Meddling in Middle Europe

Miklós Lojkó is a Ph.D graduate of the University of Cambridge, and is currently Senior Lecturer at the School of English and American Studies of Eötvös Loránd University as well as Academic Writing Instructor at the Department of History of the Central European University.

• Introduction; Part I Britain and Hungary: Partnership of Convenience Chapter 1 Politics and Diplomacy: Limited Commitments Chapter 2 The British Role in the Financial Reconstruction of Hungary After the First World War Part II Britain and Czechoslovakia: Friendship to Estrangement Chapter 3 Politics and Diplomacy: The 'Pivot' of Central Europe Chapter 4 Britain, Czechoslovakia and the Politics of Finance Part III British Policy Towards Poland: Diplomats and Bankers Against Heavy Odds Chapter 5 Britain and the Birth Throes of an Old State Chapter 6 Britain and Poland: Financial Diplomacy with Barriers Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

"It is well known that the victorious peacemakers of Paris left numerous issues unresolved in 1919. This substantive study by Miklós Lojkó offers a case in point. Lojkó mined British public and private archival collections to paint an elegant portrait of consummate British diplomacy in the first half of the 1920s. The chapters on financial diplomacy are diplomatic history at its best. Exceedingly well written, they make elaborate schemes of international and public finance understandable to the layman. This is a book that ought to be a prized possession of every research library."