CEU Department of International Relations

16/10/2026

🌍 Upcoming Roundtable: Security Studies and Global Security Challenges

How should security studies respond to a changing global order and today’s pressing security challenges?

Join editors of global politics and security studies journals for a roundtable exploring the future of security analysis, research, and policy.

📅 October 22, 2026 | 16:30–18:00
📍 CEU, Vienna Campus

Stay for a reception with refreshments and continue the conversation!

🔗 MORE INFO & REGISTRATION: https://events.ceu.edu/2026-10-22/security-studies-and-global-security-challenges-roundtable-journal-editors

02/10/2026

🎙️ New episode of Vienna Dialogues: Coffee and IR!

🇭🇺 Hungarian Foreign Policy after Orbán

What does Hungarian foreign policy look like after Fidesz? What has changed, and what remains the same?
In this episode, Professor Erin K. Jenne sits down with Daniel Hegedüs, one of the leading experts on Hungarian foreign policy.

☕ Tune in for an insightful conversation on Hungary’s changing place in international affairs!

Vienna Dialogues- Coffee and IR · Episode

25/09/2026

🚨 EVENT ALERT!
"Thinking and Teaching about International Relations Critically in the Age of AI"

How is AI changing the ways we learn, teach, research, and make knowledge about global politics? And how can we continue to think critically in an age increasingly shaped by technology, expertise, and the promise of certainty?

Join us for an IR Departmental Seminar featuring members of CEU’s International Relations community: Anton Bronfman, Xymena Kurowska, Michael Merlingen, and Dora Piroska, chaired by Erzsebet Strausz.

📅 30 September
🕒 15:40–17:10
📍 Vienna Campus | online

☕ A small reception will follow — an opportunity to continue the discussion.

👉 Register and join the conversation!

01/07/2026

How do we navigate an increasingly complex information environment shaped by AI, disinformation, and geopolitical uncertainty?

MA student Jack Merrett joined the Riga StratCom Dialogue to hear leading policymakers, researchers, and practitioners discuss the future of strategic communications and the challenges of defending democratic societies in an age of information warfare.

Read more about what experts and panellists had to offer in this “Age of Rupture” 👇

"Life is a miracle". It was on this buoyant note that the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence welcomed delegates to the annual Riga StratCom Dialogue. Gathering diplomats, uniformed personnel, scholars, and entrepreneurs to the Latvian capital, the conference has emerged as among the....

08/05/2026

📢 Book Launch Alert!
📚 Curating Learning Journeys: Transformational Experiences in the IR Classroom and Beyond

🎤 Speaker: Erzsebet Strausz, Associate Professor at CEU's Department of International Relations
💬 Discussants: Matt Davies (Newcastle University) & Vladimir Ogula (CEU)

The book explores the transformational possibilities of pedagogy and offers conceptual and practice-based perspectives on learning, curation, and higher education.

🗓 May 13
🕑 14:00 - 15:30 CEST
📍 CEU Vienna Campus or online

🔗 MORE INFO & REGISTER below
https://events.ceu.edu/2026-05-13/curating-learning-journeys-transformational-experiences-ir-classroom-and-beyond

21/04/2026

⚡ Seminar Alert!
MEMORY POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: INSIGHTS FROM THE RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR

Join us on April 28 for a compelling panel discussion exploring how the Russo-Ukrainian War is reshaping global memory politics.
How is the war transforming the way nations remember and instrumentalize the past? Is the post-1990 paradigm of 'moral remembrance' giving way to more 'militant' modes rooted in Cold War and security discourse? Our panelists will explore these questions through national and transnational case studies — and what they mean for the future of international relations.

Panelists:
👤 Thomas Fetzer
👤 Ivan Nikolovski
👤 Ljiljana Radonić
👤 Patryk Labuda

🔗 MORE INFO & REGISTER below
https://events.ceu.edu/2026-04-28/memory-politics-and-international-relations-insights-russo-ukrainian-war

13/04/2026

📚 New Book Releases by CEU Academic Staff & Researchers | Spring 2026
We are excited to highlight the latest publications from our academic community!

🎉 Congratulations to Associate Professor Erzsébet Strausz from CEU's Department of International Relations, whose new book "Curating Learning Journeys: Transformational Experiences in the IR Classroom and Beyond" was published in February by Palgrave Macmillan as part of the Political Pedagogies series.

👉 Discover all the latest Spring 2026 releases: https://www.ceu.edu/news/2026-04/new-book-releases-ceu-academic-staff-and-researchers-spring-2026