The reactions of Hungarian experts and economic policy makers to the globalization processes 1960-1980

Zsombor Bódy recent research projects analyze Hungary's involvement in globalization processes from the 1960s to the 1980s. His empirical research focuses on the future visions and international networking of Hungarian technocrats, with a special interest in the interactions between Hungarian professionals and actors in the Global South. In ZZF, he will present the project of the Hungarian History of Globalization Research Group (https://globtort.bibl.u-szeged.hu/en/) and his results on how Hungarian technocrats in the 1960s saw the challenges ahead and what strategy they envisioned to improve the global position of socialist Hungary.

Zsombor Bódy is professor at the Department of Comparative Historical Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest. His recent publication: Entanglement and Transfers: Socialist East-Central European Actors as Co-Producers of Socio-Economic Globalisation Processes, ed. by Zsombor Bódy and Uwe Müller. Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. Vol. 34 No 1-2 (2024) https://www.comparativ.net/v2/issue/view/179.  

During his stay at the ZZF Zsombor Bódy researches in Department II: Knowledge – Economy – Politics.