List of Acronyms
Introduction
Aliaksandr Piahanau and Bojan Aleksov
Cluster One: Balancing (out) of Power
1. The Anatomy of an Attempt to Create a Sphere of Influence: French Policy towards Central and Eastern Europe in the 1920s
Gusztáv Kecskés D.
2. Dealing with a “17 Stone Germany”: British Foreign Policy towards Danubian Europe, 1936–1939
Dragan Bakić
Cluster Two: Bordering
3. France and the Problem of the Borders of Poland, 1919–1923:The Province of Posen, Danzig, Upper Silesia, and Vilnius
Frédéric Dessberg
4. Transylvania and the Soviet Foreign Policy towards Romania and Hungary,1941–1945
Iskander E. Magadeev
Cluster Three: Putting Out Fire with Gasoline
5. Establishing French Control over the Oil Fields of Eastern Galicia, 1918–1923
Sergey Ledenev
6. Diplomacy and Petroleum: Italy’s Fight for Albanian Oilfields, 1920–1925
Alessandro Sette
Cluster Four: Self-Determination?
7. Breaking Up the Fortress on the Danube? German Policy towards Slovakia and Ruthenia, 1919–1933
David X. Noack
8. Italy’s Defense of Austrian Independence, 1918–1932
Anne-Sophie Nardelli-Malgrand
Cluster Five: Culturing and Perceiving
9. Italian Cultural Diplomacy in Central Europe and the Balkans in 1918–1945
Stefano Santoro
10. Japanese Perceptions of Germany during the Interwar Period
Ian Nish
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index