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Contributors | 179 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.
