After the several decade long activism of US neoconservatives, approaching issues as security control problems became a standard element in politics. By reinterpreting the concept of security, security control has spread into areas, where problems cannot be solved by this approach. Its most severe symptom was the 2003 invasion in Iraq and the launch of the ‘war on terror’. These clearly show the threat of uncontrolled security control and the business and political interests behind.

By examining the systemic contradictions of present day capitalism, Giovanni Arrighi came up with a provocative hypothesis, namely no state could became globally hegemonic after the demise of the hegemony of the US, thus the further operation of global capitalism can be questioned. However, he later he forecast that China will be the next hegemonic power. The profound analysis economic, geostrategic and ecological factors suggest that Arrighi was over optimistic concerning China as its way to hegemony is full of barriers, similarly to the huge obstacles in the way of capitalism to long term existence.

The study outlines the practice of ‘history policy’ of the Czech, Polish and Hungarian political right in the past 20 years. This summary is a reaction to the frontal attack on national history by the Hungarian right wing government, which declared the period 1944-1989 as criminal, expelling it from the thousand year long history of Hungary. Although this phenomenon is not typically Hungarian – there were also attempts in the Czech Republic and Poland for biased reinterpretations – the criminalisation of history is uniquely extreme here.