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 Paris IV-Sorbonne in France. She worked at the Political Science and International Studies Department of University of Birmingham as a visiting lecturer and taught at Franklin College, Lugano, Switzerland before joining IRES. Her current research interests cover social movements, upheavals and (trans-)formation of collective identities in the age of globalisation and Europeanisation, the state, society and politics in the Middle East, EU democratisation efforts in its periphery, non-Western and alternative globalist geopolitical discourses and critical realist philosophy.
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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 is 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 330 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 academic work invited over 123 reviews and 1765 independent citations internationally. 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: Developmental Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries’, Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp254-276. For more info cf his personal web: www.csabal.com
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Associate 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. He has recently had a book dealing with capitalist diversity on Europe’s periphery, written together with Dorothee Bohle, published by Cornell University Press.
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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.
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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 and border policies in EU’s Eastern Neighbouhood. She was a fellow of the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies Programme, conducting fieldwork research on border reform in Ukraine. She is also the CEU principal investigator for “Global Norm Evolution and Responsibility to Protect”, a collaborative grant awarded to a consortium led by the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin and encompassing institutions in Europe (CEU, Oxford University, the University of Frankfurt), Asia (Peking National University, J. Nehru University), and Latin America (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil). The project is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation in cooperation with the Compagnia di San Paolo and the Riksbanken Jubileumsfond within the research framework “Europe and Global Challenges".
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Associate ProfessorMichael Merlingen is an Associate Professor. His current research interests lie in EU foreign, security and defence policy, historical materialism, Foucauldian IR and global biopolitics. His current teaching portfolio includes courses on IR theory (introductory and advanced) and EU foreign and security policy. Michael has published three books on the EU foreign and security policy. His papers on 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. Michael 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 and received his PhD 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 and participated at inter-governmental negotiations. In the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros case before the International Court of Justice he appeared as one of Hungary’s counsels. He is a co-founder and former 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. He is also co-founder and editor of the on-line Rerugee Law Reader. His teaching venues include Beijing, Brussels, Geneva, Moscow, and New York. More than two dozens books were co-authored and/or edited by him. Further details, including a bibliography, are available at his webiste: www.nagyboldizsar.hu
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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 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 address issues in the fields of international relations, 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 Research Design and Methods in IR. She is a PhD candidate near completion at the Political Science and International Relations departments and specializes in political economy. Kristin's research applies both quantitative and qualitative methods, especially 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 characteristics of the political parties in government for determining instances of reform and continuity of welfare states in Central and Eastern Europe. She also teaches statistics and political science at McDaniel College Budapest and has worked as a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies (DISC) at CEU.
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Visiting ProfessorSunhee Park received her Ph.D from Florida State University in 2012. Her teaching and research interests include civil war, civil war resolution, the bridge between civil war research and comparative politics research (e.g., democratization after civil war and transformation of warring groups into political parties), formal theory, and political methodology.
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Visiting ProfessorLuicy Pedroza is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Lateinamerika Institut (Freie Universität Berlin) and is currently working on a comparative project on citizenship regimes. She holds a PhD from the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (University of Bremen and Jacobs University). Dr. des. Pedroza has worked for the Federal Electoral Institute (Mexico) at the division for Civic Education and Citizen Participation and most recently for the Open Society Institute in programs for the management of multiethnic communities. She has been invited to teach two courses at CEU for the Winter Term 2012-2013: Comparative Political Institutions (core course) and Migration Policy and Politics (elective). Her interests are comparative politics (especially regarding the integration of migrants and ethnic minorities), citizenship and democratization studies.
Office hours: Tuesday 10 a.m. - 12 a.m. and by appointment
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 is a graduate from the University of Florida and obtained her degree in Psychology in 2012. Previously she worked for Ernst and Young Ltd. till she joined to the IRES Department at CEU as a Research Grants Coordinator.
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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.
