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This paper seeks to provide an overview of Hungary’s foreign policy priorities since the change of the political system of 1989–90. It intends to critically analyse the rise of pragmatism, in particular, in the new policy chapters of the ‘Turn towards the East’ and the ‘Opening to the South’, while it also looks at the international system itself with its recent developments and how Hungary has behaved in relation to them. Focal attention will be given to certain regions of the world, together with some global issues such as China, Turkey, Russia and Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the ongoing refugee crisis and climate change.

Hungary’s Pragmatic Foreign Policy in a Post-American World

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Politics in Central Europe

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This paper seeks to provide an overview of Hungary’s foreign policy priorities since the change of the political system of 1989–90. It intends to critically...

Hungary’s Pragmatic Foreign Policy in a Post-American World

Published Online: Feb 13, 2020

Page range: 113 - 134

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2020-0006

Keywords
Hungary, foreign policy, post-American world, China, Russia, Turkey, strongmen, Africa

© 2020 István Tarrósy et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Hungary’s Pragmatic Foreign Policy in a Post-American World

Published Online: Feb 13, 2020

Page range: 113 - 134

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2020-0006

KeywordsHungary, foreign policy, post-American world, China, Russia, Turkey, strongmen, Africa

© 2020 István Tarrósy et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Hungary, foreign policy, post-American world, China, Russia, Turkey, strongmen, Africa