She is a first year Ph.D student in Political Science, Dept. of International Relations and European Studies (IRES) at Central European University (CEU), Budapest. She received her B.A in International Relations in Turkey. After receiving her MA degree in EU Studies from Dokuz Eylul University Turkey she has been awarded with full master scholarship by Swedish Institute to get her M.Sc degree in European Affairs at Lund University. During her master studies she has worked as an intern at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) for 3 months and undertaken a research about legal and non-legal aspects of Europeanisation process in Turkey with a special focus on political actors. She has temporarily worked in national and international projects and participated to several international conferences. For her Ph. D project she is working on Europeanisation and politics of EU norm promotion in Turkey with a special focus on political elites
In 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.
Eszter has a Masters Degree in Economics (with specialization in International Relations, European integration) from Corvinus Universiy, Budapest and a Diploma from Diplomatic Academy, Vienna. Research interests: European Union Politics, democratic deficit in the EU.
Raluca Csernatoni’s research interests include topics in International Relations Theory and Security Studies, sub-focusing on the problematic of security policy making, the interconnections between internal and external security, and the international political order post-9/11; and in European Union Studies, concentrating on the European Union’s (EU) new security challenges and policy developments within the framework of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). In her PhD research, she aims to analyze the underpinning institutional condition (temporal, material, and normative) that have pioneered a European defence program in the EU, and to trace the evolutionary dynamics in the defence dimension that led to the creation of the European Defence Agency (EDA).
Manuel has a BA in International Relations from the University of Timisoara (Romania) and an MA in International Relations from CEU. His research interests are EU foreign policy, European security, EU-Russia relations, IR theory, critical and poststructuralist theories applied to IR (identity, territoriality, borders), political sociology, political theory, legitimacy issues in the EU, international migration.
Viktor received his MA in International Studies at the Corvinus University of Budapest. His research focuses on the borderland between political philosophy and international political theory. Viktor’s main interest lies in the ethics and logic of the use of violence in international and national politics and their relation to the emergence and sustenance of political order, a topic approached in his research project through the concept of sovereignty.
Nihat Sengul is a current PhD candidate in the International Relations and European Studies department at Central European University (CEU). His PhD research interests include nationalism studies and ethnic minority mobilization, specifically he compares Kurdish claim-making patterns in Turkey and Iraq vis-à-vis their host-states.
Nihat is from Turkey. He completed his BA and MA degrees in Izmir and Istanbul respectively. In his BA years, he got a scholarship from NATO for a study visit to Brussels. Before coming to CEU he completed his MA degree at Koc University in Istanbul where he got a full-scholarship to study in the department of International Relations and his focus was on the European Union and its Common Foreign and Security Policy.
Natalia Morozova is in her final year of doctoral studies at the Department of International Relations and European Studies (IRES). She earned her MA from IRES in 2001 writing her Master’s thesis on the Realist interpretation of Tolstoy’s view of history in ‘War and Peace’. Natalia’s research interests include international relations theory, international political theory, Russian post-Soviet foreign policy and political discourse.
Deniz Bingol McDonald (30) after receiving her Master’s degree from Warwick University, UK, has been writing her PhD dissertation on EU conditionality and structural reforms in Slovakia, Romania and Turkey. She published in Millennium, Acta Oeconomica, and European Journal of Public Policy on civil society–state relations and financial sector reforms in EU candidate accession. Her other research interest include Turkish politics, EU-Neighborhood Policy, regulatory politics in EU states and public opinion in EU accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
