People
Faculty and Staff
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Alexander Astrov received his MA in History from Central European University. He obtained his PhD in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Director, Center for European Enlargement StudiesIn parallel with his government and diplomatic career Prof. Balázs has been dealing with research and teaching since more than three decades. He is a ScD of the Hungarian Academy of Science. He was nominated Professor of the Corvinus University in 2000 and joined CEU as a full time Professor in 2005. Prof. Balázs served as a State Secretary for Industry and Trade (1992-1993) and a State Secretary for European Integration (2002-2003). He was Ambassador of Hungary in Denmark, Germany and at the EU in Brussels. He was also the Government Representative of Hungary in the European Convention. In 2004 he was nominated the first Hungarian Member of the European Commission responsible for regional policy. Currently Prof. Balazs is on academic leave serving as the Foreign Minister of Hungary.
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László Csaba earned his Ph.D in 1984 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1996 he earned a professorial degree/D.Sc at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he earned dr.habil title at the BUES/today Corvinus University. From July 1997 Professor of Comparative Economics at the same institution. In July 2000 he joined the faculty of the CEU as professor of international political economy at IRES. The General Assembly of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him, in May 2007, to be Member /Corr/ of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Published over 200 articles and chapters in academic volumes in 22 countries, which drew independent citations of over one thousand in academic books and scholarly journals.
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Thomas Fetzer joins the 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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Director, Doctoral School of Political Science, International Relations, and Public PolicyMatteo joined IRES in 2007. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Edinburgh (UK) in 2005. Matteo was previously assistant professor in nationalism and ethno-communal conflict at University College Dublin, Ireland and previously an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Social and Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Matteo’s interests include Central Asian and post-Soviet politics, social and political activism, the comparative study of authoritarianism, ethnicity, nationalism and migration. His recent publications include articles in the International Political Science Review, Europe-Asia Studies, Ethnopolitics, Central Asian Survey and Osteuropa. At CEU Matteo teaches on various aspects of Central Asian and Caucasian Politics, new security challenges and on Comparative Authoritarianism.
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Tom 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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Béla Greskovits is professor and has a PhD from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests are the political economy of East-Central European capitalism, and comparative development and democratization. He has taught courses on the above at the Central European University (Budapest and Warsaw), Cornell University, and Harvard University. His most recent articles appeared in Studies in Comparative and International Development, Labor History, Orbis, West European Politics, Competition and Change, and Journal of Democracy.
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Head of Department of EconomicsJulius Horvath, born in Nove Zamky, Slovakia in 1955, is Hungarian University Professor from 2009, Professor at the Central European University from 2005, Chairman of the Department of Economics at the Central European University from 2006. He served as Chairman of the Department of International Relations and European Studies from 2002 till 2006. He obtained his Ph.D. from SIU-C in 1996. His main interest lies in international economics, political economy of monetary relations, history of economic thought, and political economy. He has published in several journals as Journal of Comparative Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Applied Economics, Economic Systems, International Economic Journal, Post-Communist Economies, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Journal of Economic Integration. He is a member of the Slovak Accreditation Committee Board.
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Associate ProfessorJenne received her Ph.D. in 2000 from the Political Science Department at 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 Predoctoral Fellowship at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford; a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF) at Harvard University, and a two-year Carnegie Corporation Scholarship for a book project that compares the League of Nations regional security regime with that of postcommunist Europe. Erin K. Jenne teaches Masters and Ph.D. courses on qualitative and quantitative methods, ethnic conflict, international relations theory, nationalism and civil war, and international security.
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Youngmi has joined CEU in AY 2009/2010. Youngmi received her PhD from the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2007, and has been at the University of Edinburgh thereafter until her move to CEU. 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. Her current research explores the role of information technology in political activism, and the impact of political culture on political behaviour.
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Assistant ProfessorXymena Kurowska received her PhD from the European University Institute in 2008 with the thesis The politics behind a policy: framing European Security and Defence Policy. Her research concentrates on interdisciplinary approaches to security studies and European foreign policy, including statebuilding. She is a grant holder from the European Foreign and Security Studies Programme and part of research community on Critical Approaches to Security in Europe. She is an IR theorist interested in interpretive policy analysis and ethnographic methods as applied in IR and European studies research.
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PhD StudentGergo 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.
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Associate ProfessorMichael Merlingen's current research interests lie, on the one hand, in European foreign and security policy and, on the other, the intersection of biopolitics and imperialism. He has published two books on the ESDP. He currently works on his third book, provisionally entitled "European Security and Defence Policy: What It Is, How It Works, Why It Matters", which will be published by Lynne Rienner in 2009.
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Boldizsár 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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Irina Papkova received her B.A. from Hamilton College in 1999; an MA in Russian and East European Studies from Georgetown University in 2002; and completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from Georgetown University in 2006. She has taught at Georgetown, George Washington University, and the Russian State Pedagogical University of A. I. Gerzen. Her research interests include religion and politics, nationalism and ethnic conflict, the politics of development and democratization, and the cultural impact of globalization; and the political implications of historical memory.
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Department Coordinator
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Head of the Department of International Relations and European StudiesPaul 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 and current Head of Department at IRES.
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MA Program Coordinator