The Institute for Minority Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the European Centre for Minority Issues agree on a Memorandum of Understanding.

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What have the Szijjártó-Kuleba meetings been about so far?

In the background, searches, wiretapping, rhetorical warfare: what have the Szijjártó-Kuleba meetings been about so far?

Where do the Hungarian and Ukrainian foreign ministers fit into the system of government? How have relations between the two countries evolved over the past three years in the light of the meetings between the acting Foreign Ministers? The paper explores these questions ahead of the meeting of foreign ministers in Uzhhorod on 29 January 2024.

Csilla Fedinec's article (in Hungarian) can be read on 444.hu.

Will Aliyev be satisfied with Nagorno-Karabakh and the expulsion of the Armenians?

With the liquidation of Nagorno-Karabakh, one of the frozen conflict zones in the post-Soviet space has been eliminated. How have these conflict zones developed throughout history? How has the fate of Nagorno-Karabakh evolved over the past decades and under what circumstances was it dismantled? How might this affect security in the region and the fate of minorities?

Csilla Fedinec's article (in Hungarian) can be read on 444.hu.

Personalized Value Struggles amid Marketization

The article by Gergely Pulay titled Personalized Value Struggles amid Marketization: The Search for the Good among Men on the Margins of Bucharest was published by the journal East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures.

Abstract

In the most notorious, mixed Roma and non-Roma Romanian neighbourhood of Bucharest, structurally accumulated problems of governance turn into practical challenges that need to be tackled with the means at each person’s disposal. Under conditions of capitalist incorporation and prolonged crises on the post-socialist periphery, the main protagonists of this account—male members of an extended network of Spoitori Roma with diverse livelihoods—strive for relative independence not only from market forces but also from actors who may expose them to abuse. In this article, I reflect on personalized value struggles associated with marketization. Instead of accepting the sectorial divisions between formality and informality, I show how marketization elucidates moral evaluations of being and doing good among men who hope to be or become “their own bosses” in precarious urban conditions. Distinguishing folk and analytic concepts, my analysis engages with the moral contestation of the “good” and the ambiguity of value-based human endeavours among different layers of contemporary economic life.