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Since 2018 he works at [[Mandiner]], a major Hungarian daily internet news portal as senior columnist. Under the pen name “David Autere” he is the author of the bestseller novel ''Máglyatűz'' (Bonfire) which deals with possible Russian penetration and hybrid warfare using national minorities in [[Central and Eastern Europe]]. https://maglyatuz.hu/ The English adaptation of Máglyatűz, “The Tsar’s Fury” was introduced to the international audience in 2019. https://www.instagram.com/thefuryofthetsar/?hl=en |
Since 2018 he works at [[Mandiner]], a major Hungarian daily internet news portal as senior columnist. Under the pen name “David Autere” he is the author of the bestseller novel ''Máglyatűz'' (Bonfire) which deals with possible Russian penetration and hybrid warfare using national minorities in [[Central and Eastern Europe]]. <ref> [https://maglyatuz.hu/ Máglyatűz, the book's website]</ref> The English adaptation of Máglyatűz, “The Tsar’s Fury” was introduced to the international audience in 2019. <ref> [https://www.instagram.com/thefuryofthetsar/?hl=en</ref> |
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He is also the author of several dozen articles on security and defence policy issues in different Hungarian periodicals. |
He is also the author of several dozen articles on security and defence policy issues in different Hungarian periodicals. |
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Revision as of 11:55, 9 October 2019
Attila Demkó (Budapest, 1976) is a Hungarian diplomat, security policy expert and writer (under the pen name David Autere).
Education
Demkó holds an MA and PhD degree in History and an MA degree in Political Science from Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest. Beside his university studies, he attended additional education in defence and security policy at the Manfred Woerner Foundation (1998-1999) and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (2004-2005).
Career
Demkó started his career as political advisor at the Security and Defence Policy Secretariat of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office in 1999. Between 2002 and 2010, he worked as desk officer in the Defence Policy Department of the Ministry of Defence of Hungary. From 2010 to 2012, he held the position of Head of Department in the Defence Planning Department in the Ministry of Defence of Hungary. Between 2012 and 2014, he led the Defence Policy Division at the Permanent Representation of Hungary to NATO in Brussels, Belgium. From 2014 to 2018, he was the Head of Defence Policy Department in the Ministry of Defence of Hungary. As head of defence policy, among other responsibilities, he was responsible the policy aspects of Hungarian military operations such as the one in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as for arms controls missions to the Donbas and Crimea regions of Ukraine. [1]
Writer, journalist
Since 2018 he works at Mandiner, a major Hungarian daily internet news portal as senior columnist. Under the pen name “David Autere” he is the author of the bestseller novel Máglyatűz (Bonfire) which deals with possible Russian penetration and hybrid warfare using national minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. [2] The English adaptation of Máglyatűz, “The Tsar’s Fury” was introduced to the international audience in 2019. [3]
He is also the author of several dozen articles on security and defence policy issues in different Hungarian periodicals.