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Taraf Abu Hamdan
Track:
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic:
HOW INSTITUTIONS SHAPE COMMUNITY VULNERABILITY, COPING STRATEGIES, AND RESOURCE AND LIVELIHOOD MANAGEMENT IN JORDAN
Year of Enrollment:
2018
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Sanjar Akayev
Track:
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic:
Civic Friendship and Liberal Citizenship
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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Reka Branyiczki
Track:
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic:
Public policy and employment at older ages across Europe
Year of Enrollment:
2017
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Ricardo Bravo Santillán
Track:
Political Theory
Year of Enrollment:
2018
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Freya Cumberlidge
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
(Still) Talking War: Using Tourism in BiH to Contest Conceptions of Conflict
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
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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
Dissertation Topic:
My main research interests are theories of distributive justice, moral epistemology and marginal decision-making under uncertainty. I combine these in my dissertation, defending utilitarianism against common objections.
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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Krystof Dolezal
Track:
International Relations
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic:
On the Logic of Ideological Persistence: Christian Democratic Legacy in Czechoslovakia from Postwar to Post-Socialism
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2018
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2024
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Natalia Dziadyk
Track:
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment:
2020
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Sebastian Engler
Track:
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic:
"Children, parents, society: What do they owe each other in unjust circumstances?"
Year of Enrollment:
2024
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Eszter Farkas
Track:
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic:
Inclusive and exclusive media frames and public opinion about immigration in different social and media contexts
Year of Enrollment:
2018
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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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Ruth Gazsó Candlish
Track:
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment:
2017
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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:
Local-level Governance and Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugee Youth 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:
"A Critical Analysis of the Rule of Law as a System of Spectator-Judgement"
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 from Abroad Before and 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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Monika Kubová
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
Neutrality and Discourses of International (dis)Order – Between Deviancy and Normalcy
Year of Enrollment:
2017
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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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Maryna Lakhno
Track:
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic:
Universities: Local Agents of Global Changes. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a Policy Framework for Higher Education
Year of Enrollment:
2019
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Clemens Loidl
Track:
Political Theory
Year of Enrollment:
2020
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Elisabetta Mannoni
Track:
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic:
Attitude-behavior relationship on the issue of environmental protection
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2020
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Nadia Manzoni
Track:
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment:
2022
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Rebeca Marques Rocha
Track:
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic:
Meaningful Youth Engagement: Inclusion and Agency in International Drug Policy Debates (working title)
Year of Enrollment:
2020
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Vincent F. Mo
Track:
International Relations
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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Szilvia Nagy
Track:
Public Policy
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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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Vladimir Ogula
Track:
International Relations
Year of Enrollment:
2019
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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? Colonial legacies and knowledge production in the field of security: Women looking for disappeared people in Mexico
Year of Enrollment:
2022
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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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Markus Pollak
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
The Downfall of Liberal Election Observation? Democracy Promoters and the Contestation of Liberal Ordering
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
Dissertation Topic:
Aid Allocation, Donor Competition, and Recipients' Governance: Examining the Effects of Chinese Aid in the Western Balkans
Year of Enrollment:
2023
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Liliia Sablina
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
Everyday Ties and White Imaginaries: How Russian-speaking Migrants Joined the German Far Right
Year of Enrollment:
2019
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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 1987-2024
Year of Enrollment:
2019
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Dmitry Sereda
Track:
Political Theory
Year of Enrollment:
2021
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Dominik Sipinski
Track:
International Relations
Year of Enrollment:
2020
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Sanat Sogani
Track:
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic:
Jobs, Social Status and Self-Respect
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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Vlad Surdea-Hernea
Track:
Comparative and International Political Economy
Dissertation Topic:
Remembrance of repression past: Essays on the persistent effects of political violence
Year of Enrollment:
2021
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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 the choice between secrecy and patenting in 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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Zia Uddin
Track:
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic:
Exploring Policy Dilemma and Tensions in Fostering Civic Engagement of Student and Campus Peace in Bangladesh: Developing Inclusive Policy Framework
Year of Enrollment:
2022
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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
Dissertation Topic:
In Pursuit of Buen Vivir: Pathways towards Indigenous Mobilisation and Conflict Resolution in Latin America
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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Franziska Wagner
Track:
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic:
Crisis communication in the fourth age of political communication. Three essays on social media communication and text analysis
Year of Enrollment:
2020
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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
Year of Enrollment:
2024
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Mehmet Yavuz
Track:
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic:
Role of Ideological Legitimation on the Stability of Authoritarian Regimes
Year of Enrollment:
2019
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Verena Zech
Track:
International Relations
Year of Enrollment:
2020
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Ain ul Khair
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
Identity Formation and the Transformation of the Colonized Body
Year of Enrollment:
2019
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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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