Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
Linda Kirschke (Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University, 2010), works on armed conflict during periods of regime change. Her manuscript, Playing the Ethnic Card: Party Networks and Violence During Democratization, draws on a large-N study of 68 multiparty transitions and fieldwork in Serbia and Romania. Her articles have appeared in Comparative Political Studies and The Journal of Modern African Stu...
Director, Center for European and Eurasian Studies and Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
ExpertisePolitical and cultural sociology; socialism and post-socialism; gender; Romania
Member, Public Finance Council, Portugal;
Visiting professor, Central European University
George Kopits is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where his primary research interest is the Euro debt crisis. He is also a member of Portugal’s Public Finance Council and a member of the Commission on Strengthening the Macro-Fiscal Framework in Peru.From 2009 to 2011, Kopits served as the first chair of the Fiscal Council in Hungary—elected una...
Doctoral Candidate, Political Science Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
EducationM.A. in Economics at Central European UniversityPh.D. Candidate in Political Science at Central European UniversityHonorsOSI funded visiting fellowship at Kroc Institute, Notre Dame (August 2002 - December 2002)CEU scholarship for Ph.D. studies (September 1999-August 2002)CEU scholarship for MA studies(September 1998 - June 1999)ExpertiseDomestic effects of foreign influence - sanctions/i...
ACLS New Faculty Fellow and Lecturer in History, and Associate Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Virginia
Dr. Piotr H. Kosicki specializes in the transnational history of 20th-century Europe, focusing particularly on religion, politics, and the history of ideas. He earned a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University for his work on state socialism’s reshaping of Catholicism in 20th-century Poland and France. Currently under preparation is his book entitled Between Catechism and Revolution: Catho...
Associate Professor of Modern European History and International Relations, University of Jyvaskyla
Rinna Kullaa is an area studies expert for South Eastern Europe and an Associate Professor of Modern European History and International Relations at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. She completed her postgraduate studies at St. Antony’s College, the University of Oxford and a doctorate University of Maryland. She works on modern Mediterranean history since the Sec...
Distinguished Professor of National Security Policy, Dept. of Economics, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University
Irene Kyriakopoulos, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of National Security Policy, Department of Economics, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University. She teaches Economics of National Security Strategy, Economics of Industry, and Political Economy of the European Union. She has served as Chair, Department of Economics; Course Director, Economics of National Se...
Irene Kyriakopoulos, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of National Security Policy, Department of Economics, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University. She teaches Economics of National Security Strategy, Economics of Industry, and Political Economy of the European Union. She has served as Chair, Department of Economics; Course Director, Economics of National Se...