Rome, Latium, Italy
Tereza Novotná is a Research Division Fellow in the at NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome. Previously, she was a Senior Eisenhower Fellow at NDC. She is also a Senior Affiliate Researcher and lecturer at Free University Berlin, Kelly Non-Resident Fellow at The Pacific Forum Honolulu, Korea Associate at 9DashLine and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the EUROPEUM, a Prague-based think tank. Before that, she was a Korea Foundation, Marie Sklodowska-Curie and a Korea-Europe Center Fellow at Free University Berlin, Fudan Fellow in Shanghai, Korea Foundation Fellow at Seoul National University and an FNRS and GR:EEN Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of International Relations (REPI), Institute for European Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles. She keeps collaborating with her colleagues at REPI/IEE-ULB in Brussels. Tereza received her PhD in Politics and European Studies from Boston University in 2012 and other degrees from Charles University Prague. She has held various visiting fellowships at SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations in Washington DC, Harvard’s Center for European Studies, University of Birmingham, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik Brussels, DGAP Berlin (supported by a DAAD grant), IWM in Vienna and Max-Planck in Cologne. Tereza is the author of "How Germany Unified and the EU Enlarged: Negotiating the Accession through Transplantation and Adaptation" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and a co-editor of "The Politics of Transatlantic Trade Negotiations: TTIP in a Globalized World" (Ashgate, 2015). Her research has been published in, among others, JCMS, JEI, Asia Europe Journal, Studia Diplomatica, German Politics and Society, West European Politics, Perspectives, and JCER as well as numerous policy and media outlets, including 38th North, Asia Times, The Diplomat, Washington Post, EurActiv, The Conversation, ISPI Milan, LSE IDEAS EUROPP blog and Lidové noviny. She has also practical experience from the European Commission, DG RELEX/EEAS, EU Delegation in Washington, DC and the Czech Permanent Representation to the EU. Her MSCA "EUSKOR" research project examines the EU's role on the Korean peninsula/NE Asia with the focus on North Korea and her broader research interests include EU foreign policy/EEAS, democratization and integration processes (in Europe & Korea), transatlantic ties and trade, and the politics of Central Europe and Germany.
As a Senior Eisenhower Fellow, I focus on NATO relations with the Asia-Pacific partners, South Korea in particular, and on the DPRK-Russia collaboration. I also serve as a mentor to College’s course members.
As a Senior Associate Research Fellow at EUROPEUM, Institute for European Policy, a Prague based think tank that has opened a Brussels Office as the first think tank from Central and Eastern Europe, I help bring the debates on EU policies from Brussels to Prague and, vice-versa, strengthen the voice of the Czech Republic in the "Brussels bubble" through research, publishing, organizing, chairing and speaking at events as well as through media outreach. From December 2016 to February 2017, I was also an Acting Head of the Brussels Office.
In my two-year "EUSKOR" project on the EU’s foreign policy on North Korea (funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 797977), I firstly examine whether the EU could play any larger role in the DPRK, particularly in terms of diplomacy, mediation and verification expertise. Secondly, I explore why the EU has so far been unwilling and incapable of becoming a credible political and security actor in North East (NE) Asia despite its declared intentions, trade power and experiences applicable to the region. Within the second part of my EUSKOR project, I examine whether and how the EU could upgrade its position within NE Asia by “downloading” the EU’s preferences and policies to the North Korean issue, using its engagement on the Korean peninsula as the geopolitical gateway for “uploading” its strategic priorities to NE Asia. Drawing on extensive series of semi-structured interviews conducted in Berlin, Brussels and during short visits in NE Asian capitals, including several trip to the DPRK, the EUSKOR project is cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary, informing at least three fields of social sciences (international relations, comparative politics and political economy). The EUSKOR project is based at the Center for European Integration at Free University Berlin and supervised by Professor Tanja Börzel.