Central Europe as Ground Zero of the New International Order

Central Europe as Ground Zero of the New International Order

This article presents post-Habsburg central and eastern Europe as the flagship campus of the new international order of 1919. It shows how the international project of imperial liquidation, and the predicament of the successor states, produced a wide range of new international schemes, techniques, a...

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Published in:Slavic review Vol. 78; no. 4; pp. 900 - 911
Main Author: Wheatley, Natasha
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Stanford Cambridge University Press 01-12-2019
Subjects:
Archives & records
Bankruptcy
Boundaries
Crime
CRITICAL DISCUSSION FORUM: COLLAPSE OF EMPIRE/NEW STATES, 1918–2018
Free trade
Globalization
Governance
Historians
Human rights
Humanitarianism
Jurisdiction
Nationalization
Slavic languages
Sovereignty
Transnationalism
War
Austria
Hungary
Europe
Austria-Hungary
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Summary:This article presents post-Habsburg central and eastern Europe as the flagship campus of the new international order of 1919. It shows how the international project of imperial liquidation, and the predicament of the successor states, produced a wide range of new international schemes, techniques, and frameworks—spanning the economy, crime, humanitarianism, and rights—that significantly shaped the global governance of today. Where historians customarily trace the implications of imperial collapse for the region’s nationalization, I focus instead on internationalization. I isolate three different “border effects” in which the boundaries of sovereignty were reworked or challenged. International authority and jurisdiction grew and thrived on the sorts of qualified sovereignty that emerged in empire’s wake.
ISSN:0037-6779
2325-7784
DOI:10.1017/slr.2019.248