Central European
University
International
Relations and European Studies Department
IRES Handbook
2008
- 2009
Nádor utca
9
H-1051 Budapest
Hungary
Telephone:(+36
1) 327 30 17
Fax:(+36
1) 327 32 43
Email: ires@ceu.hu
Internet:
http://www.ceu.hu/ires
1. Basic
Departmental Data
Institution
ResponsibleCentral European University
Name
of DepartmentInternational Relations and European Studies
Degree
to be AwardedMaster of Arts (MA)
A
ten month program of two teaching terms and one research term; The MA
degree was conferred for the first time in June 1994 and since 2001
the program has been registered with the Board of Regents of the University
of the State of New York (US). CEU is accredited by the Commission on
Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
The
university was recognized by the Hungarian Parliament as a Hungarian
private higher education institution after the successful accreditation
approved by the Hungarian Accreditation Committee in April 2005.
Starting
DateSeptember 2008
2.
Course Requirements
I.
Requirements for the Master of Arts Degree
A.
Pre-sessional Period Requirements
Although
attendance is required, performance during the Pre-sessional Period
is not evaluated.
Term
I Requirements (16 Credits)
Students
are required to choose a specialization (worth eight credits in each
semester) from either of the three tracks offered at the Department:
European Studies Track, International Relations Track, International
Political Economy Track.
The first
term consists of sixteen credits (1 credit = 1 x 50 minutes x 12 weeks
= 600 minutes).
Students
must take the following credits:
EIGHT CREDITS
from your specialization (European Studies Track, or
International Relations Track, or International Political Economy
Track), and
EIGHT CREDITS
from EITHER any IRES course other than your chosen specialization* OR
FOUR CREDITS from EITHER any IRES course other than
your chosen specialization* AND a four credit (or two two-credit) course(s)
from another department at CEU, subject to permission from the Head
of IRES.
*N.B. that is courses NOT listed on your chosen track
Students
must complete all 16 credits in the first term, as described above,
in order to advance to the second term.
Students
are required to take the Academic Writing and Research Design
course. Please note that Academic Writing and Research Design
course is MANDATORY. Although the course carries no credits in
the Fall semester, it is an integral part of the program and must be
passed to advance to the second term.
Term
II Requirements (16 Credits)
The second
term consists of 16 credits.
Students
must take the following:
TWO CREDITS
for Academic Writing and Research Design,
TWO CREDITS
for Methods and Research Design in IR,
EIGHT CREDITS
from your specialization (European Studies Track, or International
Relations Track, or International Political Economy Track), and
FOUR additional
CREDITS from EITHER any course at IRES other than the specialization*
OR a course from another department at CEU, subject to permission from
the Head of IRES.
*N.B. that is courses NOT listed on your chosen track
Students
must complete all 16 credits in the second term, as described above,
in order to advance to the third term.
Please
note that you may take only ONE course from another department in the
academic year (subject to permission by the Head of Department).
Please
note that the number of students in IRES courses
– except for mandatory courses – is restricted. Non-degree visiting
students are not included in the limit.
D.
Term III Requirements: Thesis Research and Writing (8 Credits)
Under faculty
supervision, students will prepare an original research paper (thesis)
according to the following six criteria:
All theses must
identify an adequate research topic, which includes a manageable field
of research and a number of researchable questions to investigate.
Theses should
show a good knowledge of the literature in the field; contribute to
the study of the field through original research and/or by relating
the subject studies to the broader
academic literature; and demonstrate analytic ability through the careful
and critical use of relevant concepts and approaches.
All dissertations
should include footnotes and a full bibliography of sources consulted.
A university style sheet is available
on preferred methods of footnoting and bibliographic citation at the
Academic Writing Center. Arguments and information drawn from books
and articles consulted should be acknowledged in all cases. Direct or
indirect quotations should be clearly indicated through the use of quotation
marks (“”); repetition of other authors' writing in the text without
proper citation is plagiarism and will be penalized (see also
“Student Rights, Rules, and Academic Regulations” in the Student
Handbook)
The
word limit for the thesis is 15,000 words +/- 15% including footnotes
but excluding bibliography and annexes. The word count should be indicated
on the cover page. Theses that fall outside the range above will not
be accepted.
Students are
encouraged to undertake comparative studies of more than one country.
Those who wish to focus on their own country must justify their proposal
to their faculty supervisor in terms of its particular analytical interest.
Students will
be required to specify a thesis title and a rough outline of the anticipated
research during the second term.
The thesis
will be graded according to the grading scheme of the university. A
minimum grade of C+ is required in order to receive the MA degree, subject
to having completed all other requirements.
The Master’s thesis represents 25% of the final GPA.
Three bound
hard copies of the thesis and a CD should be submitted to the MA Coordinator
by 4 pm on Thursday, June 4, 2009. Late submission will
result in the downgrading of the thesis by one-third of a letter grade
for every second day late (i.e. on
the first and on the second day one third of a letter
grade, on the third and fourth day two thirds of a letter grade etc.).
Students
give an oral defense of their thesis in the presence of an MA Defense
Committee consisting of the supervisor and a
second reader of the thesis. Second readers are nominated
by the Department. Defense of the MA thesis is public, and the date
is announced by the Department. At the end of the year the Department
will announce the recipient(s) of the
Outstanding MA Thesis Award.
E. Progress toward the Degree
Continuous
registration and evidence that satisfactory progress is being made toward
the degree are required of all candidates for graduate degrees offered
by CEU.
Residency
requirement: in residence, full time
MA candidates
are expected to reside in Budapest at all times during the program.
They are expected to continuously remain in contact with campus academic
life and respond promptly to any communication from the department.
Any exceptions
to this must be approved in advance by the Head of Department.
All CEU
students must make satisfactory progress in order to be eligible for
any type of financial aid.
More than
a week of unjustified absence, and/or irregular attendance noted by
the instructor and the department head may result in the loss of a tuition
waiver and/or financial aid.
F.
Summary
In order
to receive the Master of Arts Degree in International Relations and
European Studies, students must fulfil the following four criteria.
Students must:
Pass the Academic Writing and Research Design course.
Pass the Methods and Research Design in IR courses with a grade
C+ or above.
Achieve the required
number of credits in Term 1 (16 credits) and Term 2 (16 credits), in
the manner stipulated in the preceding sections;
Pass the Masters
thesis with a grade of C+ or above (8 credits);
Accumulate 40
course credits over three consecutive terms as stipulated above with
a cumulative Grade Point Average of 2.66 or higher (for further details,
see the official CEU grading scheme in the Student Records Manual).
The requirements
for successful completion of individual courses are outlined in the
syllabi (posted on the website of the department). Normally, such requirements
include active class participation, short writing assignments, research
papers, and/or written examinations.
Please note
that no student shall receive his/her degree until all outstanding financial
responsibilities are met (e.g. tuition) and the Student Services Leaving
form is signed by all appropriate units.
II.
System of Coursework Grading
The International
Relations and European Studies Department (IRES) uses the CEU system
of letter grades and grade points for evaluating students' work, including
the thesis, as shown in the table of the Student Records Manual.
The minimum
passing grade for a mandatory or an
elective course is C+ (worth 2.33). This represents a 50%
performance in the overall course. In order to pass a course, a 50%
performance should be demonstrated in
both the final exam and other parts of the assessment (assignments,
homework, etc.).
Failure
to drop a course while not attending will result in the assignment of
an “AF” (Administrative Failure) grade for the course. This grade
earns no credits and affects the GPA with 0.00 points.
Late
submission of written assignments will result in downgrading
by one-third of a letter grade for every second day late (i.e. on the
first and on the second day one third of a letter
grade, on the third and fourth day two thirds of a letter grade etc.).
III.
PLAGIARISM AND ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
Plagiarism
is the most serious case of academic dishonesty, and the IRES
Department takes it very seriously. In short, plagiarism is using others’
ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.
In its most
extreme form, this involves: “Submitting as one’s own any theme,
report, term paper, essay, other written work, speech, totally or in
part by another author” (Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism,
CEU Policy Document, point 8). In the IRES department, such a practice
among the student body has been rare. Where this has occurred the case
was referred to the university’s Disciplinary Committee. For the detailed
procedure and sanctions (which include expulsion from the university)
see the Code of Ethics policy document of CEU (ww.ceu.hu/governance).
In a slightly
milder form: “Plagiarism occurs when both when the words of another
are reproduced without acknowledgement or when the ideas of arguments
of another are paraphrased in such a way as to lead the reader to believe
that they originated with the writer” (CEU Policy Document, Point
10). For students who are new to the English-language academic community,
this type of plagiarism can sometimes occur inadvertently, particular
at the beginning of their study at CEU. For students, this type of (inadvertent)
plagiarism can easily be remedied through regular consultations with
the university’s Centre for Academic Writing (CAW), and the department
strongly advises that all students make use of the centre’s excellent
services. (For Further information concerning plagiarism and how to
avoid it, see the CAW’s web page http://www.ceu.hu/writing/sources.htm.)
In addition,
while “[s]ubmitting work that has previously been offered for credit
in another course…” (CEU Policy Document, Point 9) is not, strictly
speaking, a case of plagiarism, it is a matter of
academic dishonesty, as it involves both the complete or partial
reproduction of one’s own work without proper acknowledgement. At
all times the department encourages students’ engagement in a broad
range of subject matter, both theoretically and empirically. As such,
such a practice is discouraged as much for academic advancement as it
is for academic dishonesty.
IV.
RETAKE
Students
failing a course have the right to one retake examination. If in the
course assessment there was no examination component, the retake
examination can be substituted by substantial written piece of work.
Master’s students failing two or more compulsory courses will not
be allowed to continue their studies.
A satisfactory
retake assessment (based on examination or written piece of work) means
the demonstration of a passing performance. The maximum grade allocated
in a retake assessment is “RP”, (worth 2.33 points). A fail in the
retake assessment of a compulsory course leads to the automatic termination
of the enrollment. A student failing the retake assessment in an elective
subject will not be allocated the course’s credit numbers and the
impact on the GPA will be 0.00 points.
For any
course only one retake assessment is allowed. Students must communicate
their request for a retake at latest within 5 days after the final grade
was posted in the University`s Information System.
V. EXEMPTION
FROM EXAMINATION
Upon a formal
written request from the student, the Head of Department may exceptionally
grant temporary exemption from taking examinations on the fixed date.
Any student request to be excused from taking an examination may be
granted in cases of: a) illness, b) family emergency, c) religious reasons.
In each of the above cases the student alone will be responsible for
providing adequate documentation in advance for the legitimacy of the
request to be properly considered. Any
student who has been excused from an examination shall take a special
examination at a later date, at the discretion of the Head of Department.
VI. THESIS DEFERRAL
Students
may submit a petition requesting deferral to the Head of Department
with the support letter of the Thesis Supervisor, and send a copy
to the Department Coordinator. The petition should outline the reasons
for deferral and the student should provide supporting documentation.
Any student may be granted deferral in cases such as illness or family
emergency. In each of the above cases the student alone will be responsible
for providing adequate documentation for the legitimacy of the request
to be properly considered.
Normally,
such petition for deferral should be submitted no later than two weeks
before the thesis submission deadline.
In case
of deferral dates of submission are: December 1 and June 1, and the
maximum grade awarded for the thesis is B+.
The Master’s
thesis must be submitted within a maximum of two years of finishing
the coursework of the program, with the Head of the Department`s prior
agreement if this has not been in due course.
VII.
APPEALS
The Department
considers appeals under exceptional circumstances if the appeal is reasonable.
Before filing
an appeal the student is required to discuss the complaint with the
instructor conducting the course. Appeals must be made in writing at
latest within 3 days after the final grade submission deadline posted
in the University`s Calendar. The Head of Department will refer
the written appeal to the consideration of the Appeals Committee
which comprises of three faculty members.
VIII.
Acceptance
By matriculating
in the International Relations and European Studies Department students
have agreed to abide by the general rules and procedures of the
Central European University.
3.
Course Management Arrangements
I.
CEU Organizational Structure
CEU is governed
by an international Board of Trustees. All academic policy is governed
by the CEU Senate, while all executive decisions are the responsibility
of the CEU Rector and President. For additional information on the governance
of the Central European University, please consult the Rectorate or
the CEU web site (http//:www.ceu.hu/governance).
II.
International Relations and European Studies
The International
Relations and European Studies Department is run by a Department Committee
of full-time departmental faculty in residence. The Committee oversees
routine academic and administrative business pertinent to
the management of the department and normally meets monthly.
Where appropriate,
the Committee invites the student Representatives to attend Committee
meetings. The need for a student presence at Committee meetings is determined
by the Head of Department.
III.
Student Representation
A. At the University Level
Students
are represented at the University level via a student council, a student
dormitory council, and two student representatives to the CEU Senate.
A student
council exists to provide student feedback and input to the University's
Central Administration on academic and non-academic issues. It
usually consists of two student representatives
per department or program, and it elects two student representatives
to the Senate. The student representatives to the Senate represent all
students and report on issues of general student concern.
A separate
student dormitory council is elected to provide student input and feedback
to the central administration on student dormitory issues.
B. At the Department Level
Students
are informed of any important decisions affecting particular courses,
students' work, or the department in general. Such information is provided
by one or more of the following methods: notices posted on the
department notice board; notices delivered to each student;
or notices placed in students' pigeonholes or electronically. Either
the Head of Department or the student representative may call plenary
meetings.
C.
Course Evaluations
During the
last meeting of each course, students are asked to fill in an evaluation
of the course content and the performance of the instructor. The evaluations
are anonymous. The instructor distributes the evaluations and then leaves
the room. Students then have time to complete the evaluations. Afterwards,
a student brings the evaluations to the Department Coordinator, who
compiles a report and presents it to the Head of Department. Students
are kept informed by the Student Representatives or by staff of any
actions arising from the course evaluations. Additionally, staff
welcome informal feedback at any time during the course of study.
D.
Advice and Guidance
Should students
have concerns about a course and do not feel able to approach the relevant
member of staff, they should approach the Head of Department or, if
appropriate, the Department Coordinator, who will mediate on their behalf.
For personal problems, students should approach whichever member of
staff they feel most comfortable with (including those from other departments,
programs, or university services). Alternatively, students may approach
the Director of Student Services, officers at the Student Life Office
or the Student Counseling Service. All staff shall deal with the personal
concerns of students in the strictest confidence.
4. Faculty Biographies
Alexander
Astrov, Associate Professor (Estonia)
Alexander
Astrov received his MA in History from Central European University.
He obtained his PhD in the Department of International Relations at
the London School of Economics and Political Science. Research interests:
International Relations Theory, International Political Theory, Classical
Political Theory, the Scottish Enlightenment and British Idealism in
particular.
Péter Balázs,
Professor (Hungary)
Prof. Balázs
graduated at the “Karl Marx” University of Budapest (later: Budapest
School of Economics, today Corvinus University). He got his PhD degree
and habilitated at the same University. In parallel with his government
and diplomatic career he has been dealing with research and teaching
since more than three decades. He is a ScD of the Hungarian Academy
of Science. He was nominated Professor of the Corvinus University in
2000 and joined the CEU as a full time Professor in 2005. He is regularly
teaching at various home and foreign universities, lecturing in Hungarian,
English, French and German.
Prof. Balázs
used to be a State Secretary for Industry and Trade (1992-1993) and
a State Secretary for European Integration (2002-2003). He was Ambassador
of Hungary in Denmark, Germany and at the EU in Brussels. He was also
the Government Representative of Hungary in the European Convention.
In 2004 he was nominated the first Hungarian Member of the European
Commission responsible for regional policy.
Research
activities of Prof. Balázs are centered on
the external relations of the EU. His book on the foreign policy of
the EU (in Hungarian language) was approved by the European Commission
as a “Jean Monnet Course”. His thesis at the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences was dealing with interrelations between the late modernization
and European integration of the Eastern part of the continent. He is
also analyzing the problems of European governance including the future
of the European institutions. At the CEU he is teaching The Foreign,
Neighborhood and Enlargement Policy of the European Union (fall semester)
and European Governance (winter semester). In 2005 he has established
a new research center for EU Enlargement Studies at the CEU.
Prof. Balázs
has published several books, chapters in books and articles. He plays
an active role in Hungarian and international scientific relations.
Among others, he was elected in 2004 Vice-President of the
world wide network of European Community Studies Association (ECSA World).
László
Csaba, Professor (Hungary)
László
Csaba was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1954. A graduate of Budapest
University of Economics/1976/. In 1976-87 he was associated with the
Institute for World Economy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, finally
as senior fellow. He earned his second MA/dr.univ.oec/ in 1978 ath the
BUES and his Ph.D in 1984 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences/also
published in book format/.
In
1988-2000 associated with Kopint-Datorg Economic Research. In 1996 he
earned a professorial degree/D.Sc at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
based on his book, published two years earlier/also in England/. In
1997 he earned dr.habil title at the BUES/today Corvinus University.
From July 1997 Professor of Comparative Economics at the same institution.
In
1991-97 Honorary Professor of International Economics at the College
of Foreign Trade/Budapest. In 1990-94 and 1996-98 Vice President, in
1999-2000 President of the European Association for Comparative Economic
Studies. Since 1999 he has been Professor of Economics at the University
of Debrecen and was the founder of its doctoral program entitled
’Globalization, Competitiveness, Regionalism’. In July 2000 he joined
the faculty of the Central European University as professor of international
political economy at the Department of International Relations and European
Studies. In 2002-06 he chaired the doctoral subprogram in IR, and since
2004 he is a member of the Ph.D program in Economics at CEU.
Published
about 200 articles and chapters in academic volumes in 20 countries/cf
list of publications/. He was visiting professor at the private Bocconi
University/Milan/Italy/1991/, the Department of Economics, University
of Helsinki/Finland, 1993/, the Europa Universitaet Viadina/Frankfurt/O/Germany/1997,
and the Free University of Berlin/1998-2000, five semesters in a row/.
Since
1985 member of the Committee on Economics of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, in 1996-2002 Co-Chair, for 2002-2008 Chair. Since its inception/2002/
member and co-chair of the Doctoral Committee of the Section of Law
and Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he was twice
elected to be a consulting member in 2002 and 2006. Since 1996 member
of the Committee on development and global economic studies, since 1999
also of the International Studes Committee, where he was elected to
co-chair for the 2005-2008 period. The General Assembly of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences elected him, in May 2007, to be Member/Corr/ of
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He
is currently member of the editorial/advisory board of the following
academic journals: Europe-Asia Studies/Glasgow, Intereconomics/Hamburg,
Voprosy Ekonomiki/Moscow, Journal of Comparative Economic Studies/Kyoto,
Acta Oeconomica, Közgazdasági Szemle, Külgazdaság, Köz-Gazdaság,
Competitio/all in Hungary/ Zeitschrift für Staats- un Europawissenschaften/Berlin,
and the Montenegrin Journal of Economics/Podgorica. In previous years
he also served on the board of the following journals: Economic Systems/Germany,
Soviet and East European Foreign Trade/USA, Javnost/Public/Slovenia,
Comparative Economic Studies/USA, Journal of International and Comparative
Economics/Italy. Member of the advisory board of CEU Press and Akadémiai
Kiadó, as well as of the TIGER Institute/Warsaw, NORDI Institute/Lappenranta/Finland
and the Globalization research network/Koc University/Istanbul.
His
most important prizes include the Prize of the Ministry for Foreign
Economic Relations/1994/, Bezerédj Foundation for Europe/2003/, Popovics/Best
Economist Prize of the National Bank of Hungary/2004/, Grand Prize of
the Publisher/Akadémiai,2005.
Matteo Fumagalli,
Assistant Professor (Italy)
Matteo joined
IRES in August 2007. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Edinburgh
(UK) in 2005. Matteo was previously assistant professor in nationalism
and ethno-communal conflict at University College Dublin
(Ireland) and an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Social and
Political Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Matteo’s interests
include Central Asian and post-Soviet politics, social and political
activism, trans-national migration, the comparative study of authoritarianism,
and the politics of identity, ethnicity and diasporas. His recent publications
include articles in the International Political Science Review,
Europe-Asia Studies, Ethnopolitics, Central Asian Survey and
Osteuropa. At present Matteo is part of a Brussels-based project
(EUCAM) aimed at monitoring the implementation of the EU Strategy on
Central Asia; he is also part of an ESRC-funded
team working on ‘new security challenges’ (Radicalization and Violence:
The Russian Dimension), and of a British Academy and CEU jointly funded
project on ‘Informal Activism in Central Asia’. Matteo is a member
of the advisory board of the OSI’s Central Asia Research and Training
Initiative (CARTI) and is also a member-at-large for the
Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration section of the International Studies
Association. At CEU Matteo teaches on various aspects of Central Asian
Politics and on Comparative Authoritarianism.
Marie Pierre
Granger, Assistant Professor (France)
On leave
in Fall 2008
Marie Pierre
Granger graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Lyon (France),
in the stream Politics and Administration, in 1994. She then graduated
with Maitrises in Public Law from the Jean Moulin - Lyon III University
(1994-1995) and Politics from Aristotle Thessaloniki in Greece (1995-1996
ERASMUS), before obtaining a DEA in European and Community Law from
the University of Montpellier (1996-1997). She then worked for a year
(1997-1998) at Nottigham Trent University (UK) as a Teaching Assistant,
before starting funded doctoral studies at the University of Exeter
(UK), under the European Law Project. She researched on the influence
of governments on the caselaw of the European Court of Justice, thereby
combining political science and legal methodologies. Whilst studying
for her PhD, she also taught workshops and tutorials on European Union
Law and French Law. She completed her thesis successfully in 2001, when
she took up a position as a full-time Tutor (2001-2002) and then as
a permanent full-time Lecturer (2002-2004) at the School of Law of the
University of Exeter. She joined CEU in 2004, as an Assistant Professor
at the Legal Studies Department. From 2008, she will share her time
between the Legal Studies and IRES departments. Her teaching interests
reside in EU law and policy, comparative public law, and legal and social
sciences research methodology. Her research focuses on EU institutional
and procedural law, comparative public law, Europeanization, European
integration, and judicial process. She is the editor of the Francovich
follow-up dossier on case law related to State liability under EC law,
available at http://www.francovich.eu.
Current
Research Project: Marie-Pierre is currently writing a book on the influence
of governments on judicial decision-making at the European Court of
Justice, based on her PhD thesis, under contract with Oxford University
Press.
Béla Greskovits,
Professor (Hungary)
On leave
in AY 2008/09
Bela Greskovits
has PhD in economics. His major field of interest is international and
comparative political economy. While since 1992 his permanent affiliation
was with the Political Science Department of CEU, in 1996/97 Greskovits
taught courses at the Sociology Department of CEU in Warsaw, and in
1998/99 was holder of the Luigi Einaudi Chair at the Institute for European
Studies at Cornell University. In 2003/04 he was Visiting Professor
of Social Studies at Harvard University. He published e.g. in International
Politics, Revue Francaise de Science Politique, Polish Sociological
Review, Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, and Osteuropa, and he
is author of The Political Economy of Protest and Patience. East
European and Latin American Transformations Compared. Central European
University Press 1998. His current research focus is the political economy
of major industries.
Julius Horvath,
Professor (Slovakia)
Julius Horvath
was born in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia in 1955. He is currently Professor
and Head of the Department of Economics at the Central European University.
In the period 2002-2006 he was the Head of the Department of International
Relations and European Studies at the CEU. He was also teaching at Academia
Istropolitana Nova in Bratislava, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,
and CERGE-EI Charles University Prague. He has published refereed
papers, among others, at Contemporary Economic Policy, Journal of Comparative
Economics, Journal of Economic Integration, International Economic Journal,
and Journal of Quantitative Economics.
Erin Jenne,
Associate Professor (USA)
Erin Jenne
received her Ph.D. in 2000 from the Political Science Department at
Stanford University, CA with concentrations in comparative politics,
international relations, conflict processes, and East European politics.
She was a MacArthur Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for International
Security and Cooperation (CISAC) during her final year at Stanford.
After graduation, Jenne received a two-year postdoctoral fellowship
at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at
Harvard University, where she revised her dissertation for book publication.
In fall 2002, Jenne accepted an assistant professorship at the International
Relations and European Studies Department at Central European University
in Budapest, where she teaches Masters and Ph.D. seminars including
Nationalism and Civil Warfare, The Study of International Relations,
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Qualitative Methods and Research
Design, and Ethnic Conflict in Eastern Europe. Jenne has also served
as an academic consultant to the Open Society Institute Project on Monitoring
the European Union Accession Process: Minority Protection and is currently
conducting research for a second book funded by the Carnegie Corporation
that compares the League of Nations regional security regime with that
of postcommunist Europe to determine which instruments have been most
effective in protecting minority rights while preventing ethnic conflict.
Recent or forthcoming publications include a book with
Cornell University Press and articles in
International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, and Journal of Peace
Research. She is on the editorial board of
Foreign Policy Analysis and a member-at-large for the
Emigration, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the International
Studies Association. She has received numerous grants for language training
and research in East Central Europe.
Xymena Kurowska,
Assistant Professor (Poland)
Xymena Kurowska
received her PhD from the European University Institute in February
2008 with a thesis The politics behind a policy: framing European
Security and Defence Policy. Her research concentrates on different
aspects of European security, foreign policy and EU’s external assistance
in civilian crisis management and justice and home affairs.
As a post-doctoral
researcher in the framework of the European Foreign and Security Studies
Programme, she has recently conducted extensive fieldwork, including
participant observation, in Ukraine in connection with the EU Border
Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM). She is
particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to security
studies as well as introducing interpretive policy analysis and fieldwork
methods to IR and European studies. She has published on ESDP, is preparing
publications on EUBAM and co-editing a special issue on
‘The Politics of European Security Policies’ for
Perspectives on European Politics and Society (due to come out in
December 2009).
Annabelle
Littoz-Monnet, Assistant Professor (France)
Annabelle
Littoz-Monnet obtained her first degree with distinction from the Institut
d’Etudes Politiques of Lyon/France in 1998, and her M.A in European
Studies from Loughborough University/UK in 1999. She received her Ph.D
(realised with an ESRC student award) from Oxford University in October
2003. Her research focuses on the Communautarisation process of public
policies, and more specifically at policies in the audiovisual, copyright
and policy sectors. Current research interests include European integration
theory and European citizenship. Annabelle has joined the IRES
department at CEU in September 2005. In 2003-2004, she worked for the
BBC European Policy Office in Brussels/Belgium and the Socio-Legal Studies
Center at Oxford University/UK. In 2004-2005, she was a Research fellow
at the Royal Institute of International Relations, Brussels. Annabelle's
book The European Union and Culture between economic regulation and
European cultural policy was published by Manchester University Press
in April 2007.
Michael
Merlingen, Associate Professor (Austria)
On sabbatical
in Fall 2008
Michael
Merlingen is an Associate Professor. His current research interests
lie in European security policy, notably the CFSP/ESDP, and critical
IR theory, notably the intersection of biopolitics and imperialism.
He has published two books on the ESDP. His third book, provisionally
entitled “European Security and Defence Policy: What It Is, How It
Works, Why It Matters”, will be published by Lynne Rienner in 2009.
His papers have appeared in numerous referred journals such as International
Political Sociology; Millennium: Journal of International Studies; Alternatives:
Global, Local, Political; Cooperation and Conflict; European Foreign
Affairs Review; Journal of Common Market Studies; Security Dialogue;
Journal of International Relations and Development and Zeitschrift für
Internationale Beziehungen.
Boldizsár
Nagy, Associate Professor (Hungary)
Boldizsár
Nagy read law and philosophy at the Eötvös Loránd University
in Budapest and pursued international studies at the Johns Hopkins University
SAIS Bologna Center. Besides the uninterrupted academic activity both
at the Eötvös Loránd University (since 1977) and the Central European
University (since 1990) he has been engaged both in governmental and
non-governmental actions. He is counsel for Hungary in the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros
Project case pending before the International Court of Justice, acted
several times as expert for the Hungarian Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
the Council of Europe and UNHCR. He is a founder of ESIL and member
of the editorial board of the International Journal of Refugee Law and
of the European Journal of Migration and Law. In
2004 joined the Odysseus academic network for legal studies on asylum
and immigration in Europe. His recent publications deal with the impact
of the European Union’s enlargement on the area of freedom, security
and justice (For further details see: www.nagyboldizsar.hu )
Irina Papkov,
Assistant Professor (USA)
Irina Papkov
was born in San Francisco in 1977. She received her B.A. from
Hamilton College in 1999; an MA in Russian and East European Studies
from Georgetown University in 2002; and completed her Ph.D. in Comparative
Politics from Georgetown University in 2006. She has taught at Georgetown,
George Washington University, and the
Russian State Pedagogical University of A. I. Gerzen. Her research interests
include religion and politics, the politics of development and democratization,
and the cultural impact of globalization; her regional focus is Eurasia
and Eastern Europe. Papkova has published in
Journal of Church & State and the
Michigan Journal of Political Science; she is currently working on
completing the manuscript of a book on the relationship of religion
and politics in Post-Soviet Russia. Prior to coming to CEU, Papkova
held the position of Title VIII Research Scholar at the Kennan Institute,
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Paul Roe,
Head of Department, Associate Professor (UK)
Paul Roe
received his PhD from the Department of International Politics at the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1999. During his PhD, Paul was
also a Guest Researcher at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI),
where he worked as part of the Intra-State Conflicts (CONF) project.
After leaving Aberystwyth, Paul was a Civic Education Project (CEP)
Visiting Lecturer in IRES, before joining the department proper in 2000.
In 2007, Paul was also a Guest Researcher as part of the Security Programme
at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). His research
interests lie mainly in Security Theory; in particular, with the so-called
‘Copenhagen School’, with gender approaches to security, and with
the notion of ‘Positive Security’. Paul has published in many refereed
journals including Review of International Studies,
Security Dialogue, Security Studies, and
European Journal of International Relations. Paul’s book
Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma was published by
Routledge in 2005.
Visiting
Faculty
Thomas Fetzer,
Visiting Professor (Germany)
Thomas Fetzer
joins the department after completion of a Marie Curie post-doctoral
fellowship at the London School of Economics, Department of Employment
Relations. He obtained an MSc in modern history, sociology and philosophy
at the Humboldt University Berlin. He went on to the European University
Institute Florence where he was awarded a Ph. D. in history in October
2005. Prior to taking up his position at the LSE Thomas worked as a
lecturer in several US-based undergraduate programs in Florence. In
2006 he was also guest fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut
für Gesellschaftsforschung in Cologne.
In his Ph. D. dissertation Thomas compared the policy responses of British
and German trade unions at Ford and General Motors to the internationalization
of company structures and strategies in the period between 1967 and
2000. A revised version of the Ph. D. will be published by Manchester
University Press in 2009. The post-doctoral research project investigates
the relationship between the post-war European debate on
„economic democracy“ and the long-standing efforts for company law
harmonization at the level of the European Community/European Union
since the late 1950s. Thomas’ broader research interests relate to
the history and contemporary pattern of European trade unionism and
industrial relations, the history of multinational firms, the history
and contemporary politics of the European Union, and the history of
fascism.
Thomas Glaser,
Visiting Professor (UK)
Tom Glaser
retired from thirty years’ service with the European Commission in
2005. His tasks included six years dealing with the ACP countries and,
since 1993, with the enlargement process.
His final job before posting to Budapest was concerned with public
information covering 28 countries involving a budget of €150 million.
He ended his tour in Budapest as Head of the EU Representation. Since
2006, he has been a visiting Professor at CEU, a member of the advisory
board of the Institute for Social and European Studies at Koszeg and
a board member of Generation Europe Foundation in Brussels.
Robert Hancke,
Visiting Professor (Belgium)
Bob Hancké
is a Reader in European Political Economy at the LSE. He received a
'Licence' in sociology from the Free University Brussels (VUB), and
a Ph.D. in political science from MIT. From 1994 to 2000, he worked
as Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, where he was
involved, with many others, in the project that resulted in Varieties
of Capitalism, edited by Peter A. Hall and David Soskice (Oxford UP
2001). He has held visiting positions at Peking University, the European
University Institute, the University of Aix-Marseille and the Maison
des Sciences de l'Homme at the University of Nantes. He published Large
Firms and Institutional Change- Industrial Renewal and Economic Restructuring
in France (Oxford University Press 2002), and co-edited Beyond Varieties
of Capitalism: Conflict, contradictions and complementarities in the
European Economy (Oxford UP 2007). His work has appeared in the Oxford
Review of Economic Policy, European Political Economy Review, International
Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Industry and Innovation, Politics
and Society, Organization Studies, European Journal of Industrial Relations,
and the British Journal of Industrial Relations, as well as in several
edited volumes.
5. Term I Course Offerings
Skills
and Methods
Academic
Writing and Research Design (John Harbord): 0 credits, mandatory, pass/fail
International
Relations Track
Concepts
and Theories of World Politics (Xymena Kurowska): 4 credits
Evolution
of European Political Order (Alex Astrov): 4 credits
Public International
Law (Boldizsar Nagy): 4 credits
Religion
and Politics: Transnational Aspects (Irina Papkov): 4 credits
Thinking
About Strategy and Security (Paul Roe): 4 credits
European
Studies Track
EU Foreign,
Neighbourhood, and Enlargement Policy (Peter Balazs): 4 credits
From Empire
to Nation-State: The Nation in Europe Since 1789 (Irina Papkov): 4 credits
Politics
of Central Asia (Matteo Fumagalli): 4 credits * POLS Cross-Listed
The Political
Economy of the European Union (Laszlo Csaba): 4 credits
Theoretical
Approaches to the Study of the European
Union (Annabelle Littoz-Monnet): 4 credits
International
Political Economy Track
Concepts
in International Political Economy (Anil Duman,
Robert Hancke): 4 credits * POLS Cross-listed
History
and Theory of World Economy (Julius Horvath): 4 credits
The Political
Economy of the European Union (Laszlo Csaba): 4 credits
For more
information on courses please check the website of the department.
Skills
and Methods
Academic
Writing and Research Design (0
credits, mandatory, pass/fail)
Instructors of the Academic
Writing Centre
Course
Description
This course
is designed to equip students with the necessary tools for writing position
papers, term papers, and an MA thesis within the International Relations
(IR) discipline. The content of the course will include critical analytical
skills, argumentation, using the work of others, structuring a paper,
research reading skills, oral presentations and formal academic style.
The sessions are intended to assist students directly in producing written
work to the academic standards required by the department.
Course
Structure
There will
be a mixture of teaching methods, including collaborative learning,
exploratory tasks and workshop-based sessions as well as more conventional
methods. The course runs throughout the first two semesters, with two
credits being awarded for successful completion of the course at the
end of the second semester.
Method
of Assessment
Two credits
are awarded for successful completion of the course at the end of the
second semester. Attendance is compulsory. Each student will be
assessed through a combination of class participation and written assignments.
Written requirements are specified in the Study Pack.
International
Relations Track
Concepts and Theories
of World Politics (4 credits)
Xymena
Kurowska
The course
focuses on the main theoretical trajectories and contending positions
that have shaped the discipline of IR over the past quarter century
and on the principal theoretical strands that define it today. We will
explore various renderings by the mainstream (realism, neorealism, liberalism,
neoliberalism, the English School) and more alternative schools
of thought (critical theory, constructivism, feminism, poststructuralism)
to map out constellations of concepts and crucial narratives that construct
the field
While from
the earliest days as a discipline the main debate in IR has been between
different forms of realism and liberalism, and more recently between
rationalist and reflectivist approaches, the course aims to revisit
this conventional framing to develop an appreciation for pluralist theoretical
thinking. The focus on central problematiques (power, anarchy, sovereignty,
interest, change, structure vs. actors) at a later stage of the course
juxtaposes diverse modes of theorizing in the discipline and thus provides
an opportunity to scrutinize different theoretical imaginaries in an
analytical manner.
Throughout
the course we will reflect on the theory-practice nexus to gain a more
contextual understanding of the social aspect of the discipline and
the latter’s scope for political analysis. The overarching motive
here is to trace different modalities of the relationship between knowledge
and the social order to be able to identify theoretical assumptions
that underpin both action in world politics and research practice in
the academia.
Evolution
of European Political Order (4 credits)
Alex Astrov
The
course traces the main stages in the evolution and the demise of the
European political order from antiquity to the dissolution of the Concert
of Europe.
Its main task is to critically question the contention often found in
International Relations theory that the 'history of the relations of
states does not change over the millennia'. Without disputing the fact
that throughout the millennia war- and peacemaking remained the dominant
activities in the relations between autonomous political entities, such
as cities or states, the course examines the differences in the understandings
of the character of war and peace which characterised different stages
in the evolution of the European political order.
Public
International Law (4 credits)
Boldizsár
Nagy
The course
covers major chapters of public international law, although it can not
touch upon all the topics of a standard manual. Specific emphasis is
given to the fundamental principles (including debates on the use of
force), the rights of the individual, (human rights, refugee law, international
criminal law), the rules of international transactions (law of treaties,
diplomacy), the settlement of disputes (responsibility, methods of settlement,
the International Court of Justice) and the law of natural resources
(sea, outer space, freshwaters).
Although
the approach is mainstream and aims at presenting law as it is applied
by states, other international actors and tribunals, critical
thoughts will repeatedly penetrate discussions. The reader reflects
the diversity of international legal writing: it contains chapters from
major textbooks, articles from leading European and US journals, and
primary sources.
No legal
background (general, or in public international law) is required. Many
years of experience show that in 3-5 weeks students with the most diverse
education get accustomed to the language of the academic texts and primary
sources, so they become fully competent in absolving the course.
The course
is based on mixed teaching techniques, the dominant element being discussions
reflecting upon the readings and exchanging the participants’ views
including knowledge derived from other disciplines. Presentations (one
to be held by each student) are 10-20 minutes units on a
real life conflict based on the students’ own research and reading.
Religion
and Politics: Transnational Aspects
(4 credits)
Irina Papkov
This course
looks the complex ways in which religion affects political behavior
in the sphere of international affairs. The course is structured
in two broad sections. First, the seminar introduces students to theory
regarding the different ways in which religion may impact relationships
between countries, from the role of religion in the foundation of the
modern system of nation states to the influence of faith on international
law, among other issues. With these theoretical tools, the second
part of the seminar examines concrete case studies that include some
of the most prominent examples of religious influence on international
politics, both in recent history and in the present time.
Thinking About Strategy
and Security (4 credits)
Paul Roe
Course
Description and Aims
During the
period of the Cold War, Security Studies was overwhelmingly concerned
with the nation-state and the protection of its sovereignty: the safeguard
of territorial integrity and political autonomy, largely through the
deployment and use of military force; so-called
‘national security’. Since the beginning of the 1990s, however,
the focus of Security Studies has been both
‘broadened’ and ‘deepened’; away from military concerns to include,
amongst others, economic, societal, and environmental sectors, and away
from the state towards notions of global and human security.
This
course will concentrate on the disciplinary evolution of Security Studies,
from the more traditional ‘Strategic Studies’ through to
‘c(C)ritical’ approaches. The aim is to provide a general introduction
to the major theories, concepts, and debates within Security Studies;
in particular, to evaluate the continuing utility of Realist and neo-Realist
thinking, and to reflect on the value of both non-state and non-military
formulations.
Concentrating
on Strategic Studies regard, the first part of the course will put in
place foundational thinking about the use of force in international
politics. The second part of the course will then address the non-traditional
literature: the ‘Third World Security School’, the
‘Copenhagen School’, ‘Constructivist Security Studies’,
‘‘C’ritical Security Studies’ (‘The Welsh School’),
‘Feminist Security Studies’, ‘Poststructural Security Studies’
and ‘Reflexive Security Studies’. What is important in this second
part of the course is to think about
how these approaches are critical, and what implications this has
in terms of the very meaning of security.
European Studies Track
EU Foreign,
Neighbourhood, and Enlargement Policy
Péter Balázs
The EU maintains
relations with a large number of international organizations, third
countries and groups of countries. The
objective of the course is to provide students with the analytical tools
to understand the special nature of the multi-level foreign policy of
the Union based on common and national interests and identities. The
semester is structured in three sections. The first is
an introduction to the study of the complex structure of EU external
relations involving trade and economic relations, development policy,
as well as elements of foreign, security and defense policy. Since the
last “big” enlargement (2004-2007) the EU is surrounded by a large
area of new neighbors and among them a growing number of candidates
for EU membership. The second part treats the main challenges of neighborhood
and enlargement policy. The third section will discuss
particular neighboring states and regions. This part is based on ongoing
researches by the CEU Centre for EU Enlargement Studies.
The course’s
main aim is to provide students with a strong understanding of:
the main political
motivations behind the EU foreign policy;
the evolving
positions of the EU institutions and the member states in external relations;
the significance
of the EU neighborhood policy;
the factors shaping
the integrated positions on enlargement problems at the EU level.
By
the end of the course students will:
acquire a good
understanding of the key political and economic motivations of the two-level
foreign policy of the EU;
apply their knowledge
of the tools of policy analysis to empirical cases
of EU neighborhood relations;
critically engage
with the debates on the position of the EU member states concerning
future enlargements.
From
Empire to Nation-State: The Nation in Europe Since 1789 (4 credits)
Irina Papkov
In the context
of the expansion of the European Union, the relinquishing of state sovereignty
has become a basic – if contentious -- assumption of European
politics; at the same time, within this
“United States of Europe” we see the acceleration of nationalist
movements that, in the extreme cases, move towards secession and the
creation of new countries based on the national principle (Kosovo, e.g.).
This course seeks to better understand this aspect of contemporary European
politics through an excursus into the history of the nation-state and
its evolution since the French Revolution in 1789. In the process,
we explore the issue of the extent to which present-day international
relations within Europe reflect historical legacies, among others the
effects of the disintegration of four multi-national empires after World
War I and the creation of dozens of new nation-states in its aftermath.
Politics
of Central Asia (4 credits) *POLS Cross-listed
Matteo Fumagalli
Dramatically
and unexpectedly, Central Asia was thrust to independence in 1991. Of
all the Soviet republics, the five of Central Asia
– Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
– had been the largest net recipients of Soviet aid, had benefited
most economically from the Soviet Union and had thus been the most reluctant
to break from the Soviet empire. Once the path of independence was followed,
each of these five states faced considerable ethnic, state, economic,
social and foreign policy challenges. New attention to Central Asia
after 9/11, including a Western military presence, has also focused
minds on whether the region is at serious threat from Islamist radicalism.
Located in one of the world’s most strategic zones, between Russia,
China and a troubled Middle East, Central Asia relies on its substantial
human and natural resources in the renegotiation of its geopolitical
status.
Aims:
The module aims to provide students with an understanding of the role
of the Russian
and Soviet
legacies in shaping the trajectory and form of post-Soviet transformation;
the
inter-twined
nature of the various dimensions of post-Soviet transformation (political,
economic,
cultural, social); the main traditional and human security challenges
facing the five Central Asian republics; and the geo-strategic significance
of Central Asia and the interaction between actors internal and external
to the region.
Structure:
The first part of the course provides a general overview of the region,
paying special attention to the pre-independence period (pre-Russian,
Russian and Soviet). Next, it turns to discussing political, economic
and cultural transformation after the Soviet collapse. In the third
part the course examines the interaction of the Central Asian republics
with the ‘Great Powers’ (Russia, the United States, China, and the
EU) and the neighbouring regions and countries (Afghanistan and Xinjiang).
The Political
Economy of the EU (4 credits)
László
Csaba
For description see IPE
Track
Theoretical
Approaches to the Study of the European
Union (4 credits)
Annabelle
Littoz-Monnet
There are
different ways to study the European Union (EU) and European integration.
While some courses review the history of the EU, or the EU's main institutions
and policy areas, this course focuses on theoretical approaches that
attempt to explain (aspects of) European integration and EU politics.
The main objectives of the course consist in developing an appreciation
of the role of theory in the study of EU politics, and an advanced understanding
of pertinent theoretical approaches to the EU. The first section of
the course will provide a background and introduction to the EU and
the role of theory in political analysis. In the second part of the
course we will examine classical approaches to European integration,
namely neofunctionalism, intergovernmentalism and interdependence theory.
The third section of the course will consider contemporary theoretical
approaches - including liberal intergovernmentalism and multi-level
governance. The fourth section examines how the recent
‘sociological turn' in Comparative Politics and International Relations
has led to the application of new institutionalist and constructivist
approaches in EU studies.
International
Political Economy Track
Concepts
in International Political Economy (4 credits)
Anil Duman,
Rober Hancke
The aim
of the course is to provide a foundation in political economy theory,
concepts and their application in different fields of political science
and international relations. The course will discuss historical and
current debates about the nature of political economy and the pros and
cons of different methodological approaches. Themes include: Nature
and scope of political economy; Rational choice theory and its critics;
Game theory- theory and practice; Cost benefit analysis and political
economy; Constructivism and normative political economy: the role of
norms and political choice; Institutions: path-dependence, institutional
choice; Institutions: managing change -
tabula rasa or gradualism; Institutions: avoiding hold-up/opportunism
problems; Institutions: solving information problems & enabling
learning & innovation; Commitment devices, policy delegation &
credibility.
The course
consists of 24 (12x2) lectures and seminars in which we apply concepts
and theories of political economy to case studies in political science,
international relations and political economy. The seminar topics will
be introduced by the teacher in a short presentation, laying out the
key issues, followed by a general discussion. The second seminar in
the week will be introduced by two students in a 10-15 minute presentation
addressing the questions for that week, followed by 35-40 min discussion
per topic.
History
and Theory of World Economy (4 credits)
Julius Horvath
For this
class no special pre-requisites are required. This course is accessible
to anyone with a solid under-graduate background in social sciences.
This course presents systematic understanding and critical evaluation
of key concepts and theoretical approaches in political economy with
emphasis on world economy.
The main
goal of this course is to provide students with understanding of historical
evolution as well current driving forces of the world economy.
In other words, this course tries to explain how the world economy got
to be where it is today, focusing on the disparities between the rich
and the poor nations. We also discuss neo-classi