Hungary
Total 8 Posts
Distinguishing between ‘populism’ and ‘nativism’.
5 min read
What exactly do the words ‘populism’ and ‘nativism’ mean? Does it make sense to use them interchangeably, as is the case in the media?
The Post-COVID world: Dragging the State back into public services.
7 min read
There is no automatic return to neo-liberal normalcy or US hegemony after the virus has worked its way through world politics.
Hungary is now an autocracy without adjectives.
3 min read
An interesting thread by Garvan Walshe on why Hungary enacting its Enabling Act during the coronavirus crisis is a serious miscalculation by the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
Is democracy really dying a slow, agonising death?
3 min read
It’s fashionable these days for commentators to lament the lingering death of democracy. It’s being strangled long and slow, so the narrative goes. How?
The ‘Orbanisation’ of India? Before that, there was the ‘Modi-fication’ of Hungary.
2 min read
Rashmee Roshan Lall compares Narendra Modi’s India with Viktor Orban’s Hungary. It is a scary thought.
A legitimating moment for European bigotry?
4 min read
Opinion polls indicate a surge in support for the far-right ahead of the elections, which could make it the second largest force in the European Parliament with up to 35% of all seats.
The emerging new world order’s alarm bells.
5 min read
How some world leaders, by enabling abuse of human, minority and refugee rights, facilitate the erosion of the norms of debate and mainstream hate speech.