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Volume XII, No. 2

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HUNGARY AND IRELAND

Divergent Paths and the Sustainability of Representative Democracy in the EU As recently as a decade ago, Hungary and Ireland shared a broadly similar cultural domain. Both were (and are)

THE SCHUMAN DECLARATION: SEVENTY YEARS AGO AND TODAY

It was seventy years ago that the Schuman Declaration launched European integration, widely regarded as the most successful process in European history. At the same time, the story of integration

Essays

TWO POEMS

Pilgrimage Chaucer caught me up a month before my birth, sent a signal through the amniotic soup to cue my DNA: remember, pilgrimage is part of your green heritage. I

BOOK REVIEW

A Nation Dismembered A poet is compelled to write, even if only a grey sparrow. And my feathers will be whirling down, with ink dripping from the ste Árpád Farkas,

REDEFINING THE CONCEPT OF THE HUNGARIAN NATION

Part II In 2010, the parties of the conservative coalition, the Alliance of Young Democrats (Fidesz)–Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) led by Viktor Orbán won a two-thirds parliamentary majority and

WITHIN THE GRACE OF MEANING

The study of a national culture is, in essence, a search for beauty. To believe this we need not submit to romanticism or deny the cold realities with which history

AUSTRIANS AND HUNGARIANS: ENEMIES, NEIGHBOURS, FRIENDS

Mosaic of an Ambivalent Relationship In 1909, an English artist named Adrian Stokes and his Styrian wife Marianne published an account of their travels and painting expeditions in Hungary, chiefly

Arts and Letters

STOCKS OF LOVE—A PORTRAIT OF ISTVÁN SZEPSY

Film Snapshots of the Man Who Redefined the Tokaj Wine Region István Szepsy is a member of the sixteenth generation of a winegrowing dynasty in Tokaj, which first left an

THE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES KŐSZEG

Ferenc Miszlivetz and Jody Jensen in interview with Mátyás Kohán MK: The Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg (iASK) is now five years old. Could you sketch a guide to how

From our Readers

ATOP FLANDERS POPPIES AND OTHER BLOOPERS

The year 2021 marks a century since the parents and siblings of my maternal grandfather, the future engineer and doctor of technical sciences Ervin Becker, had to leave their hometown,

THE UNITED STATES AND HUNGARY

Long Time Friends Right from the Start As the unprecedented presidential campaign came to end in 2020, it revealed the voting behaviour of a cross-section of American voters that is

Our Authors

OUR AUTHORS

SZILÁRD  BIERNACZKY, CSc,  retired associate professor, music and ethnographic researcher, Africanist, book publisher, poet, and translator. His awards include the Károly Kós Prize and the Iroko Lifetime Achievement Award. His