March 28, 2018
CEU alumnus Jakub Leps (POLS ’98) was recently elected Prague chairman for the TOP 09 political party. Elected for the two-year term in January, his tasks will focus on managing the party and campaigning ahead of this fall’s local and senate elections.
Leps also serves as Third Deputy Mayor of Prague’s 11th District, a role which he says he will continue.
March 18, 2018
CEU Professor Anton Pelinka is quoted in this New York Times article on the ongoing Austrian debate about smoking in public places.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/18/world/europe/austria-smoking-ban.html
February 22, 2018
CEU student Viktoriya Poltoratskya's analysis of Russian politics/public administration is featured in this EurAsia Review piece. Poltoratskya is a CEU Alumni Scholarship recipient and studies in CEU's Department of Political Science.
http://www.eurasiareview.com/21022018-asymmetrical-federalism-still-lesser-evil-for-russia-oped/
January 11, 2018
As part of the Intellectual Themes Initiative, CEU offers four new joint PhD positions this year. The new doctoral programs are interdepartmental: the admitted students are expected to take courses from both participating units and conduct research at the crossroads of those disciplines.
1. Topic: Multilayer Structure of Economic-Financial Transactions
November 22, 2017
CEU Visiting Professor Julian Casanova writes about the modern history of Spain and the Catalonia debate (in Spanish).
https://www.infolibre.es/noticias/luces_rojas/2017/11/21/el_valor_democracia_72033_1121.html
October 10, 2017
Tallinn University hosted the New Human Rights of the 21st Century conference on September 20-22 to explore the origins of such rights, the functions and the rhetoric of these rights and the role such “new” rights can play in the field of human rights law. The conference was part of the HURMUR: Human rights – mutually raising excellence project, funded by the European Commission.
October 9, 2017
CEU alumna Olena Tregub (POLS '05) has been appointed Secretary General of the Independent Defence Anti-Corruption Committee (NAKO), a joint initiative of Transparency International Defence and Security (the UK) and the Ukrainian chapter of Transparency International.
September 20, 2017
CEU Professor Laszlo Bruszt writes with a colleague in Project Syndicate on the attacks on judiciary independence in Poland.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/poland-judicial-independence-single-market-by-laszlo-bruszt-and-nauro-f--campos-2017-09
September 20, 2017
CEU Visiting Professor Julian Casanova is interviewed on the political situation in Catalonia and whether or not it will become independent of Spain (article in Spanish).
http://ar.globedia.com/voy-proceso-independencia-catalunya-imparable
July 26, 2017
CEU now ranks in the 101-150 spot worldwide in political science and in the 151-200 spot in economics, according to Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017. This year, institutions are ranked in 52 subjects across natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences, and social sciences. To be included in a subject ranking, universities need to have a minimum number of research publications during the period of 2011-2015. The publication threshold is different for different subjects.
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