Bücher von John Hiden

This revised and updated edition includes coverage of the following topics: states of Europe 1918-1940; building new states; the diplomacy of survival; the economics of survival; and the events that took place between 1940-1985.

The literature on German foreign policy between the two World Wars is even more extensive than it was when the first edition of this book was published in 1977. This text makes use of the increase in available literature, analyzing the interwar period as a whole from the German perspective.

This study shows in detail how the Weimar Republic sought to develop its economic influence in the newly independent Baltic states, to ensure the retention of a vital 'springboard' into Russia after 1918.