Iván Vitányi: Chance and Danger
Jody Jensen: Globalizáció és Új Kormányzás. Budapest-Érd: MTA Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont Politikatudományi Intézet-Mundus Novus Könyvek, 2014. 245 p.
Global Challenges – European and Local Answers
Global Challenges – European and Local Answers : The Rise of Glocalty in Europe / ed. by Ferenc Miszlivetz and Jody Jensen The interdependent and manifold global crises have seriously disrupted the European project. Valid solutions and alternatives cannot be found by remaining within structurally separated disciplines. The multidimensional and complex approach of political scientists,…
András A. Gergely: Modern Life in a Historic Towns – Transforming and Surviving
Ferenc Miszlivetz and the Research Group of ISES: Creative Cities and Sustainability. Proposals to achieve the Danube strategy via the example of Western Pannonia. Savaria University Press, 2012. 208 p.
Tibor Palánkai: Creative Cities and Sustainability
Ferenc Miszlivetz and the Research Group of ISES: Creative Cities and Sustainability. Proposals to achieve the Danube strategy via the example of Western Pannonia. Savaria University Press, 2012. 208 p.
Olívia Béládi: City at the Boundary
Ferenc Miszlivetz and the Research Group of ISES: Creative Cities and Sustainability. Proposals to achieve the Danube strategy via the example of Western Pannonia. Savaria University Press, 2012. 208 p.
The End of Certainty – a public lecture
Prof. Ferenc Miszlivetz, visiting professor, is to give a public lecture at Columbia University on Wednesday, January 25.
Democracy and Civil Society: Outlines of a New Paradigm
Evaluating 1989 has divided analysts from the outset. The majority of political scientists and sociologists saw the events as the victory of liberal democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Thus, Jürgen Habermas or Timothy Garton Ash did not see the ‘velvety revolutions’ as offering anything new, they did not believe that any original or innovative…
Why Should We Reinvent Central Europe?
The European Union has been going through a crisis. It has lost its dynamism and can only strengthen its competitiveness and increase economic and social cohesion if the member states, regions, local governments and, not least, activist groups of local societies strive to achieve these aims. Not all public figures seem to have understood this in our…
The Future of Europe: Democracy, Civil Society and Enlargement
Laurence Whitehead in a recently published article, links the complex and blurred issue of Eastern enlargement of the EU to what he calls „democracy promotion”.* As is usually in the case of European enlargement, reality moves ahead of theory and the social sciences: one can agree with Whitehead that the Helsinki Summit of Dec. 1999, which concluded to start…
The European Civil Society Discourse
Democratic deficit The EU’s soft spot is that its institutions are not thoroughly transparent and lack the democratic social legitimacy. The democratic deficit during the 90’s was constantly growing. The consensus that was symptomatic of the integration-orientated elite has been drained after the war. This consensus played a noteworthy role in the regular and effective co-operation of the…
What happened to you, Hungary?
There are more and more people asking how did we manage to make such a mess of it all? Why did we fail to retain and capitalise on the initial advantage and positive evaluation that this country had at the outset? Back in 1990 this country was seen as the most promising East of the Elba. After…
The Tunnel at the End of the Light: The Crisis of Transition in Hungary
AFTER ACCESSION: STRAYING INTO THE LABYRINTHS OF THE WORLD Back in 1990 Hungary was seen as the most promising east of the Elba. After the annus mirabilis of 1989 the country was expected to set an example for the other countries in transition in the entire region of former Soviet satellites. After nearly two decades, the question has…