Matus Korba

Institute of International Relations, Prague (IIR)

 

Matus Korba studied at the Department of Politics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (1994-99). Currently he is completing his PhD. there and writing the thesis on the Security and Defence Policy of the Slovak Republic. He is also teaching the course "Introduction to Security Studies". Since 1998, he is a member of the board of Slovak Political Sciences Association, where he is co-ordinating the Centre for Security Studies. He was an assistant within the Security Education Management Project (1997-98) and the Program on European Security (1999-2000) organized by the Dutch Centre for European Security Studies in Groningen. In this framework he assisted with organising seminars and conferences on security issues for civil and military experts in Slovak Republic. He was visiting research assistant at Centre for European Politics and Institutions, University of Leicester in February - March 2000. Since August 2000, he has been working for Slovak Foreign Policy Association as a co-ordinator of partnership projects with the British research centre Saferworld, London. These projects were related to arms trade and arms export control issues in Central and Eastern European countries. Since September 2002 he is a pre-doctoral research fellow for the "ESDP Democracy" project at Institute of International Relations in Prague.

English language publications:

Korba Matúš and Štastný, “Security, Defence and Integration of the Slovak Republic into the NATO”, in: Slovakia 2003 – Consolidated Report on the State of Society, Institute for Public Affairs, Bratislava 2003, p.389-410.

Slovakia and the Iraq Crisis”, in: Iraq Crisis and Politics in USA, Europe and V4 Countries, Institute for Public Affairs, Bratislava 2003, p.37-54

"Security policy of the Slovak Republic and integration into NATO", in Slovak Army Review, Autumn 2000, Bratislava.

Korba Matúš, Mariani Bernardo (eds.): Enhancing NGO engagement to prevent the proliferation and misuse of small arms in Central and Eastern Europe, Saferworld and Slovak Foreign Policy Association, London 2001, 61 pages.

"Civil-military Relations in Slovakia from the Perspective of NATO Integration", in Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs No.2, Vol.II, Bratislava 2001.

"Independent Report on Slovak Arms Exports", Slovak Foreign Policy Association, Bratislava 2002, 36 pages.

"The Perspectives of the European Defence Industry", in IDEE Exclusive, Magnet Press Slovakia, Bratislava 2002.

 

 
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