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Nassim AbiGhanem

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
How important is the role of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Statebuilding, and what are the best mechanisms to ensure their inclusion in State-building processes
Year of Enrollment: 
2016
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Alexander Akbik

Track: 
International Relations
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

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2016
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Jenna Althoff

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2011
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Renira Corinne Angeles

Track: 
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
The Political Economy of Top 1 %: The Politics of Top executive compensation as driver of economic inequality?
Year of Enrollment: 
2011 to 2017
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Görkem Atsungur

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
“The Discursive Construction of Imperial Consciousness: Political Imagination of Empire in the Making of Identity”
Year of Enrollment: 
2016
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Bastian Becker

Track: 
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
Opportunity Matters: Economic Inequality and Redistribution in Western Democracies
Year of Enrollment: 
2012
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Jelena Belic

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
Global Justice and Institutional Reforms
Year of Enrollment: 
2012
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Felix Bender

Track: 
Political Theory
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
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Jakov Bojovic

Track: 
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment: 
2016
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Constantin Manuel Bosancianu

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Year of Enrollment: 
2011
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Dominik Brenner

Track: 
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
Patience in European Capital Markets
Year of Enrollment: 
2016
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Mariana Budjeryn

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
The Power of the NPT: International Norms and Nuclear Disarmament of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, 1990-1994
Year of Enrollment: 
2010
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Erna Burai

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2010
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Bruno Castanho Silva

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
Divisive Discourse, Divided Demos? Social and Political Consequences of Populism
Year of Enrollment: 
2012
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Daniela Craciun

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Systematizing Internationalization Policy in Higher Education: Towards a Typology
Year of Enrollment: 
2013
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Sergiu Delcea

Track: 
Political Economy
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
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Dominik Derencin

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2016
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Ali Diskaya

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Schrödinger's Nukes: How Israel and Iran Govern a Nuclear-Ambiguous Middle East
Year of Enrollment: 
2013
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Silvia Ioana Fierăscu

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
The Networked Phenomenon of State Capture. Network Dynamics, Unintended Consequences, and Political-Business Elite Relations in Hungary
Year of Enrollment: 
2012
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Gabor Filippov

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Year of Enrollment: 
2015
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Viktor Friedmann

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Towards a Genealogy of Great Powers and Responsibility: China in Western Conceptions of Governing the World
Year of Enrollment: 
2008 to 2014
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Johannes Gunesch

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Contested development. Encountering the Egyptian uprising from near and far (working title)
Year of Enrollment: 
2014
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András Gál

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
Constitutional review in consociational democracies
Year of Enrollment: 
2015
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Sanja Hajdinjak

Track: 
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
Boon or Blessing: political mechanisms of control in resource use and rent distribution
Year of Enrollment: 
2011
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Pavol Hardos

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
"Expert Review": On Reconciling Politics of Expertise and Democracy
Year of Enrollment: 
2009 to 2015
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Alfredo Hernandez Sanchez

Track: 
Political Economy
Year of Enrollment: 
2014
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Olimpija Hristova Zaevska

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
So Close Yet so Far: Subnational Democracy in Ethnically Divided Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro
Year of Enrollment: 
2015
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Vujo Ilić

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Year of Enrollment: 
2013
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Viktor Ivanković

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
Nudging Democratically
Year of Enrollment: 
2013
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Daniel Izsak

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
'Varieties of Regionalisation': The Impact of Regionalism on the Car Industry in the EU and NAFTA
Year of Enrollment: 
2010
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Asli Karaca

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
Women’s Islamic Movements and Politico-Religious Empowerment: Accommodation, Dissent, and Transgression in Turkey and Egypt (1995-2016)
Year of Enrollment: 
2011
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Anna V. Kirvas

Year of Enrollment: 
2010
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Tamara Kolaric

Track: 
Political Theory
Year of Enrollment: 
2011
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Karla Koutkova

Track: 
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment: 
2010 to 2015
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Man Kong Li

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
Interrogating Socialism: A study of normative foundations of contemporary socialist programs
Year of Enrollment: 
2013
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Sokol Lleshi

Track: 
Comparative Politics
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
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Olga Loblova

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Halted Diffusion: Epistemic Communities and the Non-Adoption of Health Technology Assessment Agencies in Central and Eastern Europe
Year of Enrollment: 
2010 to 2016
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Seraphine F. Maerz

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
The Many Faces of Authoritarian Persistence
Year of Enrollment: 
2014
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Shane Markowitz

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2013
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Akos Mate

Track: 
International Relations
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
Political Economy of Fiscal Policymaking: the role of institutions
Year of Enrollment: 
2015
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Juraj Medzihorsky

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
Essays on Political Science Applications of the Mixture Index of Fit
Year of Enrollment: 
2007
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Asya Metodieva

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Foreign fighters' mobilization as a continuation of a war
Year of Enrollment: 
2016
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Gorana Misic

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Do Regulations Matter? Impact of Political Financing Regulations on Party Corruption in Croatia and Serbia
Year of Enrollment: 
2013
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Elena Cristina Mitrea

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
The Transmission of Ideology across Generations: A Comparative Analysis
Year of Enrollment: 
2013
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Alexandru Moise

Track: 
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
Health Politics in Southern and Eastern Europe
Year of Enrollment: 
2014
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Miguel Morillas

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Understanding the diffusion of obligatory integration measures for immigrants in Europe
Year of Enrollment: 
2013
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Péter Márton

Track: 
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment: 
2015
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Nena (Ioana-Elena) Oana

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
Social Movements and Policy Responsiveness
Year of Enrollment: 
2013
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Vija Pakalkaite

Track: 
Public Policy
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
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Ekaterina Paustyan

Track: 
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
Unequal Transition: Implications from Russian Regions
Year of Enrollment: 
2015
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Thomas Peak

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Humanitarian intervention & Human Dignity: Human Experience & the Origins of the Westphalian System
Year of Enrollment: 
2014 to 2018
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Tamas Peragovics

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2015
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Elizaveta Potapova

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Academic freedom in Russia: academicians’ narratives in non-democratic context
Year of Enrollment: 
2016
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Ardi Priks

Track: 
Political Economy
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

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Political Rookies: Democratic Civil-Military Relations and Low-Level Soldiers’ Political Activism in Israel
Year of Enrollment: 
2013
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Lela Rekhviashvili

Track: 
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic: 
Institutions and Informal Economic Practices: Case of Petty Trade in Tbilisi
Year of Enrollment: 
2010
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Elettra Repetto

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
Expanding Civil Disobedience beyond the nation-state. A way towards international political participation
Year of Enrollment: 
2016
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Anatoly Reshetnikov

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Evolution of Great Power Discourse in Russia: From the Beginning of Statehood until Today
Year of Enrollment: 
2012
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Milos Resimic

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic: 
Party-business networks and privatization in post-Milosevic Serbia
Year of Enrollment: 
2014
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Stanislas Richard

Track: 
Political Theory
Year of Enrollment: 
2016
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Stefan Roch

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
A process-learning perspective on EU Twinning projects in Moldova and Lebanon
Year of Enrollment: 
2011
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Margaryta Rymarenko

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Managing Great Powers: the Patterns of Region-Building in Europe and Asia
Year of Enrollment: 
2013
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Sasikumar S. Sundaram

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2012 to 2017
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Felipe G. Santos

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Picking the Fight: How Social Movements Select their Targets
Year of Enrollment: 
2014
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Agatha Siwale

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Analyzing Institutional Change in the Resource Curse Context
Year of Enrollment: 
2014
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Nemanja Stankov

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Year of Enrollment: 
2016
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Elena B. Stavrevska

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Peace for Whom: Agency and Intersectionality in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
Year of Enrollment: 
2008
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Andras Szalai

Dissertation Topic: 
Wor(l)ds of Dr. Strangelove: The Persuasiveness and Institutionalization of Defense Rationalist Ideas on Nuclear Strategy, 1948-1963
Year of Enrollment: 
2007 to 2015
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Dorota Szeligowska

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
Polish patriotism; after 1989: concepts, debates, identities
Year of Enrollment: 
2008 to 2014
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Aron Tabor

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
American Exceptionalism: What Role in Global Order?
Year of Enrollment: 
2012
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Philipp Thaler

Track: 
Public Policy
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
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Simona Torotcoi

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
The Implementation of The Bologna Process: Between Intergovernmental Commitments and Institutional Reality
Year of Enrollment: 
2014
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Magdalena Tsankova

Track: 
International Relations
Year of Enrollment: 
2011
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Georgiana Turculet

Track: 
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic: 
International Migration and Democratic States Borders
Year of Enrollment: 
2012
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Magdalena Ulceluse

Track: 
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment: 
2014
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Lisa Wewerka

Track: 
Public Policy
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
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Sarah Wing

Track: 
Public Policy
Year of Enrollment: 
2014
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Leah Wolfe

Track: 
International Relations
Dissertation Topic: 
Constructive Resistance
Year of Enrollment: 
2014
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Caitlin Wyndham

Track: 
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic: 
Rules of Engagement: How social movements influence policy in Vietnam
Year of Enrollment: 
2012
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Burtejin Zorigt

Track: 
Comparative Politics
Year of Enrollment: 
2016
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Gergő Závecz

Track: 
Comparative Politics
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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