{"id":10160,"date":"2024-06-05T21:28:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T21:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgi.krtk.hu\/?post_type=publikacio&#038;p=10160"},"modified":"2024-06-05T21:31:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T21:31:32","slug":"peragovics-t-szunomar-a-the-great-connection-the-budapest-belgrade-railway-project-and-its-significance-for-hungarys-foreign-policy-identity","status":"publish","type":"publikacio","link":"https:\/\/vgi.krtk.hu\/en\/publikacio\/peragovics-t-szunomar-a-the-great-connection-the-budapest-belgrade-railway-project-and-its-significance-for-hungarys-foreign-policy-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Peragovics, T., Szunom\u00e1r, \u00c1.: The Great Connection \u2013 The Budapest-Belgrade Railway Project and Its Significance for Hungary&#8217;s Foreign Policy Identity."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Great Connection \u2013 The Budapest-Belgrade Railway Project and Its Significance for Hungary&#8217;s Foreign Policy Identity<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Authors: <a href=\"https:\/\/vgi.krtk.hu\/en\/colleague\/tamas-peragovics\/\">Tam\u00e1s Peragovics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/vgi.krtk.hu\/en\/colleague\/szunomar-agnes\/\">\u00c1gnes Szunom\u00e1r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In: <em>Asian Perspective<\/em>, 48(2), 253-275.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Abstract<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This article investigates the significance of the Budapest-Belgrade railway project in the context of Hungary\u2019s foreign policy identity under the Orb\u00e1n regime. It claims that existing explanations have so far failed to appreciate the project\u2019s symbolic importance for enacting and reproducing the Orb\u00e1n government\u2019s self-conception in foreign affairs. This self-conception is notable for locating Hungary at the crossroads, geographically as well as normatively, between East and West and for appraising the country as a great conduit between and across these spaces. By viewing the railway upgrade as an element of identity politics, the article moves beyond the literature\u2019s crude notion that this is a political project simply because it seems not to make sense economically. We conduct a discourse analysis to trace the meaning of the project in a set of chosen texts from key actors in Hungarian politics. Besides appreciating the infrastructure project as a marker of identity, the article also shows that the Orb\u00e1n government\u2019s emphasis on connecting distant worlds reveals a normatively Chinese approach to international politics in Central and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Connection \u2013 The Budapest-Belgrade Railway Project and Its Significance for Hungary&#8217;s Foreign Policy Identity &nbsp; Authors: Tam\u00e1s Peragovics, \u00c1gnes Szunom\u00e1r In: Asian Perspective, 48(2), 253-275. &nbsp; Abstract This article investigates the significance of the Budapest-Belgrade railway project in the context of Hungary\u2019s foreign policy identity under the Orb\u00e1n regime. 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