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Overview

Zoltan Barany is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly contributions focus mainly on sociology and political science, as well as political science and international relations, with some work relating to economics and education.

Their research covers topics related to Middle East and Rwanda conflicts, socioeconomic development in the MENA region, Islamic studies and history, Jewish and Middle Eastern studies, European and Russian geopolitical military strategies, and defense, military, and policy studies.

Zoltan Barany's recent papers include the following:

  • The Gulf Monarchies and Israel: From Aversion to Pragmatism, 2020, The Middle East Journal
  • Burma: The Generals Strike Back, 2021, Journal of democracy
  • Armies and Autocrats: Why Putin's Military Failed, 2023, Journal of democracy
  • The Evolution of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates, 2021, The Middle East Journal
  • Index, 2020, Central European University Press eBooks

They have published a book titled The Political Economy of Gulf Defense Establishments in 2021 with Cambridge University Press.

Zoltan Barany has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Sherry R. Arnstein
  • Ba ̆descu
  • D Daróczi
  • K. V. Kale
  • L Ladányi

Their work is regularly published in venues such as:

  • Journal of democracy
  • The Middle East Journal
  • Central European University Press eBooks
  • Hagyomány, identitás, történelem.
  • Journal of Arabian Studies

Best Publications

  • The East European Gypsies: Regime Change, Marginality, and Ethnopolitics

    Zoltan D. Barany

  • The Role of the Military

    Zoltan Barany

  • Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence by Sheena Chestnut Greitens. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2016. 240 pp. Paper, $29.99.

    Zoltan Barany

  • The Soldier and the Changing State: Building Democratic Armies in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas

    Zoltan D. Barany

  • Living on the Edge: The East European Roma in Postcommunist Politics and Societies

    Zoltan D. Barany

  • Ethnic mobilization and the state: the Roma in Eastern Europe

    Zoltan Barany

  • Democratic Consolidation and the Military: The East European Experience

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  • Ethnic Politics after Communism

    Zoltan D. Barany;Robert G. Moser

  • Russian politics : challenges of democratization

    Zoltan D. Barany;Robert G. Moser

  • Burma: Suu Kyi's Missteps

    Zoltan Barany

  • BULGARIA'S ROYAL ELECTIONS

    Zoltan D. Barany

  • Ethnic Mobilization without Prerequisites: The East European Gypsies

    Zoltan D. Barany

  • How Armies Respond to Revolutions and Why

    Zoltan D. Barany

  • Politics and the Roma in state-socialist Eastern Europe

    Zoltan Barany

  • Orphans of Transition: Gypsies in Eastern Europe

    Zoltan D. Barany

  • The Future of NATO Expansion: Four Case Studies

    Zoltan D. Barany

  • Is Democracy Exportable

    Zoltan D. Barany;Robert G. Moser

  • The legacies of communism in Eastern Europe

    Zoltan D. Barany;Iván Völgyes

  • NATO's Peaceful Advance

    Zoltan D. Barany

  • Civil-Military Relations in Comparative Perspective: East-Central and Southeastern Europe:

    Zoltan D. Barany

  • Armies and revolutions

    Zoltan D Barany

  • Soldiers and Politics in Eastern Europe, 1945-90

    Zoltan D. Barany

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