Title:

Associate Professor

Pozition:

Programme Director (International Relations)

Institute

Institute of Social Sciences and International Relations

Academic degree

2015 - PhD in Political Science

Education:

• 2008-2015 - PhD in Political Science, Central European University
• 2002-2007 - MA in International Relations, Corvinus University, Budapest

Publications:

• Friedmann, V. ‘English School,’ in: Hansen-Magnusson and Vetterlein (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Responsibility and International Politics. Routledge, forthcoming (2020)
• Friedmann V. ‘Climate Change and Public Health.’ In: Romaniuk S., Thapa M., Marton P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2020.
• Friedmann V. ‘Securitization of Foreign Investments.’ In: Romaniuk S., Thapa M., Marton P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2020.
• Friedmann, V. ‘A globális kormányzás eszközrendszere a klímaváltozás humán mobilitásra gyakorolt hatásának kontextusában [Global governance tools in the context of climate change-induced human mobility] – Annales (Budapest Metropolitan University), Vol. 10. (2018), 31-50.
• Friedmann, V. ’Politics without sovereignty’, Annales (Budapest Metropolitan University), Vol. 9. (2017): 31-36.
• Friedmann, V. ‘Disaggregated planetary governance: Implications for the nexus of climate change and international migration,’ Corvinus Journal of International Relations – COJOURN, 2016, 1(1): 1-23.
• Friedmann, V. and P. Marton. ‘Bevezető gondolatok a biztonsági tanulmányok néhány aktuális kérdéséről’ (Introductory thoughts on some current questions in security studies), in: Péter Stepper and Kinga Szálkai (eds.). A biztonság szektoriális értelmezése – Új kihívások a kutatás napirendjén (Sectoral Understanding of Security – New Challenges on the Research Agenda). Publikon, 2015.
• Friedmann, V. ‘Governance of life in Chinese moral experience. The quest for an adequate life by Zhang, E., Kleinman, A., & Tu, W. (eds.)’. Journal of International and Global Studies (Lindenwood University Press), 2014, 6(1): 153-155. (book review)
• Friedmann, V. ‘Institutions and Development by Mary M. Shirley’. Acta Oeconomica, 2010, 60(2): 229-233. (book review)
• Friedmann, V. ‘Demokrácia, inkluzivitás, biztonság: a kenyai és a szudáni választások vizsgálata a politikai elit stratégiáinak függvényében (Democracy, inclusivity, security: a study of elections in Kenya and Sudan in the mirror of the strategies of political elites)’. Külügyi Szemle (Foreign Policy Review), Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, 2009(4): 38-52.
• Friedmann, V. (ed.): Globális felelősség: Magyarország részvétele a nemzetközi államépítésben (Global Responsibility: Hungary’s Participation in International State-building). Corvinus Society for Foreign Affairs and Culture, 2008
• Friedmann, V. ‘A konfliktuskezelés új terepei – Az államon belüli konfliktusok regionális, inter- és transznacionális dimenziói (New Terrains of Conflict Management – The Regional, Inter- and Transnational Dimensions of Intrastate Conflicts)’. Kül-Világ 4(3-4): 75-99.

Subjects:

• Global Politics Advanced Study Group
• History of Modern International Relations
• International Ethics
• International Organizations
• International Relations
• Introduction to International Relations
• International Systems in World History
• Technology and Politics

Research fields:

• history of international political thought
• historical international systems
• great powers and international order
• responsibility in international politics
• global governance of climate migration

Other educational and professional work:

• 2019 - lecturer, ELTE
• 2016 - lecturer, CEU
• 2012, 2013, 2017 - lecturer, Mathias Corvinus Collegium

Other professional experiences, previous work places, positions:

• 2017-2018 - Research Assistant at CEU, "Taking Sides in Revolutionary Times: Major Power Side-Taking in Violent Regime Conflicts" project
• 2011-2013 - Research Assistant at CEU, "The Role of Governance in the Resolution of Socioeconomic and Political Conflict in India and Europe” project
• Sept-Dec. 2011 - Visiting Researcher, Shanghai Jiaotong University
• 2011-2018 - Editor of Biztonságpolitikai Szemle (Security Policy Review)

Memberships

• 2018 - Central and Eastern European Center for Asian Studies
• 2016 - European International Studies Association
• 2013 - Central and Eastern European International Studies Association

Description

Viktor Friedmann joined METU in 2015. He earned his PhD in Political Science at Central European University. Viktor's main research interests are the history of global governance, great power management, the history of international political thought and Chinese foreign policy (both contemporary and historical). He is also interested in the global governance of climate migration, in classical realist, English School and Foucauldian approaches to International Relations, in the history of international relations and in the impact of technological change on global politics.