Berend T., Ivan

 

Graduated from the University of Economics and the Faculty of Arts of ELTE in Budapest. Associate reader at Economic History Department of the University of Economics from 1953, reader at the same department from 1964 and president of the University between 1973 and 1979. Correspondent member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1973 then elected as a regular member in 1979. President of the Academy between 1985 and 1990. Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since 1990, Director of the Centre of European and Eurasian Studies at UCLA since 1993. His first book - co-written with György Ránki - was published in 1955; he is the author and co-writer of a total of 24 books. He has received numerous honorary doctorates from several British, Hungarian and American universities, member of six European academies including the British Academy, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the European Academy. He was also Chairman of the International Commission of Historical Science between 1995 and 2000. His research area covers the social and economic history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with special regard to Central and East-Europe.

Globalisation and Its Impact on the Relations of the Centre and the Peripheries in Europe