Donner Foundation (William H.)
The Bawd Foundation
Craig Smith
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office
Embassy of the United States in Prague
Craig and Debbie Stapleton
The Atlas Economic Research
Foundation
The Claremont Institute
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Europeum-Institute for European
Policy
Jonna Bianco
The Geneva Centre for the Democratic
Control of Armed Forces
Structure of Revenues
International
Organizations,
Foreign Governments
Foundations
31 %
19 %
Czech
Government
15 %
Individual
Donations
24 %
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Corporations
11 %
Participants of PSSI’s NATO Summer School 2009
Security Scholars Program; Program of
Atlantic Security Studies; Corporate Council
Program; and Outreach Program.
International Advisory Board
About PSSI
PSSI’s mission is to help build an evergrowing group of informed and securityminded policy-makers dedicated to the
development of democratic institutions and
values in the Czech Republic and its regional
neighbors. PSSI offers programs that
meet the critical requirement to equip new
generations of young leaders to manage the
complex, security-related challenges of the
21st century. PSSI also aims to identify and
analyze foreign policy and security-related
issues worldwide, and to propose practical
and prudent policies to address these and
other security challenges.
To fulfill its mission, PSSI undertakes
to organize a variety of activities under its
Václav Havel • Elie Wiesel • R. James
Woolsey • Alexandr Vondra • Timothy
Garton Ash • Michael Žantovský • Michael
Novak • Adam Michnik • Robert Pfaltzgraff
• Dorothy Stapleton • H.R.H. Prince Hassan
• Nobuya Minami • Roger W. Robinson, Jr. •
Karel Schwarzenberg • Madeleine Albright
Executive Committee
R. Daniel McMichael, Chairman
James Q. Whitaker • Curtin Winsor, Jr. • Jan
Ruml • Ingrid Aielli • Alejandro Chafuen •
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. • C. Richard D’Amato •
Jonna Bianco
Board of Directors
Jiří Pehe,Chairman
William F. Martin • Josef Jařab • David
Elliman
Contact Info:
Prague Security Studies Institute Pohořelec 6, 118 00 Prague 1 Czech Republic
Tel./fax: +420 233 355 735 [email protected] www.pssi.cz
Queries about PSSI activities and projects can also be directed to
Petr Lang ([email protected]), Program Coordinator.
Your Support is Appreciated
As PSSI is rapidly expanding its programs, we would welcome your support for our efforts.
Tax deductible contributions can be made to PSSI through the Atlas Economic Research
Foundation: Atlas Economic Research Foundation, 1201 L Street, NW, 2nd Floor, Washington,
DC 20005, tel. (202) 449-8449. Our primary contact at the Foundation is Mr. Bradley Lips,
Chief Operating Officer ([email protected]).
Bank Account
Our direct PSSI Account is located at the Komerční banka, a.s.
(Na Příkopě 33, 11407 Prague 1, Czech Republic):
IBAN CZ7401000000512281850237 BIC/SWIFT Code: KOMBCZPP