Hungarian Borderlands

From the Habsburg Empire to the Axis Alliance, the Warsaw Pact and the European Union

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Migrations and border issues are now matters of great interest and importance. This book examines the ways in which Hungary has adapted to regional and global requirements while seeking to meet its own needs. It adds to the literature a case study, the only one of its kind, showing the evolution of a single set of borders over a century in response to a wide range of internal and external forces in a regional and global context. The narrative illuminates the complexities, opportunities, and problems that face a small state that finds itself often on the edge. Twentieth century Europe's borders have repeatedly been dismantled, moved, and refashioned. Hungary, even more than Germany, exemplifies border decomposition, re-creation, destruction, "Sovietization," and resurrection in a new Central Europe. Facing one way, then the other, its past includes a conflicting self image as a bastion of the west and as a bridge between east and west, as well as a long and unwilling period as a defender of the east.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2011-12-22
Mått156 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagContinuum Publishing Corporation
ISBN9781441114938

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Part I State of Flux, 1914-1945; 1 The incredible lightness of borders; 2 The aftermath of defeat; 3 Expansion and Contraction; Part II Bordering on Insanity, 1945-1989; 4 Before the Iron curtain; 5 Behind the Iron Curtain 1; 6 Behind the Iron Curtain 2; 7 The Collapse of the Iron Curtain; Part III Reversal; 8 The emergence of a new Europe; 9 From one edge to another; 10 Inside schengenland; 11 Beyond Schengenland; Conclusion: Why we should care about Hungary's borders.

The publication of this perceptive analysis of the country's borders from the early twentieth century to the present provides a unique case study of statefrontier evolution in response to a range of internal and external forces. Furthermore, it highlights the ambiguities and complexities that face a small state caught between powerful regional neighbours. Finely-researched and elegantly written, Frank Schubert's book is also opportune.