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- Jakubec, Pavol, 1983
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Reading the Signs of the Times: Norway, Slovakia and the Recognition Puzzle, 1939–1940
- 2022
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Ingår i: Diplomacy & Statecraft. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0959-2296 .- 1557-301X. ; 33:3, s. 474-492
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recognition of a claimant polity as a state is a status-related decision with far-reaching political and legal effects. This study addresses the question whether Norway through its foreign minister, Halvdan Koht, entered into a formal diplomatic relationship with the Nazi German satellite of Slovakia in 1939–1940. A claim of recognition complicated Norway’s relationship with the representatives of Czechoslovakia in Allied London. Norwegian Foreign Ministry files not previously consulted now make it possible to test and trace the reception and processing of Slovakia’s application. Sources also show how minor issues take on significance for bilateral relations in times of high volatility in international life.
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- Makko, Aryo, 1979-
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Arbitrator in a World of Wars : The League of Nations and the Mosul Dispute, 1924-1925
- 2010
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Ingår i: Diplomacy & Statecraft. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0959-2296 .- 1557-301X. ; 21:4, s. 631-649
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The League of Nations is primarily remembered for its failures in the 1930s. Indeed, the established perception of its history usually emphasizes weaknesses. Failing to settle the question of which Power should possess the former Ottoman province of Mosul after the First World War, Turkey saw the dispute addressed to the League in summer 1924. Within a short time, a multi-leveled negotiation process that involved a large number of politicians, diplomats, and lawyers was put in motion. Sixteen months and many crises later, the League Council awarded the entire Mosul province to Iraq. The arbitration had been based upon data collected by two enquiry commissions comprising representatives from eight different Powers, the work of both numerous mediators, and a Council sub-committee. Though certainly not perfect, the League's role averted war and renewed disaster.
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- Matz, Johan
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Foreign Policy Analysis and the Study of the Diplomatic History of the Raoul Wallenberg Case
- 2015
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Ingår i: Diplomacy & Statecraft. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0959-2296 .- 1557-301X. ; 26:3, s. 424-445
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 1982, claims were made that the Swedish diplomat, Raoul Wallenberg, when preparing in mid-January 1945 for his trip to Soviet military headquarter in Debrecen, north of Budapest, concealed large amounts of valuables-gold and jewellery-in his car. Moreover, the argument exists that Russian discovery of these valuables had a significant impact on both Swedish and Soviet handling of his case. Recently re-surfacing in a biography of Wallenberg, this claim is incorrect. The testimonies referred to in its support are fraught with serious weaknesses and, the causal chain allegedly set off about finding the valuables is not verifiable. This analysis argues that the study of the diplomatic history of the Wallenberg case could benefit significantly by taking some basic insights from the field of foreign policy analysis into account.
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- Piahanau, Aliaksandr, 1986-
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´Each Wagon of Coal Should Be Paid for with Territorial concessions.´ Hungary, Czechoslovakia,and the Coal Shortage in 1918–21
- 2023
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Ingår i: Diplomacy & Statecraft. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0959-2296 .- 1557-301X. ; 34:1, s. 86-116
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Even a short breakdown in fuel supplies can have profound and dramatic consequences for modern economies. This paper explores a major coal shortage in Central Europe after WWI which shook local societies for two years. The dissolution of the Habsburg Empire in 1918 provides a narrower context to this study, while its immediate focus lies upon the development of diplomatic and economic relationships between Czechoslovakia – a WWI victor and an important coal exporter, and Hungary – a war losing state that was a net coal importer. This paper underlines the scale of the Hungarian reliance on fuels from Czechoslovakia, and suggests that this dependency was one of the chief arguments that motivated Budapest to cede Slovakia to Prague’s control and, more generally, to accept the peace terms proposed at the Paris conference. It is safe to conclude that economic considerations played a much greater, if not dominant, role in the adoption of the peace treaty of Trianon of 1920 in Hungary. Overall, the paper demonstrates that cross- border energy interdependence substantially influenced diplo-matic relations in Central Europe immediately after WWI, privile-ging coal-exporting states over coal-importing states.
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