Bismarck and Mitteleuropa
Bismarck and Mitteleuropa

Author: Bascom Barry Hayes

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 9780838635124

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"His labors were often fruitless. His own master, Wilhelm I, and the Prussian bureaucrats, diplomats, and courtiers with direct access to this first of Bismarck's Wilhelmian nemeses could be at least as obstructionist in Berlin as Franz Joseph and his minions in Vienna. In fact, all too often Bismarck's lack of control over the Prussian elites was in part responsible for the resistance of the Habsburg ruling circle.".

Bismarck and Germany
Bismarck and Germany

Author: D.G. Williamson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1317862481

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Bismarck’s role in the unification and consolidation of Germany is central to any understanding of Germany's development as a nation and its consequent role as aggressor in two world wars. This study provides students with a concise, up-to-date and analytical account of Bismarck's role in modern German history. Williamson guides readers through the complex events leading to the defeats of Austria and France in 1866 and 1870 and the subsequent creation of a united Germany in January 1871. He then explores the domestic and foreign problems Bismarck faced up to 1890 in consolidating unification.

Mitteleuropa and German Politics
Mitteleuropa and German Politics

Author: J. Brechtefeld

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-09-11

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 023037476X

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The revival of the region of east-central Europe known as 'Mitteleuropa' began in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. For Germany, 'Mitteleuropa' became a renewed geopolitical concept. Since 1990 Mitteleuropa has increasingly become a region of German economic engagement. However, German elites failed however to develop a coherent political approach to that region while simultaneously conducting an eclectic Mitteleuropa policy outside a broader framework of foreign policy. This book traces Germany's Mitteleuropa politics and puts them into an historical context and into a framework for future foreign policy.

Mitteleuropa
Mitteleuropa

Author: Henry Cord Meyer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 9401524696

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Books begin as ideas. The suggestion for this one came from my mentor and friend, Hajo Holborn of Yale University. To him I am indebted for a series of challenging and rewarding experiences in the study of history. This work started as a routine dissertation on a limited subject, developed into a rejection of several generally accepted notions about German history, and finally opened out upon some broader perspectives of the modern Western world. In pursuing my topic I have tried to remain consistent and true to a fundamental conviction: that ideas cannot be dissociated from the men and situations that give birth to them, or from the changing characteristics of later men and later situations that use or affect the earlier ideological heritage. Politics by slogan is an aspect of man's activity that has its obvious, serious defects. These imperfections become more menacing when they are enshrined as history by slogan in the service of whatever cause. To counteract this tendency I have tried to tie the ideas of mid European integration clearly to specific persons or situations at every stage of development. Without such anchorage ideas will billow into slogans or evaporate into loose generalizations.

Bismarck and Germany, 1862-1890
Bismarck and Germany, 1862-1890

Author: D. G. Williamson

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13:

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With new material added this is the first revision of the 1986 study that analysed Bismarck's role in the complex events that led up to the creation of a united Germany in 1871.

Intentions in Great Power Politics
Intentions in Great Power Politics

Author: Sebastian Rosato

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0300253028

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Why the future of great power politics is likely to resemble its dismal past Can great powers be confident that their peers have benign intentions? States that trust each other can live at peace; those that mistrust each other are doomed to compete for arms and allies and may even go to war. Sebastian Rosato explains that states routinely lack the kind of information they need to be convinced that their rivals mean them no harm. Even in cases that supposedly involved mutual trust--Germany and Russia in the Bismarck era; Britain and the United States during the great rapprochement; France and Germany, and Japan and the United States in the early interwar period; and the Soviet Union and United States at the end of the Cold War--the protagonists mistrusted each other and struggled for advantage. Rosato argues that the ramifications of his argument for U.S.-China relations are profound: the future of great power politics is likely to resemble its dismal past.

Germany in the Age of Bismarck
Germany in the Age of Bismarck

Author: W. M. Simon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-25

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1000393526

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Originally published in 1968, this was the first time that a comprehensive selection of documents on Germany in the Age of Bismarck had been made available to students and other readers in the English language. The documents were chosen to illuminate not only Bismarck’s own personality and policies but also the nature of the problems he faced and the reactions of his contemporaries. The substantial introduction serves as a general background and guide to the documents, which are in the form of letters, essays, polemics, speeches, and memoirs, produced in the period itself. They allow the student to obtain a genuine first-hand insight into the workings of minds and institutions in Germany during three of the most eventful decades of her history.

Germany's Aims in the First World War
Germany's Aims in the First World War

Author: Fritz Fischer

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1968-09

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9780393097986

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A scholarly interpretation of Germany's policies and attitudes during the first World War and their profound effect on subsequent world events

The Idea of Central Europe
The Idea of Central Europe

Author: Otilia Dhand

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-04-26

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1838609415

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Central Europe is one of the key notions of classical geopolitics yet it has always been a somewhat elusive concept. Originally perceived as a plan for a German dominated political and economic union, it subsequently emerged to threaten leaders in the East and West in a variety of forms. Otilia Dhand provides a critical examination of the concept of Central Europe, from its early inception to the present day. Making extensive use of archival material, she shows how successive manifestations of Central Europe - of whatever vintage - have failed to bring about their intended changes on the international structure, and how customary claims about Central Europe are not supported by the original source material. The result is a work of outstanding scholarship that advances our understanding of regionalism and geopolitics in Europe.