Open Research Repository
The Open Research Repository (ORR) is the official institutional repository of the Central European University. The repository provides access to the research output of the CEU community by collecting open access versions of scholarly works authored or co-authored by CEU faculty and students.
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Item Medical Geneticists’ Interpretations of Genetic Disorders in Roma Communities in Post-Socialist Hungary(2025-09-01)The article investigates the utilization of ethnic classification by human geneticists in Hungary, with a particular focus on the Roma minority. Drawing on qualitative expert-interviews, it analyzes how historically situated social imaginaries inform the production of genetic knowledge. The study explores how human genetics constructs heritable disorders as ethnic diseases, exposing the epistemological and ethical tensions inherent in translating sociocultural difference into biological terms.Item Geopolitikk og sikkerhetsledelse(2025-03-12)Geopolitical and geo-economic conflicts generate significant political risk for business as well as the public and voluntary sectors. This leads to a growing need for good security management. The articles in this special issue address the development of geopolitical risk and changes in war and conflict. The articles contribute to increased knowledge about geopolitical risk assessment and management.Item Geopolitikk, politisk risiko og ledelse(2025-03-12)The geopolitical context in which Norwegian industry operates is changing rapidly. It is characterized by a multitude of hostile actors and new types of conflict. Security is now about much more than military threats to the state. The political, economic and financial dimensions of security are just as important. Security means financial security, energy supply, critical infrastructure, social security, and corporate security. The spectrum of conflict ranges from conventional war to influence operations, cyber-attacks and hybrid warfare. A number of non-state actors, with and without state support generate a broad range of risks. Technological development means that even small groups can cause great damage. It is often difficult to identify who is behind that attack, and to distinguish random events from malicious attacks before it is too late. This article deals with trends in international politics and the transition from a liberal international world characterized by globalization to a more uncertain and geopolitical world. It discusses the new threats that Norwegian business and industry face, and what this means for political risk and corporate security management. In order to secure continuity in operations, companies have to establish structures and procedures for risk analysis, crisis management and business continuity, and develop a security culture in the organization. It is the management’s responsibility to ensure that corporate security and risk management is integral part of operations.Item Risikofylt Energihandel og EUs Geopolitiske Skifte(2025-03-12)The war in Ukraine is also a geopolitical conflict between the West and Putin's Russia. When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the relationship between the EU and Russia changed from peace to a hybrid conflict. Between 2014 and Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, both sides stepped up the conflict, particularly with economic instruments. In 2022, Vladimir Putin deployed the "energy weapon", hoping to split the EU and weaken its ability to act decisively. This article deals with the development of the EU's relationship with Russia and the EU's strategy to link Russia more closely to the liberal international world order through energy trade up to 2014, the transition to a more geopolitical strategy in the following years, and open economic conflict today. The EU has long seen gas as a strategic commodity. The debates in the EU about how to deal with dependence on Russia meant that the organization was well prepared in 2022, even if this was under-communicated to Moscow. The EU's, and especially Germany's, forceful response to Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine created far higher tension than Putin probably expected. Strongly reduced gas trade is an important part of this picture, although it has been overshadowed somewhat by Western economic and military support for Ukraine. The EU's liberal strategy may have failed to prevent war between Russia and Ukraine, but the EU's regulatory toolbox quickly proved to play a central role in dealing with Putin's use of gas as a weapon.Item Building a Transnational Developmental State in Europe:Lessons from the Big Bang enlargement for the next integration round(2025-09-22)Why should the EU care about the developmental externalities of enlargement? To answer this question, we bridge the enlargement literature, which studies rule transfer prior to accession, and the political economy literature, which examines how economic actors from less developed EU member states adapt to these rules in the post-accession period. Each has its own blind spots. The enlargement literature does not explain why the EU cares–or should care–about anticipating and mitigating the longer-term negative externalities of rule transfer. The political economy literature offers insights into how new member states cope with these externalities but it does not examine in detail how and why the EU takes - or should take - market-correcting measures while integrating less developed economies into the Single Market. In this paper, we show that during the Eastern enlargement the EU laid the foundations of a short-lived Transnational Developmental State (TDS) to correct market outcomes. We also identify three mechanisms that compelled EU insiders to address the negative externalities of rule transfer. Beyond its theoretical contribution, our analysis provides crucial lessons for the next round of EU integration and especially for managing Ukraine's EU accession.
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