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I am a historian turned political scientist based at the Central European University in Budapest. For the last ten years I worked in real-life politics, for he last four serving as a Member of the European Parliament.My interests range from problems of democracy, to the nature of foreign policy decisions and the complexities of resistance and collaboration. In terms of history, my favourite period is modern-contemporary international history, including, but not restricted to diplomatic history of the 20th century.

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An Experimental Analysis of the Ultimatum Game: The Role of Competing Motivations

Social Science Research Network, Feb 26, 2002

Pseudo-Wisdom and Intelligence Failures

International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Dec 1, 2009

Almost all the strategic surprises that the major powers suffered in the last one hundred years a... more Almost all the strategic surprises that the major powers suffered in the last one hundred years are at least partly attributable to some form of intelligence failure. For the United States the new millennium started with two major failures of this sort: the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Naturally, the ever-growing literature in Intelligence Studies treats this topic with special emphasis, at least on a par with other salient issues such as the consumer-producer interface and=or the perennial question of politicization. Despite the widespread attention, no single definition of intelligence failure commands

Az ultimátumjáték elemzéséhez

Kozgazdasagi Szemle, 2003

Tanulmanyunkban az ultimatumjatek kiserleti eredmenyeinek ertelmezesevel foglalkozunk. Előszor a ... more Tanulmanyunkban az ultimatumjatek kiserleti eredmenyeinek ertelmezesevel foglalkozunk. Előszor a jatekkal kapcsolatos irodalomban eddig felvetett magyarazatok kritikai vizsgalatat vegezzuk el. Majd kifejtjuk, hogy miert erdemes komolyan venni a versengő indokok hipoteziset, amely szerint a haszonmaximalizalasi megfontolasokon tul meltanyossagi szempontok is vezerlik a donteshozokat ebben a jatekban. Ezek a szempontok azonban nem preferenciakat fejeznek ki. Vegul kozoljuk sajat kiserleteink eredmenyeit.* Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) kod: C72, C78, C91, C92.

Independence before All Else: Hungarian Anti-Communist Resistance in the East European Context, 1945-1956

East European Quarterly, Mar 22, 2007

Skip to Navigation. Home. Search this site: Alumni & Careers; Prospective Students; Faculty P... more

Az ultimátumjáték elemzéséhez [Towards an analysis of the ultimatum game]

Kozgazdasagi Szemle, 2003

Tanulmanyunkban az ultimatumjatek kiserleti eredmenyeinek ertelmezesevel foglalkozunk. Előszor a ... more Tanulmanyunkban az ultimatumjatek kiserleti eredmenyeinek ertelmezesevel foglalkozunk. Előszor a jatekkal kapcsolatos irodalomban eddig felvetett magyarazatok kritikai vizsgalatat vegezzuk el. Majd kifejtjuk, hogy miert erdemes komolyan venni a versengő indokok hipoteziset, amely szerint a haszonmaximalizalasi megfontolasokon tul meltanyossagi szempontok is vezerlik a donteshozokat ebben a jatekban. Ezek a szempontok azonban nem preferenciakat fejeznek ki. Vegul kozoljuk sajat kiserleteink eredmenyeit.* Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) kod: C72, C78, C91, C92.

Stratégiai viselkedés és bizottsági döntés [Strategic behaviour and committee decison]

Kozgazdasagi Szemle, 1997

Az abszolut tobbseg eljarasi elvere epulő szavazasi jatekok egy resze lehetőve teszi, hogy a jate... more Az abszolut tobbseg eljarasi elvere epulő szavazasi jatekok egy resze lehetőve teszi, hogy a jatekosok strategiai viselkedesukkel ellensulyozzak az ugyrend hatasat. A tanulmany a Kozep-Europai Egyetemen vegzett bizottsagi dontesi kiserletek eredmenyeit ismerteti. Bar a strategiai szavazas mar nehany ismetles utan megfigyelhető volt, az egyeni szintű adatok ujabb kerdeseket vetettek fel a strategiai viselkedes termeszetet illetően. A lehetseges magyarazatok kozul a legmeggyőzőbb az az erv, hogy a tobbsegi szavazas szituacios korlatai olyan egyszerű tanulasi palyara terelhetik az egyeneket, amely alacsony racionalitasu es megis strategiai jellegű viselkedest eredmenyezhet.

Stratégiai viselkedés és bizottsági döntés

Kozgazdasagi Szemle, 1997

Skip to Navigation. Home. Search this site: Alumni &amp;amp; Careers; Prospective Students; F... more

An Experimental Analysis of the Ultimatum Game: The Role of Competing Motivations

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Nov 1, 2001

Voting for Oneself: Making Sense of Common Intuitions

ceu.hu

Tamás Meszerics. Voting for Oneself: Making Sense of Common Intuitions. Paper prepared for the Dc... more

The Deviation Debate Reopened

Books-Budapest Review of Books-English Edition, 1992

Rule of law oversight in the EU : can value conditionality be reinforced?

This contribution was delivered on the occasion of the EUI State of the Union in Florence on 02 M... more This contribution was delivered on the occasion of the EUI State of the Union in Florence on 02 May 2019The panellists will discuss the ways in which the European Union coped with recent deviations from the shared values of rule of law, democracy, and fundamental rights in some of the member states in Central and Eastern Europe. The main question to be answered by the panellists is whether the EU has the tools and the willingness to enforce compliance with the core values of the EU outlined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union. The panellists will assess how the Article 7 procedures triggered against Poland and Hungary can be evaluated from the perspective of the EU and the two member states concerned

Tudom, hogy tudod, hogy tudom…" – a hidegháború hírszerző sztárjai –

A bensőséges barát bizalmas hangján" : A Magyarországra irányuló angol és amerikai titkos propagandaműveletek a második világháborúban

A szavak súlya

2000, 2020

A szavak súlya "Mert kinek ingadozó az erénye egy ingadozó kor Embereként, az a bajt szaporítja c... more

Stratégiai viselkedés és bizottsági döntés

Közgazdasági Szemle, 1997

Az abszolut tobbseg eljarasi elvere epulő szavazasi jatekok egy resze lehetőve teszi, hogy a jate... more Az abszolut tobbseg eljarasi elvere epulő szavazasi jatekok egy resze lehetőve teszi, hogy a jatekosok strategiai viselkedesukkel ellensulyozzak az ugyrend hatasat. A tanulmany a Kozep-Europai Egyetemen vegzett bizottsagi dontesi kiserletek eredmenyeit ismerteti. Bar a strategiai szavazas mar nehany ismetles utan megfigyelhető volt, az egyeni szintű adatok ujabb kerdeseket vetettek fel a strategiai viselkedes termeszetet illetően. A lehetseges magyarazatok kozul a legmeggyőzőbb az az erv, hogy a tobbsegi szavazas szituacios korlatai olyan egyszerű tanulasi palyara terelhetik az egyeneket, amely alacsony racionalitasu es megis strategiai jellegű viselkedest eredmenyezhet.

"Tudom, hogy tudod, hogy tudom…" -a hidegháború hírszerzõ sztárjai

Replika, 2000

Tanácsadók, történelmi párhuzamok és generációk az amerikai külpolitikában

Századvég, 2013

Az esetlegességek hatalma

Századvég, 2010

Independence before all else EUQ

East European Quarterly, 2007

Undermine, or Bring Them Over: SOE and OSS Plans for Hungary in 1943

Journal of Contemporary History, 2008

The history of the peace-feelers from the Axis satellites, and among them the Hungarian emissarie... more The history of the peace-feelers from the Axis satellites, and among them the Hungarian emissaries, is described in detail both in Hungarian historiography and in the general scholarship on the second world war. Much less is known, however, about the plans the British and American special services, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)-who also handled the peace-feelers-developed for special operations (SO) in Hungary. Using archival material from the UK, the US and Hungary, this article reconstructs the planning process between March 1943 and March 1944, probably the most crucial 12-month period during the war for East Central Europe. The American and British plans for Hungarian operations evolved within a changing strategic landscape. The arguments over the best course for waging the secret war sometimes reflected the dynamics of the allied strategic debate, but sometimes acquired their own life. This article presents the SO plans against the background of theses debates as they related to the possibility of a Balkan invasion and, with this, the fate of SouthEastern Europe and Hungary. The year 1943 is also when the OSS came of age and strove to establish a role in the region independent of the SOE and the British services in general. The restrained rivalry between the American and British organizations was also clearly observable in the Hungarian case. In the first section I present a sketchy overview of the Hungarian political context, while the second describes briefly the intelligence activities of Britain from the start of the war and the beginnings of the special operations plans. Section three is devoted to the strategic debates, while in sections four and five I analyse the British and American plans in greater detail. Section six describes the intensifying rivalry between OSS and SOE in the region. Section seven concludes the paper. On 9 March 1942 Miklós Kállay accepted the nomination for premiership, but only after persistent prodding by the Regent, Miklós Horthy. 1 His hesita

An Experimental Analysis of the Ultimatum Game: The Role of Competing Motivations

Social Science Research Network, Feb 26, 2002

Pseudo-Wisdom and Intelligence Failures

International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Dec 1, 2009

Almost all the strategic surprises that the major powers suffered in the last one hundred years a... more Almost all the strategic surprises that the major powers suffered in the last one hundred years are at least partly attributable to some form of intelligence failure. For the United States the new millennium started with two major failures of this sort: the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Naturally, the ever-growing literature in Intelligence Studies treats this topic with special emphasis, at least on a par with other salient issues such as the consumer-producer interface and=or the perennial question of politicization. Despite the widespread attention, no single definition of intelligence failure commands

Az ultimátumjáték elemzéséhez

Kozgazdasagi Szemle, 2003

Tanulmanyunkban az ultimatumjatek kiserleti eredmenyeinek ertelmezesevel foglalkozunk. Előszor a ... more Tanulmanyunkban az ultimatumjatek kiserleti eredmenyeinek ertelmezesevel foglalkozunk. Előszor a jatekkal kapcsolatos irodalomban eddig felvetett magyarazatok kritikai vizsgalatat vegezzuk el. Majd kifejtjuk, hogy miert erdemes komolyan venni a versengő indokok hipoteziset, amely szerint a haszonmaximalizalasi megfontolasokon tul meltanyossagi szempontok is vezerlik a donteshozokat ebben a jatekban. Ezek a szempontok azonban nem preferenciakat fejeznek ki. Vegul kozoljuk sajat kiserleteink eredmenyeit.* Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) kod: C72, C78, C91, C92.

Independence before All Else: Hungarian Anti-Communist Resistance in the East European Context, 1945-1956

East European Quarterly, Mar 22, 2007

Skip to Navigation. Home. Search this site: Alumni & Careers; Prospective Students; Faculty P... more

Az ultimátumjáték elemzéséhez [Towards an analysis of the ultimatum game]

Kozgazdasagi Szemle, 2003

Tanulmanyunkban az ultimatumjatek kiserleti eredmenyeinek ertelmezesevel foglalkozunk. Előszor a ... more Tanulmanyunkban az ultimatumjatek kiserleti eredmenyeinek ertelmezesevel foglalkozunk. Előszor a jatekkal kapcsolatos irodalomban eddig felvetett magyarazatok kritikai vizsgalatat vegezzuk el. Majd kifejtjuk, hogy miert erdemes komolyan venni a versengő indokok hipoteziset, amely szerint a haszonmaximalizalasi megfontolasokon tul meltanyossagi szempontok is vezerlik a donteshozokat ebben a jatekban. Ezek a szempontok azonban nem preferenciakat fejeznek ki. Vegul kozoljuk sajat kiserleteink eredmenyeit.* Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) kod: C72, C78, C91, C92.

Stratégiai viselkedés és bizottsági döntés [Strategic behaviour and committee decison]

Kozgazdasagi Szemle, 1997

Az abszolut tobbseg eljarasi elvere epulő szavazasi jatekok egy resze lehetőve teszi, hogy a jate... more Az abszolut tobbseg eljarasi elvere epulő szavazasi jatekok egy resze lehetőve teszi, hogy a jatekosok strategiai viselkedesukkel ellensulyozzak az ugyrend hatasat. A tanulmany a Kozep-Europai Egyetemen vegzett bizottsagi dontesi kiserletek eredmenyeit ismerteti. Bar a strategiai szavazas mar nehany ismetles utan megfigyelhető volt, az egyeni szintű adatok ujabb kerdeseket vetettek fel a strategiai viselkedes termeszetet illetően. A lehetseges magyarazatok kozul a legmeggyőzőbb az az erv, hogy a tobbsegi szavazas szituacios korlatai olyan egyszerű tanulasi palyara terelhetik az egyeneket, amely alacsony racionalitasu es megis strategiai jellegű viselkedest eredmenyezhet.

Stratégiai viselkedés és bizottsági döntés

Kozgazdasagi Szemle, 1997

Skip to Navigation. Home. Search this site: Alumni &amp;amp; Careers; Prospective Students; F... more

An Experimental Analysis of the Ultimatum Game: The Role of Competing Motivations

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Nov 1, 2001

Voting for Oneself: Making Sense of Common Intuitions

ceu.hu

Tamás Meszerics. Voting for Oneself: Making Sense of Common Intuitions. Paper prepared for the Dc... more

The Deviation Debate Reopened

Books-Budapest Review of Books-English Edition, 1992

Rule of law oversight in the EU : can value conditionality be reinforced?

This contribution was delivered on the occasion of the EUI State of the Union in Florence on 02 M... more This contribution was delivered on the occasion of the EUI State of the Union in Florence on 02 May 2019The panellists will discuss the ways in which the European Union coped with recent deviations from the shared values of rule of law, democracy, and fundamental rights in some of the member states in Central and Eastern Europe. The main question to be answered by the panellists is whether the EU has the tools and the willingness to enforce compliance with the core values of the EU outlined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union. The panellists will assess how the Article 7 procedures triggered against Poland and Hungary can be evaluated from the perspective of the EU and the two member states concerned

Tudom, hogy tudod, hogy tudom…" – a hidegháború hírszerző sztárjai –

A bensőséges barát bizalmas hangján" : A Magyarországra irányuló angol és amerikai titkos propagandaműveletek a második világháborúban

A szavak súlya

2000, 2020

A szavak súlya "Mert kinek ingadozó az erénye egy ingadozó kor Embereként, az a bajt szaporítja c... more

Stratégiai viselkedés és bizottsági döntés

Közgazdasági Szemle, 1997

Az abszolut tobbseg eljarasi elvere epulő szavazasi jatekok egy resze lehetőve teszi, hogy a jate... more Az abszolut tobbseg eljarasi elvere epulő szavazasi jatekok egy resze lehetőve teszi, hogy a jatekosok strategiai viselkedesukkel ellensulyozzak az ugyrend hatasat. A tanulmany a Kozep-Europai Egyetemen vegzett bizottsagi dontesi kiserletek eredmenyeit ismerteti. Bar a strategiai szavazas mar nehany ismetles utan megfigyelhető volt, az egyeni szintű adatok ujabb kerdeseket vetettek fel a strategiai viselkedes termeszetet illetően. A lehetseges magyarazatok kozul a legmeggyőzőbb az az erv, hogy a tobbsegi szavazas szituacios korlatai olyan egyszerű tanulasi palyara terelhetik az egyeneket, amely alacsony racionalitasu es megis strategiai jellegű viselkedest eredmenyezhet.

"Tudom, hogy tudod, hogy tudom…" -a hidegháború hírszerzõ sztárjai

Replika, 2000

Tanácsadók, történelmi párhuzamok és generációk az amerikai külpolitikában

Századvég, 2013

Az esetlegességek hatalma

Századvég, 2010

Independence before all else EUQ

East European Quarterly, 2007

Undermine, or Bring Them Over: SOE and OSS Plans for Hungary in 1943

Journal of Contemporary History, 2008

The history of the peace-feelers from the Axis satellites, and among them the Hungarian emissarie... more The history of the peace-feelers from the Axis satellites, and among them the Hungarian emissaries, is described in detail both in Hungarian historiography and in the general scholarship on the second world war. Much less is known, however, about the plans the British and American special services, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)-who also handled the peace-feelers-developed for special operations (SO) in Hungary. Using archival material from the UK, the US and Hungary, this article reconstructs the planning process between March 1943 and March 1944, probably the most crucial 12-month period during the war for East Central Europe. The American and British plans for Hungarian operations evolved within a changing strategic landscape. The arguments over the best course for waging the secret war sometimes reflected the dynamics of the allied strategic debate, but sometimes acquired their own life. This article presents the SO plans against the background of theses debates as they related to the possibility of a Balkan invasion and, with this, the fate of SouthEastern Europe and Hungary. The year 1943 is also when the OSS came of age and strove to establish a role in the region independent of the SOE and the British services in general. The restrained rivalry between the American and British organizations was also clearly observable in the Hungarian case. In the first section I present a sketchy overview of the Hungarian political context, while the second describes briefly the intelligence activities of Britain from the start of the war and the beginnings of the special operations plans. Section three is devoted to the strategic debates, while in sections four and five I analyse the British and American plans in greater detail. Section six describes the intensifying rivalry between OSS and SOE in the region. Section seven concludes the paper. On 9 March 1942 Miklós Kállay accepted the nomination for premiership, but only after persistent prodding by the Regent, Miklós Horthy. 1 His hesita