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Join Prof. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick for a live Twitter and Facebook Q&A

November 4, 2014

Professor Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick will be answering your questions on Twitter and Facebook on November 17 from 9-10am and 4-5pm CEST. Ask him about anything from studying at SPP to his research on social movements to the SPP Drone Lab.

To ask Professor Choi-Fitzpatrick a question, just tweet at #profchatspp or comment on our latest post on our Facebook page.

SPP Supports Training to Help Young Policy Advisors Gain New Policymaking Skills

October 30, 2014
The Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA), SPP, and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Sando, Sweden organized a training workshop October 27 and 31, 2014 to strengthen democratic institutions, where policy professionals play a crucial role in defining the future trajectory of their countries.

Roth Urges Forceful Defense of European Democracy

October 28, 2014
In welcoming Michael Roth, Germany’s Minister of State for Europe, to the School of Public Policy (SPP) at Central European University on October 27, SPP Founding Dean Wolfgang H. Reinicke described him as “a very outspoken supporter of a democratic and socially just European Union.”

Are the BRICS Seeking to Challenge the Global Order?

October 22, 2014
In a speech at the School of Public Policy (SPP) at Central European University on October 17, Assistant Professor Oliver Stuenkel from Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo, Brazil analyzed the evolution of the BRICS from 2001, when the term was first coined by an investment banker, to today.

SPP Dean Opens Workshop on Global Norm Evolution and the Responsibility to Protect

October 21, 2014

The fourth workshop of the Global Norm Evolution and the Responsibility to Protect project took place in Budapest last week (October 16-18).  It was organized by CEU and the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. The event is part of a multi-year project that was launched in November 2012 and includes participants from CEU, GPPi, Oxford University, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Peking University, Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (FGV), and Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi (JNU).