The end of the First World War started a relatively long period of state indeterminacy, political ambiguity, and economic insecurity. How this affected local societies is of enormous importance for the history of the region. Despite decades of wars, mass murders and ethnic cleansing the area became a laboratory of cross-border cooperation since the mid-1950, anticipating the period of a general detente in Cold War Europe. This was the focus of the lecture of prof. Borut Klabjan, PI of the project Open Borders, at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO) in Paris.
Summary of the seminar (to come)
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