Abstract

The Hungarian foreign policy and strategic policy have gone through radical changes in the past twenty-five years. It has deepened since the beginning of the 21st century with the shifts in international politics being on the agenda. There is a new political viewpoint emerging which involves a new philosophy on international security, describing it as being an attribute of the strategic thinking for solving the international crises by bringing forward the re-evaluation of national security. The scope of this paper is to present the changes that occurred on the strategic level, concerning national security, embedded in the strategic culture, which emerge from the transforming foreign and security politics.

Highlights

  • Trends in the 21st CenturyAfter the turn of the millennium there have been in-depth economic, political and social chang- es on the international stage of which only part had been foreseeable

  • Global-regional trends in relations are transforming in the 21st century

  • The effect of these changes have been felt in the development of the political culture whose changes after the democratic turn gave the basis of a new strategic system and strategic culture

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Summary

Introduction

After the turn of the millennium there have been in-depth economic, political and social chang- es on the international stage of which only part had been foreseeable. The first and foremost component of strategy is the princi- pal, or the political one It outlines the essential values and interests of the state and defines the instruments, techniques and conditions on which the goals can be achieved. According to a wide- ly accepted concept, the vision of the future coincides with the system of strategic targets; in other words, with the distant condition for the achievement of which they want to employ the strategy. In this case one may regard the strategy as the main part of the vision, which is the difference between the present situation and the desired situation. The vision of the future is linked to the strategy through interests and circumstances influ- enced by the vision of the actor, who in our case is the decisionmaker

Strategic Culture
The Transformation of Hungarian Strategic Culture
Implications on the national security services
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