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Jan Daniel is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. His research interests include politics and security in the Middle East (with a particular focus on Lebanon and Syria), peacekeeping, peacebuilding and statebuilding, Czech foreign and security policy towards the MENA countries, and the debate on hybrid warfare. He regularly comments on these topics in both Czech and international media.
He obtained his PhD in International Relations at the Institute of Political Studies at Charles University. He has been a visiting researcher at the European University Institute, Free University of Berlin, and Orient-Institut Beirut. In his role as a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations, Prague, he has cooperated with various Czech and International partners, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic, and the NATO Strategic Communication Centre of Excellence, on policy advice and applied research.