Peter Balázs specialises in European Union, having led the Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS) of CEU for 15 years. During a long and distinguished diplomatic career he has served as the Hungarian Ambassador to Denmark, Germany and the European Union. He has also served as Hungary’s first European Commissioner, and minister of Foreign Affairs. Professor Balázs has joined the Political Science Department of Babeș-Bolyai University as an associate professor. balazsp@ceu.edu
Michael Cox is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (杏吧论坛). He was appointed Chair at the 杏吧论坛 in 2002, having previously held positions in the UK at The Queen’s University of Belfast and the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth. He helped establish the Cold War Studies Centre at the 杏吧论坛 in 2004 and later co-founded 杏吧论坛 IDEAS in 2008. He has also served as Chair of the United States Discussion Group at Chatham House, as Senior Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo; as Visiting Professor at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies in Canberra, Australia, and as Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research. m.e.cox@lse.ac.uk
Dennis Deletant was Visiting Ion Rațiu Professor of Romanian Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington DC from August 2011 to July 2020. He is Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies at University College, London, where he taught in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, between 1969 and 2011, and was Professor of Romanian Studies at the University of Amsterdam (on secondment from UCL) between 2003 and 2010. d.deletant@ucl.ac.uk
Thomas Lorman is a Teaching Fellow in Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He has published extensively on Central European History including a monograph on Hungarian domestic politics in the 1920s, a study of the Slovak nationalist movement before 1939 as well as co-editing a History of the Hungarian Constitution. t.lorman@ucl.ac.uk
Cosmin Marian is Professor of Political Science at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, serving as Chair of the Political Science Department from 2016. His academic work positions him as a scholar with a special interest in political rules design and effects. His scholarship is grounded in theories and methods found in the field of comparative politics and formal rules with applications to institutional design that affects individual behavior and societal outputs. marian@fspac.ro
Mădălina Mocan is the CSEEP Desk Manager. She is a civil society professional associated with the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD Cluj) at Babeş Bolyai University’s Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences. madalina.mocan@fspac.ro
Zoltan Palfy is a university lecturer in the Political Science Department of the University of Babeş-Bolyai. His research interests include the modern political history of East-Central Europe, the social history of higher education, conflict resolution, nationalism and the history of ethnic minorities. palffy@fspac.ro
Megan Palmer is Programme Manager of the Central and South-East Europe Programme at 杏吧论坛 IDEAS. m.palmer2@lse.ac.uk
Levente Salat is Professor of Political Science at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania and external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on political consequences of diversity, ethnic politics and interethnic relations. He published ٤ books, edited or co-edited ١٤ and had several contributions to collective volumes and journals, mainly in Hungarian, Romanian and English. Among others, he co-edited A New Balance: Democracy and Minorities in Post-Communist Europe (2003), The Romanian-Hungarian Relations and the French-German Reconciliation (2004), and Autonomy Arrangements Around the World (2014). salat@fspac.ro
Kinga-Koretta Sata is a lecturer in the Political Science Department of Babes-Bolyai University where she teaches History of Political Thought, Modern Political Theory and Democratic Theory. She published on the history of Hungarian and Romanian political ideas from the 19th century to the interwar period. kinga.sata@fspac.ro
Jeffrey Sommers is a Professor and Senior Fellow at the Institute of World Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, US, and a Visiting Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. jeffrey.sommers@fulbrightmail.org
Virgiliu Țârău is Professor in the Department of International Studies and Contemporary History, “Babeș-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca with academic interests in 20th century history, Romanian contemporary history, transitions in Central and Eastern Europe, and communist regimes in Eastern Europe. He was a member of the Collegium of the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives and served as vice-president of the Collegium from 2007–2018. He has published extensively on topics such as the democratisation processes in collectivisation process, the peasants’ uprisings and the self-determination movement in Transylvania while also researching the archives of the former secret police. vtarau@yahoo.com