Professor profile
Introduction
Tamás Csiki Varga is senior research fellow at the John Lukacs Institute for Politics and Strategy of Ludovika – University of Public Service (Budapest, Hungary). Previously, he was policy analyst at the Institute for Strategic and Defence Studies, the background think tank of the Hungarian Ministry of Defence, for 14 years. At both institutions he has been conducting security and defence policy analysis. His research focuses on European security and defence, encompassing NATO and US grand strategy, the defence policy of individual European countries (e.g. Germany), Central European defence cooperation, as well as Hungarian security and defence policy. As an author or contributor to more than 200 publications, including 9 books, and 22 book chapters in security and defence, his expertise is backed by an established network of scholars in the field.
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At the strategic level he was a participant in formulating national security and defence strategies, as well as contributing to various strategic foresight analysis processes for Hungary and NATO. In 2024, his research focus is European defence industrial cooperation, the security and defence policy implications of Hungary’s EU Presidency, and the effects of Russia’s aggression to Ukraine on the armed forces modernisation programmes of Central European countries. His latest major upcoming publication is ‘Hungary’s defence policy in the 21st century’ (Magyarország védelempolitikája a 21. században), co-authored by Péter Tálas – a monograph outlining the trends and strategic processes formulating Hungarian defence in national and allied (NATO, EU) frameworks.
- Research group: Common Defence Policy
Dr. Csiki Varga Tamás
More about work
He was a member of the research group ‘Common defence policy – the legal framework for the development of the European defence industry’ in the Central European Professors’ Network 2023.
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Book chapters
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