Summary
Mihailo Vojvodić: The Balkan Unfolding
The monograph The Balkan Unfolding is devoted to the foreign policy aspects of Serbian politics from the Annexation Crisis to the First World War. Crises in international relations at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century inevitably led to the Great War. The Balkan Peninsula began to visibly gain more and more places among significant problems in the world framework from Europe to the Far East. The problem is aggravated by the important geostrategic position of that area and the weakening of the main factor at the Eurasian hub - Turkey, and especially by its legacy in the European part of the country, which attracted the ambitions of the great powers and the interests of the Balkan states.
Balkan Descent was written solely on the basis of documents on Serbia's foreign policy for the period 1903-1914. as part of the multi-volume collection initiated by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The archival material used mostly came from the fund of the then Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Serbia, and today it is in the State Archives of Serbia. The reports of diplomatic and consular representatives of Serbia, as well as the Government's instructions to them, bring valuable views, interpretations and thoughts. These documents on Serbian foreign policy, long archived, little researched and underused, shed light on the wider context of the turbulent times and complex circumstances that led to the war that changed the world.
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