Hajnalka VINCZE is a security policy researcher specialized in European and transatlantic issues. Her analyses deal with intra-European and Euro-American power relations, with a particular emphasis on the strategic dimension
and the technological-industrial basis. She takes position in favour
of an autonomous, political Europe. Her commitment to the
preservation and promotion of the European model makes
her a long-time advocate of the core Europe concept.

"Most of us are in the strictest sense Gaullist." (Christopher Patten, 2005)

Activities

Professional Activities

 

Hajnalka Vincze is an independent researcher publishing in books, specialized reviews and newspapers, lecturing at universities, conferences and seminars. She is also a regular invitee of television and radio programmes on EU, transatlantic and international issues. Until 2004, she worked for seven years at the Hungarian Defence Ministry’s Institute for Strategic and Defence Studies as a research fellow in the field of EU foreign, security and defence policy, and EU-US relationship. She runs a column entitled “The observatory of transatlantic relations” in the French geopolitical review “La Lettre Sentinel”. At the ELTE University of Social Sciences in Budapest, she teaches “The European Union’s foreign, security and defence policy”.


Invited speaker*

Presentation on “Sarkozy and NATO” on the invitation of the Hungarian Atlantic Council, at Institute for International Affairs in Budapest, 15 May 2008.

http://www.publikon.com/htmls/esemenyek.html?ID=89

 

Presentation on "The transatlantic relationship: prospects and state of play" at the Corvinus University of Budapest, in the framework of the conference „International Relations Days”, 24 April 2008.

http://www.enszmodell.hu/hun/html/programok/NEKAP_program.pdf

 

Debate "But what does Europe want?" in Strasbourg, Librairie Kléber, 6 November 2007.

http://apres-le-non.forum-carolus.org/archive/2007/11/12/lancement-du-livre-pour-une-europe-europeenne-une-avant-gard.html 

 

Presentation at the Corvinus University in Budapest on “Transatlantic dilemmas at the beginning of the 21st century”, 24 October 2007.

http://tortenelemszak.elte.hu/ajanlok/kiallitas/biztpol_corvinus_2007_osz.html

Presentation “European Vanguard: diagnostic, solution, raison d’être”, at the Convention of European Associations, Strasboug/European Parliament, 28 September 2007.
http://www.maison-europe-alsace.eu/assises_telechargement.html

Presentation at the conference of the Hungarian Atlantic Council, Budapest, 18 June 2007.
http://www.mat.hu/hun/index.php?s=hir_detail&hir_id=90

CRCEES Research Forum, Glasgow, 11-12 May 2007, presentation: Security and foreign policy aspects of Central and Eastern European countries’ EU accession.

http://www.gla.ac.uk/crcees/downloads/CRCEES_RF07_Final_Programme.pdf

  

Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, in Pécs (Hungary), 22 March 2007, presentation on “Litmus test for integration: Europe in face of security challenges”

http://www.europa.eu/50/countries/magyarorszag/070322_en.htm

Rule of Law and the Fight against Terrorism workshop organized by the Hungarian Europe Society at the Central European University in Budapest, 20 November 2006, presentation on the CIA “extraordinary rendition” programme and its implications for Europe.
http://www.ceu.hu/news-event.jsp?nr=2065&content_type=2

Conference tour in Romania on European and transatlantic security issues, 11-18 November 2006.
http://www.maszol.ro/kozelet.php?cid=14203

Conference on the “Instruments for ensuring Europe’s independence”, Strasbourg, 5 October 2007, presentation on the political-strategic aspects of European autonomy.

http://www.forum-carolus.org/upload/pdf/les_outils_de_l_independance_de_l_europe_fr_.pdf

 

Heritage and innovation, International Culture Week in Pecs, 24 July 2006, presentation on “Globalization, sovereignty and identities”

http://www.icwip.hu/htmls/programme1.html

The European Union’s foreign and security policy and transatlantic cooperation: shared values and common interests, V. Conference on Atlanticism by the Hungarian Atlantic Council, 21 June 2006, presentation: The transatlantic context and Hungary
http://www.hac.hu/hun/index.php?s=hir_detail&hir_id=56


Presentation on the strategic aspects of European energy policy, Forum on Energy organized by NETE, French Institute in Budapest, 12 May 2006. http://www.nete.hu/index.php?id=9

Relations between the Islam and the West – „Two Worlds?” presentation due at the conference “Global security challenges” organized by Europe Centre/International House in Pécs (Hungary), 25 April 2006

http://interhouse.hu/htmls/english1.html

Presentation at the Central European Conference organized by the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies, on “European foreign, security and defence policy”, 8 April 2006

www.cec.co.hu

Conference on the defence industrial and strategic context of the transatlantic relations, organized by Antall József Foundation, Budapest Corvinus University, 5 April 2006
www.aja.hu/menu/n_biztonsagpolitika1.php?nid=145

Book launch (The documents of the European Union's security and defence policy vol.3), National Defence University in Budapest, 2 February 2006
http://www.honvedelem.hu/hirek/kultura/biztonsagpolitikai_konyvbemutato

The role of Central Europe in EU security policy, conference organised by NETE/CIFE on 27 January 2006, French Institute in Budapest, lecture on the internal-external room for manoeuvre in European defence
http://www.nete.hu/index.php?id=8

Presentation of John Keegan’s book, Intelligence in War, 7 December 2005 http://ma.hu/page/cikk/af/0/135702/1

Euro-atlantic evenings, Corvinus University in Budapest, 6 December 2005, presentation on European defence and its transatlantic aspects
http://www.eucivil.hu/article.php?pId=771

Forum Carolus meeting, Strasbourg, 25 November 2005, presentation on The avant-garde idea put in its context
http://apres-le-non.forum-carolus.org/files/reunion_pleniere_du_forum_carolus_25nov05.pdf

Conference on "Continents-Globalisation-Security", Pécs Interhouse, 22 November 2005, roundtable moderator (contribution on the strategic implications of immigration and demography in Europe)
interhouse.hu/htmls/program2.html

Europe's future, the future of Europe (conference organised by NETE) Kossuth Club, 18 November 2005, presentations on 1. the conjonctural and structural roots of the European crisis,  2. the strategic-civilisational aspect of the riots in the French suburbs, 3. political background of the EU budget negotiations
www.nete.hu/

International Seminar of European Federalists on Core Europe issues, Strasbourg, 12 November 2005, presentation on Differentiated integrations scenarios
http://apres-le-non.forum-carolus.org/files/strasbourg_programme.pdf

Summer University organized by the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales of Nice et NETE/CIFE Hungary, 4-5 September 2005, lecture on EU-NATO relations; Structural factors in the transatlantic relationship
http://www.iehei.org/Universites_ete/Hongrie/Compte_rendu_Budapest_2005.PDF

EU-US relations in focus, conference in the framework of the 5th Anniversary of the EU Information Point in Pécs, 9 May 2005, lecture on Transatlantic relations from the EU viewpoint
http://www.bmeip.hu/eip_program.html

Series of conferences on security policy, organized by the Antall József Foundation and the Budapest University of Economics, 25 November 2004, lecture on Fundamental characteristics and practical aspects of transatlantic relations
http://www.mdf.hu/index.php?akt_menu=454&archiv=1&page=13

Invited by the Hungarian Europe Society, 22 November 2004, lecture on the European security model
http://europa.kontextus.hu/program/enindex.html

International conference in Hungary, in Pécs, on Security policy and terrorism, 25 October 2004, lecture on EU security model in the light of the new challenges
http://interhouse.hu/htmls/25_october.html

Summer University organized by the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales of Nice et NETE/CIFE Hungary, August 2004, lecture on EU foreign and security policy
http://www.iehei.org/Universites_ete/Hongrie/Compte_rendu_Budapest_2004.PDF

International Congress of the Association of European Journalists, 16 November 2003, lecture on The European idea and the defence dimension,
http://www.aje.it/budapest2.html

Summer University organized by the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales of Nice et NETE/CIFE Hungary, August 2003, lecture on Transatlantic relations
http://www.iehei.org/Universites_ete/Hongrie/Cte_rendu_2003.PDF

French Chamber of Commerce et Industry in Budapest, 21 May 2003, lecture on EU-US relations
http://www.ccifh.hu/pages/bemutatkozas/rendezvenyek.htm

Conference on „War and new world order” hosted by the Institute of Political History, 10 April 2003, lecture on the European Union and the Iraqi crisis
http://www.polhist.hu/intezet/index.php?fkod=3&tikod=7

Study Tour in Budapest of the Université de Clergy-Pontoise Future Project Managers, 4 April 2003, lecture on The strategic prospects of the enlarged Union
http://membres.lycos.fr/rouages/carnet%20de%20voyage%20Budapest.pdf

Seminar on EU and terrorism, hosted by the Delegation of the European Commission, 1 October 2002, lecture on the EU specificities in the fight against terrorism
http://europa.eu.int/comm/enlargement/communication/pdf/report_october_2002.pdf

University Course in Szeged, 2002, lecture on the European Union’s Security and Defence Policy
http://www.scsp.hu/eng/education/c1/index04.htm

New Faces Conference, Hamburg, March 2002, lecture on possibilities for an EU military role in the Balkans
cms.isn.ch/public/docs/doc_76_259_en.pdf

EU Source, Press Club on the EU, 30 October 2001, lecture on the European Union and the fight against terrorism
http://www.gjw.hu/euforras2002/sajtoklub/sklub1.html

ESDP Democracy, EU-funded project, Bradford workshop, 2001, lecture on candidate states and EU security http://www.esdpdemocracy.net/word/Workshops/Bradford_workshop_agenda.doc

Interviews available online

Radio interview on the American satellite shoot-down, 21 February 2008. http://real1.radio.hu:8080/ramgen/kossuth/2008/02/21/2008-02-21-k06.rm?start=0:30:00.0

Radio interview on the political background of the release of the Bulgarian nurses by Libya, Kossuth Rádió, 24 July 2007.

http://real1.radio.hu/kossuth/2007/07/24/2007-07-24-k17.ram

 

Radio interview on the EU's record in the fight against terrorism, Inforádió, 1 December 2006.

http://www.inforadio.hu/hir/kulfold/hir-89756

Duna TV interview on the fight against terrorism and human rights, 20 November  2006.
http://www.dunatv.hu/cikk.html?id=49241


TV interview online, 16 October 2006, on the North Korea issue, host: Sándor Friderikusz
mms://on.line.hu/friderikusz_450/fm20061016_450.wmv

On developments in the Middle East, 21 August 2006

http://www.ma.hu/page/cikk/ai/0/153416/1

On harmonization of security measures at the airports, 17 August 2006
http://www.hirszerzo.hu/cikk.php?id=17488

On the Hungarian political elite’s attitude toward foreign policy, TV interview online,
24 July 2006, host: Sándor Friderikusz
mms://on.line.hu/friderikusz_450/fm20060724_450.wmv

TV interview online, Terrorist attacks in Egypt, 25 April 2006, host: Sándor Friderikusz
mms://on.line.hu/friderikusz_450/fm20060425_450.wmv

Mass hysteria and Realpolitik around Mohammed, February 2006
http://www.ma.hu/page/cikk/ai/0/140644/1

TV interview online, ATV Itthon Európában, host: János Dési, 19 October 2005

www.atv.hu/_uj_archivum/eu.htm

After the German elections, September 2005
http://www.hirszerzo.hu/cikk.php?id=4200  

On current EU issues (visions, policies, enlargements), August 2005
http://www.hirszerzo.hu/cikk.php?id=468&page=1

Life after the French „non”, May 2005
http://ma.hu/page/cikk/aa/0/121851/1

On EU defence policy and the Bosnia mission, December 2004
http://www.ma.hu/page/cikk/aa/0/106650/1

On international terrorism three years after 911, September 2004
http://ma.hu/page/cikk/ai/0/99091/1

On US foreign and defence policy, May 2004
http://ma.hu/page/cikk/ab/0/87311/1

On EU enlargement, April 2004
http://ma.hu/page/cikk/d/0/85578/1

On Iraq, April 2004
http://ma.hu/page/cikk/ai/0/83742/1

On the Madrid bombings, March 2004
http://www.ma.hu/page/cikk/d/0/81062/1


*For the sake of convenience, conferences and seminars will only be mentioned if there exists online information.

Apropos

15/05 Presentation on "Sarkozy and NATO" at the Hungarian Institute for Foreign Affairs (hosted by the Hungarian Atlantic Council)

 

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