Born in Prague in 1980, Miroslav Šedivý completed his PhD in general history at Charles University in Prague in 2008. He then worked at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and since 2020 he is a professor at the University Pardubice. He was a guest lecturer at the Universities of Vienna, Klagenfurt, Lodz, Hildesheim and Prague, and he was a visiting scholar at the University of Vienna, at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow and the Humboldt University in Berlin. In his research he primarily deals with 19th century international relations on which he has published a trilogy: Metternich, the Great Powers and the Eastern Question (Pilsen, 2013), Crisis among the Great Powers: The Concert of Europe and the Eastern Question (London-New York, 2017), and The Decline of the Congress System: Metternich, Italy and European Diplomacy (London-New York, 2018). Most recently, he is the author of The Victory of Realism: The German Quest for International Security 1839–1853 (Paderborn, 2024).