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Cover -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Longue Durée Connectivity: Islam in Eastern Europe -- Two beginnings: Tatars and Turks -- Cultural transfer from Western Europe -- The coming of modernity and globalization -- The ruptures of 20th-century nationalism -- The Second World War -- Postwar -- 2. Recent Dynamics: Natural Resources, Environmental Policies and Climate Change -- Introduction -- Underground: Fossil resources -- In the air: Climate change -- On the surface: Forest and ice -- The economic risks of external climate change mitigation -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Part I International Political and Legal Spheres -- 3. Making a Difference: Eastern European Experts in International Organizations -- Socializing international health politics: From eradicating epidemics to public health -- Decolonizing world trade: Regulating international shipping -- Peace and security under the nuclear threat: Nuclear-weapon-free zones vis-à-vis universal disarmament -- Conclusion: Eastern Europe in the history of international organizations -- 4. Beyond 'Western' Standards: Global Imprints on Domestic Law -- Introduction: Eastern Europe as birthplace of Marxist-socialist law -- The legal revolution of the 1920s-30s -- After the Second World War: Eastern European socialist law goes global and diversifies -- The twilight of Eastern European socialist law: From the late 1960s to 1989 -- The collapse of global socialist law -- Family law: Soviet law's utmost liberalization beyond 'Western' legal standards -- The ascent of Soviet women's rights and the drive for equality -- Soviet law's achievement of equating all children's rights -- Stalin's 1930s backlash and Khrushchev's revised liberalization of the 50s -- Divergent legal paths after 1989. Differentiating future prospective: CEES countries and the Newly Independent States (NIS) -- Conclusion -- 5. Socialist Childhoods: Internationalizing Education and Children's Rights -- Introduction -- The Soviet educational model: Polytechnical education -- The polytechnical global Soviet educational model: Competitive co-existence -- Children's rights and socialism during the Global Cold War -- Children's rights in the 'Century of the Child' -- Conclusion -- 6. Eastern Europe's Impacts on Modern International Law -- Introduction -- Regional specificities, duress and human agency -- Nationalism, homogeneity and expulsion -- The protection of minorities and international refugee law -- Laws of war and international criminal justice -- Concluding remarks -- Part II Impacts on Cultures and Societies -- 7. Literature and Film: Aesthetics of a Region -- Introduction -- Multilingualism: East Central Europe as an accented geopolitical space -- Myth and literature -- Migration and mobility -- Conclusion -- 8. Migration and Migratory Impacts: Coping Strategies on a Global Scale -- Two hundred years of modern migration: An overview -- Forced migrations and ethnic cleansing,1914-50 -- Refugee migration, internationalization and the Cold War -- Structures and actors -- Contexts, representations and effects -- From heroes to troublemakers -- Migration and national health -- Transnational nationalization: The reordering of migration and colonization after 1918 -- State-induced migration: Refugees, deportees and defectors -- Concluding remarks -- 9. Transnational and Global Aspects of Eastern European Music History -- The universal paradigm in 'Western' music historiography and its attitude towards 'national music' -- The rise of 'national music': A transnational perspective -- Eastern European musicians as actors in international music life. Eastern European composers of the 20th century: Between political repression and 'Western' avant-gardes -- Part III Forays into Global Economic Processes -- 10. Positioning Strategies in the Global Commodity Market since 1850 -- Introduction -- The emergence of a global wheat market and Eastern European strategies for positioning (until the First World War) -- The First World War and its impact on the global wheat market -- The wheat market during the Great Depression -- The Eastern European 'agrarian bloc' and internationalist strategies for regulating the wheat market -- Conclusion -- 11. Into 'History's Dustbin'? Visions of Economic Development (1917-89) -- Introduction -- Crumbling empires -- The dawn of a new era -- Communism has fallen and the 'West'is victorious? -- Conclusion -- 12. Regional Development and Core-Periphery Divides -- Introduction -- Understanding socio-spatial polarization -- Socio-spatial polarization and core-periphery divides in Central and Eastern Europe -- Regional development, regional policy and territorial cohesion -- Rethinking regional policies and alternative avenues to regional development -- Concluding Remarks -- 13. Eastern Europe and China -- Introduction -- China's diverse engagements across Eastern Europe -- Russia and Central Asia -- Non-EU-member in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus -- Central and Eastern Europe -- The image of the Chinese threat in the media, political responses and academia -- Demonizing China in 'Western' Media -- The EU's political anxieties and changing regulatory regimes -- Academic reinforcement of popular anxieties -- Beyond the 'China threat': The historical and spatial contextualization of Chinese engagements with Eastern Europe -- Beyond the seeming superior in frastructure financing of the EU -- Beyond the discourse of new 'East-West' divides -- Conclusions. Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Index.
For far too long, views of Eastern Europe as a negligible and peripheral region have shaped popular perceptions of this part of the world.Presenting new research, Globalizing Eastern Europe: Politics, Culture and Economics from the 18th to the 21st Century offers refreshing arguments to counter such misconceptions.