The book presents good practices in humanitarian assistance and empowerment of Ukrainian refugees in various areas.

This book offers an analysis of values in Hungary.

Budapest in the autumn of 1944 was a city full of terror. The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg became an important part of the networks desperately trying to save the Jewish population in Hungary. is a true story of resistance and rescue and of one of the greatest humanitarian efforts of the Second World War.

This book examines social change in Hungary, commencing with the period of late-stage socialism, the country?s immediate post-communist transition, its subsequent consolidation and the emergence of authoritarian leadership since 2010. 

Up until recently, Europe?s three imperial monarchies ? the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires ? were seen as moribund political entities, unable to accommodate the forces of political, social, economic, and cultural modernization, and as a result collapsed collectively during or shortly after the First World War. More recently, scholars have underlined the viability of these polities, including as frameworks for democratic experiments and fixed points for (supra)national identification, notwithstanding the suppression of minorities and colonial undertakings of these empires. This book takes a different approach: it demonstrates that these three imperial monarchies were capable of and willing to initiate and steer the modernization of their institutions and polities. Rather than understanding modernization as a linear and teleological process, this contributed volume draws instead on Samuel Eisenstadt?s notion of ?multiple modernities? to demonstrate how these empires sought to modernize on their own terms. By drawing on this concept, it becomes possible to challenge notions of inevitable decline and instead demonstrate how these imperial monarchies sought to forge modernization on their own terms in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Heidi Hein-Kircher is Director of the Martin Opitz Library (Herne) and Professor for German History and Culture in Eastern Europe at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh is Assistant Professor of Political History at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Contested Places, Contested Pasts focuses on how the First and Second World Wars, Holocaust, Cold War communist period and 1956 Uprising have been memorialized and marked in the Hungarian landscape. The book explores the difficult debates surrounding the remembrance and commemoration of these events.

Drawing upon extensive nationwide research in Hungary, this volume investigates how social media platforms operate as new spaces for local political interaction, community-building, and public discourse, and assesses their implications for democratic practices. At its core, this work seeks to answer fundamental questions about the nature, scale, and impact of local political engagement online. Our analysis spans micro-level interactions among individuals, meso-level storytelling agents such as community pages and political figures, and the broader context in which these dynamics unfold. Particular attention is paid to the role of political considerations, especially to how the interests of national political actors are reflected in and serve to energize local, social media-based publics. By offering detailed insights into Hungary's local social media landscape, it provides a broader understanding of the evolving role digital platforms play in shaping contemporary civic life, ultimately informing discussions about the future of community and political engagement in an increasingly digital world.

Márton Bene is a Research Professor at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest and an Assistant Professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. He leads the MTA–HUN-REN CSS Lendület "Momentum" PRiSMa Research Group. His research focuses on political communication, social media and politics, and political behavior.

Gábor Dobos is a political scientist. He currently serves as a Research Fellow at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences and as a Senior Research Fellow at Ludovika University of Public Service, Hungary. His research interests include local politics, constitutional adjudication, and political institutions.

This book explores the impact of personality traits on people’s acceptance of state surveillance used for national security purposes. So far, state surveillance has been analysed in relation to institutional factors, technological infrastructures or specific contexts. This book shifts the focus from institutional and systemic characteristics to individual traits. It shows the extent to which people’s personality traits explain the acceptance of state surveillance. The book provides a comparative analysis of Hungary and Romania to outline the differences between two former communist countries. The key results illustrate that highly conscientious people, those who are active in their communities, and the well-informed persons accept state surveillance more.

Paul Tap is Research Fellow at the Department of International Studies and Contemporary History, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj. His research interests lie in direct democracy, political parties and state surveillance. 

Far-Right Ecologism explains how the ongoing mainstreaming of the far right has prompted greater engagement with a range of topics, including the environment.

The RERIS Studies in International Sport Relations series publishes books that explore interconnectivity between several actors (people, organizations, and/or states) at the international level. It aims to showcase works (individual or collective) that use sources from a variety of different languages and topics that challenge Euro-American centrism and assumptions about gender in global sport.

How do we remember the past? And what do we forget? This part-history, part-memoir examines how Hungarians and Austrians living along their common border remember, distort, and forget episodes marking the tumultuous twentieth century, including world wars, the Holocaust, the Iron Curtain, the migration crisis and more.

This book examines the impact of European Union membership in Hungary over the past two decades. It explores how successive Hungarian governments have either leveraged or failed to capitalize on the opportunities provided by the EU framework. Through a detailed analysis of various policy areas—including monetary and fiscal policy, regional policy, industrial policy, social policy and agricultural policy—the volume evaluates how EU regulatory influences have intersected with domestic policies to shape Hungary's development trajectory.

The book explores the tension between the increasingly sovereigntist rhetoric and economic nationalism of post-2010 Hungarian governments and the country's growing reliance on foreign investment and external credit. It also delves into public perceptions of the EU's impact in Hungary, as well as domestic attitudes and expectations regarding the EU’s influence. The findings highlight both the boundaries of EU influence and the constraints of domestic political and economic agency in a small, open economy grappling with the challenges of dependent development. This book will appeal to students, researchers, and policymakers in the fields of political economy, European studies, and public policy.

András Bíró-Nagy is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Department of Government and Public Policy at the Institute for Political Science, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, and Director of Policy Solutions.

Gergő Medve-Bálint is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Political Science, HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, and Associate Professor at the Institute for Social and Political Sciences at the Corvinus University of Budapest.