Les espions de Napoleon Ier en Hongrie au début du XIXe siècle

Author(s): Béla Borsi-Kálmán / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2009

The study presents some special documents about the Franco-Hungarian relations and the Hungarian society at the beginning of the 19th century. It is about first of all the rapports of Gérard Lacué, the secretary of the French Embassy in Vienna.

La Hongrie parcourue par les voyageurs français au tournant du XVIIIe et du XIXe siècle

Author(s): Michel Figeac / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2009

French travelers about Hungary: they traveled the country in the first part of the 19th century. The French travelers: Marcel de Serres, François-Sulpice Beudant,Saint-Marc Girardin,Victor Tissot (he was in Hungary at the end of the 19th century). They compare Hungary and France and present Hungary where coexist archaic and modern elements.

Les changements des relations de François II Rákóczi et de la politique orientale française en lien avec la révolte hongroise

Author(s): János Kalmár / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2009

The author presents the Hungarian revolt with the leadership of Francis Rákóczi II. We know the international situation of the Hungarian war for independence and the French diplomacy.

Les relations entre la France et l'Europe centrale et orientale des années 1860 à nos jours

Author(s): D. Gusztáv Kecskés / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2009

The author deals with the relations of France with Central and Eastern Europe from 1860s to the present. He presents the main stages of the relationships.

De nouvelles relations entre socialistes et communistes? Le voyage de Daniel Mayer, président de la Ligue des droits de l’homme, en Hongrie en 1963

Author(s): Sarolta Klenjánszky / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2009

The study presents the collaboration of the Hungarian Communist Party and the French United Socialist Party. The travel of Daniel Mayer, the member of the Socialist Party and the president of the League for the Human Rights was important for Hungary, because this country wanted to get out of the diplomatic isolation.

Le voyage de François Mitterrand en Hongrie en 1990

Author(s): Bernard Lachaise / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2009

The study presents the travel of Mitterand to Hungary in 1990. We get to know the historical antecedents of this travel, the international situation, the results of the travel and the idea of Mitterand about the future of Europe.

Relations franco-hongroises dans le domaine de l’économie (1940-1944)

Author(s): Viktória Müller / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2009

History of the economic collaboration between Hungary and France under the Vichy regime. The author uses Hungarian and French archival sources to present the economical relations between 1940 and 1944.

La Hongrie dans les bibliothèques des maisons d’éducation pour filles dans la France du XVIIIe siècle

Author(s): Dominique Picco / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2009

The author presents the image of Hungary in the 18th century on the base of the libraries for girls in France. And in the meantime the study presents the girl's education in the convents.

Federalism in India. „Insight into India’s political structure and its colonialist traits”

Author(s): Ramachandra Byrappa / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

Questions of Federalism in India, the colonial past, the structure of the Society.

The Western Powers and the Danubian Basin in the 1930’s

Author(s): László Diószegi / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

The impact of the Great Depression on the Danubian Basin. Plans to solve the economical questions of Central Europa. Using of Hungarian and British archival sources.

Stefan Burián, ein ungarischer gemeinsamer Minister der Habsburgermonarchie im Spiegel der österreichischen Memoirenliteratur

Author(s): Tamás Goreczky / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2009

Career of a Common minister, Stephen Burián, in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

A 2003-as iraki konfliktus a szövetségi kapcsolatok dimenziójában

Author(s): Béla Háda / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2009

The war of United States against Iraq initiated in 2003 practised a powerful effect onto the international relations, between them onto Washington's allied relations. The European states formed a judgement on the situation differently. While France, Germany and Russia opposed the unilateral military action United Kingdom, Spain and smaller NATO member and candidate for membership states favoured it. The debate caused tenseness in the European states' contacts. The points of view differing in the row of USA's Middle East partners were born. This study takes the viewpoints that inspired the more important eurasian partner countries' different points of view into consideration.

Spiritism and the Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil

Author(s): Artur Cesar Isaia / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

La concezione storica del fascismo ne Il balilla Vittorio di Roberto Forges-Davanzati

Author(s): Balázs Juhász / Language(s): Italian Issue: 1/2009

A Bush-adminisztráció, az Amerikai Hírszerző Közösség, és az iraki háború megindításának indokai

Author(s): János Kemény / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

The essay intends to show the problems the Intelligence Community faced in the months before the start of Iraq war. It shows that the difficulties faced by the Intelligence Community were not simple but very difficult and multifaceted. They were of internal and external nature and the external pressures came from Iraq and the U.S. alike. But the essay´s main focus is on the internal problems and it tries to give an explanation on how it became possible to arrive at the disastrous conclusions that made the war against Iraq in part possible. The essay draws on a wide range of publicly available English language literature and incorporates memoirs, congressional reports, speeches, studies and newspaper articles alike.

Rebus sic stantibus

Author(s): M. Géza Szebeni / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

The study examines the questions of the rearmament of Federal Republic of Germany. The author presents the attitude of the European powers and the United States in this question and analyses the International situation to understand the importance of West Germany for the security of Western Europe.

On the Journey to the Rhineland Pact. Contribution to the Study of British Perception of the Problem of Collective Security in the 1920’s

Author(s): Lukáš Novotný / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

About Locarno and the British-French negociations before this event, using British press and archival sources.

Le tremblement de terre de 1755: les lendemains de la tragédie Colère divine ou sentence fatale de la Nature?

Author(s): Maria do Rosário Pimentel / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2009

Portugal in the second part of the 18th century and the explanations about the seism in Lisbon in 1755.

Count János Esterházy, the Chairman of the United Hungarian Party in the debate of parliamentarians of the Czechoslovak National Assembly in 1938, the fatal year of the first Czechoslovak Republic (Esterházy‘s criticism of Czechoslovakia in the year

Author(s): Andrej Tóth / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

Political situation of the first Czechoslovak Republic at the end of the 1930s. The role of count János Esterházy in the political life of the country.

An Open Letter from a Hungarian to President Wilson concerning the Integrity of Hungary. A Forgotten Pamphlet of the Territorial Integrity Propaganda. I. Part

Author(s): Péter András Tóth,Lajos Pallos / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2009

The authors has written a study about the Central European policy of the United States in two parts. In the first one they present Wilson's political activity in Central Europe.