Meddling in Middle Europe: Britain and the 'Lands Between' 1919-1925

Lojkó's work explores the history of British policy towards Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland after the First World War, highlighting the lack of trust and traditional diplomacy, leading to commercial and financial undertakings but no lasting diplomatic leverage. This absence of influence proved fatal in the late 1930s when the new system of nations disintegrated.

Format: Hardback
Length: 376 pages
Publication date: 17 January 2025
Publisher: Central European University Press

This work addresses the much-ignored history of British policy towards Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland following the creation of nation states in Central Europe at the end of the First World War. Lojkó convincingly argues that the absence of trust in the new political settlement and the discrediting of the traditional channels of diplomacy resulted in British influence in the region, being exerted mainly in the form of commercial and financial undertakings. While not always successful, the emergence of this new policy affected the development of diplomatic ties with these new nations.Yet no lasting diplomatic leverage resulted from this British involvement, and the absence of such influence proved fatal in the late 1930's when the new system of nations was disintegrating under the pressure of escalating violence.

Weight: 660g
Dimension: 234 x 159 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789637326370