The Paris 1919 Peace Settlement and the Balkan geopolitical realities

The current geopolitical conditions, in which unquestionably we feel the effects of the First World War around us, necessarily focus on the unstable situation in the Middle East as well as in the region of the Eastern Mediterranean, defined as potentially "inflammable" war zones. However, following the contemporary trends of history, the observer can`t ignore the gradual shift of this situation to the Balkans, which, viewed through the scope of Geostrategy, represents a minor but significant link to the European-Near East conflict. Although the ideologies and history are usually employed when we fail to solve the ongoing challenges, discussing the past, without using it as a convenient alibi that creates problems and covers responsibilities for the present and the future, could be an attempt to offer a perspective of geopolitical realities. The analysis of the post WWI geopolitical reconstruction of the Balkans according to the Paris 1919 Peace settlement, representing the part of complex processes more than century ago, could potentially represent an useful tool and may somewhat clarify contemporary events at the same geostrategic points.

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Historian and Author. United Nations mandated-University for Peace - European Center for Peace and Development, Serbia - Adviser for Geostrategic Issues in Southeast Europe. National Research Foundation "Eleftherios K. Venizelos", Greece - Official Representative for Serbia. For her activities she was awarded numerous international awards.