CONFRONTATIONAL NOSTALGIA – GEOPOLITICS 100 YEARS LATER
CONFRONTATIONAL NOSTALGIA – GEOPOLITICS 100 YEARS LATER
Author(s): Anis H. BajrektarevićSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: Europe; Ukraine; Malaysia; United States; confrontation; geopolitics
Summary/Abstract: On 28th July exactly 100 years ago, Central Europe declared a war to Eastern Europe, an event that marked the official outbreak of World War I. This was a turning point which finally fractured a fragile equilibrium of La Belle Èpoque, and set the Old Continent and the whole world with it into the series of motions that lasted for almost a century, before docking us to our post-modern societies. From WWI to www. Too smooth and too good to be true? Let us use this occasion and briefly examine our post-modernity and some fallacies surrounding it.
Journal: Geopolitics, History, and International Relations
- Issue Year: 6/2014
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 64-69
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
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