On February 25th CEID organized the Budapest Security Conference with the support of the NATO Public Diplomacy Division, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) and the International Visegrad Fund (IVF) in partnership with the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), the Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI), and the...
The Think Visegrad think-tank network prepared the review of the first half of the Czech V4 presidency and suggested key recommendations for the remaining time of the presidency. The assessment is based on the Presidency’s own priorities, but also on the overall context in which...
The aim of this paper is to provide readers with an overview of contemporary NATO-Russia relations before the Warsaw Summit, and to make recommendations for the upcoming meeting. INTRODUCTION Nearly two years have passed since Russia occupied and forcibly annexed the territory of the Crimean Peninsula, and...
On January 7th CEID organized the 7th Euro-Atlantic Café with the support of the US Embassy and the Pallas Athéné Geopolitical Foundation (PAGEO). The panelists were Ms.Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York and Mr....
Can Media Influence Foreign Policy? On December 15th CEID organized the 6th Euro-Atlantic Café with the support of the US Embassy and the Pallas Athéné Geopolitical Foundation (PAGEO). The panelists were Ms. Nicole Tung, awatd-winning photographer and free-lance war correspondent, and Mr. Bálint Szlankó, free-lance war...
On 4th December, 2015 CEID organised our 5th Euro-Atlantic Café with General John Allen , Senior Fellow of the The Brookings Institution and Mr. Péter Siklósi from Ministry of Defence of Hungary, organised in cooperation with the Slovak Atlantic Commission and supported by the US...
The days are gone when a major international newspaper was unthinkable without a network of foreign correspondents. Wise middle aged men were sitting around in smoky offices exchanging political rumors, meeting influential insiders behind closed doors, and pretending to be as secretive as possible about...
The uniqueness of the Islamic State (IS) lies in its attempt not to capture an already existing state, but rather to create a new one. IS is not a new phenomenon, the roots date back to 2004, when Jordanian jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi joined the...
Divided in Unity The EU plunged into an unprecedented crisis due to the inflow of the refugees and the terrorist threat, apparent to everybody after the Paris attacks. Member states are pulling into different directions, national solutions overwrite a potential common approach and a new dividing...
Peter Siklósi is Deputy State Secretary for Defence Policy and Planning of Ministry of Defence of Hungary. Previously, he held various positions including Defence Counsellor at Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Hungary to NATO or the Head of Defence Policy Department at Ministry of...