Author: Miklos LojkoPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Britain and Central Europe, 1919-1925
Author: Miklos LojkoMeddling in Middle Europe
Author: Miklós LojkóPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 6155053553
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This work addresses the much-ignored history of British policy towards Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland following the creation of nation states in Central Europe at the end of the First World War. Lojkó convincingly argues that the absence of trust in the new political settlement and the discrediting of the traditional channels of diplomacy resulted in British influence in the region, being exerted mainly in the form of commercial and financial undertakings. While not always successful, the emergence of this new policy affected the development of diplomatic ties with these new nations.Yet no lasting diplomatic leverage resulted from this British involvement, and the absence of such influence proved fatal in the late 1930's when the new system of nations was disintegrating under the pressure of escalating violence.
Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939. First Series
Author: E. L. WoodwardPublisher: Stationery Office/Tso
ISBN: 9780115915635
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1175
Book Description
Documents on British Foreign Policy 1919-1939 - First Series - V.27 - Central Europe, the Balkans, and Germany January-October, 1925 The Conference of Locarno, October, 1925
Author: Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1175
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Documents on British foreign policy 1919-1939
Author: William Norton MedlicottPublisher:
ISBN: 9780115915635
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1175
Book Description
Wars and Betweenness
Author: Bojan AleksovPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633863368
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The region between the Baltic and the Black Sea was marked by a set of crises and conflicts in the 1920s and 1930s, demonstrating the diplomatic, military, economic or cultural engagement of France, Germany, Russia, Britain, Italy and Japan in this highly volatile region, and critically damaging the fragile post-Versailles political arrangement. The editors, in naming this region as "Middle Europe" seek to revive the symbolic geography of the time and accentuate its position, situated between Big Powers and two World Wars. The ten case studies in this book combine traditional diplomatic history with a broader emphasis on the geopolitical aspects of Big-Power rivalry to understand the interwar period. The essays claim that the European Big Powers played a key role in regional affairs by keeping the local conflicts and national movements under control and by exploiting the region's natural resources and military dependencies, while at the same time strengthening their prestige through cultural penetration and the cultivation of client networks. The authors, however, want to avoid the simplistic view that the Big Powers fully dominated the lesser players on the European stage. The relationship was indeed hierarchical, but the essays also reveal how the "small states" manipulated Big-Power disagreements, highlighting the limits of the latters' leverage throughout the 1920s and the 1930s.
Meddling in Middle Europe
Author: Mikl¢s Lojk¢Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9637326235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Addresses the much-ignored history of British policy towards Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland following the creation of nation states in Central Europe at the end of the First World War. Lojko convincingly argues that the absence of trust in the new political settlement and the discrediting of the traditional channels of diplomacy resulted in British influence in the region, being exerted mainly in the forms of commercial and financial undertakings.
Intercultural Conflict and Harmony in the Central European Borderlands
Author: Mihai I. SpariosuPublisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 3847006924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This crossdisciplinary collection of essays combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to re-examine the most influential contemporary theories of intercultural relations and their application in various domains including historiography, sociology and cultural studies. A particular focus lies on Central Europe, historical Banat and Transylvania, but also on the current public policies toward ethnic and religious minorities as well as recent immigrants. It argues that much more complex approaches are needed, both historically and conceptually, in exploring intercultural relations. Thus, the political decision-making in East Central European countries and the European Union as a whole could benefit from a well-informed historical perspective by learning from the successes and errors of their predecessors.
Great Expectations and Interwar Realities
Author: Zsolt NagyPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633861950
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
After the shock of the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, which Hungarians perceived as an unfair dictate, the leaders of the country found it imperative to change Hungary’s international image in a way that would help the revision of the post-World War I settlement. The monograph examines the development of interwar Hungarian cultural diplomacy in three areas: universities, the tourist industry, and the media—primarily motion pictures and radio production. It is a story of the Hungarian elites’ high hopes and deep-seated anxieties about the country’s place in a Europe newly reconstructed after World War I, and how these elites perceived and misperceived themselves, their surroundings, and their own ability to affect the country’s fate. The defeat in the Great War was crushing, but it was also stimulating, as Nagy documents in his examination of foreign language journals, tourism, radio, and other tools of cultural diplomacy. The mobilization of diverse cultural and intellectual resources, the author argues, helped establish Hungary’s legitimacy in the international arena, contributed to the modernization of the country, and established a set of enduring national images. Though the study is rooted in Hungary, it explores the dynamic and contingent relationship between identity construction and transnational cultural and political currents in East-Central European nations in the interwar period.
Britain and Danubian Europe in the Era of World War II, 1933-1941
Author: Andras BeckerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030675106
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This book is a study of British official attitudes towards the Danubian countries (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia) from Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 to the year 1941, a period that marked serious but fruitless British political and economic efforts to unite this unruly part of Europe against Nazi ascendancy. Set against an international backdrop of regional revanchist, revisionist and irredentist tendencies, particularly in Hungary and Bulgaria, the book explores how these movements affected international relations in the region as they aimed to overturn the territorial order set down in Versailles following the Great War to restore the status quo of a more glorious national past. Offering fresh insights into the British-East Central and South East European relationship, the book charts the shifts in British official policy towards Danubian Europe, amidst competing regional nationalisms and the sudden and abrupt shifts in British global priorities during the early part of World War II.