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...
John Rutherford Allen Co-Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, The Brookings Institution General John Allen, USMC (Ret.) just completed service as the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. He was appointed by President Obama on September 13, 2014. He...
A special issue of European Perspectives was published by Centre for European Perspective (CEP) the in the framework of a project, financed by International Visegrad Fund on the relations and common interests of the Visegrad countries and Slovenia. The Hungarian partner of CEP was the Centre...
by András György Deák, Tomaš Kulda Regional gas and energy policies has been moving toward a more transparent, competitive and unified market since the late 2000s. This process points to a European market, where Russia has more limited leverage on V4 countries. Nevertheless, this transition is...
CEID organized a V4 panel discussion on necessary reforms in Ukraine on October 16th at the Polish Institute in the framework of the Think Visegrad - V4 Think Thank Platform, supported by the International Visegrad Fund. Speakers of the discussion were: Mr. Adam Eberhardt , Deputy...
by Milan Šuplata, Jiří Schneider, Marian Majer By annexing Crimea and fuelling violence in the Ukraine’s easternmost regions, Russia seriously broke basic principles of international law and shook assumptions about cooperative character of post-Cold War security architecture in Europe. Yet, the seemingly compact Visegrad region has...
CEID organised a conference with four panel discussions on Polish-Hungarian relations in partnership with the Corvinus Society for Foreign Affairs and Culture (CSFAC) and the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM) supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Hungary and the Polish...
by Wojciech Lorenz, Mário Nicolini In a completely new security context after Russian agression against Ukraine NATO is reviewing all fundamental principles, which has driven its decisions over the last two decades. Enlargement, the Alliance’s primary policy to realise the vision of a Europe whole, free and...