David Gazsi, PhD MA MSc
Publications & Engagement
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Gazsi, David. 'What shapes the European Union's sectoral integration with its neighbourhood? A look at the EU's external relations in law enforcement'. Journal of European Integration (Online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2025.2605340
Gazsi, David. ‘The European Union and Co-Constitutive External Engagement: An Analysis of EU-Eastern Neighbourhood Relations in the Policing Sector’. Geopolitics, (Online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2025.2480311
Müller, Patrick, Joanna Dyduch, and David Gazsi. ‘Populism, party-cohesion, and the de-Europeanisation of national foreign policy institutions in Hungary and Poland’. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 39, no. 1 (2026): 76-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2025.2476032
Fisher-Onar, Nora, David Gazsi, Sarah Wolff. ‘Contested Alliances: A Contrapuntal Reading of European (Global) Gender Agendas’. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 63, no. 5 (2025): 1528-1551. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13773
Gazsi, David. ‘EU Sectoral Integration in the Eastern Neighbourhood: The Case of Frontex-Moldova Relations in Border Management’. Journal of European Public Policy 31, no. 1 (2024): 3617-3650. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2255226
Müller, Patrick, and David Gazsi. ‘Populist Capture of Foreign Policy Institutions: The Orbán Government and the De-Europeanization of Hungarian Foreign Policy’. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 61, no. 2 (2023): 397–415. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13377
Wolff, Sarah, David Gazsi, Daniela Huber, and Nora Fisher-Onar. ‘How to Reflexively Decentre EU Foreign Policy: Dissonance and Contrapuntal Reconstruction in Migration, Religious and Neighbourhood Governance’. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 60, no. 6 (2022): 1611–28. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13335
Pirro, Andrea L., Elena Pavan, Adam Fagan, and David Gazsi. ‘Close ever, distant never? Integrating protest event and social network approaches into the transformation of the Hungarian far right’. Party Politics, 27 no. 1 (2021): 22-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068819863624
Book Reviews
Gazsi, David. ‘Reclaiming Constitutionalism: Democracy, Power and the State, by M. Tzanakopoulou (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2018, ISBN 9781509916122); xvii+211pp., £58.00 hb.’. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 57, no. 5 (2019): 1200–1201.
Gazsi, David. ‘Europe reset: new directions for the EU’. Global Affairs 5, no. 1 (2019): 98–100.
Public Engagements
Expert participant in the roundtable discussion ‘The Role of the European Union in the Middle East‘ chaired by EU Special Envoy for the Persian Gulf, Luigi Di Maio, and organised as well as hosted by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Austrian Parliament. (19.06.2026, Vienna, Austria)
Expert participant in the roundtable discussion ‘Why Europe needs its own army’ at the 2026 General Assembly of the Volt Europa party, alongside Volt MEP Reinier van Lanschot, Italian Senator Ivan Scalfarotto, and General Pavel Macko of Slovakia. (13.06.2026. Bratislava, Slovakia).
Participant in the expert roundtable to provide feedback on the report 'Why the Long Wait? Accelerating EU Accession through Early Institutional Participation' drafted by the Central European University and the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe. (16.02.2026. Vienna, Austria).
Chair and moderator of the panel ‘EUrope in the New World Order – Diverging Interests, United Voice’ at the 2025 European Forum Alpbach, with Sec. Gen. Arnold Kammer of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence, Sec. Gen. Vadislav Cojuhari of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Republic of Moldova, and Dr Tinatin Akhvlediani of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). (24.08.2025. Alpbach, Austria).
Media Interviews
June 12th, 2026: IPW Podcast Series The European Union and its Eastern Neighbourhood. David Gazsi interviewed by David Kenner and Iván Nógrádi.
December 14th, 2025: Austrian Daily Newspaper Kurier "Das Business mit dem Frieden" [Profiting off peace]. David Gazsi interviewed by Caroline Ferstl.
June 19th, 2025: Website Treffpunkt Europa [Meetingpoint Europe] "Social Media in europäischem Braun" [Social Media sites in European brownshirts]. David Gazsi interviewed by Romana Schnall.
