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Sanjar Akayev

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
Essays on Friendship and Justice
Year of Enrollment: 
2023
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Gülsün Alca

Track: 
Comparative and International Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
The Impact of Refugee Exposure on Voting Behavior in Turkey
Year of Enrollment: 
2021
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Deborah Biging

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
Responsibility for abolishing heteronormativity
Year of Enrollment: 
2023
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Ricardo Bravo Santillán

Track: 
Political Theory
Year of Enrollment: 
2018
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Ildar Daminov

Track: 
Comparative and International Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
When and How Do Autocrats Use Digital Technologies for Covert Repression? A Political Economy Perspective on the Dictator's Digital Dilemma
Year of Enrollment: 
2022 to 2026
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Mary Jocelyn De La Cruz

Track: 
Comparative and International Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
Labor Standards Adaptation by Piecemeal and Fabrication: The Politics of Enforcing Compliance in Garments Production
Year of Enrollment: 
2023
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Albert Didriksen

Track: 
Political Theory
Year of Enrollment: 
2022
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Hong Do

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
Global Public Reason and Participatory Global Governance: Towards a Model of Transnational Deliberative Innovations
Year of Enrollment: 
2020
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Natalia Dziadyk

Track: 
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment: 
2020
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Sebastian Engler

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
Burdening children in unjust circumstances
Year of Enrollment: 
2024
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Roberta Falvo

Track: 
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment: 
2025
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Meike Fernbach

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Becoming (White) Germany: German Women's Agency, Activism and the White Racialized Body
Year of Enrollment: 
2022
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Kai Fleischer

Track: 
Political Theory
Year of Enrollment: 
2025
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Giancarlo Grignaschi

Track: 
Comparative and International Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
The Political Economy of Macroprudential Policy in the EU
Year of Enrollment: 
2019
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Cagla Deste Ekin Guner

Track: 
Comparative and International Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
Boundaring, Temporariness and (Dis)Continuity: Urban Governance and Refugees’ Labor Market Integration in Hamburg and Izmir
Year of Enrollment: 
2020
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Mustafa Utku Güngör

Track: 
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment: 
2017
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Matthew Haji-Michael

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
The Rule of Law Between Myth and Reality
Year of Enrollment: 
2023
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Bence Hamrak

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
How Winning and Losing Shape Political Identities
Year of Enrollment: 
2021
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Sophie Jaeger

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
Opposition Coordination against Electoral Authoritarianism in Exile: Russian Opposition Abroad After February 2022
Year of Enrollment: 
2022
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Sunna Kokkonen

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Interspecies Relatings at the Njauddâm River (temporary)
Year of Enrollment: 
2021
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Thomas Laffitte

Track: 
Comparative and International Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
The Decay of the European Consolidation Regime: Gradual Institutional Change and the Path Towards Eurobonds (temporary)
Year of Enrollment: 
2022
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Nadia Manzoni

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Dynamics of Europeanisation of higher education on the case of European University Alliances
Year of Enrollment: 
2022
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Rebeca Marques Rocha

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Rethinking the role of youth in drug policy conceptualization and implementation
Year of Enrollment: 
2020
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Kata Moravecz

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
Who cares about democracy?: Exploring the role of public pressure behind the EU's changing policy on democratic backsliding and the Rule of Law
Year of Enrollment: 
2022
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Ihor Moshenets

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
EU energy policy making: the role of natural gas, hydrogen and nuclear energy in EU decarbonization pathways
Year of Enrollment: 
2022
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Victor Mulsant

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Year of Enrollment: 
2024
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Menta Móra

Track: 
Comparative and International Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
Energy Governance and Citizens' Energy in Europe's Eastern Periphery
Year of Enrollment: 
2024
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Szilvia Nagy

Track: 
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment: 
2020
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Ivan Nikolovski

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Too Many Ways of Being European: EU's Anti-Totalitarian Memory Politics and National Identity Discourse in North Macedonia (working title)
Year of Enrollment: 
2021
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Alex Olivares

Track: 
Political Theory
Year of Enrollment: 
2020
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Ana Pandal de la Peza

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
¿Y sí yo lo encuentro qué? Madres Buscadoras and the transformative potential of ‘La Búsqueda’ as a cosmopraxis for the IR
Year of Enrollment: 
2022 to 2027
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Robert Panyi

Track: 
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment: 
2024
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Rajesh Parameswaran

Track: 
Comparative and International Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
An analysis of ownership change as a solution for poor regulation of platform economy
Year of Enrollment: 
2022
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Elodie Phillips

Track: 
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment: 
2025
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Markus Pollak

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Evaluating Democracies: Election Observers, Contestation Practices, and the Subversion of Liberal International Ordering
Year of Enrollment: 
2023
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Adam Pontius

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
The Bent Mirror: Caesar and Civilization in Reactionary Revisionism
Year of Enrollment: 
2023
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Max Povse

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
European Non-State Actors’ Impact on Authoritarian Resilience in the Global South
Year of Enrollment: 
2025 to 2029
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Sophie Prantil

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
Realignment and Dealignment of the Working Class Electorate: A Deviant Case of Lack of Far-right Populism in the Belgian Region of Wallonia
Year of Enrollment: 
2023
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Petra Radic

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Year of Enrollment: 
2023
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Nathalie Rataj

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Embodied Practices in International Organizations and International Ordering
Year of Enrollment: 
2022
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Malte Reske

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2020
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Letitia Roman

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Make it a Wasteland and Call It Peace: Climate Events, Violence Escalation and Conflict Management Strategies
Year of Enrollment: 
2023
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Ivana Rudinac

Track: 
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment: 
2023 to 2027
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Carlotta Sallach

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Gendering Terrorism in the Courtroom
Year of Enrollment: 
2022
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Bernadett Sebály

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Why Some Housing Struggles Succeed: A Comparative Case Study of Movement Strategies in Hungary between 1987 and 2024
Year of Enrollment: 
2019
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Dmitry Sereda

Track: 
Political Theory
Year of Enrollment: 
2021
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Carina Siebler

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Year of Enrollment: 
2024
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Dominik Sipinski

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2020
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Anastasiia Soboleva

Track: 
Comparative and International Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
Rent distribution and cooptation in autocracies: Cases of Russia and MENA countries
Year of Enrollment: 
2021
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Christina Stuart

Track: 
Comparative and International Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
The political economy of green fiscal policy and fiscal rules
Year of Enrollment: 
2024
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Irene Tello Arista

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Using Beneficial Ownership Data for Anti-corruption Efforts: Benefits, Risks, and New Approaches
Year of Enrollment: 
2022
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Duong Ton

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Technological changes, job security, and subsequent policy demands
Year of Enrollment: 
2021
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Šimon Trlifaj

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
The effects on policy on innovation
Year of Enrollment: 
2021
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Shirin Tumenbaeva

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
Turnover and turnout: how revolutions shape voting behavior and political participation
Year of Enrollment: 
2021
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Antigona Uka

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
The Evolution of Institutional Change, ICT Development Policies, and Global Influences: The case of Higher Education in the Western Balkans 
Year of Enrollment: 
2024
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Barbora Valik

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2019
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Kristina Vasić

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
Political Equality and Representative Democracy
Year of Enrollment: 
2022
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Zdravko Veljanov

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Year of Enrollment: 
2019
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Peter Verpoorten

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
Militant Democracy
Year of Enrollment: 
2023
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Patrick Walkowiak

Track: 
Comparative and International Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
Change in Media Ownership and its Impact on Political Coverage
Year of Enrollment: 
2023
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Xiyue Yang

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
A progressive approach to sharing necessary bad work
Year of Enrollment: 
2024
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Verena Zech

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2020
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Ceren Çetinkaya

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2020
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Cornelia Čekal

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
European Defence Industrial Integration since the Start of the War in Ukraine: The Emergence of a Single Market for Defence?
Year of Enrollment: 
2023
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