1st Edition

Open Government, Open Diplomacy Conversations with a Former American Diplomat M. André Goodfriend

By István Hargittai Copyright 2023
166 Pages
by Central European University Press

André Goodfriend was Deputy Chief of Mission from 2013 to 2015 at the US Embassy in Budapest. In the absence of an ambassador, most of the time he was Chargé d'Affaires. Goodfriend represented his country, and for that matter, liberal democracy, in the early period of the increasingly autocratic Orbán regime. This tenure was distinguished by an unusually high public visibility and broad-based... Read more
Preface by István Hargittai, Preface by André Goodfriend, Innovative Diplomacy, Crisis Prevention, Peoples' Diplomat, Foreign Policy Goals, Open Government, Fighting Corruption, Protecting Civil Society, Stability versus Instability, Education and Economy, Looking Back, Communication and Politics, Hungarian Experience, A Current Issue, Personal History, Meeting with Martians, Photos, Index of Names

Biography

Istvan Hargittai, PhD, DSc, is a physical chemist, Professor Emeritus (active) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.