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Gagliardi Coaches Students on Job Search and Application Strategies

March 11, 2015
Director of Career Services and Alumni Relations Ann Gagliardi, who recently joined the School of Public Policy (SPP), sat down to answer a few questions.

SPP Students Engage with Roma Communities

March 11, 2015

SPP students have a track record of fostering deep engagement with local communities. Four students have shown strong interest and commitment in working with Roma communities: Marek Balaz (MPA ’16), Katalin Nemeth (MPA ’16), Ciprian-Valentin Nodis (MPA ’15), and Erjon Qirollari (MPA ’15). Each of these students took the time to share his or her story with SPP.

Bullock Argues for Medical Information Disclosure on a Case-By-Case Basis

March 9, 2015
In a faculty research seminar at the School of Public Policy (SPP) on March 6, Assistant Professor Emma Bullock (CEU Department of Philosophy and CELAB) presented her research on mandatory disclosure and medical paternalism. Bullock laid out theoretical arguments for context-sensitive paternalism over mandatory disclosure.

China Blocks International Democracy Promotion Only When It Perceives a Challenge to Regime Survival at Home

March 9, 2015
In "Democracy promotion and China: blocker or bystander?" SPP Visiting Professor Katrin Kinzelbach and co-author Dingding Chen explore why it is that although China "has the ability to employ military and economic leverage to hinder democratization in its immediate neighbourhood," it does not necessarily choose to do so.

Passion Project Team Gains Perspective on Issues Surrounding Greek Refugees

March 5, 2015

Passion Project teammates Zoe Kostitsi-Papastathopoulou (MPA ’16), Chia-You Kuo (MPA ’16), and Mariyana Petrova (MPA ’16) travelled to Athens to meet with their client, the Greek Forum of Refugees (GFR), for the first time. “It was important to get to know the organizational structure, how it operates, and who works there,” commented Petrova.