Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet elméleti-politikai folyóirata - 1974 (1. évfolyam)
1974 / 1. szám - A tanulmányok orosz és angol nyelvű tartalmi kivonata
János Péter: An Introduction to „Foreign Policy” The periodical you now hold in your hand is called „Foreign Policy”; though this title is self-explanatory, it would perhaps be useful, as an introduction to this first issue, to say a few words about the tasks and content of the journal. Its very first task is to present to the reader the essential nature, 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 closely allied with the other socialist countries, in the first place with the Soviet Union, and with the member-states of the Warsaw Treaty and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Thus it will be a permanent concern of this periodical to deal with the endeavours and problems of the socialist community in a constructive way, to comment on the socialist countries’ 'initiatives in the field of foreign policy, to examine all the results, whether positive or negative. As changes develop in the international situation, it will also become necessary from time to time to review 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 relations 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 above all in their international activity, extensive and varied links with the problems and development of the developing countries and the advanced capitalist countries, the editors of the periodical vili constantly' keep track of the most important events in the developing world, the specific and general phenomena characterizing the advanced capitalist countries, and developments in NATO, the Common Market and other military and economic groupings. In order to present the most reliable analyses, we will not only publish papers by Hungarian writers, but from time to time will ask for contributions from the best foreign experts—and not only those from the socialist countries — on the problems under review. This new periodical has to meet the requirements of a very broad public. Interest in international affairs has grown tremendously all over the world, and there are a number of specific reasons for this. Communists have always tried to think in terms of the world as a whole: this was true even at a time when no socialist revolution had yet triumphed in any country. And this is even truer nowadays, when the increasing international presence of the community of socialist states is resulting in a greater assertion of the new standards of the socialist world in the relations of different countries. Interest in international events has also grown in other parts of the world. In the countries of Western Europe, where at the beginning of the fifties society showed a general indifference towards the Korean war, wide sections of the public at present are deeply concerned about the events in Indochina and the problems of the Middle East and often display passionate reactions. In spite of the difference of social systems, broad masses the world over are deeply aware, nowadays, of the truth that „everything is related to everything else” in international life, both in the most concrete and in the widest sense. „Everything” now includes space and the seabeds as well: international agreements in these fields must also be rapidly concluded so that peace and security can be safeguarded. The future of the individual and the living conditions of whole peoples and countries might be deeply influenced by an event 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 arising at a time when, owing to changes in the international balance of power, there is a real possibility of achieving lasting peace all over the world. A start has been made in eliminating aggression. The chances of settling highly dangerous problems by negotiation are improving: the Soviet Union and the community of socialist countries have fundamentally changed the international II
