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.