PhD Dissertations

See also MA theses submitted to the department and on the website of the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations

2022

Reflexivity in European Higher Education Governance: Studies on Practice

By Adrienn Nyircsák

Defense Committee: TBD

Date of the Defense: TBD

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Between Ideal Theory and Practice: Justice as Fairness, Productive Ownership Rights and Wider Economic Liberties

By Emil Vargović

Defense Committee: 

Zoltan Miklosi (supervisor, Central European University) 
Janos Kis (Central European University) 
Andrew Williams (external member, University Pompeu-Fabra)

Andres Moles (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: TBD

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Transnational Civil Disobedience: Understanding Illegal Political Dissent Beyond Borders

By Elettra Repetto

Defense Committee: 

Zoltan Miklosi (supervisor, Central European University)
Andres Moles (Central European University)
Kimberley Brownlee (external member, University of British Columbia)
Anca Gheaus (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: May 25, 2022

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Vicissitudes of Islamic Humanitarianism: Compassion, Care, and Immobilization

By Eda Sevinin

Defense Committee: 

Prem Kumar Rajaram (supervisor, Central European University)
Viola Zentai (Central European University)
Deniz Sert (external member, Ozyegin University, Istanbul)
Andrea Krizsan (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: May 27, 2022

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Priority of Individual Sovereignty: A Libertarian Approach

By Kin-wai Leung

Defense Committee: TBD

Date of the Defense: TBD

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Constraining the Executive in Petrostates

By Antonio Henrique Smith Bravo

Defense Committee: 

Michael Dorsch (supervisor, Central European University) 
Cristina Corduneanu-Huci (Central European University) 
Leiv Marsteintredet (external member, University of Bergen) 
Andrew Xiang Li (chair, Central European University) 

Date of the Defense: April 29, 2022

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Fortressing on Markets: Financial Supervision in the Capital Markets Union

By Dominik Brenner

Defense Committee: 

László Csaba (supervisor, Central European University)
László Bruszt (Central European University)
Rachel Epstein (external member, University of Denver)
Michael Merlingen (chair, Central European University) 

Date of the Defense: March 15, 2022

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In the Struggle for Radical Knowledge: Autoethnography and Collective Militant Research with the MTST – Homeless Workers' Movement

By Alberto Fierro

Defense Committee: 

Michael Merlingen (supervisor, Central European University) 
Viola Zentai (voting member, Central European University)
Richa Nagar (external voting member, University of Minnesota Twin Cities) 
Nadia Jones Gailani (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: March 3, 2022

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Difference Worthy of Mediation? US-China Rapprochement Reappraised in a New Framework of Diplomatic Normalization

By Tamás Ferenc Peragovics

Defense Committee:

Alex Astrov (supervisor, Central European University)
Daniel Large  (voting member, Central European University)
Corneliu Bjola (external voting member, Oxford University)
Michael Merlingen (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: February 16, 2022

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Civil Society Organizations in Demobilization and Reintegration: The Ties and Lives of Ex-combatants in Lebanon

By Nassim AbiGhanem

Defense Committee: 

Erin Jenne (supervisor, Central European University)
Matthijs Bogaards (voting member, Central European University)
Ashutosh Varshney (external voting member, Brown University)
Julia Koltai (chair, Eötvös Loránd University)

Date of the Defense: January 28, 2022

 

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