ARENA - Center for European Studies, University of Oslo
ARENA is a research centre
studying the dynamics of the evolving
European systems of governance.
Jozef Batora
Senior Researcher

- Phone: +47 22 85 53 32
- Fax: +47 22 85 78 32
- E-mail: jozef.batora ATarena.uio.no
Jozef Batora is engaged by ARENA for the spring semester of 2006. His doctoral dissertation was submitted to the University of Oslo in December 2005. Batora's previous record includes degrees in political science and public administration from Comenius University, Bratislava and the University of Bergen. In the academic year 2003/04 he was a visiting scholar at Scancor, Stanford University.
Project(s):
Institutional change dynamics in diplomacy in the context of European integration.
Selected publications:
- Bátora, J. (2006): "Public Diplomacy in Small and Medium-Sized States: Norway and Canada" The Hague Journal of Diplomacy (forthcoming).
- Bátora, J. (2005): "Does the European Union Transform the Institution of Diplomacy?" Journal of European Public Policy, 12 (1), 44-66.
- Bátora, J. (2003): "Spillet om det nye Europa"
[The New Europe Game]
in Rasch, B.E., P.K. Mydske and J.H. Matlary (eds.) Spillet om Irak
[The Iraq Game]
Oslo: Abstrakt Forlag.
- Bátora, J. (2003): "Europeanization of Diplomacy and the Slovak Foreign Ministry" Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, 4 (2), 116-129.
- Bátora, J. and I.B. Neumann (2002): "Cautious Surfers: The Norwegian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Negotiates the Wave of the Information Age”
Diplomacy and Statecraft, 13 (3), 23-56.