Dr Alena Drieschova
Senior Lecturer in International Relations
- drieschovaa@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2088 8823
- 3.12, Law Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Alena Drieschova is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Cardiff University. She works on the role of material culture and technology in international relations, notably on how everyday material encounters shape international orders. A second research stream looks at the role of communication technologies in international politics. A third research stream focuses on questions of nationalism, ethnic conflict, and processes of nation-state formation. Her past research studied international cooperation in transboundary water management. She employs qualitative methods, notably ethnography in her research. Her regional focus centres on Europe and South Asia.
Alena was a visiting scholar at the International Water Management Institute based in Sri Lanka, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Oregon State University. Currently she is a research fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her work has been published among others in Climatic Change, Global Environmental Change, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and International Theory. She is the editor (with Christian Bueger and Ted Hopf) of "Conceptualizing International Practices", forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. She was deputy editor of the journal New Perspectives: Journal of Central and Eastern European Politics and International Relations. Currently she is a member of the governing board of New Perspectives: Journal of Central and Eastern European Politics and International Reations and Politologická revue.
Alena welcomes PhD applicants in the areas of her research.
Biography
| Since 01/08/2019 | Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University |
| 01/01/2016-01/08/2019 | Lecturer, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University |
| 2016 | PhD Political Science, University of Toronto |
| 2007 | MSc, Global Governance and Diplomacy (with distinction), Department of International Development, University of Oxford |
| 2006 | Ing. (comparable to MSc.) International and European Studies (with distinction), University of Economics, Prague |
| 2003/2004 | Visting student, Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Central and Eastern European Studies, Dijon |
Publications
2021
- Adler, E. and Drieschova, A. 2021. The epistemological challenge of truth-subversion to the Liberal International Order. International Organization, pp. 1-28. (10.1017/S0020818320000533)
2019
- Drieschova, A. 2019. Editorial - The Velvet Revolution happened yesterday.. New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of CEE Politics and IR, article number: 03/2019 1.
- Drieschova, A. 2019. The multiplicity straightjacket. Forum contribution. New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of CEE Politics and IR, article number: 03/2019 6.
- Adler-Nissen, R. and Drieschova, A. 2019. Track-change diplomacy: Technology, affordances and the practice of international negotiations. International Studies Quarterly 63(3), pp. 531-545. (10.1093/isq/sqz030)
- Drieschova, A. 2019. Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday attacks were meant for international audience, but have local consequences. The Conversation, pp. -.
- Marshall, H. and Drieschova, A. 2019. Post-truth politics in the UK's Brexit Referendum. New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of CEE Politics and IR
- Drieschova, A. 2019. A role for phenomenology in IR scholarship. In: Singh, J. P., Carr, M. and Marlin-Bennett, R. eds. Science, Technology, and Art in International Relations. London and New York: Routledge
2017
- Drieschova, A. 2017. Peirce's semeiotics: a methodology for bridging the material-ideational divide in IR scholarship. International Theory 9(1), pp. 33-66. (10.1017/S1752971916000233)
2014
- Giordano, M.et al. 2014. A review of the evolution and state of transboundary freshwater treaties. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics 14(3), pp. 245-264. (10.1007/s10784-013-9211-8)
- Drieschova, A. and Eckstein, G. 2014. Cooperative transboundary mechanism. In: Sanchez, J. C. and Roberts, J. eds. Water Governance: Adaptation to Climate Change. Gland, Switzerland: International Union for the Conservation of Nature, pp. 51-80.
2010
- Drieschova, A., Fischhendler, I. and Giordano, M. 2010. The role of uncertainties in the design of international water treaties: an historical perspective. Climatic Change 105(3-4), pp. 387-408. (10.1007/s10584-010-9896-4)
2009
- Drieschova, A., Giordano, M. and Fischhendler, I. 2009. Climate change, international cooperation and adaptation in transboundary water management. In: Adger, W. N., Lorenzoni, I. and O'Brien, K. L. eds. Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 384-398.
2008
- Drieschova, A., Giordano, M. and Fischhendler, I. 2008. Governance mechanisms to address flow variability in water treaties. Global Environmental Change 18(2), pp. 285-295. (10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.01.005)
Teaching
I teach on the following modules:
Introduction to International Relations (first year undergraduate)
Issues in International Relations (Masters)
Research Methods (Masters)
Supervision
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:
Technology in International Relations
Material culture in International Relations
Change of International Orders
Post-Truth politics
EU politics
Central European Politics
Past projects
Maternity Leave Cover for Valeria Tolis - The European Union's climate change mitigation action: an ongoing transition? (awarded 2020)
