Gá bor G. Fodor graduated in Political Science from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Miskolc in 1999. He received his PhD from the Institute of Political Science of the ELTE in 2003 and his habilitation in 2011. He taught for almost a decade and a half at the Institute of Political Science of ELTE, for three years at the Institute of Political Science of Corvinus University of Budapest, and for four years as a young research fellow at the Institute of Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has held several research fellowships in Austria (2000, 2003, 2007), was a visiting lecturer at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo (2010), and has been a fellow of the 21st Century Institute (2000-2001, 2003-2004). In 2005 he won the Academy Youth Prize; in 2007 he was awarded the Aurel Kolnai Prize for the best political science publication of the year; in 2008 he was awarded the Bezeré dj Prize; and in 2009 he received the MTA Bolyai Plaque for outstanding research. Since 2021 he has been the Strategic Director of the 21st Century Institute. He has written books on bourgeois radicals, and Eric Voegelin's political philosophy and governance, among others. His books published by the Foundation for Research in Central and Eastern European History and Society include The Orbá n Rule (2021); Political Virology-Governing the Virus (2021); The Man with the Knife-A Thought War (2023); and the present work, Orbá n vs. Soros (2024).
