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Author Bakić, Dragan, author.

Title Britain and interwar Danubian Europe : foreign policy and security challenges, 1919-1936 / Dragan Bakic.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
Bloomsbury advances in translation.
Summary "An exploration of British foreign policy towards interwar Danubian Europe"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "The British Foreign Office's attitude towards the alliance known as the Little Entente, comprised of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Romania, is the primary focus of this study, though its attitude towards Hungary and Austria is also explored to a lesser extent. Danubian Europe presented constant and serious security risks for European peace and stability and, for that reason, contrary to conventional wisdom, it commanded the attention of British diplomacy with a view to appeasing local conflicts. Britain and Interwar Danubian Europe examines the manner in which the Foreign Office perceived and treated the antagonism between the Little Entente and Hungary, on the one hand, and the impact that the former had in connection with Franco-Italian rivalry in Central/South-Eastern Europe, on the other. With Hitler's accession to power the Little Entente was viewed in Whitehall in relation to its place in the prospective policy for preserving Austrian independence and containing German aggression in the region. Dragan Bakic argues that the British approach to security problems in Danubian Europe had certain permanent features which stemmed from the general British outlook on the new successor states--the members of the Little Entente--founded on the ruins of the Habsburg monarchy. This book shows that it was the lack of confidence in their stability and permanence, as well as the misperceptions about the motives and intentions of the policies pursued by other powers towards Central/South-Eastern Europe, which accounted for the apparent sluggishness and ineffectiveness of the Foreign Office's dealings with security challenges. Based on extensive, original archival research, this is a fascinating volume for any historian keen to know more about the 20th-century history of East-Central Europe or British foreign policy in the interwar years"-- Provided by publisher
Contents 1. A New Europe or a "Balkanised Europe"? : The British Dilemma, 1919-1921 -- 2. The Attitudes and Calculations Determining British Policy towards Danubian Europe, 1921-1925 -- 3. Managing Perpetual Crisis, 1925-1927 -- 4. The Transitional Years, 1928-1932 -- 5. The Quest for an Elusive Danubian Security, 1933-1936.
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Subject Little Entente (1920-1939)
Little Entente (1920-1939)
Great Britain. Foreign Office -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain. Foreign Office.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Little Entente (1920-1939)
International relations.
Great Britain.
Danube River Region.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Danube River Region.
Danube River Region -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1910-1936.
Chronological Term 1910-1936
Subject National security -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
National security.
Europe.
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945.
Chronological Term 1918-1945
Subject 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
British & Irish history.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
Politics and government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Bakić, Dragan. Britain and interwar Danubian Europe. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017 9781474250085 (DLC) 2016047248 (OCoLC)957546922
ISBN 9781474250108 (electronic book)
1474250106 (electronic book)
9781474250115
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9781474250092 (PDF)
1474250092 (PDF)
9781474250085 (hardcover)
1474250084 (hardcover)