Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.32728/h2013.05
View from the Adriatic. Asian crisis of three Empires found in foreign affair commentaries of Silvio Benco
Roberto Spazzali
; Istituto regionale per la storia del movimento di liberazione nel Friuli Venezia Giulia
Sažetak
At a certain point in history, Trieste was a crucial place for observing main political events due to its role as a centre of important naval and insurance companies which based their trade and interests on collecting data and analyzing the international affairs. Silvio Benco, a journalist from Trieste, showed interest for geopolitics, a discipline which proved to be a useful instrument for analyzing international political events in regard to geographical circumstances at the end of the 19th century.
Thanks to the scientific instruments of geopolitics, he was able to investigate the changes in the international balance of the first half of the 20th century, giving much attention to certain important aspects: the arms race of great European countries over the domination of the sea which resulted in an expense so large that it damaged the economies of certain countries, the appearance of new political powers (Japan and United States of America) which fought over the domination of Pacific, the decline of Russian Empire which was in deep crisis because of hard inner turbulence, the weakness of European countries, whose political systems were becoming more fragile and were unable to properly shift towards democratic societies and were dominated by authoritarianism and the rise of military class with the full approval of financial and industrial circles; the crisis of Balkans which will accelerate the decline of Austrian-Hungarian Empire and Ottoman Empire, revealing a dangerous crack in the balance of South-East Europe. Finally, after Second World War, Silvio Benco believed that a new European spirit could be created considering the mistakes which created a conflict even more terrifying than the one before. Benco was aware that Europe’s historical role had faded when it gave up its culture and liberal spirit, that the continent was excluded from the process of creating the future. Benco’s main concern was the loss of identity: he was curious to see what the progress and modern times shall bring, but he did not trust the great mass movements, he believed they could not be kept under control.
Ključne riječi
the age of the empires; expansion of Japan; American foreign policy; Russian Empire crisis; the battle of Tsushima
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132866
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Datum izdavanja:
12.12.2013.
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