ABSTRACT
Hungary's geopolitical and geoeconomic situation can best be described as one marked by the country's historically changing semiperipheral status and specific two-way structural determinism. The room to maneuver of post-Communist Hungarian foreign policy is determined by the postulates of a shift in periphery from East to West and of Hungary's Western-type modernization, which is of relevance to developmental history. The geopolitical revolution and the ethnic, ethno-national renaissance, the fragmentation of Hungary's immediate neighborhood — processes that have been going on since the end of the 1980s — pose an unprecedented political and organizational challenge to Hungarian foreign policy. Hungary's neighbors were linked together by the pro-French policy of the Little Entente and by territorial and population gains at the cost of Hungary. Hungary has succeeded in having minority protection covered by a number of bilateral treaties of friendship, good-neighborliness, and cooperation.
