Ilona Teleki

Ilona Teleki is deputy director of the CSIS New European Democracies Project and a fellow with the CSIS Europe Program. Her main issue areas include interethnic politics, the politics of national identity, and minority-majority relationships in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Central European relations with the European Union and the United States.

Teleki is a Ph.D. student in the Political Science Department at the George Washington University. She received a master's degree in Slavonic and East European studies from the University College of London and a second master’s degree in communication and conflict resolution from George Mason University with a specialization in East European affairs. She completed her B.A. at both George Mason University and the University of Budapest in Hungary. She additionally serves as a short-term election monitor with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and has monitored elections in Romania, Albania, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan.

Her recent publications include Atlantic Bridges: America’s New European Allies (with Janusz Bugajski) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); “Washington’s New European Allies: Durable Allies or Conditional Partners?” (with Janusz Bugajski), Washington Quarterly (Winter 2005); “America in Question,” CSIS Europe East (Spring 2005); and “New Europe: Custodian of the Transatlantic Link,” Eastern Europe Direct (Spring 2003).