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Интеграция на Балканите между двете световни войни: проекти и равносметка
Integration in the Balkans Between the two World Wars: Projects and Balance

Author(s): Roumiana Preshlenova
Subject(s): History
Published by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките

Summary/Abstract: As elsewhere in Europe, the First World War divided the Balkan countries in winners and defeated. In the decades to follow, they tried to achieve reconciliation under the strong impact of the Pan-European movement. Attempts at improving relations with the neighbours and at searching for effective solutions of the common problems brought about an unprecedented atmosphere in the region. The efforts to inaugurate a new era of regional integration and to institutionalize it culminated in the Balkan Conferences (1930–1933) which involved Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. In the course of their work, Greece and Bulgaria represented two different views on the rapprochement being proponent of two different approaches to the issue. They emphasized the framework and the content of the idea of regional cooperation respectively considering their divergent strategic interests.

  • Issue Year: 4/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 72-82
  • Page Count: 11