Peace at all costs: Hungarian Foreign Policy Discourse and the Russo-Ukrainian War Cover Image

Béke minden áron: Oroszország ukrajnai inváziója a magyar kormány diskurzusában
Peace at all costs: Hungarian Foreign Policy Discourse and the Russo-Ukrainian War

Author(s): Tamás Dudlák
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Politics and communication, Geopolitics, Politics and Identity
Published by: Pécsi Tudományegyetem
Keywords: Hungary; Russia; Ukraine; discourse

Summary/Abstract: The war in Ukraine has challenged the fundamentally pro-Russian and anti-Ukrainian Hungarian government policy. Before the war, the Hungarian government utilized the discourse of the uncorrupted East and the declining West. In this paper, I assume that the Hungarian government effectively incorporated its discourse of the Russian-Ukrainian war into its earlier anti-Western framework. Similarly, there is a continuity in the principles of Hungarian foreign policy previously applied and pronounced by Orbán (protection of sovereignty and national interest, pragmatism, mutual respect, and the cost-benefit principle).

  • Issue Year: 4/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 56-79
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Hungarian
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