| ID | 144104 |
| Title Proper | Coming illiberal order |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Boyle, Michael J |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In a July 2014 speech in Băile Tuşnad, Romania, recently re-elected Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared that it was time for Hungary to ‘abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing society’ and to embark upon a project of building a new ‘illiberal state’. Citing China, Russia, Singapore, India and Turkey as models, Orbán argued that the liberal-democratic model had performed poorly compared to authoritarian states and illiberal democracies during the financial crisis in 2008. Throughout that crisis, he noted, it was illiberal states – as he put it, ‘systems that are not Western, not liberal, not liberal democracies, maybe not even democracies’ – which proved more successful in responding to global economic turmoil. While he acknowledged that liberal values retained a degree of attractiveness, Orbán argued that it was important for states to cut themselves loose of the legal restrictions imposed by liberal democracy and to engage in a new type of economic nationalism to ensure that their interests were protected in the global economy. |
| `In' analytical Note | Survival : the IISS Quarterly Vol. 58, No.2; Apr-May 2016: p.35-66 |
| Journal Source | Survival Vol: 58 No 2 |
| Key Words | Geopolitics ; International Organisations ; United States ; Governance ; Global Politics ; United Nations |