Problems of Power

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Excerpt from Problems of Power: A Study of International Politics From Sadowa to Kirk-Kilisse The first edition of "Problems of Power" was published in the springtime of 1913. A few weeks later Bulgaria, treacherously abandoning her allies of the Balkan Confederation, precipitated a second war, with the object of depriving Servia and Greece of the fruits of their victories. An opportune intervention of Rumania, and the valour of the Greeks and the Servians, thwarted the plan of the Bulgarian Tsar. Austria-Hungary and Germany had counted on the success of Bulgaria. When they scanned the South-Eastern horizon, after the Inter-Balkan War, they found the road to Salonica definitively closed, they perceived that the problem of the future of the Southern Slavs had suddenly become almost an urgent present problem, and they beheld with dismay that a whole series of perplexing new factors, unfavourable to some of their most essential policies, had suddenly risen to trouble the nights of their statesmen. When the new conditions of Balkan stability were finally fixed, and when the fate of the Triple Alliance was scaled by the Treaty of Bucharest, Europe, which during this period had been more than once on the verge of war, breathed more easily. At the summons of Germany it again turned its attention to "international business." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.