The following is a short article I wrote on Viktor Orbán’s foreign policy strategy. The first paragraph of the article is included below; the rest of the article can be read via the link.
Viktor Orbán has dedicated enormous financial resources to developing international soft power networks with the purpose of influencing politics in Western Europe and the United States. A few examples include Matthias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a non-degree granting “university” with campuses in Brussels and Vienna, which was granted a $1.7 billion endowment by the Orbán government and which offers generous international visiting fellowships to conservative public intellectuals, including Americans like Rod Dreher and Gladden Pappin; the Budapest based Danube Institute, funded by Orbán’s government but headed by John O’Sullivan, which recently established a cooperative agreement with the Washington based Heritage Foundation; appearances by Viktor Orbán and other members of the Hungarian government at National Conservatism conferences organized by the Edmund Burke Foundation; and Hungary’s hosting of two CPAC meetings.
Categories: Critique of Conservatism, Hungary, Research
H. David Baer 
Very good analysis—thank you! I would add that bloc formation is based not only on interests, but also on morals, values, and traditions. Despite all its connectivity, the tow Orbáns’ Sonderweg is a form of bloc formation that involves completely relativizing moral values in order to maintain absolute power.
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