Kuldkepp, M;
(2015)
Hegemony and liberation in World War I: the plans for new Mare Nostrum Balticum.
Ajalooline Ajakiri. The Estonian Historical Journal
, 3
pp. 249-286.
10.12697/AA.2015.3.03.
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Abstract
This article studies the attempts made during World War I to imagine and build post-war Baltic Sea region with German-friendly Sweden as its leading power. Ideas to that effect were formulated and propagated in a transnational cooperation (what I call “the activist movement”) taking place in wartime Stockholm and Berlin. The activist circles included German, Swedish, Finnish and Estonian nationalist region-builders who were drawing on Sweden’s seventeenthcentury legacy as a historical great power, as well as the geopolitical fears and hopes associated with its geographical position. In the article, I will outline the main features of activist thinking that make it, at least in my opinion, a transnational movement, and give an overview of the three different branches of the movement and their political aims. I will also bring a few more concrete case studies as examples of how such plans played out.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Hegemony and liberation in World War I: the plans for new Mare Nostrum Balticum |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.12697/AA.2015.3.03 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.12697/AA.2015.3.03 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | activism, regionalism, Baltic Sea region, First World War |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10038616 |
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