Iveta Hlouchová

Professor Iveta Hlouchová, Ph.D., is a distinguished scholar in Political Science, specializing in Security and Strategic Studies. She earned her doctorate and Master's from Masaryk University, where she was recognized as the faculty's top graduate in 2010/2011.

In 2014, she completed the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center and later became an MC Scholar. She has served as an adjunct professor and facilitator for various Marshall Center programs.

Beyond academia, she is a security consultant and course instructor, focusing on politically motivated violence. She interned with the Czech Ministry of Defense and NATO’s Defense Planning Division in Norfolk, Virginia, earning a commendation for her work. In 2017, she was a guest lecturer at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Her research covers security privatization, proxy wars, child soldiering, terrorism, counterinsurgency (with an AfPak focus), hybrid warfare, and military strategy. In 2017, she received a Masaryk University grant for her dissertation, leading to her monograph Czech Approach toward Counterinsurgency.

Since 2019, she has been a full-time instructor and researcher at the University of New York in Prague (UNYP), becoming Research Manager in 2022. In 2023, she contributed a chapter on state fragility in Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare and published a commentary on repression in Iran and Afghanistan.

Her work continues to shape security and strategic studies in the Czech Republic and beyond.