The Extraordinary Governance and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (CEPSA, 28-29 September 2023)

I have participated at the 27th Annual Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA) conference, 28-29 September 2023. My paper's title: The Extraordinary Governance and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe.

This lecture was prepared within the postdoc project “The State of Emergency in the Era of Global Ecological and Pandemic Crisis” financed by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Postdoctoral Excellence Program of Hungary, ID-number: 139007, hosting institution: ELTE Faculty of Law.

The Extraordinary Governance Measures in Hungary (Towards a Siege Mentality?, online workshop, 23 September 2023)

I have participated at the Towards a Siege Mentality? Crisis, Authoritarianism, and Emergency Powers in the Long Twentieth Century Virtual workshop, 22-23 September 2023. My paper's title: The Extraordinary Governance Measures in Hungary.

This lecture was prepared within the postdoc project “The State of Emergency in the Era of Global Ecological and Pandemic Crisis” financed by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Postdoctoral Excellence Program of Hungary, ID-number: 139007, hosting institution: ELTE Faculty of Law.

The Extraordinary Governance Measures of Authoritarian Populism in the Era of Global Crisis (Crises and Transformations, Berlin, 21-22 September 2023)

 I have participated at the conference of Crises & Transformations Actors, Politics and Strategies in Central and Southeastern Europe after 2008, which has been organized 21-22 September 2023, in Berlin, Germany. My paper's title: The Extraordinary Governance Measures of Authoritarian Populism in the Era of Global Crisis.

This lecture was prepared within the postdoc project “The State of Emergency in the Era of Global Ecological and Pandemic Crisis” financed by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Postdoctoral Excellence Program of Hungary, ID-number: 139007, hosting institution: ELTE Faculty of Law.

Democratic Threats and Opportunities of the Exceptional Governance (Dreiländertagung, Linz, 11-13 September 2023)

 I have participated at the conference of "Zeitenwende – Politik(Wissenschaft) in unsicheren Zeiten" Dreiländertagung von DVPW, ÖGWP und SVWP, which has been organized 11-13 September 2023. in Linz, Austria. My paper's title: Democratic Threats and Opportunities of the Exceptional Governance.

This lecture was prepared within the postdoc project “The State of Emergency in the Era of Global Ecological and Pandemic Crisis” financed by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Postdoctoral Excellence Program of Hungary, ID-number: 139007, hosting institution: ELTE Faculty of Law.

Az alkotmányosság a kivételes jogrend korszakában

 Megjelent Az alkotmányosság a kivételes jogrend korszakában című tanulmányom Pesti Sándor és  Szoboszlai-Kiss Katalin által szerkesztett Ünnepi tanulmányok a 80 éves Bihari Mihály tiszteletére (Budapest, Magyarország: ELTE Állam- és Jogtudományi Kar; ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, 2023, 13-23.) című kötetben.

A tanulmány elérhető az Academia.edu felületemről

Jelen tanulmány a szerző Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal Posztdoktori Kiválósági Program keretében folytatott, A rendkívüli jogrend a globális ökológiai és járványügyi válságok tükrében című (NKFIH-azonosító: 139007) kutatása, valamint a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bolyai János Kutatási Ösztöndíj keretében készült.

Globális válságok és kivételes állapotok (MPTT Vándorgyűlés, 2023. május 25-26.)

2023. május 25-26. között került megrendezésre a Magyar Politikatudományi Társaság XXVIII. Vándorgyűlése, amelyre a Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal Posztdoktori Kiválósági Program keretében folytatott, A rendkívüli jogrend a globális ökológiai és járványügyi válságok tükrében című (NKFIH-azonosító: 139007) kutatásom keretében szervezetem egy panelt Globális válságok és kivételes állapotok címmel.

A panelben Globális válságok, rendkívüli kormányzás és demokrácia címmel tartottam előadást.

Az előadás a Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal Posztdoktori Kiválósági Program keretében folytatott, A rendkívüli jogrend a globális ökológiai és járványügyi válságok tükrében című (NKFIH-azonosító: 139007) kutatásom, valamint a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bolyai János Kutatási Ösztöndíj keretében készült.

A kivételes jogrend és demokrácia (ELTE ÁJK PTI Műhelyvita, 2023. május 11. 18.00)

 

A kézirat Antal Attila (adjunktus, ELTE ÁJK Politikatudományi Intézet) Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal Posztdoktori Kiválósági Program keretében folytatott, A rendkívüli jogrend a globális ökológiai és járványügyi válságok tükrében című (NKFIH-azonosító: 139007) kutatása, valamint a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bolyai János Kutatási Ösztöndíj keretében készült.

Democratic Threats and Opportunities of the Exceptional Governance (MPSA Conference, 13-16 April, 2023, Chicago, IL)

I am participating at 80th Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference April 13-16, 2023 in Chicago. I am chairing the panel "At the Boundaries of Liberal Democracy". I present a sub-topic of my postdoctoral research on "The State of Emergency in the Era of Global Ecological and Pandemic Crisis". I speak about Democratic Threats and Opportunities of the Exceptional Governance.

The authoritarian populist right-wing has rapidly reborn in the field of authoritarian state and emergency governance, moreover the COVID-19 crisis gave a new rise this phenomenon mainly at the expense of civil society. The failures of liberal democracy opened the way of authoritarian populist right-wing populism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which on the one hand remained integrated into the neoliberal capitalism and on the other hand dismantled the legal basis of liberal constitutionalism. Investigating the CEE authoritarian populist regimes (especially Hungary), it has been argued that Hungarian authoritarian populism and its regional followers established this politics from the migration crisis of 2015 on the permanent state of exception. The COVID-19 crisis offered a new opportunity to maintain and extend the emergency measures. Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister found the way to capitalize the pandemic crisis and introduced the overlapping exceptional measures. Relying on the political theoretical concept of exceptional governance, it has been argued and analysed in this paper that the new forms of authoritarianism in CEE are based on the extraordinary measures. Civil society is basically the victim of exceptional governance and has no control over it. At the same time, the European Union (EU) has not been able to counteract the authoritarian instruments of exceptional governance in the various waves of the pandemic. This highlights the fact that the EU has almost no control over the exceptional legal regimes of the Member States. The crises of recent years have shown that the EU finds it difficult to enforce the rule of law even in the normal legal order, and that there are no European standards for state of exception and other forms of extraordinary governance measures. Yet it was the COVID-19 that showed how important it would be, both regionally and at EU level, if Member States could harmonise their different types of exceptional legal order. According to Carl Schmitt, it is the sovereign who rules over the exceptional legal order. Based on an examination of the extraordinary measures of governance introduced by authoritarian populists during the pandemic, it has been argued in this paper that the EU could address many sovereignty problems much better if it took steps towards developing a framework of “European state of exception”. The various forms of global ecological and climate crisis we are facing make this all the more urgent. This study explores the ways in which civil society can control and constrain exceptional situations at national and EU level.

This lecture was prepared within the postdoc project “The State of Emergency in the Era of Global Ecological and Pandemic Crisis” financed by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Postdoctoral Excellence Program of Hungary, ID-number: 139007, hosting institution: ELTE Faculty of Law and the János Bolyai Research Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Science. 

The Political Economy of Emergency Governance in Hungary (transform! conference, 3-4 April, 2023)

I am participating at “100 Shades of the EU: The Political Economy of the EU Peripheries between Pandemic and War” conference organised by transform! 3-4t April, 2023 in Trieste (Italy). I will present a sub-topic of my postdoctoral research on "The State of Emergency in the Era of Global Ecological and Pandemic Crisis". I will speak about The Political Economy of Emergency Governance in Hungary.

The authoritarian populist right-wing has rapidly reborn in the field of authoritarian state and emergency governance, moreover the COVID-19 crisis gave a new rise this phenomenon. The failures of liberal democracy opened the way of authoritarian populist right-wing populism in semi-peripheral Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), which on the one hand remained integrated into the neoliberal capitalism and on the other hand dismantled the legal basis of liberal constitutionalism. Investigating the CEE authoritarian populist regimes (especially Hungary), it has been argued that Hungarian authoritarian populism and its regional followers established this politics from the migration crisis of 2015 on the permanent state of exception and extraordinary governance measures. The COVID-19 crisis offered a new opportunity to maintain and extend the emergency measures. Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister found the way to capitalize the pandemic crisis and introduced the overlapping exceptional measures. Relying on the political theoretical concept of exceptional governance, it has been argued and analysed in this paper that the new forms of authoritarianism in CEE are based on the extraordinary measures. Even before the COVID-19 crisis, the dependence of the semi-peripheral CEE economic and political regimes on the European capitalist centre was already very significant. In this paper, I will examine the political economy concept of governance by exceptional measures in the Orbán regime. I argue that the semi-peripheral Orbán regime, serving global capitalism, has made Hungarian society even more vulnerable by extraordinary measures to the global and national capitalist class than before (for instance the new Labour Code, de facto abolition of the possibility of legal strikes).

The program of the event can be found here.

This lecture was prepared within the postdoc project “The State of Emergency in the Era of Global Ecological and Pandemic Crisis” financed by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Postdoctoral Excellence Program of Hungary, ID-number: 139007, hosting institution: ELTE Faculty of Law and the János Bolyai Research Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Science. 

A globális válságok társadalmi és politikai hatásai (workshop, ELTE ÁJK, 2023. március 23.)

 2023. március 23-án kerül megrendezésre az ELTE Állam- és Jogtudományi Karán a "A globális válságok társadalmi és politikai hatásai" című workshop.

 

A workshop Antal Attila (adjunktus, ELTE ÁJK Politikatudományi Intézet) Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal Posztdoktori Kiválósági Program keretében folytatott, A rendkívüli jogrend a globális ökológiai és járványügyi válságok tükrében című (NKFIH-azonosító: 139007) kutatása, valamint a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Bolyai János Kutatási Ösztöndíj keretében kerül megrendezésre.

Projekt-honlap: http://www.stateofemergency.hu/

State of Exception and Authoritarian Populism (Association for Political Theory Annual Conference, 27-29 October 2022, University of Houston)

I am attending at the Association for Political Theory Annual Conference, 27-29 October 2022 which will be held at University of Houston. The program is available form here. I brought here my postdoc research on the contemporary overlapping state of exceptions. The lecture is about State of Exception and Authoritarian Populism. The Extraordinary Measures Under International and Civil Society Control. It has been investigated here how the international humanitarian law and the civil society can be a counterbalance in terms of the emerging authoritarian application of exceptional governance.

I also have the honour of chairing the Authoritarianism and Elites panel.

This lecture was prepared within the postdoc project “The State of Emergency in the Era of Global Ecological and Pandemic Crisis” financed by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Postdoctoral Excellence Program of Hungary, ID-number: 139007, hosting institution: ELTE Faculty of Law and the János Bolyai Research Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Science.