Original scientific paper
Ivo Pilar and Robert William Seton-Watson: two Political Viewpoints on the Southern Slav Question
Stjepan MATKOVIĆ
; Croatian Institute for History, Zagreb, Republic of Croatia
Abstract
In this article, the author compares the viewpoints of Ivo Pilar and
R. W. Seton-Watson, two brilliant publicists, on the South Slav Question as the
key problem in southeast Europe in the period up to 1918. He shows how
before the First World War both sought a solution to this complex problem,
particularly the aspect of Croat-Serb relations, exclusively within the framework
of the Habsburg Monarchy. The difference between them lay in the fact that
Pilar sought to affirm Croatian statehood, while Seton-Watson to create a new
Yugoslav statehood. During the war, Seton-Watson held the view that it was
necessary to establish an independent Yugoslav state outside the Monarchy in
order to solve the Yugoslav question, but Pilar cemented his standpoint that the
Monarchy was the only possible solution for Croatian interests.
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Hrčak ID:
67097
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Publication date:
26.11.2006.
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