Glasgow
IMRCEES Consortium Partner Presentation and
Student Information Meeting
Friday 23 October 2015

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Institutes of the Faculty of Social Sciences
Institute of Political Science
Institute of Behavioural Science and Communication
Theory
Institute of International Relations
Institute of Sociology and Social Policy
Centre of Foreign Language Education: Hungarian,
Russian, any ‚minority’ language)
CUB Rank I in overall Student Excellence
Rank I in Social Sciences in Hungary

20th century political philosophy;
Gender issues;
Problems of Political Conservatism;
Theory of regime change
Governance;
Public policy;
CEE Politics;
Transitions;
V4 Cooperation
Lingua Tertii Imperii vs Language of Totalitarian
Dictatorships (The Soviet Union)

Political and social history of Central-East Europe
(CEE);
Ethnicity and politics in CEE;
Minorities and Roma political mobilization in Hungary;
Comparative politics;
Euro-scepticism;
CEE party system, Party-based Euroscepticism,
Populism,Transition in the Visegrad countries
Political behaviour; Extreme right; Cleavage structures and political parties; Elections;
Political Discourse Analysis

• Corruption
• Gender studies
• Election System
• Poverty
• Minority Rights
• NGO (Non Governmental Organizations)
• Language Rights and Policy
• Migration

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The Issue about European Integration and The Nation's Sovereignty — Take Hungary as an example
Implementation of European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Slovakia and Serbia: a case study of Hungarian minority
Political Memory and National Narratives of the Soviet Period in Contemporary Armenia and
Georgia
Unfinished bridges between Eastern Europe and Latin-America: Mexico-Romania Cultural
Diplomacy and Nation-branding Experiences
Identifying The Relationship Between Corruption Prevention, Integrity and Education in Hungary
The role of Russia within the BSEC. Implications to regional diplomacy
Exploring and explaining age-cohort variations in views on the communist past in the Czech
Republic
Russia’s Foreign Policy in the Asia Pacific: A Neoclassical Realist Approach
Engines of the Right. A Comparative Examination of Hungarian Right-Wing Party Youth Groups
Cultural Autonomy’ of Roma Communities in Hungary: A Barrier to Successful Inclusion
Hungarian-Serbian Relations: Kin-National Policies and Bilateralism on the Edge of the European
Union
Reform of child welfare legislation: A comparative study of Hungary and Romania
The Continued Strength of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia: Explaining its Causes and its Effects
Lustration in Central Europe: did East German methods of lustration have an effect on
Hungarian policy?
The Discourse of National Minority The Discourse of National Minority Elites and the Language
Question in Slovakia and Ukraine
Hungarian Autonomy in Vojvodina: Hungarian-Serbian relations – Past, Present, and Future

Direct flight from Glasgow to Budapest (Wizzair)
Cafe and spa culture, music life, romkocsma (pubs built in ruined houses furnished with old pieces)thank to the prohibition of smoking
(garden).
New York Cafe and the Gerbeaud are must-visits, as are the spas built in the 16th and 17th century.
UNESCO World Heritage list, where it is described as “one of the world’s outstanding urban landscapes”.
The best known of Budapest's cultural events is the huge Sziget music festival, held on Óbudai Island in the centre of the Danube every
August.

• Die Hard 5 with Bruce Willis (Moscow)
• Evita with Madonna (Buenos Aires)
• The Rite with Anthony Hopkins (Rome)
• Spy Game with Brad Pitt and Robert Redford (East-
Berlin)
• Bel Ami with Robert Pattinson (Paris)
• Being Julia with Anette Bening (London)
• The Nutcracker (Vienna)
• The Borgias with Jeremy Irons (Florence)
• The Raven (Baltimore)

• Four-pager with research interests from professors and lecturers