Globalizing Eastern Europe: Politics, Culture and Economics from the 18th to the 21st Century

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For far too long, views of Eastern Europe as an entrenched, deprived and peripheral region have shaped common perceptions of this area of the world. Presenting important contemporary research, Eastern Europe: A Global Area offers a series of refreshing arguments to counter such misconceptions. From grain production, which rose to challenge the American Midwest, to the making of modern international law, and from emancipatory educational concepts that countered Victorian doctrines to the de-nationalisation of classical music, this volume recasts Eastern Europe as a globally active region. With a contemporary focus, its contributions also provide a fresh look at current Chinese infrastructure investments in the region, at Russias pivotal role in climate change, and at debates regarding the uneven urban developments between core and periphery. With a view to tracking historical trajectories, and an emphasis upon agency as a driving motor in global entanglements, Eastern Europe emerges as a globally engaged region. In doing so, this volume further enriches the perennial debates regarding the regions spatial and cultural boundaries.

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Gilad Ben-Nun is a global historian of modern international law. A former EU - Marie Curie Individual fellow at Verona Universitys International law department, and a former Ford Foundation Fellow at UNIDIR and a UNDP Middle East Program Officer, Gilad Ben-Nuns I.B. Tauris monograph Seeking Asylum in Israel: Refugees and the History of Migration Law received the 2017 US National Jewish Book Award. Katja Naumann is a global historian of Eastern Europe. She is currently president of the European Network of World and Global History and editor of Comparativ. Journal for Global History and Comparative Studies. She is a tenured researcher in the department Entanglements and Globalizations at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, she is a long-term lecturer at the Global and European Studies Institute at Leipzig University.