This interview was originally published on the website of the International Strategic Research Organisation (USAK), in Ankara. Interview: Tibor Hargitai, a visiting researcher at USAK . In light of the international efforts to convene the Geneva II meeting next month – aimed at getting all the political actors in Syria, including opposition elements and the Assad…
The Netherlands Foreign Minister Frans Timmerman presented a letter to the House of Representatives of the Netherlands on 16 August 2013 on the topic of Hungary’s constitutional reforms. I’ve translated the position of the Netherlands on the issue, which constitutes only part of the letter. The other two sections talk about the context within which…
What is the relevance for policy makers of scholars theorising about how the world functions? There is wide consensus that the academic community and policy makers are now more detached than ever. But there are ways to bridge this gap. Hiski Haukkala – who has worked as a university teacher and research, as a policy analyst…
This article was first published in the Journal of Turkish Weekly. Across the European Union, Turkey has been voiced as moving away from Europe and orienting itself towards the Middle East. While that might be true to some extent, it might be interesting to know that the Europeans think of Turkey’s accession to the EU.The…
While reading about the CNN-effect in an article on foreign policy analysis, I remembered that one of my professors – a well-known and renowned Hungarian diplomat – at the Corvinus told us about the effect of the media on his job. While serving as Hungary’s representative to the United Nation’s Security Council in the 1990s,…
Thinking politics 