The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is considered as one of the successful regional cooperations and has played a remarkable role in regional, and potentially global, order through its principles of consensus, non-interference, and peaceful resolution of conflicts, providing platform for...

A second presidential term for Donald Trump would undoubtedly have huge impacts on topics in all areas of international relations - topics that are intrinsically relevant to all actors due to the status of the United States as a world power. Trump's political agenda differs considerably from...

One way in which many scholars of public opinion have operationalized a country’s soft power abroad is to measure how favorably that country is viewed by people in foreign countries. While earlier research has demonstrated the mechanisms and factors correlated with how foreigners perceive a...

At a time when multilateralism is needed more than ever to address the global challenges and rising geopolitical tensions, paradoxically, the capacity and delegated power of the United Nations (UN) to uphold a rule-based order to keep peace and security is being weakened. Even in an increasingly...

Jelen elemzés célja, hogy bemutassa Japán percepcióját az átalakuló nemzetközi rendszerrel kapcsolatban. Miközben Japán továbbra is az Egyesült Államok legfőbb szövetségének számít a térségben, Tokió az elmúlt években a percepciója szerint radikálisan átalakuló...

A study conducted by the European Parliamentary Research Service (2023) notes that the European Union's (EU) relations with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries are being affected by changes in global power, economic uncertainty, and security threats. The current working paper...

Idén lesz a második világháború végének 80. évfordulója. Az ünneplés feltehetően elmarad. A világháborút túlélt nemzedékek távozásával a tanulságok is egyre inkább feledésbe merülnek. A háború borzalmaira válaszként létrehozott globális világrend, amelynek...

Purpose This paper assesses the differences in the use of wine, as a consumed food substance, in the formulation of Portugal and Hungary’s cultural foreign policies between 2010 and 2022. By comparing the degrees of effectiveness of these two traditional wine-making countries’ approaches in...

On 8 December 2024, the Assad regime in Syria was overthrown by a rebel alliance led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The collapse of the family dictatorship was made possible by shifts in regional and international power dynamics. Key factors included Turkish support for the rebels, the...

Normative theories about the justice of policies to control international migration tend to come from either the standpoint of the migrant-destination country or the migrant-origin country. I show how three influential normative theorists of migration—Abizadeh, Carens, and Walzer—in...

Driven by both political camps in Seoul, relations between South Korea and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have deepened significantly since their initiation in 2005. While this intensified relationship was shaped to a large extent by geopolitical developments and increasing...

For the past three years, Ukraine has not allowed Russia to win its illegal war of aggression. During long periods of the war, the parties have found themselves in a military and diplomatic stalemate. Now US President Donald Trump has sided with the aggressor. "Nothing about Ukraine without...

The article offers the first comprehensive account of relations between Germany and Switzerland in the years 1919 to 1931 based on archival sources from both countries. Emphasising the interaction between finance and diplomacy, it provides new insights into the role played by the Swiss offshore...

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

Geopolitical conflicts have increasingly been a driver of trade policy. We study the potential effects of global and persistent geopolitical conflicts on trade, technological innovation, and economic growth. In conventional trade models the welfare costs of such conflicts are modest. We build a...

The topicality of the international political economy is determined by the complexity and dynamism of transformation processes in the world economic system, which are developing through information networks and financial technologies. The purpose of the article is to reveal the meta-theory...

The founding of modern Egypt by Muhammad Ali Pasha required an appropriately modern economy, with industry following the model of more advanced European states. The Pasha of Egypt in- volved himself personally in every phase of the organization of Egyptian industry, garnering the experiences of...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is considered as one of the successful regional cooperations and has played a remarkable role in regional, and potentially global, order through its principles of consensus, non-interference, and peaceful resolution of conflicts, providing platform for...

A second presidential term for Donald Trump would undoubtedly have huge impacts on topics in all areas of international relations - topics that are intrinsically relevant to all actors due to the status of the United States as a world power. Trump's political agenda differs considerably from...

International business research is usually focused on various aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI) by non ‑European emerging ‑market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) without attention to non ‑traditional factors pulling them into host countries. The objective of this paper is to...

A Világpolitika és Közgazdaságtan interjút készített Dr. Simai Mihály akadémikussal az amerikai társadalmi változásokról a közelgő választások fényében. Az interjú során szerettünk volna a választási küzdelem felszíne mögé nézni, és bemutatni azt, ami változik és...

Interjú az amerikai társadalmi és gazdasági helyzetről és az elkövetkező elnökválasztás esélyeiről. Jody Jensen a Kőszegi Felsőbbfokú Tanulmányok Intézete Polányi Központjának igazgatója, a HUN-RE Társadalomtudományi Központ Politikatudományi Intézetének vezető...

A Világpolitika és Közgazdaságtan interjút kért Magyarics Tamás professzortól, Amerika szakértőtől Henry Kissinger pályafutásáról. Henry Kissinger a nemzetközi kapcsolatok elméletének megkerülhetetlen gondolkodója, elméleti és diplomáciai tevékenysége is egy szilárd...

Kevés esemény tartja jobban ébren az aktív hírolvasók figyelmét 2023-ban, mint az orosz-ukrán háború, amely most már több mint másfél éve dúl Európa keleti részén. Olyan jelenetek tanúi vagyunk, amelyektől a békében és többnyire jólétben élő európai néplélek már...

Robert Kagan: A Free World, If You Can Keep It – Ukraine and American Interests, eredeti- leg megjelent: Foreign Affairs 2023, 102(1): 39-53

Az Európai Unió (EU) az elmúlt években markáns változáson ment keresztül gazdaságpolitikájában és geopolitikájában, erről értekezik Matthias Matthijs a Johns Hopkins Egyetem Külügyi Iskolájának Nemzetközi Politikai Gazdaságtan dékánja és az Európai Tanulmányok...

Although economic nationalist governments in East Central Europe (ECE) have strongly challenged FDI-dependence, FDI-led growth has remained stable across the region. The political economy literature explains this puzzle with enduring business-state elite interactions and the disciplining role of...

The study deals with the issue of core–periphery relations in the European Union, investigating its patterns in relation to the participation of Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states in European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) programmes between 2007 and 2020. Core–periphery...

Although the EU’s Eastern periphery has been afflicted by a series of crises over the past two decades, the region’s dependent market economies have shown puzzling resilience. Since the global financial crisis, the FDI-led, export-oriented growth models of the Visegrád countries have been...

Sovereignty becomes an essential concept when populist participation in international politics is examined. The research questions of this article are as follows: Which topics do right-wing populist leaders (Jair Bolsonaro and Viktor Orbán) connect to state sovereignty in International...

Az elmúlt három évben a világ működése annyit változott, mint a megelőző évtizedekben összesen. A piaci folyamatok, rendszerek megváltozását egyértelműen két meghatározó jelenség irányította: a COVID-19 okozta pandémiás válság és az orosz-ukrán konfliktus. E két...

A Köz-gazdaság interjút kért Kusai Sándor korábbi pekingi nagykövettől Észak-Korea helyzetéről, világpolitikai és világgazdasági helyéről.