{"id":18203,"date":"2020-08-24T14:25:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T12:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.iask.hu\/hu\/?p=18203"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T08:09:46","slug":"central-europe-the-hungarian-view-recommendation-by-ivan-baba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.iask.hu\/en\/central-europe-the-hungarian-view-recommendation-by-ivan-baba\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Europe &#8211; The Hungarian View &#8211; Recommendation by Iv\u00e1n B\u00e1ba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wnt7IySFyNA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The book <em>Projekt Mitteleuropa,<\/em> written by Emil Brix and Erhard Busek, was published in 1986. This work had been brought forth by the then changing political circumstances, the so-called \u201cmeltdown.\u201d The two Austrian authors discussed the situation of Central Europe with considerable\u2014and well-founded\u2014optimism. Gorbachev\u2019s policies, the end of the Cold War, the promise of transformation seemed to open the road to normal existence for Central Europe too. Within a few years transition did occur, and the processes of democratization had become irreversible by 1990. Afterwards, the states of this region had been gradually incorporated into the \u201cEuro-Atlantic structures,\u201d becoming members of the Council of Europe, NATO and eventually the European Union over the next fifteen years. We could say that Central Europe\u2019s ship had come home by 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Did it really come home?<\/p>\n<p>Thirty years later the two authors, a retired diplomat, historian, director of the Diplomatische Akademie Wien\/Vienna School of International Studies Emil Brix and former Vice-Chancellor of Austria, currently Chairman of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Erhard Busek, found that they should review all questions which are now on the agenda of political dialogue concerning Central Europe. Their recent book was published in 2018 first in German under the title <em>Mitteleuropa revisited: Warum Europas Zukunft in<\/em> <em>Mitteleuropa entschieden wird<\/em> (Rethinking Central Europe: Why the Future of Europe Will Be Decided in Central Europe), and in 2019 it was translated into Hungarian under the auspices of the Institute of Advanced Studies K\u0151szeg (iASK).<\/p>\n<p>In a prologue, ten chapters and an epilogue the authors provide an overview of the issues they deem to be an important, interesting and inviting debate\u2014from the end of the Cold War through the \u201cbumpy road\u201d of integration to the question of borders, from the heavy shadow of large neighbours through nationalisms to the role of religions and migration. They do this as committed Central Europeans, from an Austrian perspective and on a liberal ideological basis.<\/p>\n<p>Their book\u2014especially its subtitle\u2014urges Hungarian readers to ponder upon the questions raised. While we can find therein numerous strands of thought, conclusions and appraisals which draw our appreciation and agreement, there are also quite a few ideas that we find debatable. One of the important merits of the volume is that it provides incentives for dialogue and discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Our book has been written in response to this invitation for debate, as a kind of reflection on the work of the two Austrian authors. We did this as Central Europeans, from a Hungarian perspective, on a national democratic ideological basis. It is well known that all of us depict the world on the basis of our personal experiences\u2014we find it hard to \u201cstep out\u201d of our skin and stand nowhere, yet we strove to approach the ideas that do not meet our agreement or, contradicting our own experience and knowledge, provoke our disparate thoughts or beliefs \u201cobjectively,\u201d with tolerance and empathy as much as possible. The organization of our book does not reflect the structure of the two Austrian authors\u2019 work. When analyzing Central Europe, we placed emphasis on different points. Our views differ on the issues of nation and national minority, migration as well as the interpretation of democracy and so-called populism. However, there seem to be only slight differences of opinion about several other questions. Indeed, the intellectual, political, economic and security relations between Western Europe and Central Europe, the question of genuine integration will be essential in Europe of years to come. The spectre of Europe\u2019s\u2014re-emergent\u2014partition is not just a blurred vision but the haunting ghost of an eerie future scenario. The fact that the United Kingdom leaves the European Union carries a dangerous message. In contrast with our so far optimistic image of Europe that the Union is able to strengthen continuously despite its many difficulties and problems, this event signals that it is possible to leave, to weaken the EU and construct a new political and economic counterpoint within Western Europe to the current Union. To date, the strategic and geopolitical implications of Brexit remain unforeseeable.<\/p>\n<p>The subtitle of the book by Brix and Busek, \u201cWhy the Future of Europe Will Be Decided in Central Europe,\u201d warns us to take a cautious approach. Is it true that the fate of Europe depends on this region? What does \u201cwill be decided\u201d here mean? It is of utmost importance whether we, Central Europeans can decide or, as so many times in the course of history, efforts will centre somewhere in Western Europe to decide\u2014again, <em>on<\/em> us but <em>without<\/em> us.<\/p>\n<p>Or, to formulate this question in a different way: should Central Europe abandon essential components of its identity in order to conform to Western Europe, so that the fate of Europe could be turned in a \u201cgood direction,\u201d or is it possible that deeper integration of the two macro-regions will emerge, where the two, Western and Central parts of equal rank unite to create a genuinely and deeply integrated Europe?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(The Authors &#8211; Iv\u00e1n B\u00e1ba, Iv\u00e1n Gyurcs\u00edk, Csaba Kiss Gy.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our book has been written in response to this invitation for debate, as a kind of reflection on the work of the two Austrian authors, Emil Brix and Erhard Busek. 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It is well known that all of us depict the world on the basis of our personal experiences\u2014we find it hard to \u201cstep out\u201d of our skin and stand nowhere, yet we strove to approach the ideas that do not meet our agreement or, contradicting our own experience and knowledge, provoke our disparate thoughts or beliefs \u201cobjectively,\u201d with tolerance and empathy as much as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":18001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,239,38,238,69],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Central Europe - The Hungarian View - Recommendation by Iv\u00e1n B\u00e1ba - iASK - Institute of Advanced Studies K\u0151szeg<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.iask.hu\/en\/central-europe-the-hungarian-view-recommendation-by-ivan-baba\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Central Europe - The Hungarian View - Recommendation by Iv\u00e1n B\u00e1ba - iASK - Institute of Advanced Studies K\u0151szeg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our book has been written in response to this invitation for debate, as a kind of reflection on the work of the two Austrian authors, Emil Brix and Erhard Busek. 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