Külpolitika - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet elméleti-politikai folyóirata - 1988 (15. évfolyam)
1988 / 1. szám - A tanulmáynok orosz és angol nyelvű tartalmi kivonata
as the emphases and possibilities of Hungarian foreign policy. Hungary’s international standing and prestige rest on the continuity of policies from the end of the 1950’s, a readiness and a capacity for renewal from time to time, the pursuit of maintaining and extending the East-West dialogue, and, last but not least, openness. The author goes on to discuss efforts at shaping a joint socialist foreign policy, the coordination machinery of the Warsaw Treaty member states and the endeavours to refine it as well as the methods of elaborating joint postures and appeals. The study draws attention to three appeals issued from Budapest and to several other events initiated by Hungarian diplomacy, in an effort to feature the active role and independent moves of Hungarian foreign policy in formulating joint foreign policy strategies of socialist countries for the establishment and further development of European security and cooperation known as the Helsinki process as well as for the maintenance of peace and the strengthening of security in the world at large. The recommendations of the Helsinki Final Act can be implemented in three ways: unilateral, bilateral and multilateral. On this score the author singles out for attention three sets of experience: 1) the recommendations are worth as much as they become part and parcel of internal practice; 2) their implementation cannot be excluded from debates at multilateral fora, but should be addressed in such a way that no one may regard such discussions as acts of interference in internal affairs; and 3) their implementation is not nor can be dependent on the socio-political system of individual countries. The sections that follow acquaint the reader with the Hungarian practice of implementing the recommendations of the Final Act, with the main priorities of Hungarian foreign policy regarding the baskets of the Final Act, and with the activity and efforts of Hungarian diplomacy at the different CSCE fora. The study concludes by evaluating the work of the Cultural Forum held in Budapest and of the Vienna follow-up meeting going on since 4 November 1986. Csaba Tabajdi: The new foreign policy concept of the Soviet Union (1985—1987) The shifts in the foreign policy of the Soviet Union as a global big power have understandably evoked particular interest throughout the world. The „perestroika” in foreign policy was called forth by the CPSU leadership awakening to, and creating an awareness of, the pressure of economic, political, cultural and humanitarian challenges, both internal and external, which the Soviet Union would -only be able to meet in a forward-oriented way by reshaping and radically reforming the entire practice of building a socialist society parallel to a thorough reappraisal of the country’s international activities. In the international arena the Soviet Union has responded to these challenges by undertaking an attempt at optimizing the role it plays as’ a world power and in the world communist movement. The new and intensive foreign policy thinking of the Soviet Union is determined by essential changes taking place in the relationships between internal and external processes, changes that are accompanied by shifts in priorities now being clearly accorded to internal tasks, the full development of a radical reform and the democratization of society. The intensive foreign policy course is based on a real-life world view. Of fundamental importance is the fact that Soviet foreign policy is not actuated by ideological motives. It was by proceeding from the objective facts of international reality and from the growing interdependence of all nations that the 27th Congress analyzed world processes, took stock of the actual situation of present-day capitalism and socialism, and mapped out the tasks of Soviet foreign policy. New expressions like the priority of national interests are gaining currency, with a feeling of empathy, a high degree of flexibility and a need for the „socialization” of foreign policy emerging as novel features. A new quality is also reflected in changing Soviet perceptions of security. Significant results have already been achieved by the „foreign policy offensive” following upon a reconsideration X
