Aron BUZOGÁNY

Aron BUZOGÁNY is Assistant Professor of Political Science with a focus on European Environmental and Energy Policy at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU). He has previously taught at Freie Universität Berlin, Ludwig Maximilians University and the German Public Administration University in Speyer and has held visiting research positions at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and the Hungarian Academy of Science’s Centre for Social Science. He studied Political Science, Economics, Sociology as well as Peace and Conflict Studies in Tübingen, Helsinki, Moscow (MGIMO) and Hamburg, and holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin.

His main research interests are in the field of comparative politics with a focus on regional integration, policy analysis and political contestation by civil society and social movements. Together with Laure Delcour, he leads a research project on sectoral patterns of state-society relations in the EU’s Southern and Eastern neighbourhood. He has been contributing to several collaborative research efforts focusing on transnational political contention in the field of environment and climate (TRAPOCO), sustainability conflicts in semi-peripheral economies (SACHER, STRUDEL), the implementation of the European Green Deal (GreenDeal-NET) or on strengthening the democratic governance of climate transitions (RETOOL). His work has appeared, inter alia, in the Review of International Political Economy, the Journal of Common Market Studies or the Journal of European Public Policy. 

He has recently co-edited a Special Issue in Environmental Politics on environmentalism in Eastern Europe (with Adam Fagan) and one on Democracy and the European Green Deal in the Journal of European Integration (with Louisa Parks and Diarmuid Torney). He also serves on the editorial board of East European Politics, one of the leading journals in area studies. 

At Natolin he will be teaching "EU Energy Governance in the EU's Neighbourhood" course.