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Volume XIII, No. 2

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A WEDGE THROUGH CENTRAL EUROPE

How does Austria feel about the four Visegrád states? And vice versa: How do the Visegrád states feel about Austria? These two questions, having never really been answered, have hovered

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING
OLAF SCHOLZ

Germany’s new government is in trouble after barely six months in office. Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democratic Party are sinking in the polls and losing regional elections. What

POSTMODERN WARS
AND THEIR LESSONS

In August 2008, Vladimir Putin provoked a war with Georgia by giving its president, Mikhail Saakashvili, the poisoned choice of either losing two ‘breakaway’ regions of his country to pro-Russian

Essays

THE TURN OF THE CONCEPTUAL BASE
OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

New Dimensions in EfficiencyPart II INTRODUCTION Sustainable development encompasses three dimensions of welfare—economic, environmental, and social issues—that involve complex synergies and trade-offs. The social dimension emphasizes the importance of well-functioning

THE PROBLEM WITH EXPERTS

Science and Scientism in the ‘Post-truth’ Age For the last five years, we have heard frequent reference to the idea that we live in a ‘post-truth’ age. Certainly, in this

VOX POPULI *

‘Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.’ Students of pop song will know this pathos-ridden refrain from the 1970s hit song, ‘Me and Bobby McGee’. Of course, the

EUROPEAN UNION
OR THE NEW TOWER OF BABEL

‘Reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do.

History

THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE
AND COMMUNISM

Like all Hungarians of my generation, I grew up and lived during the Cold War in a country under Soviet domination. In our optimistic moments we believed that our offspring

HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP
AND POLITICS

The Case of Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918 In December 2021, two volumes entitled Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918, Band X: Das kulturelle Leben. Akteure–Tendenzen–Ausprägungen were published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.

MEMORY, COMMEMORATION, CRISIS

Fulbright, Arkansas, and the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the FulbrightProgram, 1946–2021Part III CENSURE, OMISSION, AND SILENCE The seventy-fifth anniversary commemorations also illustrated the extent to which the State Department has had

Arts and Literature

COUNTING BACKWARDS

The Art of Márton Barabás in the Budapest Hall of Art One of the most characteristic abstract motifs of Márton Barabás’s (1952) stylistically and thematically diverse body of work is

A CONVERSATION WITH MYSELF

There is no acceptable excuse for emigration after takingadvantage of the treasures of one’s homeland; leaving herfor good is nothing but a betrayal. István Széchenyi11 Count István Széchenyi, Credit or

Our Authors

OUR AUTHORS

GUSZTÁV BÁGER, poet and economist. He is professor emeritus at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest. Between 1990 and 1992, he was the head of the Economic Policy Department of the