Érdek, befolyás, birodalom. A balkáni expanzió a magyar külpolitikai tervezésben, 1917–1918

Despite the growing war exhaustion, in 1917 Hungarian political and economic elite groups were growing increasingly confident in the possibility of victory in the East. Anticipating a triumphant peace, the leading figures of Hungary’s economic and academic life – relying on a dense social web of diverse associations – revisited and refined earlier plans aimed at increasing Hungarian influence in the Balkans. This paper surveys the thinking and networking processes related to these plans which represent one of the last chapters of Hungarian foreign policy thought conceived in characteristically imperial terms.