Plán Berlín – Bagdád a jihovýchodní Evropa v politických orientalismech

• Authors: Kouba M.

Title variants

EN

THE BERLIN - BAGDAD PLAN AND SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE IN POLITICAL ORIENTALISM

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is the effort to put the political bindings of the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, understood by the Central European area as a typical example of the East, in concrete terms. In this context also the Berlin - Baghdad railway project is seen, constituting a central line in the political concerns of the European powers about the Middle East countries at the end of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th centuries. The paper is thus especially focused on the role of Germany becoming a new European power after 1871and attempting to gain geopolitical influence just in the area of the Balkans and the East. In this sense the paper emphasizes the role of the German emperor Wilhelm II. involved in the fierce diplomatic competition for the German nature of this railway artery. The contexts of the political development in the years just before World War I thus obviously bear witness to the fact that the Balkan question coincides and consists with the oriental problems to a great extent. In the context of the railway question the paper submitted thus looks for direct and indirect orientalisms interconnecting Central Europe, the Balkans and the Turkish East against the background of the general decay of the Ottoman Empire.

Keywords

EN

BERLIN - BAGHDAD RAILWAY; POLITICAL ORIENTALISMS

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanské historické studie (Slavonic Historical Studies)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 32
• Pages: 331-339
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kouba M.

• M. Kouba, Ustav slavistickych a vychodoevropskych studii Filozoficke fakulty Karlovy Univerzity, Nam. J. Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA03627348