Orsolya Talárovich

Budapest, Böszörményi Way 9-11, 1126 ajtk@ajtk.hu +36 20 310 8776

Former International Relations Manager

talarovich.orsolya@ajtk.hu

Orsolya is an International Relations Manager of AJKC's Asian and African Relations Department. She earned her BA in Oriental Languages and Cultures at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and her MA in East Asian Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. She also studied at Hangzhou Normal University in China. Her research focuses on the East Asian region, with particular regard to China’s foreign policy and its current economic and political system.

Regional Dimensions of the Belt and Road Initiative

Tamás Péter Baranyi Alessandro D'Onofrio Bianka Restás Viktória Anna Papp Orsolya Talárovich Tamás Kozma Ádám Éva Péter Dobrowiecki Zsolt Csepregi 2019E04

The aim of present paper is to analyse and compare different approaches to the challenges and opportunities that Europe and Asia face in terms of connectivity, especially in the light of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as well as the EU’s Asia-Europe connectivity plan. The paper primarily focuses on the economic, political, and geopolitical dimensions of the topics at hand. Firstly, the authors touch upon different approaches to connectivity and compare the EU’s connectivity plan and BRI. Secondly, the developments of BRI will be presented along with actual cases that show how BRI projects have been realized so far.

Outlook 2020

Perspectives for the next year from the Antall József Knowledge Centre Research Team

Tamás Péter Baranyi Alessandro D'Onofrio Dalma Bodolay Péter Dobrowiecki Bianka Restás Ágnes Vass Tünde Darkó Dr Zsombor Szabolcs Pál Péter Stepper Tamás Kozma Ádám Éva Zsolt Csepregi Viktória Anna Papp Orsolya Talárovich Emese Schwarcz 2019E05

This year, New Years’ Eve will not only see a regular new year coming but the closing of a whole decade. The aggregate analysis of the AJRC research group points toward specific likely conclusions about the world which suggest 2020 to be a concluding year of the problems of the 2010s. Many of those issues that characterised international relations for quite some time have now reached a point of rest—though not resulted in a definitive outcome.