Több mint száz amerikai tudós írt levelet a kormánynak a CEU-miatt

"Megdöbbentett minket az a beterjesztett törvényjavaslat, amely bezárással fenyegeti a Közép-európai Egyetemet" - áll a Budapest Beacon által ismertetett levélben, amit 119 amerikai társadalomtudós, történész jegyez.

Azt írják: bár a szabályok általános érvényűek, egyes rendelkezések kizárólag egyetlen intézményt érintenek az országban. "Ezzel a fortéllyal senkit nem lehet becsapni" - teszik hozzá.

"Demokráciákban a hatalmat megszerző politikusoknak fel kell készülniük a kritika elviselésére, és szembe kell nézniük azzal a lehetőséggel, hogy végül elveszítik hatalmukat. A magyar kormány látszólagos vágya a bíráló hangok elnémítására, illetve az összes alternatíva kivezetésére a politikai hadszintérről rövidlátó gondolkodásra vall, és szemben áll a fenti értékekkel. Megdöbbenésünk okait tudatni fogjuk megválasztott képviselőinkkel, kormányainkkal és a nyilvánossággal" - írják.

Az aláírók:

Farrell Ackerman, Director, Human Development Program, Professor, Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego
Hilary Appel, Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College
Andrew Arato, Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory, New School for Social Research
Mark R. Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Zsuzsa Berend, Department of Sociology, UCLA
Sheri Berman, Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University
Nancy Bermeo, PIIRS Senior Scholar and Professor of Politics Emerita, Princeton University
Michael Bernhard, Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Florida
Jack Bielasiak, Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana University
Gavril Bilev, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Merrimack College
Frank Biess, Professor of History, University of California-San Diego
Melissa Bokovoy, Chair and Professor of History, University of New Mexico
Cristina Bradatan, Associate professor of Sociology, Texas Tech University
David L. Brown, International Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University
Chad Bryant, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Rogers Brubaker, Professor of Sociology and UCLA Foundation Chair, University of California, Los Angeles
Yitzhak M. Brudny, Jay and Leonie Darwin Chair in Soviet and Eastern European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Valerie Jane Bunce, Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies and Professor of Government at Cornell University
Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California Berkeley
Lenka Bustikova, Assistant Professor of Political Science, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
Holly Case, Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Nitsan Chorev, Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs. Brown University
Daniel Czitrom, Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College
Thomas J. Csordas, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Dr. James Y. Chan Presidential Chair in Global Health, University of California, San Diego
Jane Leftwich Curry, Professor of Political Science, Santa Clara University
Istvan Deak, Seth Low Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University
Kevin Deegan-Krause, Associate Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
Grzegorz Ekiert, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government and Director Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Gil Eyal, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
Barbara J Falk, Associate Professor, Canadian Forces College
Melissa Feinberg, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
Carole Fink, Humanities Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, The Ohio State University
Evgeny Finkel, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
Benjamin Frommer, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
Timothy Frye, Chair, Department of Political Science, Marshall Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Politics, Columbia University
Venelin I. Ganev, Professor of Political Science, Miami University of Ohio
Eagle Glassheim, Associate Professor of History, University of British Columbia
Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology, New School for Social Research
Paul Goode, Senior Lecturer in Russian Politics, University of Bath
Emily Greble, Associate Professor of History and East European Studies, Vanderbilt University
Anna Grzymala-Busse, President of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies, Stanford University
Henry E. Hale, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
Paul Hanebrink, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
S. Mohsin Hashim, Professor of Political Science, Director, Dana Honors Program, Muhlenberg College
Robert M. Hayden, Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of Pittsburgh
Marc M. Howard, Professor of Government and Law, Georgetown University
Aida Hozic, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
Jeffrey C. Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
John Ishiyama, University Distinguished Professor, University of North Texas
Wade Jacoby, Mary Lou Fulton Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University
Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Ames Professor in Sociology and Anthropology, Washington and Lee University, Co-Editor, East European Politics and Societies
Alison Frank Johnson, Professor of History, Harvard University
Juliet Johnson, Professor of Political Science, McGill University
Ekrem Karakoc, Associate Professor of Political Science, Binghamton University
Peter J. Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies Cornell University
Rüçhan Kaya, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University
R. Daniel Kelemen, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
Michael D. Kennedy, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Padraic Kenney, Chair, Department of International Studies, Professor of History and International Studies, Indiana University
Jeremy King, Professor of History, Mount Holyoke college
Herbert Kitschelt, George V. Allen Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, Duke University
Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University
Jeffrey Kopstein, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
Petia Kostadinova, Assistant Professor of Political Science,University of Illinois, Chicago
Markus Kreuzer, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University
Jan Kubik, Director, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Anita Kurimay, Assistant Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College
Mark Kramer, Director of Cold War Studies, Harvard University
Amie Kreppel, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
Elena Krumova, Lecturer, Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Columbia University
Dragan Kujundzic, Professor, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Florida
Martha Lampland, Professor of Sociology and Science Studies, University of California, San Diego
Katherine Lebow, Associate Professor of History, Christ Church, Oxford University
Anthony Levitas, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Isabela Mares, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Kyle L. Marquardt, Postdoctoral research fellow, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg
Michael McFaul, Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University
Kelly McMann, Associate Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
John S. Micgiel, Visiting Professor, East European Studies Center, University of Warsaw
Bryon Moraski, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Florida
Alexander Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University-Newark
Cas Mudde, Associate Professor, School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), University of Georgia, Co-editor, European Journal of Political Research
Harris Mylonas, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
Norman Naimark, McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, Stanford University
Conor O'Dwyer, Associate Professor of Political Science and European Studies, University of Florida
Mitchell A Orenstein, Professor, Russian and East European Studies and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
David Ost, 2010-2105 Joseph DiGangi Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Cynthia Paces, Professor of History, The College of New Jersey
Susan C. Pearce, Associate Professor of Sociology, East Carolina University
Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University.
Grigore Pop-Eleches, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Graeme Robertson, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina
Akos Rona-Tas, Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Marsha Rozenblit, Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Jewish History, University of Maryland
Peter Rutland, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
Daniel Schlafly, Professor of History, Director, Russian and East European Area Studies Program, Saint Louis University
Philippe Schmitter, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, European University Institute and Stanford University
Edward Schatz, Associate Professor and Department Chair, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Richard Scher, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of Florida
Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History, Yale University
David Stark, Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Anna Seleny, Professor of the Practice of International Politics, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Regina Smyth, Associate Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
Hillel David Soifer, Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University
Jelena Subotic, Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
Milan Svolik, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Anna Szemere, Independent Scholar and Educator
Vera Tabakova, Associate Professor of Economics, East Carolina University
Sidney Tarrow, Maxwell Upson Professor of Government Emeritus, Cornell University
Joshua Tucker, Professor of Politics and Director, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University
Hubert Tworzecki, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University
Daniel Unowsky, Professor of History, University of Memphis
Milada Anna Vachudova, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lucan Way, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
Catherine Wanner, Professor of History and Anthropology, Penn State University
Steven Lloyd Wilson, Research Fellow, Varieties of Democracy Institute, University of Gothenburg
Nancy M. Wingfield, Presidential Research Professor, Northern Illinois University
Sharon L. Wolchik, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University
Susan L. Woodward, Professor of Political Science, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York