CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Nagy, Eszter |
|---|---|
| Title | The road from Europhilia to Europhobia: A Populist Nationalist and Eurosceptic Turn in Hungary |
| Summary | Since Hungary’s EU-accession we experienced a fundamental change in the political system of the country that used to be the front-runner of the transition and the EU-integration process, with unquestionable pro-Western orientation supported by the consensus of political parties. Mere 14 years after joining the EU, this “new” EU-member state finds itself in the middle of international criticism for recurring offenses of the European norms and value system and for regularly obstructing common EU-decisions. Hungary is by now a frequent topic on the front pages of international media outlets for its democratic backsliding and alarming authoritarian tendencies. What exactly happened, why and how? In my thesis I will present an overview of the underlying causes of this U-turn and an assessment of the current situation focusing on the one hand on the populist perspective interconnected with Euroscepticism, the new trend in Hungarian foreign policy. On the other hand, I will analyze the changes leading to the establishment of a hybrid regime with a special focus on the aspects of foreign policy and its impacts on and future perspectives in the European Union. I will describe the relationship and interconnection between populist nationalism and Euroscepticism. Through discourse analysis I will depict how this sharp turn happened and how populist nationalism became the mainstream political ideology spilling over to foreign policy inevitably leading to increasing Euroscepticism, transforming international relations and its institutional framework in an EU-member state that provides a so far unprecedented case. |
| Supervisor | Csaba László |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/nagy_eszter1.pdf |
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