Wars and Betweenness : : Big Powers and Middle Europe, 1918-1945 / / ed. by Aliaksandr Piahanau, Bojan Aleksov.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Acronyms
  • Introduction: Aliaksandr Piahanau and Bojan Aleksov
  • Cluster One: Balancing (out) of Power
  • CHAPTER ONE The Anatomy of an Attempt to Create a Sphere of Influence: French Policy towards Central and Eastern Europe in the 1920s
  • CHAPTER TWO Dealing with a “17 Stone Germany”: British Foreign Policy towards Danubian Europe, 1936–1939
  • Cluster Two: Bordering
  • CHAPTER THREE France and the Problem of the Borders of Poland, 1919–1923: The Province of Posen, Danzig, Upper Silesia, and Vilnius
  • CHAPTER FOUR Transylvania and the Soviet Foreign Policy towards Romania and Hungary, 1941–1945
  • Cluster Three: Putting Out Fire with Gasoline
  • CHAPTER FIVE Establishing French Control over the Oil Fields of Eastern Galicia, 1918–1923
  • CHAPTER SIX Diplomacy and Petroleum: Italy’s Fight for Albanian Oilfields, 1920–1925
  • Cluster Four: Self-Determination?
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Breaking Up the Fortress on the Danube? German Policy towards Slovakia and Ruthenia, 1919–1933
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Italy’s Defense of Austrian Independence, 1918–1932
  • Cluster Five: Culturing and Perceiving
  • CHAPTER NINE Italian Cultural Diplomacy in Central Europe and the Balkans in 1918–1945
  • CHAPTER TEN Japanese Perceptions of Germany during the Interwar Period
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index