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Nationality
  
Czech

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Jiri Pehe

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Born
  
26 August 1955 Rokycany, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) (
1955-08-26
)

Occupation
  
political analyst, writer

Elections in Czech Republic : Interview with political analyst and writer Jiří Pehe.


Jiří Pehe (born 26 August 1955) , is a Czech political analyst and writer, and since 1999, has been the Director of New York University's academic center in Prague.

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Jiří Pehe Ji Pehe Novinkycz

Pehe was born in Rokycany (western Bohemia) in the Czech Republic. He studied law and philosophy at Charles University in Prague, where he earned a Magister's degree in 1978 and a doctorate in 1980. In September 1981 he fled Czechoslovakia, through Yugoslavia to Italy.

Jiří Pehe Ji Pehe vydal tet prozaickou knihu a tvrd Jsem hodn ovlivnn

After a short stay in a refugee camp near Rome, he arrived with his wife in New York in the US. Until 1983 he worked as a night receptionist at the Algonquin Hotel in New York. He attended School of International Affairs at Columbia University in New York and graduated in 1985. From 1985 to 1988 he worked for Freedom House.

Jiří Pehe KOMENT Prezident Zeman se esku prodrauje Ji Pehe Novinkycz

From August 1988 he worked as a Czechoslovak analyst for Radio Free Europe in Munich. In November 1989 he became the head of Central European Research and Analysis. After Radio Free Europe moved its headquarters from Munich to Prague in 1995, he moved back to the Czech Republic. From 1995 to 1997 he served as the director of the Analysis and Research Department at the Open Media Research Institute in Prague.

Jiří Pehe Za pvalem benc stoj mezinrodn spiknut Ale ne americk

From 1997 to 1999 he was the director of the Political Cabinet in the office of Czech President Václav Havel and continued serving as Havel's external political advisor until the end of Havel's term in 2003.

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Pehe has written numerous essays and papers that have appeared in world newspapers and academic publications and has also published several books, including three novels. Since 1999 Jiří Pehe has been the director of New York University in Prague. He is a member of International Forum for Democratic Studies Research Council. He frequently comments on political developments for Czech television and radio.

Jiří Pehe Ji Pehe Center for European and Mediterranean Studies New York

Pehe's second wife is American; they have a daughter who was born in 2005. He and his first wife had a daughter in 1988.

Publications

  • 1988: The Prague Spring: a mixed legacy, University Press of America, ISBN 978-0-932088-28-4 (in English)
  • 2006: Na okraji zmizelého, PROSTOR, ISBN 978-80-7260-157-8 (in Czech)
  • 2009: Tři tváře anděla, PROSTOR, ISBN 978-80-7260-209-4 (in Czech)
  • 2010: Demokracie bez demokratů – Úvahy o společnosti a politice, PROSTOR, ISBN 978-80-7260-234-6 (in Czech)
  • 2010: Klaus – portrét politika ve dvaceti obrazech, PROSTOR, ISBN 978-80-7260-240-7 (in Czech)
  • 2012: Krize, nebo konec kapitalismu?, PROSTOR, ISBN 978-80-7260-267-4, (in Czech)
  • 2013: Mimořádná událost, PROSTOR, ISBN 978-80-7260-281-0 (in Czech)
  • 2014: Three Faces of an Angel, Jantar Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9568890-4-1 (in English)
    • Jiří Pehe Ji Pehe Diagnza trauma Novinkycz

    References

    Jiří Pehe Wikipedia
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