András Nagy: International Responses to the Hungarian 1956 Revolution
More than six decades had passed after the Soviet Army brutally crashed the Hungarian Revolution yet its significance does not seem to diminish.
Tamás Magyarics: The legacy of the Obama Administration
Great expectations preceded Barack Obama’s presidency. He seemed to endorse a realist approach to international relations.
Muslims in Europe: Integration or Isolation?
Europe’s growing Muslim population… Several factors have contributed to the heightened attention on the question of Islam in Europe…
The Future of International Relations and Nuclear Weapons
James M. Skelly (research fellow of iASK) gave a presentation at the conference First Year of President Trump – The Challenges & Future for Progressive Forces, in the EU Parliament (Brussels, Belgium) last week, on the 8th of November 2017.
Remembering and Forgetting Communism in Hungary
Studies on Collective Memory and Memory Politics in Context This volume deals with a number of case studies in continuities and discontinuities, global, regional and local approaches to memory and memorialization in 20th century Hungary. The point of reference is the emergence, power control and decay of communism as the longest chronological period of this…
Changing Autonomy in the times of the PT – in Encrucijada Americana
An explanation of the rise and fall of the South American Giant The objective of this paper is to analyze the concept of autonomy, using Brazil under the government of the PT (Workers Party) between 2003 and 2016 as a case study. Our theoretical framework combines perspectives of Latin-American structuralism with those of realism and…
Can Europe Make it? – The Future of the Catalan-Spanish Relations
Why both the Spanish and the Catalan governments think they come out reinforced from the referendum clash? The PP may be seen as sole guarantor of Spanish unity, while support for pro-independence parties morphs into a reaction against repression by the Spanish government and its conservative values. By Felipe G. Santos (iASK researcher) The whole article…
New Solidarity Debate
Arguments and Cons – Austerity vs Social Cohesion – About the EU’s New Cohesion Guidelines
Ethno Bureaucratic Patrimonialism – The Political Regime of Bosnia-Herzegovina
“This article, by following theories of informal institutionalization and not of democratic consolidation, aims at conceptualizing the existing post-Dayton or post-transitional political regime in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH). The study applies a structural approach to regime building, identifying the set of institutionalized rules structuring the interaction of the political power center and its relation with the broader…
Iván Bába: The Fall of Communism
The fall of communism in Central Europe is a historical fact. That experiment, lasting 45 years, ended in 1990.
Gábor Kardos: How to Reframe the Future of Europe (Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 2016.)
Reframing Europe’s Future: Challenges and Failures of the European Construction, edited by Jody Jensen and Ferenc Miszlivetz. Routledge, 2015. 267 p.
Our Place in the European Union
Discussion about the future of Hungary in the European Union
Participant: István Szent-Iványi and Ferenc Miszlivetz
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