Vladimír Handl is an Associate Researcher at the Institute of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. Between 2002 and 2006 he was a guest lecturer at the New York University in Prague, between 2002 and 2003 he stayed as a researcher at the Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is interested in political and historical aspects of the Czech-German relations, in foreign policy positions of the Czech Communist Party, and also in the German foreign and security policy and its relations with the Visegrad states.