Publications
EU–India Free Trade Talks: Can They Wrap Up in 2025?
The morality of war and peace – the theory of just war and the illusion of just peace
Blood and Water Cannot Flow Together: The Indus Water Treaty, Pahalgam, and River Politics in Asia
Who Will Pay for Ukraine’s EU Membership?
Ukraine’s Economic Woes: A Threat to EU Cohesion
Battle of Presidents: Volodymyr Zelensky vs. Petro Poroshenko
Not Just an Observer, but a Key Player – Hungary’s Role in Security Cooperation within the Organization of Turkic States
Reconfiguration of American Power: Trump’s First 100 Days | Budapest Outlook 2025/2
Events
Research centers
As of 2024, HIIA has entered a new period of strategic research, with researchers continuing their work in five new research groups.
The aim of the new structure is to align research projects more closely with the priorities of Hungarian foreign policy.
Connectivity
A country that isolates itself from the world, or allows others to isolate it, cannot flourish at all. Therefore, Hungary wants to be open in as many directions as possible.
Strong Europe
Hungary advocates for a European Union built on its original ideal of the cooperation of independent and sovereign member states.
Emerging Challenges
Around the world, new challenges are emerging—from terrorism and migration to new cultural trends—that affect Hungary in unexpected ways.
Secure Neighborhood
The Secure Neighborhood Center is dedicated to fostering regional stability and security in the complex geopolitical landscape of Hungary’s Eastern neighborhood.
Western Balkans
The Western Balkans Center pursues the mission of spreading the Hungarian viewpoint in regional affairs, with an emphasis on European expansion, energy, security and migration.
Podcasts
The morality of war and peace – the theory of just war and the illusion of just peace
It is a "truth universally recognised" that international law only exists if states uphold it. With the erosion of the rules-based international order we know, armed conflicts and escalating violence on the rise it is timely to discuss how - and if - the just war...
Who Will Pay for Ukraine’s EU Membership?
Ukraine's EU accession remains a hot topic not only within European institutions but also in national capitals. A majority argues that Ukraine should be granted membership via an accelerated process, regardless of the potential consequences. In this podcast, senior...
Reconfiguration of American Power: Trump’s First 100 Days | Budapest Outlook 2025/2
In the final episode of the Trump’s First 100 Days podcast series, we take an in-depth look at the trends, achievements, and transformative moments of the first hundred days of the Trump administration. Will the new Trump presidency usher in a revolution? What’s...
Budapest Outlook 2025/1: Trump’s First 100 Days – USAID Exposed: Where Did US Taxpayers’ Money Really Go?
The special episode of HIIA's Trump's First Hundred Days podcast series examines the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which made headlines last week when it was revealed that millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars were being funneled to NGOs and...
Budapest Outlook 2024/4: Where is the Future? Youth Voices of the Western Balkans on the EU Integration
Budapest Outlook 2024/4 In the next episode of the Budapest Outlook, young scholars of the Budapest Balkans Youth Forum ’returned’ to discuss their expectations about the Western Balkans’ EU integration just before the Hungarian EU Presidency kicked off. Is the topic...
Budapest Outlook 2024/3: Serbian foreign policy and great power competition
Budapest Outlook 2024/3 In this episode, we dive into the topic of Serbian foreign policy through the lenses of a multivectorality and great power competition. Is the Serbian foreign policy trajectory suitable for an ever-changing world order? Stefan Bošković,...
Budapest Outlook 2024/2: Derisking
Budapest Outlook 2024/2 In its original meaning, the concept of ’derisking’ was a legitimate tool of corporate risk management, nowadays used by Western countries in particular to define their China policy. Ákos Mernyei, Zsolt Trembeczki and Péter Goreczky, experts of...
Budapest Outlook 2024/1: The 3+2 Seas Initiative
Budapest Outlook 2024/1 The 3+2 Seas Initiative: Connectivity Through the Middle Corridor and the Three Seas Initiative. The Russo-Ukrainian war shocked global markets and supply chains, undermining traditional transport routes. An alternative to the Northern Corridor...
Budapest Outlook 2023/9: The Japanese G7 Presidency and the Indo-Pacific Strategy
In 2023, Japan held the presidency of the G7. Our guest, Ambassador Otaka Maszato, who represents Japan as Ambassador to our country, spoke about the experiences of the Presidency, Japan's new concept for the Open and Free Indo-Pacific (FOIP), which was released in...
Budapest Outlook 2023/8: An Indian insight on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Budapest Outlook 2023/8 Usually there is a lot of mistrust in the West regarding the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), perceiving the formation as a tool of China and Russia for building an anti-US alliance or as a potential Eastern equivalent of NATO. In this...