Research field

Middle East, Northern Africa, security policy, emerging security challenges

Hanga Horváth-Sántha obtained her law degree from Stockholm University and completed her master’s degree in international public law in Fribourg, Switzerland. She later studied security policy at the Swedish National Defence College. She worked for the Swedish Ministry of Justice, where her main area of focus was the prevention of violent extremism, further at the Crisis Management Coordination Secretariat under the Swedish Prime Minister’s Office, later for the Swedish National Police Board, where she worked on the prevention of radicalisation. From 2015 Hanga worked as senior researcher at the Migration Research Institute, focusing on exploring the nexus between migration and security. She defended her doctoral dissertation on Salafi Jihadist radicalization at the Faculty of Military Science and Officer Training at the Ludovika University of National Service in early 2024. Hanga lived in Vietnam from 2018 to 2020, and since September 2022, she is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary. Since May 2023, she is a senior researcher at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. Her research focuses on security policy, the MENA region as well as the Sahel.