Regional and local development

Development and related issues at the regional and local level including natural resource and land management and conservation, social capital, demographics and de-population of rural areas.

Guest Lecture: Executive Power of the European Union

University of Amsterdam Law Professor Deirdre Curtin will speak Thursday evening on the executive power of the European Union, part of the ongoing 2010 Jean Monnet Module on European Integration guest lecture series hosted by CEU's Department of Public Policy.

Curtain is a top expert in European law and governance, holds a part-time Chair in European and International Governance at the Utrecht School of Governance of the University of Utrecht. In 2003, she was

IRES Faculty Wins Journal Article Award

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.

Julia Leventon is a PhD candidate interested in the interactions between science, society and governance. Her position at CEU is supported by AquaTRAIN, a Marie Curie Research Training Network) under the 6th Framework Programme of the EU.
Through her PhD, Julia is examining implementation gaps in EU policy. The work draws on evidence from a case study of the management of groundwater with high levels of geogenic arsenic in Hungary.

PhD Student

Gergo holds an MA in International Studies (2005) from Corvinus University of Budapest and a post-graduate master’s degree in International Business Economics (2006) from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). In 2005, he received the Pro Scientia Gold Medal from the Council of National Scientific Student’s Association of Hungary. He is a Research Assistant at the Center for Policy Studies and a member of the Political Economy Research Group at CEU. Since September 2009 he also works at the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as a junior research fellow. He writes his PhD on the patterns of uneven regional development in postsocialist Central Europe.

Associate Professor
MAPP Visiting Scholar

Public Interest Law Institute and CEU

An article on the Charles Mott Foundation website recently focused on Edwin Rekosh's efforts in the area of public interest law. Rekosh is the founder and executive director of the multinational Public Interest Law Institute (PILI), and this past summer tought a course at CEU Summer University: Teaching Law, Human Rights and Ethics.

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