Tomás Várnagy

He was Director of the master's degree in National Defense, between 2005 and 2008, of the former National Defense School (current National Defense University), a position that he occupied again between 2014 and 2015. For 16 years he taught a Politics course at the National Defense School. Between 2015 and 2016 he served as organizer Dean of the recently created Faculty of National Defense, to which he remained linked as coordinator of the Observatory of Defense until 2018. Varnagy was also, since 2007, an academic member of the Canadian Defence Academy for the delivery of seminars on peacekeeping operations of the United Nations, which he also dictated with the Pearson Peacekeeping Center (Canada) between 2006 up to its closure in 2012. He has taught different courses at the master and doctorate level at several Argentine universities.

Between 2002 and 2004 Várnagy was the elected director of the Political Science career of the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Social Sciences, where he was a university professor and chair of the subject Social and Political Theory II, and the adjunct of Social and Political Theory I. He also held the chair of Philosophy of Law at the National University of La Matanza (UNLaM). Previously he was, for 19 years, professor of seminars like Transition from Stalinism to Pluralism in Central Europe and The Soviet Model and its Application in Central Europe at the Political Science Department of the UBA. He has been a researcher, co-director and director of UBACyT and UNLaM research projects on communism, Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, United Nations peacekeeping missions, the Kosovo conflict and political humor, among others.

Tomás Várnagy (25 September 1950 – June 2022) was an Argentine social scientist and philosopher, professor at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).