Formed in 1947, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) was the first postwar international organization dedicated to cooperation in Europe along the boundaries set by the Cold War. Linking the universalism of the UN to European regionalism, both Cold War superpowers, the USA and the Soviet Union, were founding members of the UNECE. This book provides a unique study of this important but hitherto under-researched international organization. Incorporating research on the Cold War, the history of internationalism and European integration, Stinsky weaves these different threads of historical enquiry into a single analytical narrative.
Building on the League of Nations' difficult heritage, and in an increasingly challenging political environment, the UNECE's mission was to facilitate European cooperation across the Iron Curtain. With a number of competitor organizations set against it, the UNECE managed to carve out a niche for itself, setting norms and standards that still have an impact on the everyday lives of millions in Europe and beyond today. Working against an overwhelming geopolitical trend, UNECE succeeded in bridging the Cold War divide on several occasions, and maintained a broad system of contacts across the Iron Curtain.
The idea of planning economy and engineering social life has often been linked with Communist regimes’ will of control. However, the persuasion that social and economic processes could and should be regulated was by no means limited to them. Intense debates on these issues developed already during the First World War in Europe and became globalized during the World Economic crisis.
During the Cold War, such discussions fuelled competition between two models of economic and social organisation but they also revealed the convergences and complementarities between them. This ambiguity, so often overlooked in histories of the Cold War, represents the central issue of the book organized around three axes.
First, it highlights how know-how on planning circulated globally and were exchanged by looking at international platforms and organizations. The volume then closely examines specificities of planning ideas and projects in the Communist and Capitalist World. Finally, it explores East-West channels generated by exchanges around issues of planning which functioned irrespective of the Iron Curtain and were exported in developing countries.
The volume thus contributes to two fields undergoing a process of profound reassessment: the history of modernisation and of the Cold War.
Описание: He played a key role in re-launching Europeanmonetary integration, winning the right to attend the new global summits, and smoothingGreece`s path to EC membership. Indeed the rowover Britain`s contribution to the EC budget, meant that Britain`s position inEurope was as difficult when he left Brussels as it had been when he arrived.
Описание: He played a key role in re-launching European monetary integration, winning the right to attend the new global summits, and smoothing Greece`s path to EC membership.
Автор: Ribeiro Название: Early Modern Trading Networks in Europe ISBN: 1848935374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848935372 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Trade and exchange drove the economy of sixteenth-century Europe. But despite the importance of trade, this is the first book to apply network theory and mathematical analysis to its study. Using Castilian merchant Simon Ruiz as a case study, Ribeiro explores the role of cooperation, reputation, trust and reciprocity across trading networks.
Автор: Ribeiro, AnaSofia Название: Early Modern Trading Networks in Europe ISBN: 0367668645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367668648 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Kieninger, Stephan Название: Dynamic detente ISBN: 1498532438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498532433 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 6980.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study examines the dynamic evolution of Western detente policies and the creation of a sustainable security framework built by the United States and its West European allies through cooperation, dialogue, and engagement with the Soviet Union. It also challenges the traditional Cold War narrative that detente prolonged the division of Europe.
Автор: McIntosh Название: Poor Relief in England, 1350–1600 ISBN: 1107634539 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107634534 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This ground-breaking work is the first to trace developments in poor relief from the mid-fourteenth century to the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601. It explores changing conceptions of poverty and charity and altered roles for the church, state and private organizations in the provision of relief.
Автор: Philipp Ther Название: Redrawing nations : ISBN: 0742510948 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780742510944 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 12461.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: After World War II, 12 million Germans, 3 million Poles and Ukrainians, and tens of thousands of Hungarians were expelled from their homes and forced to migrate to their supposed countries of origin. This work gives an account of the turmoil caused by the migration during the nascent Cold War.
Автор: Zaccaria Название: The EEC`s Yugoslav Policy in Cold War Europe, 1968-1980 ISBN: 1137579773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137579775 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s is often described as the starting-point of the EEC/EU involvement in Western Balkan politics, as if no political relations had developed between the EEC and Yugoslavia during the Cold War era. Instead, this book shows that the origin of EEC-Yugoslav relations must be placed in the crucial decade of the 1970s. Contrary to received opinion, this work demonstrates that relations between the EEC and Yugoslavia were grounded on a strong political rationale which was closely linked to the evolution of the Cold War in Europe and the Mediterranean. The main argument is that relations between the two parties were primarily influenced by the need to prevent the expansion of Soviet influence in the Balkans and to foster d?tente in Europe.
Автор: Serra, Antonio Название: `short treatise` on the wealth and poverty of nations (1613) ISBN: 085728973X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857289735 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 15863.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Although no less an authority than Joseph A. Schumpeter proclaimed that Antonio Serra was the world's first economist, he remains something of a dark horse of economic historiography. Nearly nothing is known about Serra except that he wrote and died in jail, and his 'Short Treatise' is so rare that only nine original copies are known to have survived the ravages of time. What, then, can a book written nearly four centuries ago tell us about the problems we now face? Serra's key insight, studying the economies of Venice and Naples, was that wealth was not the result of climate or providence but of policies to develop economic activities subject to increasing returns to scale and a large division of labour. Through a very systematic taxonomy of economic life, Serra then went on from this insight to theorize the causes of the wealth of nations and the measures through which a weak, dependent economy could achieve worldly melioration.
At a time when leading economists return to biological explanations for the failure of their theories, the 'Short Treatise' can remind us that there are elements of history which numbers and graphs cannot convey or encompass, and that there are less despondent lessons to be learned from our past. Serra's remarkable tract is introduced by a lengthy and illuminating study of his historical context and legacy for the theoretical and cultural history of economics.
Описание: ‘Commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government,’ wrote Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations, ‘and with them, the liberty and security of individuals.’ However, Philipp Robinson Rossner shows how, when looked at in the face of history, it has usually been the other way around. This book follows the development of capitalism from the Middle Ages through the industrial revolution to the modern day, casting new light on the areas where premodern political economies of growth and development made a difference. It shows how order and governance provided the foundation for prosperity, growth and the wealth of nations. Written for scholars and students of economic history, this is a pioneering new study that debunks the neoliberal origin myth of how capitalism came into the world.
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