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The Danube Institute was established by the Batthyány Lajos Foundation in 2013 in Budapest, with the aim of encouraging the transmission of ideas and people within the countries of Central Europe and between Central Europe, other parts of Europe, and the English-speaking world. The Institute itself has been committed from its foundation to three philosophical loyalties: a respectful conservatism in cultural, religious, and social life, the broad classical liberal tradition in economics, and a realistic Atlanticism in national security policy.

  1. The timeless significance of the Declaration of Independence | Lee J. Strang on Danube Lectures

    3 days ago

    The timeless significance of the Declaration of Independence | Lee J. Strang on Danube Lectures

    We asked Lee J. Strang, a legal scholar and Executive Director at the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society at The Ohio State University, about whether the Declaration of Independence, the "birth certificate" of the United States, was legally and lawfully adopted under the British laws of the time.The Danube Lectures is a video podcast of the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based conservative think tank that asks its guests – decision-makers, experts, academics, and politicians – about their unique ideas. Host: Tamás Maráczi, a journalist at the Danube Institute.

    25 min
  2. Enoch Powell's Life & Legacy - A Debate With Simon Heffer, Maurice Glasman, Tim Montgomerie & Co | Danube Politics

    6 days ago

    Enoch Powell's Life & Legacy - A Debate With Simon Heffer, Maurice Glasman, Tim Montgomerie & Co | Danube Politics

    In March of this year, The Danube Institute hosted a panel in London on the life and legacy of Enoch Powell.  Powell was a poet, and a classicist, and a brigadier, and a monetarist.  It is of course for his thoughts on immigration that he has fallen into the pages of history.  We wanted to think about Powell in the round — this most impressive of men, the youngest this and the youngest that, who franked his personality into the Conservative Party, who saw the two great challenges of the late twentieth century coming a mile off — immigration and inflation. Yet whose actual political career was a footnote to his intellectual one.  The talk was recorded, by a DI fellow, Alexander Pelling-Bruce, on his mobile phone. Alexander had put together the Powell seminar. With the help of our own David Oldroyd Bolt.  And that was meant to be that — a quick recording for his own personal posterity.  But a few chance conversations have lead us to the recording. And that, in turn, has minded us to putting it into the public domain.  First - a word of apology. This is a phone recording, on a mic a fair way from the stage. We’ve used all the digital trickery in our possession to pull it up to scratch. But it is never going to reproduce the full bodied surety of a Rode SM7b.  We hope the words — by John O’Sullivan, our president, Powell’s biographer Lord Simon Heffer, Lord Maurice Glasman the Labour Peer, Richard Vinen, a professor at King's College London, Tim Montgomerie, the former editor of Conservative Home, and Alexander himself, will outrun any fuzz or din.

    1hr 32min
  3. Paradoxes and Dogmas of French Secularism | Pierre-Hugues Barré on Danube Lectures

    25 Jun

    Paradoxes and Dogmas of French Secularism | Pierre-Hugues Barré on Danube Lectures

    We asked Pierre-Hugues Barré, a French lawyer and academic, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Danube Institute, about the origins, significance, and paradoxes of the French constitutional principle of secularism, as well as the historical struggle between the church and the state in France.The Danube Lectures is a video podcast of the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based conservative think tank that asks its guests – decision-makers, experts, academics, and politicians – about their unique ideas. Host: Tamás Maráczi, a journalist at the Danube Institute.

    26 min
  4. Water has a spiritual dimension in Africa | Rock Missamou on Danube Lectures

    18 Jun

    Water has a spiritual dimension in Africa | Rock Missamou on Danube Lectures

    We asked Rock Missamou, a water management expert at the Department of Water and Environmental Policy and UNESCO Chair at the University of Public Service, Budapest, about African water shortages and their economic, political, and demographic impacts, as well as the Hungarian drought situation.The Danube Lectures is a video podcast of the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based conservative think tank that asks its guests – decision-makers, experts, academics, and politicians – about their unique ideas. Host: Tamás Maráczi, a journalist at the Danube Institute.

    42 min
  5. How to Dismantle Illiberal Systems | Marek Magierowski on Danube Lectures

    12 Jun

    How to Dismantle Illiberal Systems | Marek Magierowski on Danube Lectures

    We asked Marek Magierowski, a Polish journalist and diplomat, former Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and former Polish ambassador to Israel and the US, about Donald Tusk's "militant democracy," the similarities and parallels between the Polish and Hungarian government changes, and about how Poles view the EU's common values and common policies.The Danube Lectures is a video podcast of the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based conservative think tank that asks its guests – decision-makers, experts, academics, and politicians – about their unique ideas. Host: Tamás Maráczi, a journalist at the Danube Institute.

    36 min
  6. The Fourth Wave of Jihad | Danube Politics

    12 Jun

    The Fourth Wave of Jihad | Danube Politics

    The past decade has been a blur.  Trucks in Nice. Gay pride parades in Oslo. Westminster Bridge. London Bridge. Manchester Arena. The Bataclan.  Wherever people have congregated, the forces of Islamic terror have massed to mow them down.  To read Simon Cottee’s new paper for the Danube Institute is to be taken back on a bloody and terrible tour of recent European history. To so many flower-saturated memorials. So many breaking news bars. So many proclamations of never again, and they shall not divide us.  Yet on it goes.  What have we learned?   Not just at the political and civilisational level — but what can we say about the attacks of the post-2015 era, when we view them en masse, as a social phenomenon?  Dr Simon Cottee is one of Britain’s leading criminologists. An author, who has delved deep into the question of Islam, and its most ghastly offspring, ISIS. He’s a senior lecturer at the University of Kent, and has been a fellow at the Danube Institute for the past nine months.  As part of that fellowship, Dr Cottee performed a complete survey and literature review of Jihadism in the modern era, focusing on a tight ten year stretch, from 2015 to 2025. Raking over hundreds of accounts of bomb plots and mass casualty incidents, to attempt to draw some conclusions.  He found many things, but perhaps the biggest headline to come from his paper is that there has been a fourth wave — today’s Jihadists, unlike the local radicalisation of, say, the Dewsbury-born perpetrators of the 7/7 attacks, come as much from overseas. They were born outside of Europe, in the Middle East. 45%, he says of those involved in a fatal terror attack plot, came to the continent as effectively adults.  Today, we want to go over his findings of this important paper — as much because, as Simon points out, there seems a reluctance in criminology to categorise people in quite such stark terms. So what is the situation — and is the wave a temporary phenomenon, driven by Angela Merkel’s disastrous 2015 opening of the borders to millions of unvetted migrants? What, if anything, could a fifth wave look like?

    47 min
  7. The Habsburg Way – a retrospective analysis | Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen on Danube Lectures

    5 Jun

    The Habsburg Way – a retrospective analysis | Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen on Danube Lectures

    We asked Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, an author, former Hungarian ambassador to the Holy See, and a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, about the turbulent history and the heritage of the Habsburgs, the former ruling family of Austria-Hungary, as well as about the EU, the institution of family, and Christianity.The Danube Lectures is a video podcast of the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based conservative think tank that asks its guests – decision-makers, experts, academics, and politicians – about their unique ideas. Host: Tamás Maráczi, a journalist at the Danube Institute.

    30 min
  8. Attractions and repulsions in Hungarian-American relations | Géza Jeszenszky on Danube Lectures

    29 May

    Attractions and repulsions in Hungarian-American relations | Géza Jeszenszky on Danube Lectures

    We asked Géza Jeszenszky, former Foreign Minister of Hungary and former Ambassador to the United States of America, about the past, present, and future of Hungarian-American relations, their ups and downs, and their turbulent and conflicting nature. The Danube Lectures is a video podcast of the Danube Institute, a Budapest-based conservative think tank that asks its guests – decision-makers, experts, academics, and politicians – about their unique ideas. Host: Tamás Maráczi, a journalist at the Danube Institute.

    41 min
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The Danube Institute was established by the Batthyány Lajos Foundation in 2013 in Budapest, with the aim of encouraging the transmission of ideas and people within the countries of Central Europe and between Central Europe, other parts of Europe, and the English-speaking world. The Institute itself has been committed from its foundation to three philosophical loyalties: a respectful conservatism in cultural, religious, and social life, the broad classical liberal tradition in economics, and a realistic Atlanticism in national security policy.

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    Danube Institute
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    228
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