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EU external relations, and European politics. He is the editor and author of
various books, book chapters, and journal articles published in Hungarian
and English languages.
Gábor Szabó
was the Head of Department and an Associate Professor at the Department of
Legal Philosophy and Social Theory in the Faculty of Law of the University of
Pécs in Hungary. He held a PhD in Political Sciences and a habilitation in Law.
His main areas of research included human rights and development, applied
ethics, globalisation, and global justice. His latest book The Perspectives and
Limits of Global Justice (A globális igazságosság perspektívái és határai) was
published in 2016. He remains in our hearts.
Viktor Szép
holds a Masters degree in International Relations from Eötvös Loránd
University in Budapest, and a PhD in Law from the University of Debrecen,
both in Hungary. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty
of Law of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He also was a
Research Fellow at the Institute for Legal Studies in the Centre for Social
Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network in Hungary, and an Assistant
Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University. His
main research areas are the European Unions foreign and sanctions policies.
His recent publications include the article New intergovernmentalism meets
EU sanctions policy Journal of European Integration) and the book chapter
EU sanctions policy and the alignment of third countries: relevant experiences
for the UK? (co-authored with Peter Van Elsuwege as part of The Routledge
Handbook on the International Dimension of Brexit) from 2020.
Anna Unger
holds a Masters degree and a PhD in Political Science from Eötvös Loránd
University in Budapest, Hungary. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research
Fellow funded by the Hungarian National Research, Development and
Innovation Office. She has been an Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the
Faculty of the Social Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University since 2009. She
also was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Massachusetts in 2010; the
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in
Heidelberg, Germany, in 2018 and in 2020; and the Roosevelt Institute for
American Studies in Middelburg, the Netherlands. Her main areas of research
include the theories and institutions of democracy, such as direct democracy,
elections, and voting rights, with a special focus on American politics, and
participatory democracy. Her PhD thesis Democracy beyond participation.
Direct democracy and the democratisation of the EU (Demokracia a képviseleten
túl. Közvetlen demokrácia és az EU demokratizaciöja) was published in 2019.
She is the author of numerous journal articles.