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The Defeat of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and the European Balance of Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Robert A. Kann
Robert A. Kann
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Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
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Extract

Our Topic is a complex one and therefore necessarily subject to certain limitations. They recommend themselves not only for practical reasons, namely the brief time at our disposal, but, more important, for logical ones as well. In the first place we want to discuss the issue precisely as stated, the problem of change in the balance of power, without injecting into it any value questions of whether such changes are to be welcomed or not from different ideological viewpoints.

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Suggestions and Debates
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Central European History , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 1969 , pp. 237 - 247
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1969

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