Professor James W. Scott joins HUN-REN CERS to establish a new research group within HUN-REN’s excellence programme to investigate small state geopolitics in a multipolar world and prospects for Southeast European regional cooperation, writes a press release of HUN-REN. Professor James W. Scott, one of the most prominent international figures in border and regional studies, arrives in Hungary as part of the HUN-REN Welcome Home and Foreign Researcher Recruitment Programme. The aim of his newly established research group at the Institute for Regional Studies at the HUN-REN Centre for Economic and Regional Studies (HUN-REN CERS IRS) is to investigate small state actorness and geopolitical positionality in the Southeast European (Western Balkans) context. The project focuses on the EU-member states of Bulgaria, Croatia and Hungary, as well as the candidate states of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Kosovo.
This new research project builds on HUN-REN CERS IRS’s long-standing experience in the analysis of regional cooperation, cross-border relations and geopolitics. In terms of method, it will be based on document and media analysis, stakeholder interaction and knowledge-exchange seminars. The project will serve to consolidate the development of HUN-REN CERS’s Border Research Group. Moreover, comparative research will be facilitated through HUN-REN CERS IRS’s extensive collaborative networks within Central and Southeastern Europe.
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