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Nassim AbiGhanem
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
How important is the role of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Peacebuilding
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
Dissertation Topic:
(In)Visibility and Governance of Dead Bodies in Counter-Insurgency Operations in Turkey
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 Politics of Upward (Re-?) Distribution: Political Causes and Consequences of CEO Pay across Advanced Democracies
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2011
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2017
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Görkem Atsungur
Track:
International Relations
Year of Enrollment:
2016
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Bastian Becker
Track:
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic:
Opportunity Matters: Economic Inequality and Redistribution in Western Democracies
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2012
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Jelena Belic
Track:
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic:
On the State's Duty to Create a Just World Order
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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
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
Track:
Comparative Politics
Year of Enrollment:
2011
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Reka Branyiczki
Track:
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic:
Public policy and employment at older ages across Europe
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2017
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Dominik Brenner
Track:
Political Economy
Year of Enrollment:
2016
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Giorgia Brucato
Track:
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic:
Children and Peace Processes
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2017
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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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Martino Comelli
Track:
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic:
The Varieties of Debtfare; On the relationship between welfare and household debt.
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2017
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Daniela Craciun
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Public Policy
Dissertation Topic:
Systematizing Internationalization Policy in Higher Education: Towards a Typology
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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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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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Jacqueline Dufalla
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
Revisiting Russia: How Russia Challenges the US Hegemony
Year of Enrollment:
2016
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Alberto Fierro
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
The Relationship Between Rights in the Socio-economic Domain and Social Movements: Ambiguities of Legal Strategies
Year of Enrollment:
2016
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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
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2008
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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
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2015
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Mustafa Utku Güngör
Track:
Public Policy
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2017
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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
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2009
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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
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2013
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Daniel Izsak
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
Varieties of Regionalisation: The Impact of Regionalism on Regionalisation of the Car Industry in the EU and NAFTA
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2010
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2017
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Perica Jovchevski
Track:
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic:
Personal Autonomy and Political Moralities
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2017
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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
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Public Policy
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2010
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2015
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Daniel Kovarek
Track:
Comparative Politics
Year of Enrollment:
2017
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Monika Kubová
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
Between Deviancy and Normalcy: Practices of Neutrality
Year of Enrollment:
2017
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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
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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
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2010
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2016
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Andrei Macsut
Track:
Comparative Politics
Year of Enrollment:
2016
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Seraphine F. Maerz
Track:
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic:
The Many Faces of Authoritarian Persistence
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2014
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2017
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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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2018
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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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Mario Munta
Track:
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic:
The influence of the European Semester on employment policies in Central and Eastern Europe
Year of Enrollment:
2015
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Péter Márton
Track:
Public Policy
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
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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
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2012
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2017
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Ekaterina Paustyan
Track:
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic:
Unequal Transition: Implications from the 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
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2018
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Tamas Peragovics
Track:
International Relations
Year of Enrollment:
2015
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Pedro Perfeito da Silva
Track:
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic:
Hybrid regimes of capital controls: determinants and trajectories after Bretton Woods order
Year of Enrollment:
2017
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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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András Radnóti
Track:
Political Theory
Year of Enrollment:
2017
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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 transnational political participation
Year of Enrollment:
2016
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Anatoly Reshetnikov
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
Evolution of Russia's Great Power Discourse: A Conceptual History of Velikaya Derzhava
Year of Enrollment:
2012
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Milos Resimic
Track:
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic:
Party-business networks and privatization in post-Milosevic Serbia
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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:
Role Bargaining and Regional Orders: the Security Dynamics of EU-Russia and ASEAN-China Relations
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2013
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Sasikumar S. Sundaram
Track:
International Relations
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2012
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2017
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Felipe G. Santos
Track:
Political Economy
Dissertation Topic:
Movements that Care: How Care Practices Mobilize and Radicalize the Poor
Year of Enrollment:
2014
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Agatha Siwale
Track:
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic:
Institutions and Resource Governance at the Sub-National Level: The Case of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in Zambia
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2014
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2018
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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
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2007
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2015
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Dorota Szeligowska
Track:
Political Theory
Dissertation Topic:
Polish patriotism; after 1989: concepts, debates, identities
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2008
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2014
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Aron Tabor
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
American Exceptionalism: What Role in Global Order?
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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
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2010
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2015
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Simona Torotcoi
Track:
Public Policy
Dissertation Topic:
The Implementation of The Bologna Process: Between Intergovernmental Commitments and Institutional Reality
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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
Dissertation Topic:
Immigration and labour market outcomes: immigrant self-employment, native task reallocation and the role of policies
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
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2011
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2017
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Sarah Wing
Track:
Public Policy
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2014
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Leah Wolfe
Track:
International Relations
Dissertation Topic:
Constructive Resistance
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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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Michael C. Zeller
Track:
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic:
Counter-Campaigns Against the Far Right: Determinants of Impact
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2017
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Burtejin Zorigt
Track:
Comparative Politics
Dissertation Topic:
Candidate selection and women's political representation
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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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