The IRR, founded in 1957, is a public research institution founded by the charter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. As the country’s leading think tank on matters of foreign and security policy, the IIR combines engagement in academic research and providing expert advice in areas ranging from transatlantic relations, disarmament and nonproliferation, EU internal and external policies, or East Asia to Czech and European stakeholders. In recent years, it has organised, among other key events, an annual Prague Agenda conference as a forum for discussion of disarmament, arms control and nuclear security issues, and run a major international multiannual research project on Global Prohibition Regimes focused on both WMDs, conventional and other ‚nonconventional‘ (drug and endangered species trade; cyber security) frameworks of global security regulation. The IIR is a member of a number of international networks and consortia, including EPIN, TEPSA and ECPR.
