Tamás Meszerics MEP |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 25 May 2014 |
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Constituency | Hungary |
Personal details | |
Born |
Győr, Hungary |
4 December 1964
Political party |
Hungarian: Politics Can Be Different EU: European Green Party |
Alma mater | |
Website | www |
Tamás Meszerics (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈtɒmaːʃ ˈmɛsɛrit͡ʃ]; born 4 December 1964) is a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Hungary. He is a member of the Politics Can Be Different, part of the European Green Party.
Since 2014 he is a Member of the European Parliament as part of the The Greens–European Free Alliance.
He studied at the Faculty of Arts at Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest where he earned his Master of Arts in history and English Studies in 1990. After graduation he was a fellow at the Institute for International Studies at the University of Leeds and at the George Mason University. Beginning with 1992 he became a program coordinator, in 1995 a research assistant at the Political Science Department of the Central European University. Meszerics earned his PhD degree in comtenporary history at his alma mater about Anglo-American foreign policy in 2000.
He was appointed assistant professor in 2002. In 2011 he was a visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies of the Harvard University. His fields of interest are theories of democracy, historical and theorical studies of intelligence, bureaucracy, bureaucratic politics and their theories, the history of modern Central European countries and behavioral game theory.