Nationalities and Borders

Expectations that a "new world order" based on peace and democracy will be established are about to be destroyed on the battlefields of the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Middle East. We are still a long way from self-paced, multicultural democratic societies. The tangle of problems that Westerners call the "Eastern Problem" has revived. Yerasimos searches for the reasons for this frightening development in his geopolitical articles, which he wrote starting from the mid-80s, and examines the processes of nationalization and drawing nation-state borders that came to the fore with the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and Russian Empires, which became history with the First World War. The borders of the nation-states established in the lands of the three empires were generally drawn not by the will of the people, but through international peace conferences or secret diplomacy; Sharing of strategic products such as oil played an important role, and peoples who spoke the same language and had the same culture were divided. In this geography, nationalization appears to be an incomplete process. With the collapse of the last empire (USSR) that claimed to solve the "nation" problem, "old demons re-emerged and began to stomp"...



Number of Pages: 504

Year of Printing: 2000


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 504

First Printing Year: 2000

Language Turkish