Election Countdown: Navigating Geopolitics in Eurasia

Tune into a discussion on geopolitics ahead of the United States 2024 election with prominent experts, including Budapest Metropolitan University Professors Victor Friedman and Péter Rada and School of Politics and Global Studies Professor Thorin Wright and Postdoctoral Researcher Noelle Troutman. The discussion will dive into topics like the NATO alliance, the Russia-Ukraine war, and U.S.-China relations as the U.S. election nears. This event is hosted by the School of Politics and Global Studies and will be moderated by SPGS Director Güneş Murat Tezcür. 

About the panelists 

Viktor Friedmann is an Associate Professor at Budapest Metropolitan University where he currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Business, Communication, and Tourism. He holds a PhD in Political Science (International Relations) from Central European University. His research interests include the foreign policy of the People’s Republic of China, historical international relations, and the international politics of digital technologies.

Péter Rada is the Vice-Rector for International Relations at the Budapest Metropolitan University, where he has been an associate professor since 2012. He served as a diplomat at the Hungarian Embassy in Washington, D.C.. Also, he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary in different positions related to strategic planning, the Middle East, and the CFSP of the EU. He is the Co-Chair of the International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on World Orders. He has a PhD in political science and habilitation in public administration sciences.

Thorin Wright is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. His research mainly focuses on international relations and international conflict processes, with a major interest in the intersection of international conflict and domestic politics. He received his doctorate in political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. 

Noelle Troutman is a Security and Defense (S&D+) PluS Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. She received her PhD in political science in 2023 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She formerly served as a 2021-2023 U.S.-Asia Grand Strategy Predoctoral Fellow at the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California. She studies East Asian security, focusing on the U.S. alliance network in Asia.