László Szerencsés

László Szerencsés is a Mercator-IPC Fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center. His research focuses on the foreign policy of authoritarian states, in particular Turkey and Hungary. He completed his PhD in Law and Politics at the University of Graz. His PhD dissertation explored Turkey’s foreign policy in Kosovo and Serbia (2013-2020). His work is based on extensive field research carried out in Turkey, Kosovo, Serbia, Germany and Hungary. He holds an MA in Global Political Economy from the University of Kassel, and a BA in International Relations from the Budapest Business University.