Contact:
Tel. +1-202-663-7723
e-mail: jsir/at/ silkroadstudies.org

Expertise:
- Political, Security, and Energy Developments in Central Eurasia

- Turkmenistan's politics and foreign policy

Dr. Jan Šír is a Fulbright Fellow with the Joint Center's Washington office during the 2009-2010 academic year. He holds a Ph.D. in International Area Studies from Prague Charles University's Institute of International Studies, where he has a tenure track position with the Department of Russian and East European Studies. He also is Managing Editor of the Quarterly Acta Universitatis Carolinae Studia Territorialia. His research covers political, security, and energy developments of the successor states to the former Soviet Union, with a particular focus on Central Asia. He has published widely on post-Soviet Turkmenistan.

Publications

Books & Monographs

Slavomir Horak, Jan Šír, Dismantling Totalitarianism? Turkmenistan under Berdimuhamedow, Silk Road Paper, March 2009.


Book Chapters

Jan Šír, "Kazachstán: analýza vnitropolitického vývoje po roce 1991", in Emil Souleimanov, ed., Rusko a postsovětský prostor, Praha: Eurolex Bohemia, 2007.

Jan Šír, "Návrat k tradicím? Hledání moderních institucí v postsovětském Turkmenistánu", Slovanské historické studie, mimořádné číslo, Praha, Brno: Historický ústav AV ČR, 2006.

Jan Šír, "O nekotorykh aspektakh 'pozitivnogo neitraliteta' postsovetskogo Turkmenistana", in Kiselev, K. V., ed., Politicheskaia nauka i politicheskie protsessy v Rossiiskoi Federatsii i Novykh Nezavisimykh Gosudarstvakh, Ekaterinburg: Ural'skoe otdelenie Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2005.

Jan Šír, "Fenomen Khalk Maslakhaty v kontekste konstitutsionno-pravovogo razvitiia postsovetskogo Turkmenistana", in Rudenko, V. N. et al., ed., Politicheskaia nauka i gosudarstvennaia vlast' v Rossiiskoi Federatsii i Novykh Nezavisimykh Gosudarstvakh, Ekaterinburg: Ural'skoe otdelenie Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2004.

David Stulík, Lukáš Pachta, Jan Šír, Ondřej Soukup, Ondřej Klípa, "Elementy stratehii YeS schodo Ukrainy (Ches'kyi pohliad. Vyklad polityky)", in Derhachov, O. P., ed., Instytutsiini reformy v YeS, Kyiv: Predstavnytstvo Yevropeis'koi Komisii v Ukraini, 2003. Analitychnyi schokvartal'nyk. Vypusk No. 4.

Jan Šír, "Jaderné zbraně v nezávislé Ukrajině (1991–1994)", Slovanské historické studie, vol. 28, Praha: Historický ústav AV ČR, 2002.


Refereed Journal Articles

Jan Šír, "Denuklearizace Kazachstánu po roce 1991", Acta Universitatis Carolinae Studia Territorialia, no. 1, 2009.

Jan Šír and Slavomír Horák, "China as an Emerging Superpower in Central Asia: The View from Ashkhabad", The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 2, 2008.

Jan Šír, "Cult of Personality in Monumental Art and Architecture: The Case of Post-Soviet Turkmenistan", Acta Slavica Iaponica, vol. 25, 2008.

Jan Šír, "Turkmenistán: analýza vnitropolitického vývoje po roce 1991", Acta Universitatis Carolinae Studia Territorialia, vol. X, 2007.

Jan Šír, "Konstitutsionnaia reforma v Turkmenistane 2005 g.: shag vpered – dva shaga nazad?" Politéks = Politex: Politicheskaia ékspertiza, vol. 2, no. 2, 2006.

Jan Šír, Od závislosti k autarkii? Formování zahraniční politiky Turkmenistánu, Praha: FSV UK, 2006. Prague Social Science Studies. TER-025.

Jan Šír, "The Russian Vector in Turkmenistan's Foreign Policy", Central Asia and the Caucasus, no. 4 (40), 2006.

Jan Šír, "Halk Maslahaty in the Context of the Constitutional Evolution of Post-Soviet Turkmenistan", Perspectives on European Politics and Society, vol. 6, no. 2, 2005.