Central European Forum

Notes on a Volume about János Esterházy

ATTILA SIMON Notes on a Volume about János Esterházy Michal Schvarc: János Esterházy a jeho miesto v moderných slovenských dejinách [János Esterházy and his place in modern Slovak history]. Ministerstvo zahraničných vecí a európskych záleži...

The Role of the Fórum Social Science Review in Hungarian Linguistics

MIKLÓS KONTRA The Role of the Fórum Social Science Review (Fórum Társadalomtudományi Szemle) in Hungarian Linguistics* 1. A brief historical overview I find it appropriate to begin my survey of the linguistic contributions of the 25 volumes...

Minority Research Journals  in Slovakia and Hungary

It is hardly debatable that in the decades since the regime change, significant institutionalization has taken place in the Central European genre of ethnic studies, particularly in the field of minority research. Numerous academic, governm...

New Wine in old bottle? Classical notions of political philosophy in a changed political reality

Introduction  Undeniably, we are witnesses and sufferers of a paradigm-shift; this process has been on-going for decades of course, but it has become explicit due to the climate crisis, Covid pandemic, and Russian invasion of Ukraine. These...

Citizens or non-citizens – discrimination against the Russian minority in the Baltics

Introduction In his 5,000-word essay titled „On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” Vladimir Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1991 as the geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century (Stent 2022), as ...

Robert College During the Years of Conflict 1908-1918

Introduction “At the center of the world, all the lends around thee, orient and occident, with their best, have crowned thee.” The song begins with the lines, “at the center of the world,” which many Robert College students sing at their gr...

Combatting Illiberalism in the Heart of Europe: Lessons from Slovakia

Introduction The issue of democratic backsliding has been the topic of much discussion in recent years. There is general agreement that in the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) the quality of democracy has been declining. (Stanley ...