Why Georgians Need to Take Hungarian Lessons
Image credit/license Bidzina Ivanishvili, Georgia’s richest man and the de facto leader of the ruling Georgian Dream party, has suffered a political setback. On April 12, prime minister Victor Orbán,…
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Why Still Pro-Russia? Making Sense of Hungary’s and Serbia’s Pro-Russia Stance
(Henry Jackson Society) In this report, Professor Dr. Marlene Laruelle and Dr. Helena Ivanov investigate the level and underlying causes of pro-Russian sentiment in Serbia and Hungary. Both countries have…
Is the War in Ukraine Helping or Hindering the Relationship Between the EU and its Illiberal Member States?
The far-ranging consequences of the war in Ukraine are incalculable. The conflict has had reverberations spilling well beyond the borders of the two countries, from revisions to the European energy…
BRI-illiance and BRI-ittleness: Hungary’s Success and Serbia’s Struggle with Chinese Trade Flows
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) First and foremost, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a $550 billion project designed to relieve China’s industrialized zones of surplus output and grow its less…
Ukraine’s 2017 Education Law Incites International Controversy Over Language Stipulation
(PONARS Policy Memo) The Ukrainian parliament launched a long-expected education reform policy with the adoption of a new “law on education” in September 2017. This development was welcomed by civil society and…
Europe in Crisis: “Old,” “New,” or Incomplete?
(PONARS Policy Memo) In this policy memo, we bring together the results of our recently published research to shed some light on how the idea of Europe has been contested in…
Reconsidering NATO expansion: a counterfactual analysis of Russia and the West in the 1990s
(EJIS) Abstract: This article re-examines the history of NATO’s original post-Cold War enlargement to include the Visegrad states of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. It uses both published materials and…
Johnson talks about her “intriguing” new paper on Hungary’s “illiberal democracy” [AUDIO]
(MIR Online) Professor Juliet Johnson, McGill Director of the European Union Center of Excellence, executive member of PONARS Eurasia and a former member of the McGill Board of Governors talks about her intriguing new paper,…
New Book: Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World
Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries…