Democracy and Political Institutions

Nearly a year since his landmark speech in Cairo, U.S. President Barack Obama has yet to fulfill his promise to smooth Western relations with the Middle East, said Visiting Professor Shlomo
Avineri, who spoke to a packed audience in the Popper Room on March 9 at CEU.

CEU students this week organized the largest celebration of International Women's Day at the university to date, hosting a series of events marking the century-old holiday honoring women’s economic, political and social achievements. 

Festivities began Monday in the Oktogon, where participants wearing “This is what a feminist looks like,” T-shirts handed out balloons and leaflets with information on the annual March 8th holiday, and screened a video on women’s rights and feminism around the world.

Viktoria Mohacsi, Roma politician who served as a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2009, was among a group of Roma rights activists and scholars who met Friday at CEU to discuss the status of Roma citizens in Eastern and Western Europe and the Roma’s political footing within an enlarged EU.

Her visit was organized as part of a panel discussion of Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe: Poverty, Ethnic Mobilization, and the Neoliberal Order, a new volume on how

CEU's Xymena Kurowska, Assistant Professor of International Relations and European Studies (IRES), and co-author Benjamin Tallis, a political analyst and border security expert, have been awarded an annual prize for the best article published in European Foreign Affairs Review in 2009.

The article, EU Border Assistance Mission to Ukraine and Moldova – Beyond Border Monitoring?, examines the EU Border Mission in Ukraine and Moldova (EUBAM), one of the “more substanti

As part of the 2010 Jean Monnet Guest Lecture Series, Professor Michelle Cini presented her public lecture: “Ethics Reform and Lobbying in the European Commission”, on March the 5^th. The lecture and subsequent discussion were chaired by Uwe Puetter, Professor, Department of Public Policy.