Adam Bence Balazs, Ph.D.

European geopolitics

The European integration of the Western Balkans

The Orbán regime's authoritarian model

French politics and culture

Modern ideologies

European historiography

Political philosophy

Political anthropology (Ancient Greece and Medieval Europe)

Selected Publications

“Weakening French Democracy. The Constitution of the French Fifth Republic and the Instrumentalisation of the Democratic Framework” in Barlai, M. et al (eds.). Democracy Backsliding in Europe, Baden Baden: Nomos Verlag (to be published in 2025).

“Hungary’s Politics of Weakness” in Kazharski, A. Makarychev, A. (eds.). Eastern Europe and War: A New Kidnapping? Budapest: CEU Press (to be published in 2025).

“The Weak Link: The Orbán Regime’s Impact on European Democracy and (Geo)Politics” in Dzankic, J., Kotevska, B. and Mokra, L. (eds.). The (Geo)Politics of Democracy in Wider Europe, Florence: European University Institute, pp. 149-160. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/393465479_The_Weak_Link_the_Orban_Regime's_Impact_on_European_Geo_Politics_and_Democracy

“Le Tournant géopolitique et les faiblesses de l’Europe” in Le Tournant géopolitique de la politique étrangère de l’UE, Allemagne d’Aujourd’hui, January-March 2025, No. 251(1) : 43-54. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/390475065_Le_tournant_geopolitique_et_les_faiblesses_de_l'Europe

“Tempting Weakness: Reconsidering the Hungarian Model” in Đukanović, D., Mišić, S. and Jović, N. (eds.). National Interest(s) in World Politics. Belgrade: University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science, 2024, pp. 153-179. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387326863_Tempting_Weakness_Reconsidering_the_Hungarian_Model

“The ‘Power of Weakness?’ The Western Balkans and Europe's Global Neighbourhood”, Međunarodni Problemi, Belgrade, Vol. LXXV, 2023/03, pp. 459-484. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378498002_The_'Power_of_Weakness'_The_Western_Balkans_and_Europe's_Global_Neighbourhood_Medunarodni_Problemi_Belgrade_Vol_LXXV_202303_pp_459-484

“The Missing Scale: Eastern Europe in Hungary's Geostrategic Representations”, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 49/02, 2023. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/FHUZAMTGA44MWP6ACP4D/full

“Inside the European Submarine: Europe’s Dreams of Autonomy and Global Perspectives.” In Furia, P., Kusá, D. and Vendra, M.C.C. (eds): The Challenges of Autonomy. Thinking Autonomy in Challenging Times. Bratislava: The Liberal Herald/Kritika & Kontext, 2023, pp. 207-219. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369568165_Inside_the_Submarine_European_Dreams_of_Autonomy_in_the_Global_World

Balazs, A.B. (ed): The Europeanization of Montenegro: A Western Balkan Country and its Neighbourhood in Europe and the Global World. Baden Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2022.

Balazs, A.B. and Griessler, C. (eds): The Visegrad Four and the Western Balkans: Framing Regional Identities. Baden Baden: Nomos Verlag, 2020.

The Political Concept of Lateness: A European Perspective in ‘Bulgaria and the EU ˗ what we did (not) achieve?’, St. Kliment Ohridski University Press and Friedrich Naumann Foundation Southeast Europe, August 2017.

Le Cloisonnement de l'errance (‘Cloistered Wandering’), Travaux en Cours (Paris 7 – Denis Diderot University's scholar journal), no. 12, May 2016.

Contre-révolution, folklore et provincialisme – Les sources et le bilan idéologiques du régime Orbán en Hongrie (‘Counterrevolution, Folklore and Provincialism –the Ideological Sources and Achievements of the Orbán regime in Hungary’), Cahiers de Psychologie Politique (French online scholar review), July 2012. http://lodel.irevues.inist.fr/cahierspsychologiepolitique/index.php?id=2098

Since 2024 Researcher, Zentrum für Demokratieforschung, Andrássy Universität Budapest

2022-2025 Assistant Professor, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy, and Geopolitics, BA level)

2021-2023 Lecturer, Andrássy Universität Budapest (Global Governance, MA level; PhD seminars; MA thesis supervision)

2021 Lecturer, Masaryk University Brno (European Studies, MA level), Corvinus University of Budapest (Sociology, BA level),

Since 2019 Research fellow, Centre for Social and Political Change (LCSP, University of Paris)

2020-2021 Visiting Fellow, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID),Geneva

2017-2020 Postdoctoral fellowship, St. Kliment ‘Ohridski’ University, Sofia, Bulgaria

2016 Ph.D. in political philosophy at Paris 7 University, Paris

Thesis: The Exiled Mind: François Fejtö, Czeslaw Milosz, Emil Cioran and Sándor Márai

Defended on November 17^th, 2016. Magna Cum Laude.

2006 MA in political science at Central European University (CEU), Budapest

Thesis: The ‘Greater Hungary’ bumper stickers: Hungarian revisionism in the media through the lens of French historiography

2003 BA in philosophy at Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). Thesis: ‘History as a category of human existence: Hannah Arendt’s concept of history’