Magyarország a nemzetközi környezetpolitikában
Hungary in International Environmental Policy: the Case of Climate Change and the Biodiversity Regimes

Summary/Abstract: Why would a small, middle-income country, stuck in the turbulence of deep political and economic changes, care about global environmental problems? The paper is the outcome of a three-year research project aimed at understanding the factors that shaped Hungary’s participation in the climate change regime and the biodiversity regime. The research questions were the following: What was the motivation of Hungary in joining these environmental regimes? Which social actors and institutions influenced the decision of joining the regimes and the dynamics of the participation process? We established a research framework with the possible explanatory models. We then conducted an empirical research based on document analysis and interviews with policy makers, experts, and NGO members. We were seeking to reconstruct and understand Hungarian foreign environmental policy in order to determine which explanation best suits the Hungarian case.

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