Hungarian foreign policy reloaded?
Hungarian foreign policy reloaded?

Summary/Abstract: By the end of the 1990s the effects of globalization were becoming obvious, affecting the whole world. Between 1987 and 1997, Hungary achieved several spectacular foreign policy successes. Since then, however, it has been able to achieve hardly anything worth noting. It thus became clear that changes in the world and in Hungary’s status required a different foreign policy. The most important strategic goal is for Hungary to orient itself to the new situation arising from its EU and NATO membership, pursuing a foreign policy that conforms to that of the European Union and/or its member states’ foreign policies. Accordingly, it needs to ensure that the most important Hungarian foreign policy goals become part of common EU policy, while at the same time ensuring that EU and member states’ most important interests and objectives are integrated into Hungarian foreign policy. The fact that the drafting of a new foreign policy strategy has begun gives cause for optimism. At the same time, however, the continued prevalence of the root causes underlying the stagnation of the past decade renders substantial change doubtful.

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