Well, my Masters' dissertation (in Geopolitics) was about Hungary's relations with its neighbors in the late 80s/early 90s. I wrote it in 1992 and had the opportunity to tour parts of the border areas on both sides. Obviously, the issues with some of the neighbors were linked to more or less appeased historical grievances, so I did have to dig into the history of the region. I still have in my archives a number of fascinating maps from various dates in the first half of this century, with various borders, ethnic settlements, etc... Simply finding the 3 Hungarian, German and Romanian names for cities was fun (for an outsider...)

My PhD was about the independence of Ukraine, so I did look into the history of the region for various spells of independence or control by others (an incredibly long list, btw).

The amazing Turkish speech was at a CERA conference, but sadly I could never get access to a written version of it (CERA did not have it, apparently)

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes