Academics: Visitors
Csaba Békés
Csaba Békés holds a PhD in history from Janus Pannonius University in Pécs and is the founding director of the Cold War History Research Centre in Budapest. Previously he was the coordinator of the Hungarian Program of the Project on Openness in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union based at the National Security Archive in Washington, DC. He was also a senior research fellow and research coordinator at the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Budapest.
He was a research fellow with the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and the Center Fellow with the Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict at the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University.
He is a member of the international editorial board of the journal Cold War History, published by Frank Cass in London, and is a member of the international editorial board of the Journal of Cold War Studies published at Harvard University. Since 2003, Mr. Békés has been the sole member from East Central Europe of the international group of scholars working on the three-volume book project The Cambridge History of the Cold War, for which he wrote the chapter "East Central Europe from 1953 to the Aftermath of the 1956 Revolutions (1953–1960)."
Mr. Békés was a visiting lecturer at many institutions in Hungary, including most recently Budapest University of Economics and Corvinus Collegium. He was also a visiting lecturer at Turku University in Finland.
His academic and professional interests are Cold War history, East-West relations, Hungary's international relations after World War II, the role of the East Central European states in the Cold War and the history of European integration. Mr. Békés published extensively on these topics, as well as organizing and participating in numerous international conferences.
Dr. Békés will be the Istvan Deak Visiting Professor of East Central European Studies for fall 2007.