Biztpol Affairs

The journal has been established in 2013 and provides platform for publishing papers related to topics of foreign policy and international relations. Please, feel free to submit an article, if you are dealing with foreign policy analysis, security and defence policy on global, European or regional level.

Length of the articles shall not exceed 14-20 pages per study. Please follow the instructions of the recent version of Chicago Manual of Style regarding references and bibliography.

After receiving the abstracts of the proposed articles via email at peter.stepper@corvinusculture.hu, our staff will respond as soon as possible. The editorial process took generally 4-5 weeks per publication, and new issues are to be published in every quarter year.

Biztpol Affairs is a double-blind reviewed journal, where our editoral staff and proof-reading team comes from the various fields of academia.

© BiztPol Affairs

ISSN 2064-3152

Editor-in-Chief:

Péter STEPPER, PhD 

Head of the Editorial Board

Péter MARTON, PhD

Editorial Board Members

István BALOGH, PhD; Tamás MATURA; Tamás MOLNÁR, PhD; Péter RADA, PhD; István TARRÓSY, PhD

English language proofreader: Zsombor PÁL, PhD

Copy editor: Kinga SZÁLKAI, PhD

Publishing director: Zoltán RADA

Published by:

Corvinus Society for Foreign Affairs and Culture,

1223 Budapest, Húr u. 9/A.

© CORVINUS SOCIETY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND CULTURE

www.corvinusculture.com

Péter Rada: 30 years of Visegrad Cooperation and the Transatlantic Relations

Jakub Bornio: 30 years of Visegrad Cooperation – The Polish Perspective

Ladislav Cabada: 30 years of Visegrad: from ’Back to Europe’ to the fight for a different Europe

Jaroslav Ušiak – Dominika Bačová: How EU Defence Policy Influences Central Europe

Dániel Bartha: Foreword

Anikó Mészáros: The Visegrád Battlegroup — How to make use of it beyond Defence Issues?

Dániel Bartha – Péter Rada: The Role of the Visegrád Countries in the Transatlantic Future

András Máté Lázár: Post-EU-Accession Visegrád Cooperation — Results, Rhetoric, Prospects

Anikó Mészáros: How to turn Central Europe into the Poster Child of EU?

Kinga Szálkai:  “Summer is coming?” Escalating host–refugee tensions over scarce water in Jordan

Zoltán Dóczi: Internal security of Schengenland: what do we need SIS II for?

Péter Stepper: The challenges for common European Asylum policy—the practice of detention in Hungary

Dániel Vékony: Potential threats of securitisation of muslim minority politics in Western Europe

Zoltán Szászi: Do terrorists dream of rational sheep? Analysis of “strategic brutality” as a policy solution

Péter Stauber: (Mis)Perceptions of Terrorism in Hungary. Some remarks on history, criminal law and legal practice

Attila Kovács: The “New Jihadists” and the Visual Turn from al-Qa’ida to ISIL / ISIS / Da’esh

Molnár András: New Players in the Russian Gas Game – The Rise of non-GAZPROM Gas Producers in Russia

Varga Zsófia Anna: The End of an Era? The Problems of the Controverisal EU-Russia Energy

Szálkai Kinga: Energy Challenges around the Caspian Sea

Mohay Ágoston: Foreword

Karafiáth Luca – Stepper Péter: Visegrad Refugee Forum 2015

Péter Marton: A Re-Assessment of Societal Security: A few Thoughts on Immigration from the Perspective of International Burden-Sharing

Zuzana Pavelková: Capacities and Challenges of Czech Ayslum and Detention Facilities

Małgorzata Jaźwińska – Marta Szczepanik: All Quiet on the Eastern Front – Asylum Trends and Reception of Refugees in Poland during the 2013-205 European Migration Crisis

Helena Kopecká: General Trends of Asylum Applications in the Czech Republic

Péter Marton: Historical and Contemporary Cases of Foreign Combat: A Look beyond Iraq and Syria

Hubert Chudzio, Anna Hejczyk: “For Our Freedom and Yours …”: Polish Deportees in the Ranks of the 2nd Polish Corps

Kacper Rekawek: The ‘Polite People’: Pro-Russian Fighters in the Donbass, a documentary by KatArgo

Attial Farkas: Two-speed Energy Union

Natálie Tercová: Alternative Sources of Energy

Peter Mikulas: V4 Energy Cooperation: from Slovakian Perspective in Context of Global and Regional Development

Péter Stepper: Significant still Complementary: NATO ‘s Contribution to Energy Security

Pavol Kucharovich: European Union – What Kind of EU Do We Want?

Weronika Wilkos:  Challenges and possible priorities presented by the Bratislava Declaration

Liv Heinrich: Ethnocentrism in the Visegrad group: Its causes and influences on the Bratislava process

Wolford Zsófia: V4 Defence Cooperation in Light of the Differing Threat Perception

Vendula Penciková: The Czech Perspective towards the Defence Cooperation of Visegrad Countries: A Strong V4 Voice in Europe

Aleksandra Samonek: Citizens’ Cybersecurity in the Visegrad Group

Péter Rada: 30-20-15 and the Changing World

Alicja Curanovic: Ontological Security of Central European Countries 30 years after the End of Communism: The Case of Poland

Dominika Trubenová & Jaroslav Usiak: Small and Medium-Sized States as an Integral Part of NATO and their Importance for NATO

Marek Madej: Brief History of V4 Defense Cooperation until 2014 – The Ride of the Rollercoaster (but not exceeding Speed Limits)

Jakub Charvát: The Visegrad Group countries Representation in the European Parliament

Tamás Péter Baranyi: Political System and Political Identity in Central-Eastern Europe

Péter Rada: The Transatlantic world in 2020

Adam Reichardt: Cracks in the transatlantic relationship? The role of Poland and healing the divide

Scott Cullinane: The US Election and Prospects for a Changing US-Hungarian Relationship

Marek Madej: The role of Hungary and Poland in NATO focusing on emerging strategic debates

Simon Szilvási: After Obama, beyond Trump: Is a Turn in US Foreign Policy Expected?