The International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) was an umbrella organization for national lobbying organizations for votes for women. Jewish women were leaders in many of the national woman suffrage movements, especially in the European movement. This study explores the social …
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This dissertation is a pioneering work in the area of Hungarian Jewish history, focusing on a less known and least studied subject, “A History of the Jews in Hungary During Ottoman Domination: 1526–1686.” It seeks to answer the question how this tiny community became so importan…
As Sigismund of Luxembourg rose from being the King of Hungary to Holy Roman Emperor, he was threatened constantly by a variety of political, military, and religious dangers. Sigismund was forced to deal with relentless waves of invasion by the bellicose Ottoman Empire, and his …
Despite the fact that irredentism has been the cause of many interstate conflicts, surprisingly little is known about its origins. This dissertation explores two different aspects of irredentist behavior. First, why do certain states become focused on the goal of unifying their …
This dissertation examines the determinants of states' foreign policy. In particular, it looks at core successor states to empires and argues that domestic institutions that regulate political competition are critical for understanding when a state is likely to pursue an aggress…
This dissertation explores variance in state responses to refugee crises. It argues that contrary to public perception, assistance to refugees is more of a realist than humanitarian endeavor. In other words, states provide assistance based upon their perceived national interests…
The dissertation examines the creation and expression of authority during the extension of Habsburg administration over the recovered territories of Hungary and Transylvania at the turn of the eighteenth century and relates these processes to the development of absolutism and th…
This thesis presents an ethnographic analysis of the contemporary folk music scene in Budapest, based primarily on fieldwork in the city between 2013-2015. It draws on concepts from ethnomusicology, cultural studies and popular music studies, while sustaining a particular focus …
There is a substantial amount of existing literature that focuses on the revolutionary events of 1989 in East-Central Europe. Yet, there are few comparisons which apply a comparative-historical approach to a small set of cases. A large body of existing literature provides the id…
This study investigates the political economy of central bank reform in the peripheral EU zone. Governments in emerging markets find it hard to cut down their deficits and restrain their fiscal spending in line with low inflation targets set by an autonomous central bank, which …
This dissertation addresses the ways nationalism intersected with aesthetic movements of realism and modernism and developments in recording technologies, to shape the portrayal of rural musical practices by urban musicians in Central and Eastern Europe during the early twentiet…
The dissertation examines the causes of a decision by Hungary's communist government to allow thousands of East European refugees to leave their country for the West during the final days of the Cold War. The decision eroded border controls throughout the Warsaw Pact and is wide…
This dissertation examines the challenges of political communication between early modern polities at a time when the norms of diplomacy were being comprehensively renegotiated. Whereas many studies of early modern diplomacy focus on the diplomat's activities at his host-court, …
The subject of the dissertation This dissertation focuses on a controversial area of quality management in education: teacher-appraisal. The research is set in the Hungarian maintained sector secondary educational context but with an outlook on developments on the international …
Gyorgy Ligeti has spoken of a "stylistic caesura" in his music that occurred around 1980. Since then, melody has become more important in his music, as well as elaborate polyrhythm and a strange, new harmony which, as Ligeti has said so often about his music, is "neither tonal n…
The seventeenth-century Ottoman-Habsburg frontier in Hungary was the scene of constant conflict. The defenses of both empires were based on a line of fortresses. This dissertation addresses how the Ottomans organized and administered their frontier by investigating the military,…
This project investigates children, childhood and diet of two different Migration Period (4th-8th century AD) populations, the Gepids and the Avars, in the Great Hungarian Plain. The main goal was to assess whether there are differences in treatment of children and differences i…
Following forty-five years of control and restraint by the Communist government, political change engulfed Hungary in late 1989. These changes ushered in a new freedom of religion law in February 1990. With these new freedoms, Pentecostals in Hungary experienced the opportunity …