Geopolitics in the Danube Region
Hungarian Reconciliation Efforts, 1848-1998
Edited by Ignac Romsics,Indiana University,
Bloomington, and
Bela K. Kiraly, City University of New York
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.
Contributors:
Piroska Balogh, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest [ELTE]
* Gaspar Biro, Institute of Central European Studies,
Teleki Foundation * Istvan Csucsuja, Babes-Bolyai University
at Cluj * Agnes Deak, Jozsef Attila University, Szeged
* Andras Gergely, ELTE * Gyoergy Gyarmati, ELTE * Peter
Hanak, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Central European
University, Budapest * Laszlo Katus, Hungarian Academy
of Sciences; Janus Pannonius University, Pecs * Bela
K. Kiraly, City University of New York * Gyoergy Litvan,
Institute of History and Documentation of the Hungarian
Revolution of 1956 * Zs. Tibor Lukacs, ELTE; Central
European University, Budapest * Ambrus Miskolczy, ELTE
* Judit Palok, Office of the Commissioner of Ethnic
& National Minorities * Janos Rainer, Institute of History
and Documentation of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
* Imre Ress, Hungarian Academy of Sciences * Ignac Romsics,
ELTE * Gyoergy Szabad, ELTE; Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1998
350 pages
ISBN 978-963-9116-29-0 cloth $49.95 / €42.95 /
£29.95
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