Danube Institute Podcast

In this episode of Matter of Perspective Danube Institute research fellows Fanni Korpics, Dávid Nagy and Tamás Orbán discuss their latest research project related to the question of neutrality. The moderator of the discussion is Anton Bendarzsevszkij Director of Research at the Danube Institute. In this episode, speakers compare the different models of neutrality and whether any one of them could be applicable in shaping the future status of Ukraine.

This is The Matter of Perspective - geopolitical podcast of the Danube Institute. In this episode we touch upon the questions related to the French presidential elections, the two rounds of which are taking place on 10, and on 24 April. We discuss the current statistics revealing voting intentions of the French population and compare the popularity and electoral chances of the candidates. Our invited speakers in this episode are Thibaud Gibelin, Essayist and Visiting Fellow at the Matthias Corvinus Collegium; and Eszter Petronella Soós expert on French politics, she teaches at the Milton Friedman university, and is the editor of Franciapolitika.com. The moderator of the discussion is Fanni Korpics, Research Fellow at the Danube Institute.

In the second episode of the Chain Bridge Podcast, Dr Paul Gilfillan joins us to reflect on his life as a researcher in modern British universities. Taking inspiration from Friedrich von Hayek's Nobel Prize Lecture, "The Pretence of Knowledge", Gilfillan reminds us that the search for knowledge always requires courage, and humility.

Mark Krikorian, the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington DC, discusses with Calum Nicholson, a Fellow of the Danube Institute, in Budapest, and John O'Sullivan, the Institute's President, how the experience of mass immigration into the United States and other Western countries since the Cold War ended in 1989 has changed American and European society, challenging earlier concepts of national identity and international law, re-defining the relationships between citizens, non-citizen residents, and the state, and creating a new set of post-national institutions and treaty obligations that compete with the nation-state in determining and enforcing expanded ideas of human rights. Has the nation-state lost the power to determine laws that govern its own society to UN bodies, the EU, NGOs, and international courts? How is the nation-state handling the problems of mass immigration in this new post-national context? Can it regain some or all of the powers it has lost to post- and trans-national bodies? Is this new structure of post-national law and political authority viable? Or democratic? Or capable of functioning effectively without the traditional tools of the nation-state? And how is democratic politics coping with these new and fundamental challenges to nation and democracy?

In this first episode of the Chain Bridge Podcast, Julius Strauss joins us to discuss his experience and reflections on being a war correspondent. Having just returned from Ukraine, he cautions us not to assume we can predict how the conflict will develop.

This is The Matter of Perspective - geopolitical podcast of the Danube Institute. In this episode we are discussing the importance of demographics in geopolitics and what kind of measures can countries experiencing demographic decline introduce. Our invited speakers in this episode are Thibaud Gibelin, Essayist and Visiting Fellow at the Matthias Corvinus Collegium; and Michael O’Shea Visiting Fellow at the Danube Institute, part of the Budapest Fellowship Programme, sponsored by the Hungary Foundation, Matthias Corvinus Collegium. The moderator of the discussion is Fanni Korpics, Research Fellow at the Danube Institute.

In this episode we are discussing the shift in the US alliance system - from Europe and Middle East to the Indo-Pacific region, also in connection to the AUKUS deal, which was made public in September. For this episode our invited experts were Gergely Salát, Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade and head of the department and director of the Modern East Asia Research Group at Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU); Enikő Bagoly, research fellow at Danube Institute; and Tamás Orbán, research fellow at Danube Institute. The podcast was moderated by Anton Bendarzsevszkij, director of research at Danube Institute.

In this episode we are discussing the first year of Joe Biden, both in regards to US domestic policy and foreign affairs. We were discussing the achievements and failures of the new American administration. For this episode our invited experts were Tamás Magyarics, Professor at the School of English and American Studies, ELTE, Budapest, the Chair of its American Studies Department, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for American Studies at the National University of Public Service, as well as a Guest Professor at IES, Vienna. He served as Ambassador to Ireland in 2011-2015, and was the Head of the North American Department at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2015-2016. Our second guest was István Kiss, political scientist and an international relations expert, managing director of Danube Institute. The episode was moderated by Tamás Orbán, research fellow at Danube Institute.

This is a special issue of The Matter of Perspective - geopolitical podcast of the Danube Institute. In this episode we are discussing the research project conducted by Jeffrey Kaplan, distinguished fellow at Danube Institute, and some of our researchers, who have also participated in the project. The research resulted a big conference on Anti-Semitism, organized in June 2021, and a book, which is currently waiting to be published in early 2022.

This is The Matter of Perspective - geopolitical podcast of the Danube Institute. In this episode we are discussing the energy security of Europe, and the routes connecting with Europe from South and South-East - recently completed pipelines of Turkish Stream, TAP, TANAP and the new LNG terminal in Croatian KRK island. For this episode our invited experts were Zoltán Egeresy, researcher at Center for Strategic and Defense Studies, University of Public Service, and Dávid Nagy, researcher at Danube Institute.