This Border Regions because from the perspective of central authorities, once you have nationals in Border Regions, you are securing not only borders but you are making sure that that territory would never be aha again. So its very interesting how this kind of conception of sovereignty can be traced in demographic surveys. You can see the spread of population after world war i changing because of this conception that you have to secure borders with populations. That concentrated populations would lead to the loss of territory. Of course, theres a historical relevance to that n]xnc,fq,per. If we take the legacy of the war sv will see he legacy of the war that there are all sorts of diplomatic negotiations about not directly connected to nationalism. And whenever two governments come a conflicting point, history, what happened back in world war i in particular and with regulated and unregulated migrations. So some of the political tensions that we see nowadays i think we can directly tr
I wont bore you with the biographies of the panel members. You can find the information for yourself there in the programs. Dr. William rodneer will chair and moderate this discussion. I know hes looking forward to having a good discussion with the audience. At this point, dr. Rodner, its all yours. Thank you very much. Welcome. Im here as sort of we have four odu professors. I guess its really 3 1 2. I am a professor at ttc, Tidewater Community college. Im a specialist in british history and british cultural history. I am i wear a hat at odu. I am an editor of the journal scotia, which is the journal of scottish studies at old dough minimum yan. To put a plug in for that we are planning a future issue on scotland and the First World War, so if anybody has submissions, please see me after the presentation. We hope to make this mostly q a and discussion between us and the audience or members of the audience. Ill start out with a general introduction. The legacies of the First World War
Why does this matter . How does this matter . How does this relate to what we see in headlines today. Its with that in mind and that spirit we decided to construct our final discussion which is a Panel Discussion of scholars from Old Dominion University department of history and theyll reflect on the legacy and impact of the First World War on today. I wont bore you with the biographies of the panel members. You can find the information for yourself there in the programs. Dr. William rodneer will chair and moderate this discussion. I know hes looking forward to having a good discussion with the audience. At this point, dr. Rodner, its all yours. Thank you very much. Welcome. Im here as sort of we have four odu professors. I guess its really 3 1 2. I am a professor at ttc, Tidewater Community college. Im a specialist in british history and british cultural history. I am i wear a hat at odu. I am an editor of the journal scotia, which is the journal of scottish studies at old dough minim
When our model had forecast the fall of Communism in 1989, the general press was attributing it to modern communication since the Berlin Wall fell a few months later. I pointed out that the same time difference took place when in Rome they overthrew their king in 509BC and within a few months in Athens,