Cultural Nationhood and Political Statehood explores the development of the idea that every nation – most commonly understood as a linguistic community – is entitled to its own state.Following several contemporary studies of nationalism, this book provides a critical examination of the peculiarly modern concurrence of cultural nations and political states as it developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author argues that this is one of the most fateful coinc...

Moving from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the present day, this book traces the trajectory of the six East Central European former satellites of the Soviet Union (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria) that have joined the European Union. It seeks in particular to explain these countries’ disenchantment with the “return to Europe” in spite of their significant advances. The book proceeds country by country and then devotes chapters to some contemporary i...

Hailed as «the greatest journalist of his time» Henry Wickham Steed (1871-1956) was editor-in-chief of The Times after World War I, having been its foreign editor since 1914, and, previously, its correspondent in Berlin, Vienna and Rome. «Spiritual godfather» of the post-Habsburg new states he was long acknowledged as the world’s greatest authority on Central Europe. In the 1930s, he stood at the forefront of the anti-appeasement camp and, in World War II, was the BBC’s Overseas S...

This volume gathers contributions at the intersection of history and politics. The essays, covering such topics as diverse as Italian identity in the Tientsin concession, international refugee policies in the interwar period and after, and the myths and realities of the Ukrainian-Russian encounter in independent Ukraine, show that history provides better grounding as well as a more suitable paradigm for the study of politics than economics or other hard sciences. All of the contributors ha...

Ce volume, publié sous forme d'hommage au professeur Pierre du Bois, décédé subitement en juin 2007, regroupe les contributions de ses collègues, amis et anciens doctorants sur le thème de la construction européenne qui était l'un de ses thèmes de prédilection. Cinq aspects de la question européenne sont mis en lumière par les différents auteurs : les origines de l'idée d'Europe (Bruno Arcidiacono, Jean-François Bergier, Lubor Jilek, Alfonso Mattera), l'Europe et ses constructeurs (André R...

Boris Souvarine moved from communism, in the first years of the Soviet régime, to anti-communism by the 1930s and throughout the rest of his long life. This book gives us a new and original perspective on the period that runs from the Russian Revolution to the 1950s and allows us to better understand that era. The documents come from the Boris Souvarine Collection consisting of his working notes, press clippings, and documentation concerning East-West relations collected by Souvarine.

Si l'effondrement des régimes communistes a permis aux peuples de l'Europe centrale-orientale de recouvrer leur identité européenne, il a aussi favorisé la résurgence d'anciens conflits ethniques et culturels propres à la région danubienne. Le problème des minorités figure en bonne place parmi les causes de la dissolution de la monarchie austro-hongroise. Il est aussi largement responsable de ses mauvais rapports inter-étatiques de la période entre les deux guerres. Les politiques adoptées...

First Published in 1995. The outcome of the political transition in Eastern Europe depends not only on the politics pursued but on the understanding of politics in the countries involved. A key aspect of such understanding is the notion of 'citizenship', an ancient term of striking contemporary relevance not only in Eastern Europe but in the West as well. What then are the dynamics of citizenship in Europe's new democracies and how do emerging solutions to the question of citizenship there...