BCE Nemzetközi Kapcsolatok Tanszék - Department of International Relations

📣Join us for our first IR talk for the Spring semester!

🗓️Date: 26 February 2025
⏰Time: 17:00-18:30
📍Location: Corvinus University of Budapest, building C, C.202

IR TALKS 4 – Nuclear energy – European dependencies and prospects - Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem Andrej Nosko PhD. (Visiting Researcher at Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia) will deliver an insightful lecture that explores the shifting dynamics of Europe's energy landscape.

Marton Péter cikke Elon Musk szerepéről a DOGE élén, és hogy mit jelent ez az amerikai kormányzat szempontjából. A Geo-Polemicen. / Péter Marton looks at Elon Musk's role leading DOGE and what this means for the U.S. government. At Geo-Polemic.

The prospects of U.S. Government / Az Egyesült Államok kormányzatának kilátásai Elon Musk and change management / Elon Musk és a változásmenedzsment (P. Marton)

Egy fontos írás a szerbiai tüntetések alapvető értelmezéséhez Németh Ferenctől, a Geo-Polemicen. / An important piece for an assessment of the ongoing protests in Serbia by Ferenc Németh at Geo-Polemic.

What is the secret of the Serbian protests? / Mi a szerb tüntetések titka? Explaining the protests' persistence / Magyarázat a tüntetők kitartására (F. Németh)

Buyisile Ntaka offers context at Geo-Polemic on the M23 offensive in the DRC. With hundreds of Romanian mercenaries on the DRC side (many if not most having surrendered already), one even finds here an element of Central & Eastern European involvement.

The M23 offensive in Goma / Az M23 előretörése Gomában Context to what is happening in the eastern DRC / Kontextus a KDK keleti területén zajló eseményekhez (B. Ntaka)

A lot that's new at Geo-Polemic. Our PhD student Annie Agyemfra looks at the conflict mineral economies of the DRC and Ghana here: https://geopolemic.substack.com/p/mineral-extraction-and-armed-non Meanwhile, Eszter Kirs reflects on the Serbian PM's resignation after a violent attack against student protesters in Novi Sad here: https://geopolemic.substack.com/p/the-serbian-pms-resignation-a-szerb

The Serbian PM’s resignation / A szerb miniszterelnök lemondása Baseball rackets and words / Baseball-ütők és szavak (E. Kirs)

Ngoc Ngo Minh (Ngo Minh Ngoc by the Vietnamese/Hungarian order of family and surnames), our Masters student, offers insight into Vietnam's plans for high-speed railway development that can offer some directly relevant lessons to countries talking about a "strategy of connectivity."

Vietnam's High-Speed Railway / Nagysebességű vasút Vietnámban Bamboo diplomacy and strategic autonomy / Bambuszdiplomácia és stratégiai autonómia (N. Ngo Minh)

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Dorottya Mendly's assessment of the prospects of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, at Geo-Polemic.

The future of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy / Az EU Közös Agrárpolitikájának jövője Ever-increasing complexity, unceasing discontent / Örökké növekvő komplexitás, nem szűnő kritikák (D. Mendly)

Rácz András: 25 years of Putin's rule over Russia / Putyin negyedszázados uralkodása Oroszország felett. -Polemic

LONG READ: 25 years of Putin's rule over Russia / Putyin negyedszázados uralkodása Oroszország felett A very mixed bag / Nagyon-nagyon vegyes a kép (A. Rácz)

At Geo-Polemic, Bernadett Lehoczki offers a timely take on the state of politics in Venezuela, now that Nicolás Maduro is starting a third term as president there.

Venezuela: Maduro's third term / Maduro harmadik elnöksége Social polarization and the re-emergence of the Cold War/ Megosztottság és a hidegháború újraéledése (B. Lehoczki)

https://www.portfolio.hu/global/20250109/kina-ujra-megprobalja-berugni-a-motort-de-ez-csak-a-kormanyzas-imitalasa-733469?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

Kína újra megpróbálja berúgni a motort, de ez csak a kormányzás imitálása A január 8-án bejelentett új gazdaságélénkítő intézkedésekkel a kínai kormány ismét célba vette az ország 4D problémai – a demográfia, adósság, Donald és defláció – közül az utóbbit, azaz az árak csökkenését. Magyar szemmel ez persze irigylésre méltó problémának...

On 16 December we closed out 2024 with an IR talk that unpacked the impact of the war on Ukrainian and Russian societies.

In case you missed it, take a moment to read the summary of the discussion. ⤵️

IR TALKS 3: Towards three years of war – the Ukrainian and Russian societies - Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem 16 December 2024 | Corvinus University of Budapest | C.102 During the third session of the IR TALKS series we discussed, how the full-scale war that has been going on already for nearly three years affected the Ukrainian and Russian societies. The two invited panelists were Ms. Eszter Borissza, a so...

Geo-Polemic is already back for a turbulent 2025 ahead! Péter Marton offers analysis on recent assassinations in the context of the Ukraine war. As always, link in the comments!

Graduate of our Masters program in International Relations, Abdelhadi Baiche (now a researcher at the Doha Institute for Graduate Strudies), brings us the year's last piece at Geo-Polemic. Enjoy, subscribe, share, and continue to read us in 2025! Link in the comments.

Our colleague Buyisile Ntaka's brief on the ongoing turmoil in Mozambique, at Geo-Polemic. Find the link in the comments below.

Dr. Marton strikes again, with a close up of the Uighur group threatening China — from Syria. At geopolemic-dot-substack-dot-com.

Máté Szalai is back with an overview of the recent developments and the prospects in Syria. Enjoy, at Geo-Polemic! (Go to geopolemic-dot-substack-dot-com.)

Read Dr. Hoffmann's latest on the pertinent issues surrounding the ICC's arrest warrants and Israel at geopolemic-dot-substack-dot-com. Find a link in the comments.