doc. PhDr. Jan Hornát, Ph.D.

Jan Hornat is the Head of the Department of North American Studies at Charles University and a researcher within the Peace Research Center Prague. He focuses on Transatlantic relations, US foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific, and the role of status in international affairs. In 2022-2023 he was a Fulbright-Masaryk scholar at the School of Public and International Affairs at North Carolina State University and in 2024 a "Europe and America Fellow" at the University of Regensburg. He has published monographs with Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan and his work has appeared in Survival, Journal of International Relations and Development, International Relations, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Asian Affairs, International Politics and others. Prior to joining the academia, he was a head of department at the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic.

Geographical Area: United States, Transatlantic

Thematic Focus: Transatlantic relations; U.S. foreign and domestic policy; American political philosophy; territorial disputes; democratization and democracy promotion; contemporary U.S. foreign policy toward the Indo-Pacific region

Monographs

• Hornát J., & Kindl L. (2018). Global competition or convergence? : ideological and economic interactions of a rising China and the U.S.. Charles University, Karolinum Press.
• Hornát J. (2019). Transatlantic Democracy Assistance : Promoting Different Models of Democracy. Routledge.
• Hornát J., Kýrová L., Mertová V., Rezková A., Divišová K., El-Ahmadieh J., Fiřtová M., Jáč M., Kozák K., Král Z., & Pondělíček J. (2020). America First: Příčiny a kontext volebního vítězství Donalda Trumpa. Karolinum.
• Fiřtová M., Hornát J., Sehnálková J., Dujčíková K., Kozák K., Divišová K., Lepš J., Šrámek P., Schulzová H., Christensen S., Fojtek V., Bečka J., & Zukerstein J. (2017). Prezidentství Baracka Obamy: naplněné vize?. Univerzita Karlova, nakladatelství Karolinum.
• Anděl P., Čapinská B., Fiřtová M., Hornát J., Krumpholcová V., Kucer M., Rezek T., Sehnálková J., Schulzová H., & Voborníková P. (2013). Spojené státy v úpadku? Vybrané problémy veřejné politiky v severoamerickém kontextu. Dokořán.

Chapters in monographs

• Hornát J. (2014). Democracy Promotion: Competing Perspectives with Grave Consequences. The United States as a Divided Nation : Past and Present (pp. 287-306).
• Hornát J. (2021). The Complicated Relationship Between Liberalism and Democracy. From Alpha Century to Viral World: The Raisina Young Fellows Speak (pp. 80-86).
• Hornát J. (2021). The role of the QUAD in the Biden administration's prospective Indo-Pacific strategy. The Indo-Pacific in the Post-Trump Era: Expectations and Challenges (pp. 41-56).
• Hornát J. (2025). Návrat Donalda Trumpa: Co znamená „silná Amerika“ pro Evropu?. Analýzy ÚMV 2025: svět v proměnách 2025 (pp. 16-23).

Articles

• Hornát J. (2016). Closing the closing space: sustaining democracy promotion in European foreign policy. Global Affairs, 2(3), 273-285.
• Hornát J. (2012). Is Beijing a Responsible Stakeholder? A Critical Assessment of China’s Role in the International System of the 21st Century according to the United States. Archiv Orientální, 80(3), 435-473.
• Hornát J. (2019). Democratization through education? Theory and practice of the Czech post-revolution education system and its reforms. Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 52(3), 271-281. UT-WOS link
• Hornát J. (2015). US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion: From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama. Acta Universitatis Carolinae. Studia Territorialia, 15(1-2), 91-96.
• Hornát J. (2023). Hegemonic stability in the Indo-Pacific: US-India relations and induced balancing. International Relations, 37(2), 324-347. UT-WOS link
• Hornát J., Šlosarčík I., Tomalová E., & Váška J. (2023). International Organisations as Status Enhancers: The Case of the Czech Republic. Europe-Asia Studies, 75(10), 1626-1650. UT-WOS link
• Hornát J., Csicsmann L., & Starzyk-Sulejewska J. (2023). The Political Elite's Thematic Framing of China in Recent Central European Elections. Issues and Studies, 59(1), 1-35. UT-WOS link
• Hornát J. (2023). BEYOND THE HUB AND SPOKES: THE NETWORKING LOGIC AND THE OPERATIONALIZATION OF US INDO-PACIFIC STRATEGY. Asian Affairs, 54(4), 647-669. UT-WOS link
• Hornát J. (2024). Survival and status in the liberal international order: the grantors of recognition. Journal of International Relations and Development, 27(1), 95-115. UT-WOS link
• Hornát J. (2024). Status enhancement and attention-seeking in the transatlantic relationship: the Visegrad states and the Trump administration. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 21(3-4), 197-221.

Contributions in the conference proceedings