July 10 - July 20, 2010
Prague, Czech Republic

July 10 - July 20, 2010 - Prague, Czech Republic

European Summer School Guest Lecturers

External guest lecturers have been carefully selected to amend the individual workshops with their expertise. The selection of them fully reflects the name of this summer school - Transatlantic Relations from the Perspective of Central Europe since they come from Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and Czech Repubic. Their affiliation (both practitioners and academics) creates another added value of the concept of guest lectures.

• Piotr Maciej Kaczynski
• Stephen Baskerville
• Jana Hybaskova
• Zoltan Pogatsa
• Lucia Najslová
• Petr Lunak
• Nihan Potas
• Jan Rovny
• Dinitris Tsarouhas

Piotr Maciej Kaczynski is a research fellow at Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussles. He is a member of several advisory groups in EU affairs. He is dealing with the constitutional questions of the EU, further enlargement and the position of Poland in the European Union.

Stephen Baskerville is associate professor of government at Patrick Henry College, where he teaches Comparative and European Politics and Political Theory. He is the author of Not Peace but a Sword: The Political Theology of the English Revolution and other works on religion and politics. More recently, he has researched and written about the politics of the family.

Jana Hybaskova worked as a diplomat, she served as the Czech ambassador in Kuwait, Qatar and Slovenia. From 2004 to 2009 she was a member of the European Parliament where she worked as a head of Delegation for Relations with Israel. As an arabist and orientalist she is professionally interested in the Middle East situation and Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Zoltan Pogatsa is an international political economist working on questions related to development, the economics and politics of European integration, as well as issues related to Central Europe and the Balkans. His home institution is the Faculty of Economics at the University of Western Hungary, where is in charge of the MA Programme on International Economics and Business. I also carries out research for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and lectures at various universities in Europe.

Lucia Najšlová has been since 2004 the Editor-in-chief of Zahraniční politika, Slovak foreign policy magazine. The magazine is published by the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association, an independent Bratislava based think-tank, where she works also as an analyst in European studies program. She authored and coauthored articles and policy briefs on topics related to EU Enlargement, ENP, EU & Turkey relations and the Cyprus issue.

Petr Luňák is hitorian and political scientist. He has achieved the academic title Doc. at the Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences for his publication "Západ" (West). He is currently working as a director for East-European projects in the NATO headquarter in Brussels (Department of Information and Press).

Nihan Potas is a PhD candidate at the University of Ankara, Institute of Science. She currently works as a research assistant at the Gazi University, Faculty of Trade and Tourism Education (Ankara). She has been involved in many international reserach projects. She deals with the applied statistical measurements in economic and social sciences.

Jan Rovny is a PhD Candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research concentrates on European party politics and issue dimensionality. He has published on these and other topics in the European Journal of Political Research, Collegium, Perspectives, Politologická Revue, Mezinárodní Politka, and others.

Dimitris Tsarouhas graduated from the London School of Economics in 2002 (MSc) and obtained his PhD at University of Sheffield. Currently he teaches at the Bilkent University in Ankara. He focuses on European politics, Social Democracy, social and labour politics, Greece, Greek-Turkish Relations, EU-Turkey Relations and Sweden.