The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Global Origins of Hungary’s 1989

Dear Colleagues,

The Institute of Social and Political Science and Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies (CIAS) cordially invites you to the research talk of Dr. Fritz Bartel, title: The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Global Origins of Hungary’s 1989.

Date and location:

8th May 2023, at 11:40 (CET),
lecture room C106 in building C

The Triumph of Broken Promises provides a new global history of the economic origins of the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism.  In this lecture, Bartel will weave together all of the era’s big actors – Reagan, Gorbachev, Thatcher, Volcker, Wałęsa, Kohl, Németh – with the big economic forces of the age – oil, finance, austerity, deindustrialization, and inequality – to provide a new history of the origins of Hungary’s 1989

Bio: Frizt Bartel is an Assistant Professor in International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Policy at Texas A&M University.  Bartel’s book, The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism was published by Harvard University Press in 2022.

Your attendance is highly appreciated!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at edit.waffenschmidt@uni-corvinus.hu or cias@uni-corvinus.hu!

Best regards,
The Organizers