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• Bradley F. Abrams

  History, Stanford University
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• Thomas Ahbe

  Thomas Ahbe studierte Philosophie, Ökonomie und Soziologie. Seit 1998 wirkt er freischaffend als Sozialwissenschaftler und Publizist. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Diskurs- und Kulturgeschichte der deutschen Zweistaatlichkeit und der ostdeutschen Transformation sowie die Generationengeschichte der DDR und Ostdeutschlands.   Print

• Karl Aiginger

  Karl Aiginger is Director of WIFO (Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Professor of Economics and Coordinator of the project A new growth path for Europe within the 7th European Framework Program.   Print

• Huercan Asli Aksoy

  Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, University of Tübingen
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• Sorin Antohi

  Sorin Antohi is Professor of History at Central European University, Budapest.   Print

• Timothy Garton Ash

  History, Oxford
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• Roumen Avramov

  Program director for economic research at the Center for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
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• Adam Baczko

  PhD Candidate in Political Science, EHESS, Paris
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• Rainer Bauböck

  Rainer Bauböck is professor of social and political theory at the European University Institute in Florence. In 2006 he was awarded the Latsis Prize of the European Science Foundation for his work on immigration and social cohesion in modern societies. Among his many publications are Immigration and Boundaries of Citizenship (1992), Transnational Citizenship: Membership and …
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• Steven Beller

  Geschichte, Cambridge
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• Naja Bentzen

  Freelance journalist, Wien
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• Luiza Bialasiewicz

  Professor of European Governance, University of Amsterdam
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• Muriel Blaive

  Advisor to the Director, in Charge of Research and Methodology, Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague
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• András Bozóki

  Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest
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• José Casanova

  Professor für Soziologie, New School for Social Research, New York
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• Daniel Chirot

  Soziologie, Seattle
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• Robert Cooper

  Robert Cooper ist britischer Diplomat und derzeit als Sonderberater des Europäischen Auswärtigen Dienstes (European External Action Service, EEAS) tätig. Er ist zudem Gründungsmitglied des European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).   Print

• Peter Demetz

  Sterling Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Yale University; Korrespondierendes Mitglied des IWM
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• James Dodd

  Associate Professor of Philosophy, Special Advisor to the Dean on Faculty Affairs, New School for Social Research
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• Martin Endreß

  Martin Endreß ist Professor für Soziologie an der Universität Trier.   Print

• Mischa Gabowitsch

  Mischa Gabowitsch (gabowitsch.net) is a research fellow at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. He is the author of Putin kaputt!? (Suhrkamp, 2013), a study of the 2011-13 Russian protests for fair elections, and maintains protestrussia.net, which collects academic resources for the study of protest in Russia.   Print

• Charles Gati

  Charles Gati is Senior Acting Director of Russian and Eurasian Studies and Foreign Policy Institute Senior Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.     Print

• Dessy Gavrilova

  Dessy Gavrilova is the founding Director of The Red House – Center for Culture and Debate in Sofia, Bulgaria.     Print

• Keith Gessen

  Keith Gessen is a freelance writer living in Cambridge, MA.   Print

• Gerhard Gnauck

  Warsaw correspondent for Die Welt
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• Katya Gorchinskaya

  Managing Editor for Investigative Programming, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (REF/RL), Kyiv
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• John Gray

  John Gray is Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics.   Print

• Rainer Gries

  Rainer Gries lehrt und forscht als Universitätsprofessor am Historischen Institut der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, am Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft der Universität Wien sowie an der Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Wien. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpuntken zählen u.a. die Gesellschaftsgeschichte Deutschlands und Österreichs im 20. Jahrhundert und die Geschichte des Konsums in Europa.   Print

• Eva Hahn

  Geschichte
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• Gábor Halmai

  Professor of Law, Department of European Studies; Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
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• Elemer Hankiss

  Professor für Politikwissenschaft, Eötvös Lorand Universität, Budapest; Korrespondierendes Mitglied des IWM
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• Miklós Haraszti

  Miklós Haraszti is a writer, journalist, human rights advocate and university professor. He served the maximum of two terms as the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media from 2004 to 2010. Currently he is Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia Law School, New York. Haraszti studied philosophy and …
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• Sabine Hark

  Sabine Hark forscht an der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Potsdam, Professur für Frauenforschung.   Print

• Annemieke Hendriks

  Freelance journalist, Berlin
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• Charles Hirschman

  Charles Hirschman is Boeing International Professor at the Department of Sociology and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, Washington University.     Print

• Jennifer L. Hochschild

  Jennifer L. Hochschild is Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of African and African-American Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.   Print

• Yaroslav Hrytsak

  History, Central European University Budapest
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• Richard Hyman

  Richard Hyman ist Professor für Politikwissenschaft an der London School of Economics.   Print

• Vladislav Inozemtsev

  Professor of Economics at Higher School of Economics; Director, Centre for Post-Industrial Studies, Moscow
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• Bruce P. Jackson

  Bruce P. Jackson is the founder and President of the Project on Transitional Democracies. The Project is a multi-year endeavour aimed at accelerating the pace of reform in post-1989 democracies and advancing the date for the integration of these democracies into the institutions of the Euro-Atlantic. Jackson has written extensively about the engagement of Russia …
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• Tom Junes

  Visiting Researcher, Warsaw University, and Visiting Lecturer in Polish history, KULeuven, Belgium
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• Alex J. Kay

  Alex J. Kay holds a PhD in History from the Humboldt University Berlin.   Print

• Anatoly M. Khazanov

  Anatoly M. Khazanov ist Professor für Anthropologie an der University of Wisconsin, Madison.   Print

• Cornelia Klinger

  Professor of Philosophy, University of Tübingen
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• Gudrun-Axeli Knapp

  Professor of Social Sciences and Social Psychology, University of Hannover
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• Jacek Kochanowicz

  Jacek Kochanowicz is Professor for Economic History at Warsaw University.       Print

• Michal Kopecek

  International Relations, Charles University Prague
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• János Kornai

  János Kornai is Prof. em. for Economics  at Harvard University and Permanent Fellow at the Collegium Budapest – Institute for Advanced Study. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europeae, and Foreign Member of the American, British, Bulgarian, Finnish, Russian and Swedish Academies. He has served as President of …
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• Bilyana Kourtasheva

  Post-Doc in Theory and History of Literature, New Bulgarian University, Sofia
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• János Mátyás Kovács

  IWM Permanent Fellow
  Senior member of RECET, Institute of East European History, Vienna University; Professor of Economic History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
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• Ivan Krastev

  IWM Permanent Fellow
  Chair of the Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
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• Yustyna Kravchuk

  PhD candidate in Film and Media Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
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• Jacek Kucharczyk

  Jacek Kucharczyk ist Head of Programs am Institute of Public Affairs in Warschau.   Print

• Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Aleksander Kwasniewski war Präsident Polens. Seine Amtszeit verlief von 1995 bis 2005 über zwei Legislaturperioden.   Print

• Mladen Lazic

  Professor of Sociology, University of Belgrade
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• Claus Leggewie

  Professor für Politikwissenschaft, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
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• Mark Leonard

  Co-founder and Director, European Council on Foreign Relations
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• André Liebich

  Honorary Professor of International History and Politics, Graduate Institute, Geneva
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• Burkhard Liebsch

  Burkhard Liebsch ist Professor für Philosophie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum.   Print

• Michal Luczewski

  Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, Warsaw University
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• Charles S. Maier

  Charles S. Maier ist Direktor des Center for European Studies, Harvard University.   Print

• Andrey Makarychev

  Andrey Makarychev ist Professor und Research Fellow am Institut Osteuropäische Studien an der Freien Universität Berlin.   Print

• Michał Maciej Matlak

  Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence
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• Erik Meyer

  Erik Meyer ist seit 2000 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Sonderforschungsbereich ‘Erinnerungskulturen’ an der Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen.   Print

• Krzysztof Michalski

  IWM Founding Rector
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• Hans J. Misselwitz

  Hans-Jürgen Misselwitz ist ein deutscher SPD-Politiker und Gründungsmitglied des Instituts Solidarische Moderne.   Print

• Alessandro Monsutti

  Alessandro Monsutti is an associate professor of anthropology and development sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, as well as research associate at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. He worked as a consultant for several nongovernmental and international organizations, icnluding UNHCR. His book War and Migration: Social Networks …
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• Jan-Werner Müller

  Professor of Politics, Princeton University
  
  Visiting Fellow
  (September 2016 – August 2017)
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• Rainer Münz

  Professor für Bevölkerungswissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Korrespondierendes Mitglied des IWM
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• Sighard Neckel

  Professor of Sociology, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
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• Katherine Newman

  Katherine S. Newman is the James B. Knapp Dean of The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. She is a widely published expert on poverty and the working poor who led major interdisciplinary initiatives at Princeton and Harvard universities.     Print

• Pierre Nora

  Pierre Nora lehrt Geschichte an der École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.   Print

• Tereza Novotna

  Political Science, Boston University
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• Ewald Nowotny

  Ewald Nowotny is Governor of the Austrian National Bank.   Print

• Thomas Nowotny

  Thomas Nowotny teaches Political Science at the University of Vienna. He has been Austrian diplomat, private secretary to Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, senior political counselor to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and consultant to the OECD.   Print

• Vlad Odobescu

  Freelance journalist, Romanian Centre for Investigative Journalism, Bucharest
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• Andrzej Paczkowski

  Professor für Geschichte, Institut für Politische Studien, Polnische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Warschau
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• Emilia Palonen

  Politics, University of Essex
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• Irina Papkova

  Irina Papkova is a Research Fellow of Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. She spent five years teaching at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Central European University, Budapest.   Print

• Agnieszka Pasieka

  Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Martin Luther University, Halle/Saale
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• Gleb Pavlovsky

  President, Center of Effective Policies; Member, Public Chamber of the Russian Federation; Editor-in-Chief, The Russian Journal, Moscow
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• György Péteri

  Professor of Contemporary European History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
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• Tanja Petrovic

  Tanja Petrovic works at the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana.   Print

• David Petruccelli

  PhD candidate in History, Yale University
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• Alexander von Plato

  Alexander von Plato ist ein deutscher Philosoph und Historiker. Er gründete das Instituts für Geschichte und Biographie an der Fernuniversität Hagen, das er bis 2007 leitete. Von 1996 bis 2000 war er Sekretär der International Oral History Association, von 2006 bis 2008 deren Vizepräsident. Er ist Mitherausgeber und Redakteur von BIOS – Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral …
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• Andrei Pleșu

  Andrei Pleșu ist Rektor des New Europe College, Bukarest. 1989- 1991 war er rumänischer Kulturminister und 1997- 1999 rumänischer Außenminister.   Print

• Martin Pollack

  Martin Pollack, geb. 1944 in OÖ, studierte Slawistik und osteuropäische Geschichte. Er war von 1987 bis 1998 Redakteur des “Spiegel” in Warschau und Wien und lebt heute als Schriftsteller und literarischer Übersetzer in Wien und Bocksdorf im Südburgenland. 2011 erhielt er den Leipziger Buchpreis zur Europäischen Verständigung und 2012 den Stanislaw-Vincenz-Preis. Zuletzt erschien von ihm …
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• Krzysztof Pomian

  Krzysztof Pomian is Professor of History at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (Toruń) and Academic Director of the Museum of Europe in Brussels.   Print

• Romano Prodi

  Romano Prodi war von September 1999 bis November 2004 Präsident der Europäischen Kommission.   Print

• Lipin Ram

  PhD candidate and teaching assistant in Anthropology and Sociology of Development, Graduate Institute, Geneva
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• Mykola Riabchuk

  Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Nationalities’ Studies, Academy of Sciences, Kyiv
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• Edelbert Richter

  Edelbert Richter ist deutscher Theologe, Politiker und war Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages.   Print

• Paul Ricoeur

  Paul Ricoeur ist Philosoph und war Professor Emeritus an der University of Chicago und an der Sorbonne. Er war Mitglied der Académie Francaise und Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des IWM. Er starb 2005.   Print

• Michel Rocard

  Michel Rocard, former First Secretary of the French Socialist Party and a member of the European Parliament for 15 years, was Prime Minister of France from 1988 to 1991.   Print

• Akos Rona-Tas

  Akos Rona-Tas is professor at the Sociology Department of the University of California, San Diego and a research associate at Met@risk, INRA, Paris. He is the author of the books Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries (with Alya Guseva, 2014) and Surprise of the Small Transformation: Demise of Communism and …
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• Lew Rubinstein

  Lew Rubinstein lebt als Poet und Essayist in Moskau. Nach dem Studium der Philologie war er als Bibliothekar tätig. Seit Ende der 1960er-Jahre verfasst er poetische Arbeiten, seit 1974 serielle Textzyklen als so genannte Kartotheken. Zusammen mit Andrej Monastyrskij, Dimitrij A. Prigov und Vladimir Sorokin gilt er als wichtigster Vertreter des Moskauer Konzeptualismus. Print

• Jacques Rupnik

  Geschichte und Politikwissenschaft, Paris
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• Claudia Šabic

  Claudia Šabi? ist Politikwissenschaftlerin und Ethnologin. Seit 1998 ist sie Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main. Print

• Ranabir Samaddar

  Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group
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• Paul Sanders

  Paul Sanders is a historian and management scholar. He is a full-time professor at Reims Management School in Reims, France. He has published across the disciplines of history, international relations and leadership.   Print

• Karl Schlögel

  Karl Schlögel war Professor für Osteuropäische Geschichte zuerst an der Universität Konstanz, dann an der Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. Nach seiner Emeritierung arbeitet er an einer Archäologie des Kommunismus und einer Geschichte des Wolgaraumes. Zurzeit ist er City of Vienna/IFK Fellow am IFK in Wien.     Print

• Thomas Schmid

  Thomas Schmid is the publisher of the WELT Group, Berlin. He worked for various newspapers, among them as editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. From 2006 to 2010 he was Editor-in-Chief of Die Welt.   Print

• Margit Schratzenstaller

  Margit Schratzenstaller is senior researcher at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) and is currently coordinating (together with Karl Aiginger and Stefan Ederer) ‘WWW for Europe’, a 4-year research project within the 7th Framework Program funded by the European Commission.   Print

• Dieter Segert

  Dieter Segert ist Professor für Transformationsprozesse in Mittel-, Südost- und Osteuropa am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Wien. Seit September 2007 ist er Mitglied des Vorstandes des IDM Wien, seit Juni 2008 Mitglied der Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin.   Print

• Victoriya Sereda

  Sociologie, Ivan-Franko-Universität, Lviv
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• Michel Serres

  Michel Serres ist Philosoph und Mitglied der Académie Française.   Print

• Anton Shekhovtsov

  PhD in Political Science
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• Marci Shore

  Associate Professor of History, Yale University
  
  Visiting Fellow
  (July 2020 – June 2021)
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• Sławomir Sierakowski

  Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Warsaw; Founder, "Krytyka Polityczna" movement
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• Sara Silverstein

  Ph.D. Candidate in Modern European and International History, Yale University
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• Ondřej Slačálek

  Assistant Professor of Political Science, Charles University, Prague
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• Aleksander Smolar

  Political Science, Paris
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• Timothy Snyder

  IWM Permanent Fellow
  Richard C. Levin Professor of History, Yale University
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• George Soros

  George Soros is a pioneer of the hedge-fund industry, investor and philanthropist, he is the author of many books, including Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States: Essays (2012), The Soros Lectures: At the Central European University (2010), The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Finance Markets (2009).   …
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• Robert Spaemann

  Robert Spaemann ist Professor em. für Philosophie an der Universität München.   Print

• Pawel Spiewak

  Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Philosophy, Warsaw University
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• Wilfried Stadler

  Wilfried Stadler ist Unternehmensberater, Wirtschaftspublizist und Honorarprofessor an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. Bis 2009 war er Vorstandsvorsitzender einer österreichischen Spezialbank für Unternehmensfinanzierung.   Print

• Rudolf Stamm

  Rudolf Stamm war von 1975 bis 1988 Korrespondent der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung für Osteuropa und Österreich, anschließend bis 1999 für Italien, dann bis zu seiner Pensionierung 2002 für die USA mit Sitz in Washington D.C. Er starb 2010 in der Schweiz. 1985 erscheinen seine NZZ-Reportagen aus Osteuropa in dem Band Alltag und Tradition in Osteuropa. …
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• Paul Starr

  Paul Starr ist Professor für Soziologie an der Princeton University und Mitherausgeber von The American Prospect. Er ist Pulitzer-Preisträger.   Print

• Martina Steer

  ÖAW APART Fellow (History)
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• Kristina Stoeckl

  Research Director
  APART Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Department of Political Sciences, University of Vienna
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• Roman Szporluk

  Roman Szporluk is Professor em. of Ukrainian History at Harvard and Professor em. of History at the University of Michigan. He is a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences in Kiev, Ukraine. His research focuses on modern Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish history, and on Marxism and nationalism in Eastern Europe.   Print

• Charles Taylor

  IWM Permanent Fellow
  Professor em. of Philosophy, McGill University, Montréal
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• Maria Teteriuk

  PhD candidate in Mass Communications and senior lecturer in Media Studies, National University of 'Kyiv-Mohyla Academy', Ukraine
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• Philipp Ther

  Junior Professor of Polish and Ukrainian Studies, Europa-Universität Frankfurt / Oder
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• Maria Todorova

  Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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• Balázs Trencsényi

  Balázs Trencsényi, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Department of History, CEU. His research focuses on the comparative history of political thought in East Central Europe and the history of historiography. He is co-director of Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies at CEU and Associate Editor of the periodical East Central Europe (Brill). He was …
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• Stefan Troebst

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• Marius Turda

  Lecturer in the Education Abroad Program, Eötvös Lorand University, Faculty of Humanities, Budapest
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• Andreas Umland

  Andreas Umland ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Euro-Atlantische Kooperation Kiew sowie Herausgeber der Buchreihe Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, ibidem-Verlag Stuttgart. Print

• Victoria Vasilenko

  Assistant Professor of Contemporary History and International Relations, Belgorod National Research University
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• David G. Victor

  David G. Victor is a Professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, where he directs the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation.   Print

• Harald Welzer

  Harald Welzer ist Forschungsprofessor für Sozialpsychologie an der Universität Witten/Herdecke und Direktor des Center for Interdisciplinary Memory Research am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts Essen.   Print

• Karolina Wigura

  Adjunct of the History of Ideas, University of Warsaw; Co-Editor of Kultura Liberalna
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• Volodymyr Yermolenko

  Volodymyr Yermolenko is a Ukrainian philosopher and essayist. He has a degree in Political Science from the EHESS, Paris, and teaches at Kyiv Mohyla Academy in Kyiv. He is the author of the book Narrator and Philosopher: Walter Benjamin and his time (2011, in Ukrainian). Print

• Oksana Zabuzhko

  Free-lance writer, Kiev
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• Tatiana Zhurzhenko

  IWM Research Director, Russia in Global Dialogue and Ukraine in European Dialogue
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