IRES faculty member, Emel Akcali, attended and presented a paper at the Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference at Harriman Institute of Columbia University on Deciphering Eurasianism in Hungary.
The presentation is also a forthcoming chapter in Eurasianism and the European Far Right, ed. by Marlene Laruelle, Lexington Books, New York.
April 20, 2015 - 9:00am to April 21, 2015 - 5:00pm
Annual Doctoral Conference Focuses on Democratic Erosion in Eastern Europe
CEU’s Doctoral School hosts its Annual Doctoral Conference on 20-21 April, featuring guest speakers Isabela Mares form Columbia University, and Mark Hallerberg from Hertie School of Governance. The two-day conference offers thirteen thematic panel sessions about political science, public policy and international relations, where CEU’s PhD candidates and a number of external panelists present and discuss their latest research projects.
Xymena Kurowska participated in a workshop on constructivist theorising at the department of Political Science at the University of Utah http://poli-sci.utah.edu/
IRES congratulates faculty member Bela Greskovits on his excellent academic year behind him.
His series of professional acknowledgements started with receiving the 2013 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research awarded by the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and the University of Bergen, Norway, for his book `Capitalist Diversity on Europe’s Periphery` co-authored with Dorothee Bohle.
Ukrainian crisis has prompted speculation about the need to contain Russia and thus led to renewed interest in the writings of George Kennan, the author of the original containment doctrine. However, even prior to the current discussion many had argued that containment attempted by the US in the early stages of the Cold War had little to do with Kennan`s original idea. Today, a closer look at that idea suggests that its practical implementation may be even more problematic.
Foreign governments frequently intervene in armed conflicts by providing support to rebel organizations against their adversaries. State sponsorship of rebel organizations is less costly than a direct military intervention, but rebels often defy orders, desert fighting or turn guns against their sponsors. Under what conditions do rebels turn against their sponsors? Drawing on principal-agent and organizational theories, I argue that the non-centralized structure of rebel organizations increases the length of the delegation chain from sponsors to rebels, leading to defection.
In this talk Natalia will present a general overview of the main arguments of her PhD Thesis, together with an illustration of findings from her research-sites. She will address the empirical puzzle of how to explain variation in ethnic reintegration levels across sub-national units, and provide arguments to answer the question of whether and how ethnic reintegration is possible in post-conflict divided societies.
