Balkan Anschluss

The Annexation of Montenegro and the Creation of the Common South Slavic State
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-55753-465-1
Verlag: Purdue University Press

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Paperback

Reihe: Central European Studies

Balkan Anschluss tackles the thorny issue of the disappearance of Montenegro as a sovereign state in the course of and as a result of the First World War - a problem with clear contemporary relevance. In particular, Pavlovic investigates the ambiguous and often troubled relationship between two ""Serb states,"" Montenegro with its ruling house of Petrovic-Njegos and Serbia with its ruling house of Karadjordjevic. At the same time, the book addresses the equally challenging question of Montenegrin national identity. The author examines in considerable detail the politics and power plays of numerous actors - Serbs, Montenegrins, and others. The author analyzes the activities of the Podgorica Assembly of November 1919, which proclaimed the union of Montenegro with Serbia in a greater Yugoslav polity. The author assesses the role(s) played by the various Great Powers during the Great War and the Paris Peace Conference that followed. The ultimate conclusion this book makes is that Montenegro was not so much ""liberated"" as it was ""annexed"" by Serbia at the end of World War I (the result of careful calculation on the part of certain Serbian leaders, including Prime Minister Nikola Pasic) - and that the people of Montenegro were denied an opportunity to exercise self-determination according to internationally recognized norms. Indeed, the world community - i.e., the Great Powers at Paris - turned a blind eye to Montenegro.

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Über Autor(innen)

Srdja Pavlovic is an Adjunct Professor specializing in the political and cultural history of the South Slavs during the 19th and 20th centuries at the University of Alberta. He is the co founder and co-editor of Spaces of Identity, a multidisciplinary international web-journal dedicated to issues of tradition, cultural boundaries and identity formation in Central and Eastern Europe.