Biography
Tamás Peragovics is research fellow at the Institute of World Economics (CERS, HUN-REN) and assistant professor at ELTE University Budapest, Hungary. He earned his PhD in Political Science from the Central European University in 2022; he has two MA degrees in International Relations, and a BA degree in French language and literature. His dissertation established a novel analytical framework to understand the process of diplomatic normalization, which he fruitfully applied to the case of the US-China rapprochement in the 1960s and 1970s.
During his time at the EUI, Tamás plans to work on multiple article-length projects and to turn his dissertation into a book manuscript, which refines and presents his theoretical innovation. He seeks to deepen the connections between the sociology of strangeness and practices of diplomacy, particularly in the context of diplomatic encounters.
Besides diplomacy and critical diplomatic history, Tamás is interested in the dynamically changing relations between China and the European Union, with particular focus on the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. In 2023, he was a visiting fellow at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin, Germany, studying China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Hungary.
Tamás has experience teaching a range of subjects at both undergraduate and graduate levels. These include International Relations theory, Critical Security Studies, and other courses related to diplomacy, conflict management, and foreign policy analysis.