Wars and Betweenness

Wars and Betweenness
Author :
Publisher : Central European University Press
Total Pages : 236
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789633863367
ISBN-13 : 9633863368
Rating : 4/5 (368 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Wars and Betweenness by : Bojan Aleksov

Download or read book Wars and Betweenness written by Bojan Aleksov and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Wars and Betweenness Related Books

Europe Since 1918
Language: en
Pages: 646
Authors: Herbert Adams Gibbons
Categories: Europe
Type: BOOK - Published: 1923 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Wars and Betweenness
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Bojan Aleksov
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-15 - Publisher: Central European University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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, econ
Britain and Europe
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: N.J. Crowson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-18 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This textbook provides a comprehensive account of Britain’s uneasy relationship with continental Europe from 1918 to the present day. Unlike other books on th
Ideas of Europe since 1914
Language: en
Pages: 221
Authors: M. Spiering
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-07-09 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is about the history of Europe in the twentieth century and concentrates on two particular aspects. First, it examines the impact of the Great War on
The Assassination of Europe, 1918-1942
Language: en
Pages: 476
Authors: Howard M. Sachar
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-29 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A look at how the political assassinations that occurred in Europe between 1918 and 1939 shaped the history and politics of the continent.