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SFI Module Helps MPA Students Better Manage Cultural Diversity

October 12, 2015

Managing cultural diversity is a critical skill in today’s globalized world.  It is also the focus of one of the ten Skills For Impact (SFI) modules that all two-year MPA students take at the School of Public Policy. “The ten modules have been selected and designed to focus on four core competencies that are vital for successful public policy leaders in the twenty-first century,” explains SFI Program Director and Adjunct Professor of Practice Oliver M.

Distinguished Panel Remembers Srebrenica

October 12, 2015

During a panel discussion on the Srebrenica Genocide on October 2, Muhamed Durakovic warned that countries can disintegrate very easily. “It happens so quickly,” he said.

Goldthau and Sitter Analyze EU Policy in the Global Political Economy of Energy

October 7, 2015

Jean-Arnold Vinois gave a thoughtful and informative keynote address at CEU on Friday, October 2. The occasion was the official launch of Andreas Goldthau and Nick Sitter’s new book, “A Liberal Actor in a Realist World: The European Union Regulatory State and the Global Policy Economy of Energy” (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Agim Selami Credits Time at CEU as “Turning Point” in His Life

October 6, 2015
Looking back at his decision to study public policy at CEU...

Maarek Explains Political Transition Process in Autocracies

October 6, 2015

In a public lecture on September 29 co-organized by the School of Public Policy at CEU and PERG, Paul Maarek presented a paper he had recently co-authored with SPP Associate Professor Michael Dorsch.  In the paper, “Rent seeking, revolutionary threat and coups in non-democracies,” Dorsch and Maarek “study both theoretically and empirically the political turnover process in autocracies due to coups.”