Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet elméleti-politikai folyóirata - 1973 (1. évfolyam)
1973 / Próbaszám - A tanulmányok orosz és angol nyelvű tartalmi kivonata
János Péter: An Introduction to „Foreign Policy” The title of the periodical you now hold in your hand is „Foreign Policy”, a self-explanatory term, but, as an introduction to this first issue, it will perhaps tasks and content. Its very first task is to present to the be useful to say a few words about its reader with proper specifications the essence, motives and aims, achievements and shortcomings of the activity of the Hungarian People’s Republic in the field of foreign policy. Hungary, however, is not isolated in her international ventures. She is in close and allied connection with the other socialist countries, in the first place the Soviet Union, and with the member-states of the Warsaw Treaty and of the Council for Mutual Economic' As- sistence. Thus a permanent duty of the periodical will be to deal with the endeavours and problems of the socialist community in a constructive and critical way, to comment on the socialist countries’ initiatives in the field of foreign policy, examining all the results, whether good or bad. As changes come about in the international situation, it will be necessary to review form time to time the changing role of the Warsaw Treaty in international military policy and in foreign policy, as well as the development of the internal life and international connections of the CMEA. Considering that the socialist countries do not live in isolation but have, both in their internal life and in their relations with one another, and mainly in their international activity, many and varied ties with the existence, problems and development of the developing countries and of the advanced capitalist countries, the editors of the periodical will constantly keep an eye on the most important events in the developing world, on the peculiar and general phenomena characterizing the advanced capitalist countries, on developments in NATO, the Common Market and other military and economic groupings. To be able to present the most reliable analyses, from time to time we will not only publish papers by Hungarian writers, but will ask for contributions from the best foreign experts on the problems under review and not only from socialist countries. The new periodical has to meet the requirements of a very broad public. Interest in international affairs has indeed grown tremendously all over the world. There are specific reasons for this. Communists have always tried to think in terms of the world as a whole. This was so even at the time when socialist revolution had not achieved victory in any country. And this is all the more so nowadays when by the international impact of the community of socialist countries, the socialist world is asserting its new standards with an ever growing force in the relations of different countries. Interest in international events has grown also in other parts of the world. In the cpuntries of Western Europe where at the beginning of the fifties society showed a general indifference towards the Korean war, at present wide sections of the public are deeply concerned about the events in Indochina, the problems of the Middle East and often exhibit passionate reantions. In spite of the difference of social systems, broad masses the world over are deeply aware, in these days, of the truth that „everything is related to everything else” in international life, both in the most concrete and in the widest sense. „Everything” non includes also space and the bottom of the seas. At present, international agreements must be concluded for these thing as well so that paece and security can be safeguarded. The future of the individual, the living conditions of his people, his country, might be deeply influenced by anything that takes place in Europe, in the Middle East or the Far East, in the two Americas or in any part of the world, or even in space, for example in the framework of a joint Soviet—American experiment. This keen interest in international events is coming about at a time when owing to changes in the balances of power there is a real possibility to achive lasting peace all over the world. The liquidation of aggressions has started. The possibilities of settling highly dangerous problems by negotiation are proving. The Soviet Union and the community of socialist countries have fundamentally changed the international balance of power. Thus we are faced with new problems and the old problems II
