The memoirs of Regent Horthy continue to provoke discussion about Central European politics and political history. As successors to the rump Hungarian state in 1920, the Horthy regime established itself immediately following Bela Kun’s Hungarian Socialist Republic. In seeking legitimation from the Hungarian populace inside Hungarian borders [and eventually from the large external ethnic Hungarian minorities in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Rumania], the Horthy regime navigated the complexities of Hitler’s rise to power and the impending war that would come to be termed World War Two. The conduct of the Hungarian political leadership during the war years is described in some detail in Horthy’s Memoirs, and is supplemented by his Secret Writings as well. It is here that Horthy has sought to rework the way in which Central European politics during the Second World War was interpreted. And most especially, the legacy of Trianon.

Dr Robert Imre has recently co-authored two books examining the phenomenon of global terrorism. He is currently writing a sole-authored book on the topic of global multiculturalism as a comparative political initiative. He is also writing two other collaborative book manuscripts: one on global civil society and the governance state, and another on the problem of regime change. He has also just completed a research project examining the rise of the radical right in Central Europe. Dr. Imre has worked in a number of nation-states including South Korea, Canada, Hungary, and is now teaching International Relations at the University of Newcastle in Australia.