Juraj Schenk

Juraj Schenk
4th Foreign Minister of Slovakia
In office
December 13, 1994  August 27, 1996
Preceded by Eduard Kukan
Succeeded by Pavol Hamžík
Personal details
Born May 6, 1948
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Political party HZDS

Juraj Schenk (born May 6, 1948) is former Foreign Minister of Slovakia from 1994 to 1996 in cabinet of Vladimír Mečiar.

Schenk studied sociology at the Univezita Komenského, Bratislava and is working there since 1972. In 1994 he became a professor of sociology and is teaching there until now.

His main professional interests include sociological methodology, self-organisation of social systems (synergetics, chaos theory), causal modelling, construction of sociological theories and empirical research.

His current research activities concern with Alexander Hirner's methodological conception, scaling in sociological research, chaos theory and empirical research.

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