The New Hungarian Quarterly Autumn 1977. [antikvár]

CONFRONTING THE PROBLEMS THE NEW HUNGÁRIÁN QUARTERLY, right from its Foundation, has endeavoured to present Hungárián reality as it is, in its true character, as part of a contemporary world pregnant with problems, and seeking ways out of them. That is why the NHQ always did its best to take part in the discussion of the burning issues of the day, giving voice to the Hungárián view in the international dialogue. It will, we hope not be considered immodest if, turning the leaves of bound copies, one ventures the claim that the sixty-six issues which appeared in the course of close to eighteen years make possible a survey of the more important processes of what could so to speak already be called a historical period, in a manner one could not be aware of then and there, in the heat of events and work. No. 67 is not called on to celebrate an anniversary, therefore, optimistical-ly leaving an account of the NHQ's history of ideas to the not all that dis-tant No 75, these introductory remarks will be employed to draw atten-tion to those articles which, in the autumn of 1977, contribute to the de-bates of the day. A definable group takes oíf from the present and future of East-West re-lations. Delving into the past all the same for a moment, it ought to be said that the NHQ, from the early stages of coexistence to Helsinki, Belgrade and beyond, has published numerous documents and contributions that touched the most vitai aspects of this burning question. Professor József Bognár's paper which leads this issue nevertheless deserves par-ticular attention and interest. One pole of his argument is the interde-pendence between the political and security system which is taking shape around us, and the world economy; the other is an analysis of the contra-dictions between the postulates which have arisen in the course of the structural changes of recent years in the world economy, and the present