George Hays, Ph.D.
Letenská 5,
Office No. 402

At AAU, George Hays, II has been both Chair of International Relations and Permanent Lecturer since 2016. He teaches courses in American Foreign Policy in Film, East Central European Politics, War Studies, Introduction to International Relations, Thesis Seminar. Outside of the classroom, George Hays is the main organizer for the monthly event, Professors in the Pub, as well as co-organizer for the annual ‘Roundtable in Anglo-American Studies’ at AAU. Also, he, alongside the team at AAU, has recently received the Visegrad Fund Grant for the project ‘Comparing Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Alternative Leadership Styles in the V4‘.
Specializations
Post-Structuralism, Film Analysis, Identity, International Relations, Central European Politics
Publications & Other Activities
- Hays II, G. (2014). American “Foreign Policy” in Film. CEJISS, 2, 10-33.
- Hays II, G. (2012). Three Incarnations of The Quiet American: Applying Campbell’s ‘foreign policy’ to Sub-Elite Identifiers. Perspectives 20 (2012): 5-32.
- Hays II, G. with Milada Polišenská (2020). Korea a Česká republika: Na cestě k nezávislosti. Prague: Anglo-American University.
- Hays II, G. (2020). “Opposing Empire to Forge a Nation: A Comparison of the Czechoslovak and Korean Declarations of Independence at the End of World War I.” Korea a Česká republika: Na cestě k nezávislosti. Prague: Anglo-American University.
- Hays II, G. (2019). “Czech-Soviet Relations and Identity as Portrayed in Post-Cold War Czech Film: A Discourse Analysis.” Mezioborová konference o lidských právech. Prague: Anglo-American University.
- Hays II, G. with Milada Polišenská (2018). Korejská bezpečnost a 65 let hledání míru. Prague: Anglo-American University.
- Hays II, G. (2018). “Analysis of the documentary Ceskoslovenska nemocnice v Koreji." Korejská bezpečnost a 65 let hledání míru. Prague: Anglo-American University