Buzogany, A., Mikecz, D., & Kocyba, P. (2026). Differences within global movements: insights from FFF climate protests in Western and Eastern Europe. Environmental Politics, 1–27.
Abstract: Research on the global climate movement underlines the importance of learning and diffusion processes for adopting similar master frames and movement tactics. At the same time, participation research suggests regionally different patterns of mobilisation and protest behaviour. Due to different historical socialisation processes, Western and Eastern European citizens show differences in political activity despite […]
Aron Buzogany
Aron Buzogány is Assistant Professor of Political Science with a focus on European Environmental and Energy Policy at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU). He has previously taught at Freie Universität Berlin, Ludwig Maximilians University and the German Public Administration University in Speyer and has held visiting research positions at Yale […]
Buzogany, A. & Varga, M., 2025. Breaking the rural underdevelopment trap? Eastern Enlargement, agricultural policy and lessons for Ukraine. Journal of European Public Policy, 1-22.
Abstract: This article examines the lessons that the European Union’s Eastern Enlargement and the rural transitions it encouraged in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) hold for an enlarging EU and for Ukraine. Rural development policies in CEE were marked by institutional monocropping and a depoliticized approach to market building. Over two decades later, the EU […]
Buzogany, A. & Varga, M., 2025. Making Markets Through Coalitions: The European Union and the Debate Over Ukraine’s National Resources. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 63 (1), 108-126.
This article studies how the European Union (EU) influences the dynamics between supporters and opponents of market liberalization in partner countries. We focus on Ukraine’s attempts to safeguard timber trade and agricultural land sales from international markets through moratoria before 2022. We find that the EU intervenes in domestic debates both directly and through domestic […]
Buzogany, A. (2022). Natural Allies? External Governance and Environmental Civil Society Organizations in the EU’s Eastern Partnership. Problems of Post-Communism, 69(4–5), 369–379.
Civil society networks have received little attention when it comes to sectoral analysis of adaptation of EU rules beyond borders. This article offers a remedy by conceptualizing EU influence as an opportunity structure, a resource, and a discursive frame used by civil society organizations. Empirically, it describes how EU rules are used to support environmental […]
Davidescu, S., & Buzogany, A. (2021). Cutting Deals: Transnational Advocacy Networks and the European Union Timber Regulation at the Eastern Border. The International Spectator, 56(3), 105–118.
The European Union’s (EU) Green Deal gives increased attention to the sustainability of international product cycles by implementing ‘due diligence’ requirements. We examine the difficulties in the implementation of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) in two countries with weak management capacities such as Romania and Ukraine. We find that domestic and transnational civil society actors […]
Buzogány, A. (2018). Civil Society Organisations beyond the European Union: Normative Expectations and Local Realities. Journal of Contemporary European Research, 14(2), 187–205.
This article analyses the development of the EU’s external civil society agenda and how this is interpreted by various actors. Using qualitative interviews carried out in Ukraine, Georgia and Brussels, the article shows how the EU’s external civil society agenda has developed in parallel with the EU’s internal ‘governance turn’. Changes in this narrative from […]
Buzogány, A. (2016). EU-Russia regulatory competition and business interests in post-Soviet countries: the case of forestry and chemical security in Ukraine. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 57(1), 138–159.
A central aspect of the EU’s influence over countries located in its neighborhood consists in its ability to export regulatory governance arrangements beyond its borders. Taking the example of developments in the field of forestry and chemical security management in Ukraine, this contribution underlines the importance of the interplay between domestic and external interests by […]
Buzogány, A. (2013). Selective Adoption of EU Environmental Norms in Ukraine. Convergence á la Carte. Europe-Asia Studies, 65(4), 609–630.
While the EU’s policies towards non-member states are often discussed within frameworks of ‘high politics’, one of the most important features of the European Neighbourhood Policy is its emphasis on the ‘low politics’ of sectoral dialogue in functionally differentiated policy fields. Examining policy change triggered in Ukraine by the EU’s neighbourhood policy framework, the essay […]