Faculty and Staff
Faculty
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Assistant ProfessorEmel Akçali graduated in International Relations at both the American University (Paris, BA) and at the Université de Galatasaray (Istanbul, MA). She obtained her PhD in Political Geography at the Geography Institute of Paris IV-Sorbonne in France. She worked at the Political Science and International Studies Department of University of Birmingham as an honorary research fellow and a visiting lecturer and taught at Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland before joining IRES. Her research interests are the (trans-)formation of national identities in the age of globalisation, Political Islam, EU democratisation efforts in its periphery, the development of non-Western and alternative globalist geopolitical discourses and ethno-territorial conflicts and their resolution.
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Associate ProfessorAlexander Astrov received his PhD from The department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research is situated at the intersection of International Relations Theory and Political Theory, focussing mainly on the ideas of order and politics. He published two monographs on the subject and edited a volume exploring the idea of ‘great power management’ as it appears in the writings of the English School of International Relations and contemporary state-practices.
Alexander Astrov will be on sabbatical leave in the 2012/13 academic year.
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ProfessorDirector, Center for European Enlargement StudiesProf. Balázs graduated in Budapest at the Faculty of Economics of the “Karl Marx” University (later: Budapest School of Economics, today Corvinus University). He got his PhD degree and habilitated at the same University. He is a ScD of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In parallel with his government and diplomatic career he has been teaching and doing research. He was nominated Professor of the Corvinus University in 2000 and joined the CEU as a full time Professor in 2005. He is regularly teaching at various home and foreign universities, lecturing in English, French, German and Hungarian.
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ProfessorLászló CSABA is professor of international political economy at Central European University and Corvinus University of Budapest, as well as Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Author of 11 books, editor of 6 volumes, as well as 328 articles and chapters in books published in 22 countries. In 1999-2000 President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies. On the editorial board of 9 international and 5 Hungarian academic journals. His recent output includes the books: Crisis in Economics?/2009 and The New Political Economy of Emerging Europe-2d revised edition/2007, both Akadémiai/W.Kluwer, as well as the chapters:’Enlargement of the EU’ in: TURLEY,G.- HARE,P.G.eds: Routledge Handbook on Transition. London: Taylor and Francis, 2012 and ’ Hungary: the Janus-faced success story of transition’ in: FOSU,A.ed: Country Experiences with Economic Success’, Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. For more info cf his personal web: www.csabal.com
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Assistant ProfessorThomas Fetzer joined the IRES department in December 2009. He received his Ph D from the Department of History at the European University Institute Florence in October 2005 with a thesis on British and German trade union politics at Ford and General Motors since the late 1960s. In 2006 he was a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Cologne and taught in several programs of US-based universities in Florence. In 2007 and 2008 Thomas was a Marie Curie post-doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics, and in 2009 he was Assistant Professor for Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick and also Visiting Lecturer at CEU.
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Associate ProfessorHead, Public Policy Track, PhD Program in Political ScienceMarie-Pierre Granger is Associate Professor at CEU. She has a joint appointment between the department of Public Policy, IRES and Legal Studies. She joined CEU in 2004, teaching a range of courses in the fields of European integration and governance, European Union law, comparative and international public law, and public administration.
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ProfessorBéla Greskovits is professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies, and Department of Political Science, at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. His research interests are the political economy of East-Central European capitalism, comparative economic development, social movements, and democratization. His most recent articles appeared in Studies in Comparative and International Development, Labor History, Orbis, West European Politics, Competition and Change, Journal of Democracy, and European Journal of Sociology. Currently he is completing a book manuscript with Dorothee Bohle on capitalist diversity on Europe’s periphery.
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ProfessorHead of MA in Economic Policy and Global Markets programJulius Horvath is Professor at the CEU from 2005, and Hungarian University Professor from 2009. He is a former Head of Department of Economics (2006-2011) and Department of IRES (2002-2006) at the Central European University. His main interest lies in international economic policy issues, political economy of monetary relations, and history of economic thought. He has published in several journals as Journal of Comparative Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Applied Economics, Economic Systems, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Journal of Economic Integration, Nationalities Papers. He is a Member of the Slovak and Czech Accreditation Committees. In the academic year 2011/12 he is on sabbatical.
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Associate ProfessorErin K. Jenne is an associate professor at the International Relations and European Studies Department at Central European University in Budapest, where she teaches MA and PhD courses on qualitative and quantitative methods, ethnic conflict management, international relations theory, nationalism and civil war, and international security. Jenne received her PhD in political science from Stanford University with concentrations in comparative politics, international relations, conflict processes, and East European politics. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a MacArthur fellowship at Stanford University, a Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) fellowship at Harvard University, a Carnegie Corporation scholarship, and a Fernand Braudel fellowship at European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Her recent book, Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (Cornell University Press, 2007) is the winner of Mershon Center’s Edgar S. Furniss Book Award in 2007 and was also named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. The book is based on her dissertation, which won the Seymour Martin Lipset Award for Best Comparativist Dissertation in 2001. She has published numerous book chapters and articles in International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Regional and Federal Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Civil Wars, and Ethnopolitics (forthcoming). She is an associate editor for Foreign Policy Analysis and has served in several capacities on the Emigration, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the International Studies Association and the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
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Assistant ProfessorDirector, Korea Foundation 'Global E-School in Eurasia' ProjectYoungmi received her PhD from the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2007. Her main interests are in comparative politics, especially in the study of political parties and party systems, governance and governability, and comparative regionalism. Youngmi was previously Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and has taught at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has been the recipient of several grants, including from the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Japan Foundation, and the Korea Foundation. Youngmi has taught on East Asian politics, Europe-Asia relations, Comparative Political Institutions, Public Administration, Ethics and Public Policy, and China’s foreign policy. Her current research explores the role of information technology in political activism, and the impact of political culture on political behaviour. Her recent and forthcoming publications include ‘Between Institutions and Culture: The Politics of Coalition and Governability in South Korea’ (Routledge, 2011), Intra-party politics and minority coalition government in South Korea (Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2008), and Pathologies or Progress? Evaluating the effects of Divided Government and Party Volatility (Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2008, co-authored with F. Yap). At CEU Youngmi teaches courses on East Asia in International Relations and Comparative Regionalism in IRES, and Comparative Political Institutions and Global Cities in DPP. Youngmi is the Director of the Global E-School Project on Korean Studies in Eurasia (2012-2017), coordinated by CEU and funded by the Korea Foundation, and Co-Director of the 2012 Summer School on Comparative Regionalisms at CEU (http://www.summer.ceu.hu/comparative-2012).
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Assistant ProfessorXymena Kurowska is an IR theorist interested in interpretive policy analysis. She earned her doctoral degree from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Her research and writing concentrate on interdisciplinary approaches to security and international state-building, with the focus on EU’s security policy making and border policies in EU’s Eastern Neighbouhood. She is a fellow of the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Programme. She is also currently researching defence cooperation in Central Europe.
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Associate ProfessorMichael Merlingen is an Associate Professor. His current research interests lie in EU foreign and security policy, and heterodox IR theory, notably the intersections of poststructuralist and marxist theories. His current teaching portfolio includes courses on IR theory (introductory and advanced), foreign policy analysis, and EU foreign and security policy. Michael has published two books on the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP): European Union Peacebuilding and Policing: Governance and the European Security and Defence Policy, (London: Routledge, 2006; paperback edition in 2008; with the help of R. Ostrauskaitė); and the edited volume European Security and Defence Policy: An Implementation Perspective, (London: Routledge, 2008; paperback edition in 2010; co-editor Ostrauskaitė). His third book – European Security and Defense Policy: What It Is, How It Works, Why It Matters – is published by Lynne Rienner in October 2011. Michael’s papers on and contributions to EU studies, including the CSDP, and IR theory have appeared in journals such as Millennium; Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; Journal of Common Market Studies; International Political Sociology; Security Dialogue; Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen; and European Foreign Affairs Review. He is currently in charge of CEU’s contribution to a big FP-7 project, running from 2011-2013, that examines cultures of governance and conflict resolution in Europe and India. Also, Michael has just embarked on a new long-term research project to explore ways to combine Marxists and Foucauldian insights, notably with respect to theorisations of world order and imperialism. He welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students wishing to work on issues having to do with his research interests.
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Associate ProfessorBoldizsár Nagy read law and philosophy at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and pursued international studies at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center. Besides the uninterrupted academic activity both at the Eötvös Loránd University (since 1977) and the Central European University (since 1992) he has been engaged both in governmental and non-governmental actions. He acted several times as expert for the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Council of Europe and UNHCR. He is a co-founder and board member of the European Society of International Law and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Refugee Law and of the European Journal of Migration and Law.
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Assistant ProfessorIrina Papkova completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from Georgetown University in 2006. Prior to coming to CEU, she taught at Georgetown, George Washington University, and the Russian State Pedagogical University of A. I. Gerzen. Her research and teaching interests include religion and politics (particularly the intersection of international relations and religion); nationalism and empires; Russian politics; humanitarian intervention; and the political implications of historical memory. She has been the recipient of several research fellowships, among them the Title VIII-Supported Research Scholarship at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Junior Robert Bosch Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. She has written extensively on the relationship between church and state in the Russian Federation; her monograph on the subject, "The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics," was published in April 2011.
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Associate ProfessorPaul holds a PhD from the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Paul has been a Guest Researcher at the former Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI) and at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). He is Associate Professor at IRES.
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ProfessorCEU President and RectorJohn Shattuck currently serves as CEU President and Rector. He comes to CEU after a distinguished career spanning more than three decades in higher education, international diplomacy, foreign policy and human rights.
Visiting faculty
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Visiting ProfessorBefore moving to CEU in January 2011, Marco worked at the University of Trieste (Italy) and at the University of Birmingham (UK). He graduated in Political Science from the Catholic University of Milan (1992) and he obtained a PhD in political geography from the University of Trieste (1997), followed by a PhD in geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2007). His research revolves around issues of territory, power, and identity, studied at multiple geographical scales and through a vast multi-disciplinary literature. Awarded with research prizes by the Association of American Geographers and the Italian Geographical Society, Marco’s work has been funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, NATO, the Italian National Research Council (CNR), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland (CIMO).
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Visiting ProfessorTom Glaser retired from thirty years’ service with the European Commission in 2005. His tasks included six years dealing with the ACP countries and, since 1993, with the enlargement process.His final job before posting to Budapest was concerned with public information covering 28 countries involving a budget of €150 million. He ended his tour in Budapest as Head of the EU Representation. Since 2006, he has been a visiting Professor at CEU, a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Social and European Studies at Koszeg and a board member of Generation Europe Foundation in Brussels.
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Friedrich Kratochwil studied philosophy and classics at Munich and received an MA in international relations from Georgetown and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton. He taught at the universities of Maryland, at Columbia (New York) and at Penn before returning as chair of international relations to Munich, a position he also held subsequently at the European University Institute in Florence. He was editor of the European Journal of International Relations and is serving on several editorial boards. His numerous publications adddress issues in the fields of international realtions, international law and organization, and social and political theory. His latest book, published in 2011 by Routlede is entitled The Puzzles of Politics". At present he is working on a manuscript concerning "The Status of Law in International Society".
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InstructorPhD Student, Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Imperfections in DemocraciesYear of enrollment: 2006/2007Kristin Makszin is teaching Methods and Research Design at IRES in the Fall of 2011. She is a PhD candidate at the Political Science and International Relations departments and specializes in political economy. Her background is in mathematics and economics. Kristin's research focuses on how to use quantitative methods in social science for researching topics with limited available data or limited number of cases. Her dissertation research investigates the role of political parties in determining instances of reform and continuity of welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe. She also teaches statistics at McDaniel College Budapest and has served as a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies (DISC) at CEU.
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Brigitte Young is professor of International Political Economy, Institute of Political Science, University of Muenster, Germany since 1999. She taught at the Free University Berlin from 1997-99, from 1994-95 she was Research Associate at the Centre for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and from 1991-97 she was Professor at Wesleyan University, Connecticut. Young is a member of the EU-Network of Excellence, “Global Governance, Regionalisation, and Regulation: The Role of the EU” (GARNET). She was an Expert Advisor to the Enquete-Commission of the German Parliament on “Globalization of the World Economy” (2000-2002), and served on the Warwick Commission on “The Multilateral Trade Regime” (2007). She held guest professorships at CERI, Science Politique in Paris (2008), Science-Po, Lille (WS2010), and the University of Warwick (2011). She is also a German delegate to the EU-COST project on “Systemic Risks, Financial Crises and Credit” (2010-14).
Staff
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Program CoordinatorEszter obtained her MA at CEU’s IRES Department in 2009. Before returning to the department in July 2011, she spent two years in Estonia volunteering and working as a volunteer coordinator.
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Research Grants CoordinatorAnna Orosz recieved her MA in international relations at Corvinus University of Budapest where she also started her PhD studies in 2007. Before working for IRES, she worked in the Ministry of National Resources as a senior desk officer responsible for social EU affairs.
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MA Program CoordinatorIren Varga received her M.S. degree in mathematics and physics from the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, and she taught mathematics in high schools. Prior to coming to the CEU in 1997, she spent more than ten years abroad, taking courses and working in the USA, Germany and Denmark.
