Forbidden Federalism: Secret Diplomacy and the Struggle for a Danube Confederation: 1918-1921

Bécsi, Zoltán: - historian and political scientist, educated at Geneva and Oxford Universities and the Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva. He was the recipient of a Swiss National Fund Scholarship for doctoral research. His field of specialisation is Central and South Eastern Europe, and European Affairs in general, dealing mostly with the study of federal structures, sovereignty and nationalities. His recent interests are the origins and methodology of future studies from a geopolitical (realist) and historical perspective, as well as the faith of elites under Communism in Europe. He has published in three different languages on these and other subjects. He is an independent consultant and advisory board member of international think tanks. He has been a Senior Research Fellow of the former European Institute of the University of Geneva founded by Denis de Rougemont, initiator and international coordinator of the ISFD (Institute of Studies in Decentralisation and Federalism) project with the University of Geneva and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, invited as lecturer at several European universities such as: Sciences Po-Paris, ISES-Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Kőszeg, and the University of Pécs both in Hungary. Bécsi teaches History of international relations and European political thought.