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Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies ARTES

Hungary, Belt and Road Initiative, and Security

Hungary together with Poland and the Czech Republic joined the NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004. The Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries finally received access to democratic structures of the West after the long twentieth century in which the countries of CEE were part of authoritarian and totalitarian systems, including fascism and communism. A number of research topics are open and are still badly researched and understood with respect to the history of the CEE countries, including Hungary’s history of the twentieth century.

In this project, we will study the history of the twentieth century which will serve as the context for present socio-political developments in CEE focusing on Hungary. The history of the twentieth century for Hungary and other countries from Central Europe will be studied from the angle of sport history, including the history of Olympic Games. The sport history will provide insight into Hungary’s geopolitical situation in the Austro-Hungarian Empire which collapsed at the end of the First World War and later in the twentieth century being an ally of Nazi Germany in the Second World War and of the Soviet Union in the Cold War. The project is teaming up with local and international experts in the field of sports history, including researchers from the Sport University of Budapest and the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca.

Projected output

The project aims at organizing workshops and conferences and to publish joint special issues and volumes with essays and to participate in tenders. Research of the history and international security situation of the twentieth century will also serve as the context for actual developments in the field of international relations. Hungary and other CEE countries are participating in projects related to the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the so-called ‘17+1 cooperation’. The project investigates what the impact is of this cooperation for the internal socio-economic, political and cultural developments and for external and security relations with EU- and NATO-partners. The project is already embedded in a network of international scholars affiliated to the Amsterdam University Research Institute AISSR, Leiden University Research Institute IIAS and the Institute of World Economics and Politics in Beijing (IWEP). The project aims at organizing common workshops and conferences, jointly publishing articles and participating in international tenders.    

Publications

  • Marácz, László. 2019. Saber Fencing and the Remaking of the Hungarian State. Transylvanian Society 17.1: 21-37. DOI: 10.17177/77171.222.
  • Marácz, László. (2023. Assessment of the Hungarian Partnership in the Chinese BRI. In: M.P. Amineh (ed.) The China-led Belt and Road Initiative and its Reflections: The Crisis of Hegemony and Changing Global Orders, 132-157. New York: Roudledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003256502-7

Members

Dr. L.K. (László) Marácz

Faculty of Humanities

Europese studies

L.K.Maracz@uva.nl +31 (0)20 525 2267