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Remaking Central Europe: The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands
Peter Becker and Natasha Wheatley
Abstract
This book presents Central Europe as a key laboratory for the interwar international order. A new regional order of national states, ushered into being by the dissolution of the multinational Habsburg Empire in 1918, was born alongside a new framework for international governance. The region became the key test case for new international organizations like the League of Nations: problems of border drawing, financial collapse, endemic disease, national minorities, and humanitarian aid emerged as domains where the League’s identity and authority were defined and tested. The predicaments of post- ... More
Keywords: League of Nations, Habsburg Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, successor states, global governance, international relations, internationalism, international organization, sovereignty, nationalism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198854685 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: February 2021 | DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198854685.001.0001 |
