German Diplomacy In East Central Europe

Author : Mieczysław B. Biskupski
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580461375
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideology, Politics, and Diplomacy in East Central Europe written by Mieczysław B. Biskupski and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No region of the world has been more affected by the various movements of the twentieth century than East Central Europe. Broadly defined as comprising the historic territories of the Czechs, Hungarians, Poles, and Slovaks, East Central Europe has been shaped by the interaction of politics, ideology, and diplomacy, especially by the policies of the Great Powers towards the east of Europe. This book addresses Czech politics in Moravia and Czech politics in Bohemia in the nineteenth century, the international politics of relief during World War I, the Morgenthau Mission and the Polish Pogroms of 1919, the Hitler-Stalin Pact and its influence on Poland in 1939, Hungarian-Americans during World War II, and Polish-East German relations after World War II. Contributors: Bruce Garver, M. B. B. Biskupski, Neal Pease, William L. Blackwood, Anna M. Cienciala, Steven Bela Vardy, and Douglas Selvage. M. B. B. Biskupski is Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University.

Author : Chad S. Peterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German diplomacy in East Central Europe written by Chad S. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bojan Aleksov
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633863368
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Ann L. Phillips
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461613205
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power and Influence after the Cold War written by Ann L. Phillips and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-05-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging conventional wisdom about German dominance in the new Europe, this study presents a new approach to the question of power and influence after the Cold War. Inspired by the debate over German hegemony and drawing on intensive fieldwork, Ann L. Phillips develops two original cases of German relations with East-Central Europe to test competing arguments. As she convincingly demonstrates, the politics of reconciliation and the activities of German party-affiliated foundations illustrate German engagement in the region in its dual faces: restraint and projection. The author uses the less-developed literature on reciprocal influences of domestic politics and the international environment to frame her analysis. These two cases provide evidence not only of the intersection of domestic politics and international relations but of when and how one trumps the other. Contributing to the theoretical debate, Phillips argues that this interplay explains the divergent trajectories bilateral relations have taken since 1990 in ways that more traditional neo-realist or liberal approaches could not. The author’s fresh perspective and new evidence demonstrate that East-Central European states play a much greater role in the influence equation than they did in the past.

Author : Bennett Kovrig
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Liberation written by Bennett Kovrig and published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward W. Bennett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674352506
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany and the Diplomacy of the Financial Crisis, 1931 written by Edward W. Bennett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using documents only recently available, this pioneering book explores the interaction of German, British, French, and American policy at a time when the great depression and the growing political power of the Nazis had created a European crisis--the only such crisis between 1910 and 1941 in which the United States played a leading role. The author uses contemporary records to rectify the later accounts of such participants as Herbert Hoover, Julius Curtius, and Paul Schmidt. He describes the negotiations of the major powers arising out of the Austro-German plans for a customs union, and relates this problem to the question of terminating reparations and war debts. He shows how the Governor of the Bank of England directed British foreign policy into bitter opposition to France and how the German government sought to exploit the German private debt to Wall Street. Edward Bennett comes to the conclusion that the Br ning government, contrary to widely held opinion, received fully as much help as it deserved, while the Western powers were already showing the disunity and irresponsibility which proved so disastrous in later years. Although primarily a diplomatic history, this book also offers fresh information on pre-Hitler Germany, MacDonald's Britain, the Hoover administration, and the early career of Pierre Laval.

Author : Anthony Tihamer Komjathy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crises of France's East Central European Diplomacy, 1933-1938 written by Anthony Tihamer Komjathy and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. Tulmets
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137315768
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Central European Foreign Policy Identity in Perspective written by E. Tulmets and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have countries in the EU that were previously under Communist rule influenced the creation of a European policy towards other Post-Soviet nations? This study explores countries including the Czech Republic and Poland and shows how they have helped develop a coherent policy based reconciling political and historical foreign policy identities.

Author : Marcin Zaborowski
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719068164
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany, Poland, and Europe written by Marcin Zaborowski and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zaborowski's study is a vivid and authoritative account of Polish-German relations, convincingly analysed using 'Europeanisation' as a conceptual prism. The book evaluates the relationship from both a historical and contemporary perspective, assessing its broader European significance. Zaborowski puts particular emphasis upon EU enlargement, which he sees as a centrepiece of the post-1989 rapprochement between the two states.

Author : Karl Cordell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134201354
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany's Foreign Policy Towards Poland and the Czech Republic written by Karl Cordell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new exploration of how the events of the twentieth century still cast a shadow over relations between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. Using social constructivism theory, it provides a comparative assessment of Germany's post-reunification relations with the Czech Republic and Poland within the framework of the contemporary alliance structure. Identifying the key actors and factors, Cordell and Wolff examine the long-standing continuity in the norms and values that underpin German foreign policy and explore the issues of borders, territory, identities, minorities and population transfers. Paying particular attention to the process of European integration and the role of the new Germany within Europe, the authors identify how new possibilities for co-operation might finally overcome legacies of the past. This pioneering study will be of particular interest to students of European politics and international studies.