The XIth ICCEES World Congress was held between July 21 and 25, 2025, hosted this year by University College London. The aim of the five-day international congress, offering a rich program, was to provide a forum for the most important current research examining the history and present of Central and Eastern Europe. Researchers, senior research fellows, university professors, representatives of political and economic stake-holders presented their projects and discussed the most important issues of the region’s past, present, and future in an interdisciplinary dialogue.
Lecture by Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics in London, July 25, 2025
The panel entitled ‘Internationalizing Central and Southeastern Europe: Peace-Keeping and Nation-Building before 1930’ was organized and chaired by Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics. He also delivered a lecture in the same panel entitled ‘Humanitarian state-building from abroad – lessons on peace-making tools (the history of the International Commission of Control in Albania 1913/1914)’.
Aim of the lecture was to present the project of the same title. In addition to the research area, emphasis was placed on the project’s new, innovative research perspective and the potential areas of application (diplomacy, applied history). An interdisciplinary research method in which a historian and an active diplomat jointly explore and analyze humanitarian state-building practices in Southeast Europe, making the historical lessons learned from these practices accessible and directly applicable. Experiences that have not yet been explored by practitioners of any discipline (history, international law, peace building, political science).
