The Paris Peace Conference — Contemporary Balkans’ perspective
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https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu06.2019.305Аннотация
The current geopolitical conditions, in which we unquestionably feel the effects of World War I around us, impose consideration of the unstable situation in place for decades now in the area of the Balkans, provoking thus an interest in the real causes of such an event. The question arises as to why, for example, the former Yugoslavia was, and why even nowadays the unresolved questions in many areas of this region are potentially representing the most malignant conflicts on the planet? When “peacemakers” met in Paris, new nations emerged, and the old empires were dying. An insight into the process of “reconstruction” of this region as part of the diplomatic, military, economic and political processes, in this area of strategic importance for preserving the domination of the Great Powers, could be crucial for making a conclusion. Assuming that some of the most pressing problems of the modern Balkans are rooted in the region’s political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War, and in the hope that their deeper and wider understanding could contribute to the healing process in this region, as well in reinforcing human security, we would try to explain how by signing “the peace to end all peace”, the seeds of future developments in this high priority “area of supply and transit” were laid.
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the Balkans, World War One, Paris Peace Conference, Great Powers, diplomacy
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