Power and Influence in South-Eastern Europe. 16th - 19th century

Berlin , Zürich : LIT Verlag, 2013.

Academic editor: I. Parvev, M. Baramova

If a power wishes to subdue a region, what can it do? Order its armies to annex it? Carve up the region into parts that are subsequently ruled by different great powers, or create new principalities as a tool for indirect power influence? Why not use ideology and economic strength to rule that same region instead? 

The volume demonstrates how the European powers of the 16 th - 19 th centuries oscillate between these different stances in their attitude towards the Balkans, at the same time leaving enough space for the smaller regional players - states and individuals alike - to exercise their local power and influence. 

Chapters

“Protection” or “Possession”: How Russians created a Greek principality in 1770 - 1775

Smilyanskaya E., , in: Power and Influence in South-Eastern Europe. 16th - 19th century.: Berlin, Zürich: LIT Verlag, 2013. P. 209–220.

Between 1770 and 1774 Russia built something unique to its history An Archipelagoprincipality in Aegean sea. On the one hand, the Archipelago principality included subjects of the Russian Empress. On the other hand, though, those subjects of the Empress preserved their self-government and their ‘freedoms’; yet their existence never corresponded to Russian imperial realities and ...

Added: November 20, 2013

Keywords: Балканы, Османская империя, Болгария, Средиземноморье, communication influence, cultural influences, верховная власть, balance of power, history of political thought