Historical Study of the Hungarian System Change of 1989 and foreign policy

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590040
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: University of Nagasaki
• Principal Investigator: Ogino Akira 長崎県立大学, 国際情報学部, 教授 (10405566)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 新思考外交 / ペレストロイカの輸出 / 体制転換 / カーダール書記長の辞任 / 鉄のカーテン / オーストリア国境の開放 / ルーマニアからの難民 / ヒトの移動の自由

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this study was to examine Hungarian foreign policy during the System Change(1988-1989). Especially the study was referred to relations with the Soviet Union, East Germany and Romania. In the first year, the author regarded an external factor of Janos Kadar's downfall, who was the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, as important. In the second year, he analyzed how Hungary opened the border of Austria to let East German citizen leave for West Germany. In the final year, he focused on how Hungary coped with refugee from Romania. He argued that freedom of migration was important to an international background of the System Change.

Free Research Field

政治学