Dr. Michal Koran holds his Ph.D. in International Relations (Masaryk University in Brno). He is a head of the Research Department at the Institute of International Relations in Prague and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno. He is an editor of annual analysis of the Czech foreign policy, produced by a team of authors from the Institute of International Relations in Prague. His research and teaching interests include Central European countries, their foreign policies and with special regard to their contribution to the European “eastern neighborhoud policy”, modern theories of international relations and philosophy of science. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on these topics, including three articles in the “Osteuropa” journal and a book “Man, Knowledge and International Politics” (Clovek, poznani a mezinarodni politika”).