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"In this interesting book, Perica Hadzi-Jovancic challenges the narrative of German economic and diplomatic hegemony over Balkan countries in the 1930s by examining the disconnect between economic interests and diplomacy in Germany’s dynamic relationship with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Emphasizing the agency – and the limits thereof – wielded by small states in a world of great powers, Hadzi-Jovancic argues for the need to reexamine concepts such as “soft power” and “informal empire"". * Mirna Zakic, Associate Professor of History, Ohio University, USA * Based on deep archival research, this book offers a compelling and original account of Yugoslavia's efforts to come to terms with the growing power and aggression of Nazi Germany. Hadzi-Jovancic explores the political and economic tensions in Yugoslavian foreign policy and charts Belgrade's struggle to protect its freedom of manoeuvre in a world where options were narrowing with dizzying speed. * Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History, University of Cambridge, UK * Perica Hadzi-Jovancic turns the presumably ‘dry’ matter of economic relations into a captivating story of a ‘small nation’ trying to safeguard its interests at a time, when Nazi Germany was unravelling the precarious peace established in Europe after the Great War. Focusing on Yugoslavia’s foreign and economic policy vis-à-vis Germany and analysing their connection with a volatile international environment, this exhaustively researched book highlights the importance of Southeastern Europe for European matters in that period. It will instantly become a reference work. * Ulf Brunnbauer, Academic Director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Germany *"

In this interesting book, Perica Hadzi-Jovancic challenges the narrative of German economic and diplomatic hegemony over Balkan countries in the 1930s by examining the disconnect between economic interests and diplomacy in Germany's dynamic relationship with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Emphasizing the agency - and the limits thereof - wielded by small states in a world of great powers, Hadzi-Jovancic argues for the need to reexamine concepts such as soft power and informal empire . * Mirna Zakic, Associate Professor of History, Ohio University, USA *

Perica Hadzi-Jovancic challenges the narrative of German economic and diplomatic hegemony over Balkan countries in the 1930s by examining the disconnect between economic interests and diplomacy in Germany's dynamic relationship with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Emphasizing the agency - and the limits thereof - wielded by small states in a world of great powers, Hadzi-Jovancic argues for the need to reexamine concepts such as soft power and informal empire. * Mirna Zakic, Associate Professor of History, Ohio University, USA *

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Perica Hadzi-Jovancic is an independent scholar who obtained his PhD in History at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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