{"product_id":"britain-and-interwar-danubian-europe-dragan-bakic-9781350092310","title":"Britain and Interwar Danubian Europe: Foreign Policy and Security Challenges, 1919-1936","description":"\u003cp\u003eDanubian 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. \u003ci\u003eBritain and Interwar Danubian Europe\u003c\/i\u003e examines the manner in which the Foreign Office perceived and treated the antagonism between the Little Entente, comprised of Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Romania, and Hungary, on the one hand, and revisionist Bulgaria and her neighbours in the Balkans, on the other, and the impact that these local conflicts had in connection with Franco-Italian rivalry in Central\/South-Eastern Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With Hitler's accession to power, Danubian Europe was viewed in Whitehall in relation to its place in the prospective policy for preserving Austrian independence and containing German aggression. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dragan Bakic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350092312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350092310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d","brand":"Dragan Bakic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47200594395391,"sku":"9781350092310","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eb4f5ced-699f-447a-9cf4-a05633dbef6b.jpg?v=1756787351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/britain-and-interwar-danubian-europe-dragan-bakic-9781350092310","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}