CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Bari, Bence |
|---|---|
| Title | (Trans)national Concepts of Self-Determination and the Future of Central Europe in the Late First World War, 1917-1918 |
| Summary | My dissertation studies the concept of ‘national self-determination’ or the ‘self-determination of peoples’ in the historical context of the Habsburg Monarchy. I argue against the scientific narratives that associate this term with that of the ‘nation-state’ and interpret it as one that would have fundamentally opposed the idea of ‘empire’. My main thesis is that local actors rather embedded the concept of ‘self-de termination 019; into the political vocabularies of the local contexts before the First World War. It became associated with ‘sovereignty’, ‘secession’ and the ‘nation-state’ only during the late phase of the war (1917–1918). I argue that this was due to the shared impact of local and international political developments and transnational discussions on the local discourses. I claim that the subjects of the concept, the ‘people’ or the ‘nation’ did not only refer to ethno-cultural interpretations of communities in political discussions. I argue that the term ‘self-de termination 019; often applied concepts of the ‘nation’ with political or civic features, which came to shape the conceptualization, the political systems, and the local discourses of Central European nation-states in the interwar period. |
| Supervisor | Balázs Trencsényi |
| Department | History PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/bari_bence.pdf |
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