Changing Autonomy in the times of the PT – in Encrucijada Americana

An explanation of the rise and fall of the South American Giant The objective of this paper is to analyze the concept of autonomy, using Brazil under the government of the PT (Workers Party) between 2003 and 2016 as a case study. Our theoretical framework combines perspectives of Latin-American structuralism with those of realism and […]
Can Europe Make it? – The Future of the Catalan-Spanish Relations
Why both the Spanish and the Catalan governments think they come out reinforced from the referendum clash? The PP may be seen as sole guarantor of Spanish unity, while support for pro-independence parties morphs into a reaction against repression by the Spanish government and its conservative values. By Felipe G. Santos (iASK researcher) The whole article […]
New Solidarity Debate

Arguments and Cons – Austerity vs Social Cohesion – About the EU’s New Cohesion Guidelines
Ethno Bureaucratic Patrimonialism – The Political Regime of Bosnia-Herzegovina

“This article, by following theories of informal institutionalization and not of democratic consolidation, aims at conceptualizing the existing post-Dayton or post-transitional political regime in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH). The study applies a structural approach to regime building, identifying the set of institutionalized rules structuring the interaction of the political power center and its relation with the broader […]
iASK Management’s Visit at RIAS in Moscow

Between 17 and 20 April 2017, on the invitation of the Russian Institute for Advanced Studies (RIAS) of the Moscow State Pedagogical University, Ferenc Miszlivetz, Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies Kőszeg, Jody Jensen, Coordinator of the Polányi Centre at iASK and György Csepeli sociologist, senior research fellow at iASK participated in the international […]
Gábor Kardos: How to Reframe the Future of Europe (Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 2016.)

Reframing Europe’s Future: Challenges and Failures of the European Construction, edited by Jody Jensen and Ferenc Miszlivetz. Routledge, 2015. 267 p.
Our Place in the European Union
Discussion about the future of Hungary in the European Union
Participant: István Szent-Iványi and Ferenc Miszlivetz
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