Issue 2025, 4: Make Europe Great Again. The contingencies of Euroscepticism in illiberal Hungary
The article examines the role of Euroscepticism in the construction of an illiberal hegemonic regime by the Hungarian government, and its operationalization by right wing public intellectuals in their professional and subjective geopolitical analyses. Building on Alexei Yurchak’s concept of hypernormalisation, it argues that Hungarian Eurosceptic narratives have become part of a formalized authoritative discourse that provides a guiding framework for the regime’s intellectuals to voice their opinion about global politics and contemporary history, while leaving space for a set of diverse and often contradictory meanings to emerge in relation to Europe and the European Union.
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