THE INTERNATIONAL POSITION OF THE MINORITIES AFTER THE WORLD WAR I
Journal Title: JUSTICIA International Journal of Legal Sciences - Year 2019, Vol 7, Issue 11
Abstract
The minority issues in the era of creation of the nations and nationalism in Europe during the XIX century, directly affected the existence of the Ottoman Empire. In fact, the minority problems in Southeastern Europe were an indirect generator of the crucial issues within the international concert. Observed from the aspect of the religious protectorate, these issues inspired the Russian-Turkish military clashes and started the wave of national uprisings among the Balkan peoples, which culminated during the Balkan wars. The struggle for primacy over the Christian population within the Ottoman Empire also affected the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the Russian Empire. In a certain moment, even France demonstrated its interest, becoming not only a strategic partner of the Ottomans and protector of the Orthodox Christian population on the Balkan during the period from the end of the Crimean War in 1856 until the outbreak of the Great Eastern crisis. At the 1919 international conference in Paris, a more serious, though unsuccessful attempt was made to protect minorities from possible tortures and injustices of any kind. In fact, we can safely conclude that the purpose of establishing the Corps Minority Issues within the Versailles system was not contained in the intention to resolve minority problems, but to construct appropriate ways that would encourage intervention. This approach, both politically and from a legal, and, of course, from a psychological point of view, represented a very sensitive area, which often resulted in a collision with the individual interests of the states, and at the same time threatened to disrupt the already established international relations. It is very obvious that the system of minority issues after the war was limited exceptionally to the weaker countries, and especially treated those countries which were defeated in the same war. In no existing sense this system could be implemented in the internal law of all the states-members of the League of Nations. Therefore, the international problematization of the issues from the minority corpus slipping through its historical progress, entering the phase when they culminated in the concentration camps, or, in the slightly better version, in the emigration in the countries of the new world.
Authors and Affiliations
Ivanka VASILEVSKA
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP656318
- DOI -
- Views 209
- Downloads 0
ETHNIC CLEANSING AND COLONIZATION IN THE CASE OF HISTORICAL PALESTINE: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS FROM 1948 TO TODAY
The great injustice and anguish suffered by the people of Jews in Europe during the Nazi persecution cannot justify the suffering imposed on the Palestinian people. Based on this view, the story and the historical facts...
THE NON-CONTENTIOUS PROCEEDINGS IN THE CIVIL LAW SYSTEM
The non-contentious proceedings are a special type of civil proceedings in which courts or other bodies or public officials proceed and decide in personal, family, property, and other legal matters (non-contentious matte...
WOMEN’S STATUS UPON THE INTESTATE SUCCESSION IN ROMAN AND CONTEMPORARY MACEDONIAN LAW
Having in mind the fact that this paper’s subject of interest basicaly is the place of women upon the intestate succession in Roman Law, and in the function of one more attestation for the influence of the Roman Law over...
MITIGATION OF HARM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF COURT DECISIONS AND ARBITRAL AWARDS
In legal theory it is known the maxim: Any harm that the party who relies on a breach could have avoided by taking reasonable steps will not be compensated. Commentators have variously described the obligation as a state...
THE NEW MODEL OF MECHANISMS OF POLICE EXTERNAL CONTROL IN NORTH MACEDONIA
Today, for all democratic countries, the idea for the police to control itself, without the possibility of external control, is absolutely unacceptable. The Republic of North Macedonia is one of the few countries in Euro...