[IMCnetwork] FW: Event: Public lecture by Akos Kopper

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Dear IMCers,

In case the seminar below is of interest and you fancy getting up in the middle of the night,

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From: Doing International Political Sociology <DOINGIPS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on behalf of Jef Huysmans <jef.huysmans at QMUL.AC.UK>
Date: Monday, 9 May 2022 at 9:28 pm
To: DOINGIPS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK <DOINGIPS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Subject: Event: Public lecture by Akos Kopper
Hungary balancing between the EU and Russia - A decade of manoeuvring
Public Lecture by Akos Kopper

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Date and time: Thursday 26 May 2022, 2pm
Venue: Queen Mary, University of London, Arts Two Building, room 3.20, QMUL, Mile End Campus

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[The Hungarian flag with the background of the flags of Ukraine and Russia]

Since 2010 Hungary has been ruled by a populist and self-claimed illiberal regime, where norms of fair elections, open media and other constitutive features of European values have been constantly violated. Although the country is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the EU, it has been constantly bashing Brussels in its rhetoric, while it has been forging ever closer ties with China, but particularly with Russia, arguing that they represent the future as the West was in decline. Still, the regime has been very careful in its confrontations with the EU, always pulling the brakes before clashing with the EU head on and making symbolic gestures that in form followed the EU’s requests yet in substance contradicted them. That is, the regime has been in a constant manoeuvring to make the most out of EU membership, while creating an authoritarian regime in which the regimes’ leaders and their cronies profited greatly from EU funds, syphoning them into their own pockets.
The war in Ukraine seemed to pose a radical challenge to this practice of manoeuvring. Although it has been argued that populist leaders flourish at times of crisis, allowing them to buttress their power or to make political gains, the war on Ukraine was an external shock that posed an unexpected challenge for Hungary’s populist leader, Viktor Orbán. Orbán started his political career in the 90s with a speech in which he demanded Soviet troops to leave Hungary. How could the man who first made such a request openly in the 90s, react 30 years later to the war in Ukraine that reminded many of the Hungarian revolution of 1956? The fact that Hungary had elections just within a few weeks added a particular weight to the question. As we know by now, Orban triumphed and again secured a 2/3rd majority in Parliament. Still, clouds are gathering for Orban. The economy is in bad shape, public debt is increasing and the manoeuvring that characterized the regime’s relations to the EU may not go on as before.

BIO
Akos KOPPER is a Gerda Henkel Fellow working on a project on emergency and citizenship during the pandemic. Last term he was a visiting researcher at the University of Vienna and visiting lecturer at CEU (Vienna).
He received his PhD from Jacobs University Bremen (2009), MA from CEU (2000), BA from ELTE (1999). For five years with his colleague – Paul Row- he was coordinating editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development, the official journal of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA).
He is a member of CEEISA’s executive board. He has published in journals such as: Democratization, International Studies Review, The Pacific Review, East European Politics, Alternatives, Global, Local, Political, International Political Sociology, European Journal of International Relations, Cultures & Conflits, Millennium: Journal of International Studies.




Jef Huysmans
Professor of International Politics

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Selected recent publications:
Jef Huysmans (2021) 'Motioning the politics of security: the primacy of movement and the subject of security<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.library.qmul.ac.uk%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1177%2F09670106211044015&data=05%7C01%7Capril.biccum%40ANU.EDU.AU%7C5df378b7ed814c4f355c08da31aee083%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637876925204336337%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ZqC9bRKwd27Jp8OCyB8ADc3FP4iKJ%2B18zn3KlSEUOcc%3D&reserved=0>.' Security Dialogue DOI: 10.1177/09670106211044015
Janne Autto, Jukka Torronen, Jef Huysmans (2021) 'Fear and insecurity in the politics of austerity.<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.library.qmul.ac.uk%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1080%2F23254823.2021.1888763&data=05%7C01%7Capril.biccum%40ANU.EDU.AU%7C5df378b7ed814c4f355c08da31aee083%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637876925204492991%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PGlzau7r6DXiMsgwQnlzDqDqJit90HPoNUiIFZT1lc8%3D&reserved=0>’ European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. DOI:10.1080/23254823.2021.1888763
Jef Huysmans & Joao P. Nogueira (2021) ‘International political sociology as a mode of critique: fracturing totalities.<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademic-oup-com.ezproxy.library.qmul.ac.uk%2Fips%2Farticle%2F15%2F1%2F2%2F5906662&data=05%7C01%7Capril.biccum%40ANU.EDU.AU%7C5df378b7ed814c4f355c08da31aee083%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637876925204492991%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=6Y3oEqH%2BMRfdUSQQ9%2FTs8oyiPlWVi4c4Lk2wsXUstcw%3D&reserved=0>’ International Political Sociology. 15(1) pp. 2-21
Claudia Aradau & Jef Huysmans (2019) ‘Assembling credibility: knowledge, method and critique in times of “post-truth”.<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.library.qmul.ac.uk%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1177%2F0967010618788996&data=05%7C01%7Capril.biccum%40ANU.EDU.AU%7C5df378b7ed814c4f355c08da31aee083%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637876925204492991%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=78msOOkQ3rXL73QqldkIh75uSnEJD2EJmOJUCpDzpqc%3D&reserved=0>’ Security Dialogue. 50(1) pp. 40-59.
Xavier Guillaume & Jef Huysmans (2019) 'The concept of "the everyday": ephemeral politics and the abundance of life<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.library.qmul.ac.uk%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1177%2F0010836718815520&data=05%7C01%7Capril.biccum%40ANU.EDU.AU%7C5df378b7ed814c4f355c08da31aee083%7Ce37d725cab5c46249ae5f0533e486437%7C0%7C0%7C637876925204492991%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ms8ZcIdgjTYddRbLIH4L0jniKcFMQWFiCuDpF1%2F2ctM%3D&reserved=0>’ Cooperation and Conflict. 54(2), pp. 278-296.

School of Politics and International Relations
Queen Mary, University of London
ArtsOne Building (office 2.28A)
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
United Kingdom
e-mail: Jef.Huysmans at qmul.ac.uk<mailto:Jef.Huysmans at qmul.ac.uk>
tel.: +44 (0)20 7882 8601

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