Doctoral Dissertations Defended in 2019

2019

INTERROGATING SOCIALISM: A STUDY OF THE NORMATIVE FOUNDATION OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIALIST PROGRAMS

By Man Kong Li

Defense Committee:

Janos Kis (supervisor, Central European University) 
Andres Moles (Central European University)
Martin O'Neill (external, University of York)
Zoltan Miklosi (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: 10 December, 2019

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By Viktor Ivankovic

Defense Committee:

Andres Moles (supervisor, Central European University) 
Christoph Heintz (Central European University)
Thomas Douglas (external member, University of Oxford, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) 
Zoltan Miklosi (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: 14 November, 2019

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By Akos Mate

Defense Committee:

Laszlo Csaba (supervisor, Central European University) 
Thomas Fetzer (Central European University)
Ludovit Odor (external member, National Bank of Slovakia) 
Julius Horvath (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: 26 September, 2019

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By Alexandru Moise

Defense Committee:

Thomas Fetzer (chair, Central European University) 
Carsten Schneider (Central European University) 
Evelyne Huebscher (supervisor, Central European University)
Ellen M. Immergut (external, Chair in Political Sciences, European University Institute)

Date of the Defense: 23 September, 2019

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By Aron Tabor

Defense Committee:

Michael Merlingen (chair, Central European University) 
Thomas Fetzer (Central European University) 
Hilde Eliassen Restad (external, Associate Professor, Bjorknes University, Norway) 
Alexander Astrov (supervisor, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: 13 September, 2019

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By Roland Schmidt

Defense Committee:

Carsten Schneider (supervisor, Central European University) 
Anton Pelinka (Central European University)
Stefan Wolff (external member, University of Birmingham) 
Erin Jenne (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: 13 August, 2019

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By Caitlin Wyndham

Defense Committee:

Violetta Zentai (supervisor, Central European University) 
Pauline Oosterhoff (external member, Institute of Development Studies (IDS) UK)
Jean-Louis Fabiani (Central European University)
Thilo Bodenstein (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: 20 June, 2019

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Systematizing National Higher Education Internationalization Strategies:
Reconceptualizing a Process

By Daniela Craciun

Defense Committee:

Evelyne Huebscher (chair, CEU) 
Marvin Lazerson (CEU) 
Liviu Matei (supervisor, CEU) 
Hans de Wit (external, Boston College)

Date of the Defense: 11 June, 2019

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GOVERNING NUCLEAR AMBIGUITY AT HOME AND ABROAD: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ISRAEL’S UNIQUE BARGAIN WITH THE BOMB

By Ali Diskaya

Defense Committee:

Erzsebet Strausz (chair, Central European University)
William Walters (external, Professor, Carleton University)
Alexander Astrov (Central European University)
Michael Merlingen (supervisor, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: 29 May, 2019

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Taking Partly Free Voters Seriously: How Party-Voter Linkages Affect Political Stability

By Koba Turmanidze

Defense Committee:

Inna Melnykovska (chair, CEU)
Gabor Simonovits (CEU)
Julie A. George (external, CUNY)
Matteo Fumagalli (supervisor, University of St Andrews) 

Date of the Defense: 24 May, 2019 

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NETWORK TIES AND THE POLITICS OF RENATIONALIZATION: Embeddedness, political-business relations and renationalization in post-Milošević Serbia

By Milos Resimic

Defense Committee:

Inna Melnykovska (chair, CEU) 
Balazs Vedres (supervisor, CEU)
Andras Bozoki (CEU) 
Roger Schoenman (external, UC Santa Cruz)

Date of the Defense: 21 May, 2019

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Collective Mobilization and Dynamic Representation
From Citizens to Policy and Back Again

By Ioana-Elena Oana

Defense Committee:

Zsolt Enyedi (supervisor, CEU) 
Swen Hutter (external, Lichtenberg-Professor in Political Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and Vice Director of the Center for Civil Society Research in Berlin) 
Carsten Schneider (CEU) 
Evelyne Huebscher (chair, CEU)

Date of the Defense:  25 April, 2019

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Humanitarian Intervention and the Myth of 1648

By Thomas William Peak

Defense Committee:

Michael Merlingen (supervisor, CEU)
Laszlo Kontler (internal, CEU)
Luke Glanville (external, Australian National University)
Christopher LaRoche (chair, CEU) 

Date of the Defense: 8 March, 2019

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THE EVOLUTION OF RUSSIA’S GREAT POWER DISCOURSE:
A CONCEPTUAL HISTORY OF VELIKAYA DERZHAVA

By Anatoly Reshetnikov

Defense Committee:

Alexander Astrov (supervisor, CEU)
Jan Hennings (internal, CEU History department)
Iver Neumann (external,Norwegian Social Research)
Paul Roe (chair, CEU) 

Date of the Defense: 23 February, 2019

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New Party Organizations and Intra-party Democracy: A Comparative Analysis of the Five Star Movement and Podemos

By Balint Mikola

Defense Committee:
Zsolt Enyedi (supervisor, CEU) 
Gabor Toka (CEU)
Nicole Bolleyer (external, Exeter University)
Marina Popescu (chair, former CEU)

Date of the Defense: 20 February, 2019

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HIDDEN DIALOGUES WITH THE PAST: CINEMA AND MEMORY OF THE `HOMELAND WAR`

By Tamara Kolaric

Defense Committee:
Lea Sgier (co-supervisor, former CEU, University of Geneva – SPERI) 
Nenad Dimitrijevic (co-supervisor, CEU)
Jasmina Lukic (CEU)
Dagmar Brunow (external, Linnaeus University)
Alexander Astrov (chair, CEU)

Date of the Defense: 18 February, 2019