Associate Professor

B.A.      Political Science and Russian Language and Literature, Pennsylvania
            State University, 1974.
M.A.      Political Science,   Pennsylvania State University, 1976.
Ph.D.    Political Science,   Pennsylvania State University, 1983.

Bio

Dr. Frank Cibulka was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and emigrated to the United States following the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of his country. He received his education at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), obtaining a Ph.D. in Political Science in 1983 with specialty in Soviet and East European Studies. During 1980-1983 he taught as an Instructor at PSU. From 1983 to 2001 he worked at the National University of Singapore, where he also served as the Acting Coordinator of the European Studies Program. Following the collapse of European communism, he served from 1992 to 1996 as an Honorary Consul of Czechoslovakia and subsequently of the Czech Republic in Singapore. During 2002 to 2004 he was elected as academic visitor at Oxford University, as a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College. He has been teaching at Zayed University since 2004.

Office: Abu Dhabi South Campus, (Room, Z-112A)
Phone: +9712 599 3811
Email: Frank.cibulka@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

Globalization, American Politics and Foreign Policy, Comparative Politics, International Relations, European Politics, the Soviet/Russian Politics, Politics and Society of East Asia, and History of Communism.

Research and Professional Activities

Since 1987, Dr. Cibulka has undertaken many research trips to the Philippines and eventually developed an expertise on the country’s affairs. He is currently preparing a volume on the Philippine foreign policy entitled The Philippine Nationalism and the Special Relationship with the United States: Interpreting Dynamic Tension in the Philippine Foreign Policy. He is also preparing a multi-volume study on the Leadership Oral History of the Post-communist Transition and of the End of the Cold War, based on more than 100 original interviews with world leaders. His best known work so far has been a volume co-edited with Jiri Valenta entitled Gorbachev and Third World Conflicts (Transaction Press, 1990).