Mgr. et Mgr. Tomáš Kučera, Ph.D.

Monographs

• Kučera T. (2018). The Military and Liberal Society : Societal-Military Relations in Western Europe. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

Chapters in monographs

• Kučera T. (2016). The Liberal Attraction to Technological Progress and the RAF. The Means to Kill : Essays on the Interdependence of War and Technology from Ancient Rome to the Age of Drones (pp. 137-152).
• Kučera T., & Gulpers L. (2018). A Military Ethic for New Missions. Handbook of the Sociology of the Military (pp. 359-376).

Articles

• Kučera T. (2022). Cesta k Buče: Organizační praktiky ruské armády a násilí na civilistech. Vojenské rozhledy (Czech Military Review), 31(4), 81-102. UT-WOS link
• Kučera T. (2015). The Strategic Significance of Ethical Imperatives: The Case of the German Armed Forces. Armed Forces and Society, 41(4), 639-658. UT-WOS link
• Kučera T. (2017). Towards a Humanitarian Military Ethics: Moral Autonomy, Integrity and Obligations in the British and German Armed Forces. Journal of Military Ethics, 16(1-2), 20-37.
• Kučera T. (2010). Lze vést válku bez válečníků? Důsledky robotizace v malých válkách. Mezinárodní vztahy, 45(1), 57-76.
• Kučera T. (2019). What European army? Alliance, security community or postnational federation. International Politics, 56(3), 321-338. UT-WOS link
• Kašík J., & Kučera T. (2009). Vstup České republiky do NATO : po americké cestě. Vojenské rozhledy (Czech Military Review), 18 (50)(4), 124-128.
• Ditrych O., & Kučera T. (2023). Defence Cooperation and Change: How Defence Industry Integration Fostered Development of the European Security Community. Cooperation and Conflict, 58(1), 129-152. UT-WOS link

Contributions in the conference proceedings

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European defence integration
Civil-military relations
Military sociology
Defence policy
Ethics of armed conflicts

UNCE: The Center for the Transdisciplinary Research of Violence, Trauma and Justice

Tomas Kucera received his PhD at Aberystwyth University, UK, in 2014. In his thesis, he engaged in an extensive critique of Samuel Huntington’s seminal work in the field of civil-military relations, The Soldier and the State. Through the in-depth reading of liberal thinking about the things military Dr Kucera’s thesis has revealed liberal features of military and defence policies of Western European societies, Germany and the United Kingdom in particular. In an adapted version and with an additional case study on Swedish military policy added, Routledge published the thesis under the title The Military and Liberal Society in 2018.
The thesis research has led him to develop curiosity in two other, yet related research topics, on which he published journal articles and which continue to be his objects of interest: military ethics and the European defence integration.
Besides working on these topics, Dr Kucera teaches courses on Armed Forces and Society, Technology and Warfare, and The Ethics of Armed Conflicts.

European defence integration; civil-military relations; military ethics