Geopolitics in the Danube Region : Hungarian Reconciliation Efforts, 1848-1998.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romsics, Ignác.

Contributor:

Király, Béla K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics--Danube River Region.

Geopolitics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 pages)

Other Title:

Geopolitics in the Danube Region

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 1998.

Summary:

Central and Eastern Europe has a long history of, on the one hand, ethnic conflicts and, on the other, of a revolutionary tradition against expansionism. Both have their roots in the geographical situation and ethnic composition of the region. All these problems have surfaced at times when the political status quo has been upset for some reason, such as after the two world wars and after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Both great powers bordering the Danube region-Germany and Russia-have strived to develop their own versions of confederations (Mitteleuropa and Pan-Slavic movements). Also, politicians and intellectuals of the countries affected have proposed various theories, and made initiatives for different forms of closer or looser confederative formations. This book examines the reasons for the failure of these initiatives, these reasons including such factors as ethnically-motivated political antagonism, and the lack of economic complementarity. Contributing valuable information on the problems of political and economic integration, which should not be forgotten in a period when the countries of the region are looking towards the European Union, expecting-realistically or not-the solution of their various conflicts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Preface to the Series "Atlantic Studies on Society in Change"

Plans and Projects for Integration in East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Toward a Typology

The Beginnings

Miklos Wesselenyi on the Future of the Habsburg Empire and Hungary

The Hungarian Nationalities Act of 1849

Crossroads Between Revolution And The Compromise (1849-1867)

Lajos Kossuth's Role in the Conceptualization of a Danubian Federa-tion

Dialogue among Hungarian and Romanian Exiles, 1850-51

Era of Dualism(1867-1918)

Jozsef Eotvos and Ferenc Deak: Laws on Nationalities

Lajos Mocsary's Political Theory of National Minorities

The Hungarian-Croat Compromise of 1868

Era Of Upheavals (1918-1998)

Conceptual Changes on Central European Integration in Hungarian Political Thinking, 1920-1948

Oszkar Jaszi's Danube Federation Theories

Transylvanism: Revision or Regionalism?

Istvan Bibo on the Conditions of Danubian Reconciliation

National Independence, Neutrality, and Cooperation in the Danube Region: Imre Nagy's Foreign Policy Ideas

"Why Did the Danubian Federation Plans Fail? "

Present and the Future

The Protection of National and Ethnic Minorities' Rights in Hungary (1989-1997)

Bilateral Treaties between Hungary and its Neighbors after 1989

Biographies of Key Personalities

Basic Bibliography

Maps

Name Index

Geographical Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

963-386-461-5

OCLC:

1338021315