The Analysis of Hungarian Security Perception 2.

Abstract

The Institute for Strategic and Defence Studies began to analyse the perception of security in Hungary,  based on the results of a representative social survey and ten semi-structured interviews that were  conducted at the Ministry of Defence during the  autumn of 2019. As a follow-up to this initial research project, I also started to analyse the perception of  those security and defence policy professionals who  work either at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and  Trade or at various background institutions. During  this process, I conducted 23 semi-structured  interviews at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and  Trade, the Institute for Foreign Affairs and the  Institute for Strategic and Defence Studies during the  autumn of 2020. This study aims to analyse these  interviews by comparing their results with the  interviews from 2019, in order to provide a more  comprehensive picture concerning the perception of  security and perception of threats within the  Hungarian security and defence policy community.