Strategic culture of Hungary in the post-cold war period

Abstract

In 1989, the process of Westernization and Europeanization began in Hungary, which, in the conditions of global reorganization of relations in the world, resulted in a change of foreign and domestic political paradigms, and managed to put national interests in the forefront in the past decade. In such as context, the analysis of the strategic culture of Hungary is approached from a perspective that will frame the cultural and ahistorical view of the international policy of the neorealists with its own cultural and historical dimension. The subject of this paper is to examine the changes in the strategic culture of Hungary under the influence of changes in the international political and security scene. By determining the patterns of "fine" changes in the strategic culture at the level of statements of the practical activity of the security policy, the analysis of the strategic documents of Hungary on the security policy is realized. The changes in the statements of the security policy were a necessary consequence of the changed circumstances on the international scene and the need to reconcile the fundamental elements that came into the relationship of conflict. Defining the role of the armed forces appears as a central segment of the change in strategic culture in the post-Cold War era.