Doctoral Dissertations Defended in 2013

2013

FDI as a Solution to the Challenges of Late Development: Catch-Up without Convergence?

by Vera Scepanovic

Dissertation Committee:

Dorothee Bohle (supervisor, CEU)
Bela Greskovits (CEU)
Laszlo Bruszt (external, Professor, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute)
Thomas Fetzer (chair, CEU)

Date of defense: 20 December, 2013

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Reforming East Central European Welfare States - Governments, Technocrats, and the Patterns of Quiet Retrenchment

by Kristin Makszin

Dissertation Committee:

Bela Greskovits (supervisor, CEU)
Achim Kemmerling (internal member, CEU)
Bernhard Ebbinghaus (external member, Professor of Sociology, Chair of Macrosociology at the School of Social Sciences of the University of Mannheim)
Dorothee Bohle (chair, CEU)

Date of defense: 6 December, 2013

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Quality of Governance, Political Attitudes and Electoral Behavior

by Diana Elena Burlacu

Dissertation Committee:

Gabor Toka (supervisor, CEU)
Levente Littvay (CEU)
John Bartle (external member, Senior Lecturer at Department of Government, University of Essex)
Zsolt Enyedi (chair, CEU)

Date of defense: 17 October, 2013

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Energy Security in Transition: Coping with Energy Import Dependence in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary

by Andrej Nosko

Dissertation Committee:

Bela Greskovits (supervisor, CEU)
Andreas Goldthau (CEU)
Anita Orban (external member, Ambassador-at-Large for Energy Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary)
Julius Horvath (chair, CEU)

Date of defense: 25 September, 2013

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Normative Parliamentarians: The European Parliament’s Role in the EU’s Foreign Policy Process

by Lorinc Redei

Dissertation Committee:

Paul Roe (supervisor, CEU)
Tamas Meszerics (CEU)
Helene Sjursen (external member, Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo)
Xymena Kurowska (chair, CEU)

Date of defense: 26 June, 2013

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Visualizing Virtual Borders: Identity Territorialization Shifts and “Imagined Geographies” in the Albanian case

by Ilir Kalemaj

Dissertation Committee:

Erin Jenne (supervisor, CEU)
Matteo Fumagalli (CEU)
Sherrill Stroschein (external member, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Department of Political Science, School of Public Policy, University College London)
Paul Roe (chair, CEU)

Date of defense: 6 June, 2013

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Social Capital and Governance in European Borderlands: A comparative study of Euroregions as policy actors

by Sara Svensson

Dissertation Committee:

Andrew Cartwright (supervisor, CEU)
Tamas Meszerics (CEU)
Harlan Koff (external member, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Luxembourg)
Marie-Pierre Granger (chair, CEU)

Date of defense: 18 March, 2013