Stefano Bottoni: ORBÁN

Cathrin Kahlweit in conversation with Stefano Bottoni


ORBÁN


How did Hungary, once the model student among the Eastern
European transition countries after 1989, become the country it
is today with its illiberal National System of Cooperation? Which
deep-lying social developments and roots propelled a
football-loving boy from the Hungarian provinces to the top of
the country? How has Viktor Orbán managed to shape and steer the
fate of his country for more than three decades now? And what are
the chances that he and his governmental system will be replaced
in next year’s elections? These and other historical and
political science questions are answered in the book by the
Italian historian Stefano Bottoni, who will be present to
introduce and discuss his work.





The historian Stefano Bottoni is a lecturer at
the University of Florence. Between 2009 and 2019 he worked at
the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and
cooperated in various international projects with renowned
European institutions. He is a specialist in the history of
interethnic relations and nation-building under communism in
Eastern Europe. For several years, he has been studying the
crisis of post-communist democracy in Hungary from a comparative
perspective.





Cathrin Kahlweit, a longtime SZ correspondent,
is a publicist and moderator.