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Akos Kopper

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akos.kopper@qeh.ox.ac.uk

Research interests

diplomacy, populist foreign policy, visuality and IR, East Asia's international relations

Akos Kopper

Departmental Lecturer in Diplomatic Studies

Akos has his PhD from Bremen (Germany), and he did his graduate studies at CEU (at that time yet in Budapest, before the university was expelled from Hungary) and Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo). After his studies Akos worked at various universities in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, Taiwan and Hungary, where for years he was Head if the IR Department. Most recently he was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at ZOIS (Centre for East European and International Studies) in Berlin. For years Akos was editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Relations and Development, and these days he is editor-in-chief of PARISS (Political Anthropology Research on International Social Sciences).

Akos teaches on the MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy. He also convenes courses on Diplomacy as a Spectacle and Diplomacy and East Asian Order. His research interests are in diplomacy, foreign policy, populism, and visual politics. His current research projects focus on strange and deviant forms of diplomatic practices, and on transformations of East Asian order. Before joining ODID, Akos has been teaching courses at the CEU (Vienna), the Graduate Institute (Geneva) and in Budapest, and has been contributing to doctoral workshops organized by CEEISA (Central and East European International Studies Association).

  • Chapters

    Kopper, Akos
    Andras Szalai, Magdalena Gora ( ) Populist Foreign Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Hungary and the Shock of the Ukraine Crisis In Giurlando, P., Wajner, D.F Populist Foreign Policy: Regional Perspectives of Populism in the International Scene , Palgrave Macmillan
    Kopper, Akos
    Pál Susánszky ( ) Passzív vagy aktív ellenállás. Kulturális különbségek, anekdoták [Passive or active resistance. Cultural differences, anecdotes] . In Péter Bodor, Károly Bozsonyi, Aris Tsantiropoulos In Honorem Nikosz Fokasz , ELTE Kiadó
    Kopper, Akos
    Nikosz Fokasz ( ) Média, Emlékezés, Identitás [English: Media, Memory, Identity] . In Péter, Bodor Emlékezés, Identitás, Diskurzus , L’Harmattan 307-328
    Kopper, Akos
    ( ) The Possible and the Legitimate: Security and the Individualization of Citizenship Practices . In Jef Huysmans and Xavier Guillaume Security and Citizenship, the constitution of political being , Routledge 113-127
    Kopper, Akos
    ( ) Can Citizenship do what Nationalism could not? Uniting the Nation by Extending Citizenship beyond the Borders of Hungary . In Andrzej Marcin Suszychi and Pawel Karolewsky Nation and Nationalism, Political Historical Studies , ATUT and the Willy Brandt Zentrum für Deutschland-und Europastudien der Universität Wroclaw
    Kopper, Akos
    ( ) European Identity of Hungarians . In Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, Viktoria Kaina European Identity. Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights , LIT Verlag

  • Working papers

    Kopper, Akos
    ( ) Hatoyamas and the Politics of Fraternity – Grandfather and Grandson with the Ambition to Steer Japan Towards a more Independent Foreign Policy . Working Paper Series of the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs
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