PhD Students

Dissertation Topic:

How important is the role of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Peacebuilding

Year of Enrollment:

2016

Email:

Alexander Akbik

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Dissertation Topic:

War as a System. A Luhmannian Approach to the study of war recurrence on the examples of Congo (1998-2003), Liberia(1999-2003), Kosovo(1999), and Chechnya (1999-2009)

Year of Enrollment:

2011

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Cihan Erdost Akin

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Year of Enrollment:

2016

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Jenna Althoff

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Year of Enrollment:

2011

Email:

Renira Corinne Angeles

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Dissertation Topic:

The Politics of Upward (Re-?) Distribution: Political Causes and Consequences of CEO Pay across Advanced Democracies

Year of Enrollment:

2011 to 2017

Email:

Görkem Atsungur

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Dissertation Topic:

"The Discursive Construction of Imperial Consciousness: Political Imagination of Empire in the Making of State Identity."

Year of Enrollment:

2016

Email:

Bastian Becker

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Dissertation Topic:

Opportunity Matters: Economic Inequality and Redistribution in Western Democracies

Year of Enrollment:

2012

Email:

Jelena Belic

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Dissertation Topic:

Global Justice and Institutional Reforms

Year of Enrollment:

2012

Email:

Felix Bender

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Dissertation Topic:

To Whom Should We Grant Asylum? A Conceptual History and Normative Argument for a Political Concept of Asylum and the Refugee

Year of Enrollment:

2014

Email:

Jakov Bojovic

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Dissertation Topic:

A different kind of policy entrepreneur: The European Commission in the new areas of EU activity

Year of Enrollment:

2016

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Constantin Manuel Bosancianu

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Year of Enrollment:

2011

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Dominik Brenner

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Dissertation Topic:

Patience in European Capital Markets

Year of Enrollment:

2016

Email:

Mariana Budjeryn

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Dissertation Topic:

The Power of the NPT: International Norms and Nuclear Disarmament of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, 1990-1994

Year of Enrollment:

2010

Email:

Erna Burai

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Year of Enrollment:

2010

Email:

Bruno Castanho Silva

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Dissertation Topic:

Divisive Discourse, Divided Demos? Social and Political Consequences of Populism

Year of Enrollment:

2012

Email:

Martino Comelli

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Dissertation Topic:

The Varieties of Debtfare; On the relationship between welfare and household debt.

Year of Enrollment:

2017

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Daniela Craciun

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Dissertation Topic:

Systematizing Internationalization Policy in Higher Education: Towards a Typology

Year of Enrollment:

2013

Email:

Sergiu Delcea

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Dissertation Topic:

Pro-Urban Welfare in Agricultural Countries? Nationalism and Welfare State Creation in Central and Eastern Europe: Hungary and Romania Compared

Year of Enrollment:

2014

Email:

Ali Diskaya

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Dissertation Topic:

Schrödinger's Nukes: How Israel and Iran Govern a Nuclear-Ambiguous Middle East

Year of Enrollment:

2013

Email:

Jacqueline Dufalla

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Dissertation Topic:

Revisiting Russia: How Russia Challenges the US Hegemony

Year of Enrollment:

2016

Email:

Alberto Fierro

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Dissertation Topic:

The Relationship Between Rights in the Socio-economic Domain and Social Movements: Ambiguities of Legal Strategies

Year of Enrollment:

2016

Email:

Silvia Ioana Fierăscu

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Dissertation Topic:

The Networked Phenomenon of State Capture. Network Dynamics, Unintended Consequences, and Political-Business Elite Relations in Hungary

Year of Enrollment:

2012

Email:

Gabor Filippov

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Year of Enrollment:

2015

Email:

Viktor Friedmann

Track:

Towards a Genealogy of Great Powers and Responsibility: China in Western Conceptions of Governing the World

Dissertation Topic:

Year of Enrollment:

2008 to 2014

Email:

Johannes Gunesch

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Dissertation Topic:

Contested development. Encountering the Egyptian uprising from near and far (working title)

Year of Enrollment:

2014

Email:

András Gál

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Dissertation Topic:

Constitutional review in consociational democracies

Year of Enrollment:

2015

Email:

Sanja Hajdinjak

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Dissertation Topic:

Boon or Blessing: political mechanisms of control in resource use and rent distribution

Year of Enrollment:

2011

Email:

Pavol Hardos

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"Expert Review": On Reconciling Politics of Expertise and Democracy

Dissertation Topic:

Year of Enrollment:

2009 to 2015

Email:

Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez

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Year of Enrollment:

2014

Email:

Olimpija Hristova Zaevska

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Dissertation Topic:

So Close Yet so Far: Subnational Democracy in Ethnically Divided Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro

Year of Enrollment:

2015

Email:

Vujo Ilić

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Year of Enrollment:

2013

Email:

Viktor Ivanković

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Dissertation Topic:

Nudging Democratically

Year of Enrollment:

2013

Email:

Daniel Izsak

Track:

Varieties of Regionalisation: The Impact of Regionalism on Regionalisation of the Car Industry in the EU and NAFTA

Dissertation Topic:

Year of Enrollment:

2010 to 2017

Email:

Perica Jovchevski

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Dissertation Topic:

Personal Autonomy and Interdependence

Year of Enrollment:

2017

Email:

Asli Karaca

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Dissertation Topic:

Women’s Islamic Movements and Politico-Religious Empowerment: Accommodation, Dissent, and Transgression in Turkey and Egypt (1995-2016)

Year of Enrollment:

2011

Email:

Anna V. Kirvas

Year of Enrollment:

2010

Email:

Tamara Kolaric

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Year of Enrollment:

2011

Email:

Karla Koutkova

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Year of Enrollment:

2010 to 2015

Email:

Daniel Kovarek

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Year of Enrollment:

2017

Email:

Man-kong Li

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Interrogating Socialism: A study of normative foundations of contemporary socialist programs

Year of Enrollment:

2013

Email:

Sokol Lleshi

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Dissertation Topic:

Inescapable Past: Institutions, Legacies and Strategies of Regime Formation : A comparative study of Albania, Czech Republic and Romania

Year of Enrollment:

2009 to 2015

Email:

Olga Loblova

Track:

Halted Diffusion: Epistemic Communities and the Non-Adoption of Health Technology Assessment Agencies in Central and Eastern Europe

Dissertation Topic:

Year of Enrollment:

2010 to 2016

Email:

Andrei Macsut

Track:

Year of Enrollment:

2016

Email:

Seraphine F. Maerz

Track:

The Many Faces of Authoritarian Persistence

Dissertation Topic:

Year of Enrollment:

2014 to 2017

Email:

Shane Markowitz

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Year of Enrollment:

2013

Email:

Akos Mate

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Political Economy of Fiscal Policymaking: the role of institutions

Year of Enrollment:

2015

Email:

Juraj Medzihorsky

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Dissertation Topic:

Essays on Political Science Applications of the Mixture Index of Fit

Year of Enrollment:

2007

Email:

Asya Metodieva

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Dissertation Topic:

Foreign fighters' mobilization as a continuation of a war

Year of Enrollment:

2016

Email:

Gorana Misic

Track:

Do Regulations Matter? Impact of Political Financing Regulations on Party Corruption in Croatia and Serbia

Dissertation Topic:

Year of Enrollment:

2013 to 2018

Email:

Elena Cristina Mitrea

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Dissertation Topic:

The Transmission of Ideology across Generations: A Comparative Analysis

Year of Enrollment:

2013

Email:

Alexandru Moise

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Health Politics in Southern and Eastern Europe

Year of Enrollment:

2014

Email:

Miguel Morillas

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Understanding the diffusion of obligatory integration measures for immigrants in Europe

Year of Enrollment:

2013

Email:

Mario Munta

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

The influence of the European Semester on employment policies in Central and Eastern Europe

Year of Enrollment:

2015

Email:

Péter Márton

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Managing contestation of core EU policy; The quest for legitimacy and its implications for EU’s trade policy in the 21st century

Year of Enrollment:

2015

Email:

Nena (Ioana-Elena) Oana

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Social Movements and Policy Responsiveness

Year of Enrollment:

2013

Email:

Vija Pakalkaite

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Building the Single EU Gas Market in Hungary, Lithuania and Romania: Domestic Interests and the Dynamics of Europeanisation

Year of Enrollment:

2012 to 2017

Email:

Ekaterina Paustyan

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Unequal Transition: Implications from Russian Regions

Year of Enrollment:

2015

Email:

Thomas Peak

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Humanitarian intervention & Human Dignity: Human Experience & the Origins of the Westphalian System

Year of Enrollment:

2014 to 2018

Email:

Tamas Peragovics

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Year of Enrollment:

2015

Email:

Elizaveta Potapova

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Academic freedom in Russia: academicians’ narratives in non-democratic context

Year of Enrollment:

2016

Email:

Ardi Priks

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

More than Rent-Seeking: Political Economy of the European Common Agricultural Policy (Non)Reform in the 21st Century

Year of Enrollment:

2013

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Oded Raanan

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Dissertation Topic:

Political Rookies: Democratic Civil-Military Relations and Low-Level Soldiers’ Political Activism in Israel

Year of Enrollment:

2013

Email:

András Radnóti

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Year of Enrollment:

2017

Email:

Lela Rekhviashvili

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Dissertation Topic:

Institutions and Informal Economic Practices: Case of Petty Trade in Tbilisi

Year of Enrollment:

2010

Email:

Elettra Repetto

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Expanding Civil Disobedience beyond the nation-state. A way towards international political participation

Year of Enrollment:

2016

Email:

Anatoly Reshetnikov

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Dissertation Topic:

Evolution of Great Power Discourse in Russia: From the Beginning of Statehood until Today

Year of Enrollment:

2012

Email:

Milos Resimic

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Party-business networks and privatization in post-Milosevic Serbia

Year of Enrollment:

2014

Email:

Stanislas Richard

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Year of Enrollment:

2016

Email:

Stefan Roch

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

A process-learning perspective on EU Twinning projects in Moldova and Lebanon

Year of Enrollment:

2011

Email:

Margaryta Rymarenko

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Role Bargaining and Regional Orders: the Security Dynamics of EU-Russia and ASEAN-China Relations

Year of Enrollment:

2013

Email:

Sasikumar S. Sundaram

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Year of Enrollment:

2012 to 2017

Email:

Felipe G. Santos

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Dissertation Topic:

Movements that Care: How Care Practices Mobilize and Radicalize the Poor

Year of Enrollment:

2014

Email:

Agatha Siwale

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Analyzing Institutional Change in the Resource Curse Context

Year of Enrollment:

2014

Email:

Nemanja Stankov

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Year of Enrollment:

2016

Email:

Elena B. Stavrevska

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Peace for Whom: Agency and Intersectionality in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina

Year of Enrollment:

2008

Email:

Wor(l)ds of Dr. Strangelove: The Persuasiveness and Institutionalization of Defense Rationalist Ideas on Nuclear Strategy, 1948-1963

Andras Szalai

Dissertation Topic:

Year of Enrollment:

2007 to 2015

Email:

Dorota Szeligowska

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Dissertation Topic:

Polish patriotism; after 1989: concepts, debates, identities

Year of Enrollment:

2008 to 2014

Email:

Aron Tabor

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

American Exceptionalism: What Role in Global Order?

Year of Enrollment:

2012

Email:

Philipp Thaler

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Unpacking 'Coherence' in EU Foreign Policy: How Policy Setting and Policy Content shape EU External Relations towards Russia

Year of Enrollment:

2010 to 2015

Email:

Simona Torotcoi

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Dissertation Topic:

The Implementation of The Bologna Process: Between Intergovernmental Commitments and Institutional Reality

Year of Enrollment:

2014

Email:

Magdalena Tsankova

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Year of Enrollment:

2011

Email:

Georgiana Turculet

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

International Migration and Democratic States Borders

Year of Enrollment:

2012

Email:

Magdalena Ulceluse

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Immigration and labour market outcomes: immigrant self-employment, native task reallocation and the role of policies

Year of Enrollment:

2014

Email:

Lisa Wewerka

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Understanding a Public Body’s Intervention in the field of Antidiscrimination in Times of Shifting Political Priorities

Year of Enrollment:

2011 to 2017

Email:

Sarah Wing

Track:

Year of Enrollment:

2014

Email:

Leah Wolfe

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Constructive Resistance

Year of Enrollment:

2014

Email:

Caitlin Wyndham

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Rules of Engagement: How social movements influence policy in Vietnam

Year of Enrollment:

2012

Email:

Michael C. Zeller

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Year of Enrollment:

2017

Email:

Burtejin Zorigt

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Candidate selection and women's political representation

Year of Enrollment:

2016

Email:

Gergő Závecz

Track:

Dissertation Topic:

Explaining the level of political conflicts in the news media and analyzing its effects in a cross-country context

Year of Enrollment:

2011

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