Dismembered Hungary and Peace in Central Europe

Jászi, Oscar

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“…First, it has tended to divide people into exclusive communities based on biological or cultural characteristics, the very antithesis of the universal aspirations of Enlightenment thought. Borsody, echoing the Hungarian sociologist Jászi, notes that the extension of the nation-state form across ECE after WW1 at the expense of a federal structure which might have contained nascent ethno-nationalist ideologies, has proven to be a tragedy for the region (Borsody 1993: 292-294;Jászi 1923). The potentially destructive power of nationalist ideology is well understood (Mestrovic, 2004).…”

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The Rise of ‘Illiberal’ Democracy: The Orbánization of Hungarian Political Culture

Wilkin

2018

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This article examines the rise of the political right and far-right in Hungarian political culture. It highlights the contribution that world-systems analysis can bring to an historical sociological understanding of the concept of political culture, with a particular focus on contemporary Hungary. Many commentators are asking: how it can be that 30 years of democratic transition has led to the dominance in Hungary of a politics of intolerance, illiberalism and ethno-Nationalism, as manifested in both the current government, Fidesz, and the neo-fascist party, Jobbik. This paper argues that the correct way to frame the question is to ask: why, given the legacy of authoritarian social and political movements that have shaped Hungary’s modern history, should a stable, liberal, political culture emerge after communism? Instead what the paper shows is that the goals of classical liberalism and a liberal political culture have long been destroyed by three factors: capitalism; the nation-state; and the persistence of traditional and sometimes irrational forms of social hierarchy, prejudice and authority. Hungary’s current Orbánisation reflects an on-going tension between liberal and illiberal tendencies, the latter being part of the foundations of the modern world-system. Rather than viewing Hungary as a dangerous exception to be quarantined by the European Union, it should be recognised that the political right in Hungary is linked to broader trends across the world-system that foster intolerance and other anti-enlightenment and socially divisive tendencies. Political cultures polarised by decades of neoliberal reforms and in which there is no meaningful socialist alternative have reduced Hungary’s elite political debates to the choice of either neoliberalism or ethnonationalism, neither of which is likely to generate socially progressive solutions to its current problems.

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Section: Part One: From Liberalism To Illiberalism -The Contested Natmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Rise of ‘Illiberal’ Democracy: The Orbánization of Hungarian Political Culture

Wilkin

2018

JWSR

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Slovenian Hopes and Plans in the Last Days of the Habsburg Monarchy

Ivašković

2024

Austrian Hist Yearbk

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The article analyzes Slovenian perspectives on the possible formations of a state of South Slavs from the final stages of World War I until when the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenians (SCS) was established in 1918. In this period, the most influential Slovenian People's Party (SLS) gradually abandoned the concept of the May Declaration and accepted the idea of unification with Serbia. Despite Slovenian parties seeming to be in harmony on this issue, significant ideological differences separated them, as reflected in the geopolitical parameters of imagined Yugoslav state ideas they envisioned. Further, dissidents from the main parties also developed alternative visions of their own. This article looks at a few of the most prominent alternatives, while determining what distinguishes them from the requirements of the May Declaration, and examines the crucial factors in Slovenians’ decision to join the state of South Slavs with Serbia and to be outside the Habsburg monarchy.

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Central Europe and the Balkans: So Close and Yet So Far

Šabič¹,

Freyberg‐Inan²

2012

Regional and International Relations of Central Europe

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Dismembered Hungary and Peace in Central Europe

Cited by 3 publications

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The Rise of ‘Illiberal’ Democracy: The Orbánization of Hungarian Political Culture

The Rise of ‘Illiberal’ Democracy: The Orbánization of Hungarian Political Culture

Slovenian Hopes and Plans in the Last Days of the Habsburg Monarchy

Central Europe and the Balkans: So Close and Yet So Far

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