Central Europe as Ground Zero of the New International Order

Slavic Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 900-911
Author(s):  
Natasha Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
International Order ◽  
International Project ◽  
Border Effects ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
International Authority

This article presents post-Habsburg central and eastern Europe as the flagship campus of the new international order of 1919. It shows how the international project of imperial liquidation, and the predicament of the successor states, produced a wide range of new international schemes, techniques, and frameworks—spanning the economy, crime, humanitarianism, and rights—that significantly shaped the global governance of today. Where historians customarily trace the implications of imperial collapse for the region's nationalization, I focus instead on internationalization. I isolate three different “border effects” in which the boundaries of sovereignty were reworked or challenged. International authority and jurisdiction grew and thrived on the sorts of qualified sovereignty that emerged in empire's wake.

scholarly journals Ladislavella occulta (Jackiewicz, 1959) – a species of aquatic snails new for Hungary with remarks on its distribution in Central and Eastern Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxim V. Vinarski
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Current Distribution ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
First Record ◽  
Marsh Area ◽  
Relic Species

A finding of the lymnaeid species Ladislavella occulta (Jackiewicz, 1959) [Mollusca: Gastropoda: Lymnaeidae] in Hungary is reported, which is the first record of this snail in the country. The shells of L. occulta were found in 1989 in the marsh area of the Bátorliget Nature Reserve. The current distribution of this species in Eastern and Central Europe is reviewed. It is hypothesized that L. occulta represents a relic species, whose origin may be traced back to the Pleistocene

scholarly journals A Review of Hana Horáková, Andrea Boscoboinik, Robin Smith (eds.), Utopia and Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Rural Spaces. Berlin: Lit-Verlag, 2018, 256 pр.

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (48) ◽  
pp. 252-266
Author(s):  
Natalia Savina
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Rural World ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Information Technology Development

The reviewed collection of articles constitutes an intriguing attempt to understand the modern processes taking place in rural areas in terms of their relationship with utopian ideas and positions of neoliberalism. Using field materials from Central and Eastern Europe and China, researchers demonstrate a wide range of scenarios and practices related to imagining the rural world and rural lifestyles emerging in the context of globalization, industrialization, information technology development, and neoliberal politics. The similarity of the authors' methodological approaches and the general theoretical framework ensure the structural and substantive integrity of the collection, which allows the reader to engage in discussions about economic, social, cultural and other changes that are characteristic of most modern rural areas.

scholarly journals Contours of National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 174-186
Author(s):  
Jernej Letnar Černič
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
The Past ◽  
Business And Human Rights ◽  
Wide Range

Central and Eastern Europe has been often overseen in the debates on business and humanrights. Countries in the regions share a common history, experience and culture. Human rights andfundamental freedoms were in the past systematically and generally violated. Since democratisation,countries have suffered from a wide range of related human rights abuses. Corporations in theregions have often directly and indirectly interfered with the human rights of employees and thewider communities. Business and human rights has in the past lagged behind global developmentsalso in the light of the lack of capacity and general deficient human rights situation. This articledescribes and discusses contours of the National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights of theCzech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Georgia, Ukraine and Slovenia by examining their strengths anddeficiencies. It argues that the field of business and human rights in Central and Eastern Europe hasmade a step forward in the last decade since the adoption of the United Nations Guiding Principleson Business and Human Rights. Nonetheless, human rights should be further translated into practiceto effectively protect human dignity of rights-holders.

Larry Wolff, Venice and the Slavs. The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2001, 408 pp.

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-238
Author(s):  
Martina Winkler
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
Age Of Enlightenment

When it comes to identity, nationalism and the various perceptions of “the Other,” postcolonial theory has inspired historians of Central and Eastern Europe for years. This inspiration, however, has not overcome a certain superficial level of slogans and catchphrases: identity is a cultural construction, yes, so it is somehow connected to the problem of power; knowledge too, since we have read Said and Foucault, is to be considered as both a result and an instrument of power. Now it seems that this superficiality will not be accepted any more. Recently, scholars of Central Europe organized a conference focusing on the questions of whether and how postcolonial theory can be applied on the study of Austria-Hungary. Was the Habsburg Empire really an Empire, can perspectives developed in Delhi be transferred to Prague and Bratislava?

THE INITIATIVE «ONE BELT, ONE ROAD» AND THE BALKANS: THE ASSESSMENTS OF THE EXPERT COMMUNITY AND THE MEDIA OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (2017-2020)

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-83
Author(s):  
Artem Ulunyan
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
One Belt One Road ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Atlantic Community ◽  
Expert Community ◽  
Party State

The article examines the assessments of the global strategic concept «One Belt, One Road» of the PRC by the representatives of the Central and Eastern European expert community and by the Albanian media. After the Cold War, the formation processes of national states in the post-Yugoslavian space have started in the Balkans, and the region has come under tight probe of the Euro-Atlantic community, of Russia and Turkey as well as of the Peoples Republic of China, which had not displayed earlier such a keen interest in this region. In the context of the global strategy outlined by the party-state leadership of mainland China, the Balkans and Central Eastern Europe have turned into important connecting link in the Chinese geostrategic concept «One Belt, One Road». In the 2010 s, the PRC has begun to establish a wide-range network of transport corridors, designed to start a «new edition» of the historical «Silk Road» and to serve as an instrument for the economic advancement of the PRC on a transcontinental scale. This policy of economic expansion of the PRC, encompassing regions and continents on its way, is being actively discussed in the expert community of Central and Eastern European states from the standpoint of identifying both specific mode of actions engaged by the party-state leadership of the PRC, as well as local conditions, interests and probable results of the implementation of the Chinese project. The author notes that expert assessments range from positive to sharply negative, which indicates the absence of a definitive opinion on this issue. In Albania, a Balkan state closely linked to both Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans, especially due to the presence of a large Albanian ethnic component in a number of countries of the region, the participation in the implementation of the project «One Belt, One Road» was strongly influenced by economic and political relations with the Euro-Atlantic community.

Reinstatement

2019 ◽  
pp. 309-319
Author(s):  
David Sorkin
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
East Central ◽  
Postwar Europe ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Legal Foundation

This chapter discusses how the reclamation of citizenship, the restitution of property, and negotiations for reparations stretched across postwar Europe, with some activities continuing into the twenty-first century. In western and central Europe, Jews quickly regained citizenship. France, Italy, and Holland abrogated Nazi decrees to restore Jews' citizenship; Germany granted citizenship irrespective of religion. In east-central and eastern Europe, in contrast, Jews struggled to regain or retain rights. Stalin's and Khrushchev's governments discriminated against Jews throughout Soviet society; they effectively turned Jews into second-class citizens. In Hungary, Jews experienced a second “reverse emancipation.” Romania purged the state apparatus and arranged for Israel to ransom Jews for hard currency. Poland gave Jews citizenship de jure yet began to discriminate against them. Meanwhile, the governments of Holland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and France laid the legal foundation for restitution during the war by declaring Nazi expropriations illegal. Eighteen governments signed a declaration to restore property.

Communist Funeral Reform in Central Europe (1948–1989): From Religious to Civil Funerals in Czechoslovakia and Hungary

2021 ◽  
pp. 003022282110217
Author(s):  
Olga Nešporová ◽  
Heléna Tóth
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Similar Pattern ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Historical Comparative

The authors examine funeral reform in the second half of the 20th century in Central and Eastern Europe via the historical comparative analysis approach. Examining the case studies of Czechoslovakia and Hungary, the article argues that although the newly-developed civil (socialist) funeral ceremonies in the two countries followed a similar pattern, in the Czech part of Czechoslovakia, civil funerals followed by cremation became the norm during the forty years of communist rule, whereas in Hungary they did not become the popularly accepted approach, in a similar way to the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia, where Roman Catholic funerals and inhumation remained dominant. The significant difference in the results of efforts toward reform was due principally to differing cultural histories, attitudes toward both religion and cremation and the availability of the infrastructure required for conducting civil funerals.

scholarly journals The idea of Central Europe: literary projections (M. Kundera, D. Kiš, J. Andrukhovych)

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Maryna Hohulia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Milan Kundera ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
The Aesthetic

Background: The talks about Central or Central-Eastern Europe are actualized by new political and ontological challenges and feelings of obstruction when one after another Soviet interventions took place in this space. M. Kundera's essay "The Tragedy of Central Europe" is quite quoted and analyzed not only in literary studies, but also in philosophical, historical, political and other studies. His text inspired others authors to create their own vision of the Central Europe. But it’s one of the first attempts of a comparative analysis of the aesthetic and philosophical ideas of Kundera, Kiš, and Andrukhovych has been made. Purpose: The purpose of this article is to clarify the peculiarities of the expression of the idea of Central Europe in the aesthetic and philosophical thought of Milan Kundera, Danylo Kiš, Yurii Andrukhovych, thus demonstrating the various manifestations of this concept in Slavic literature. Results: Central Europe (in Adrukhovych case is Eastern-Central Europe) is a floating cultural space with apocalyptic and anti-imperial character wich has post-Habsburg and urban dominants. Oppositions of “one's own” and “foreign”, “cultural” and “barbaric”, “harmonious” and “imposed” are clearly traced. Literary projections of Central Europe are accompanied by attempts to reconstruct it, recreate it from ruins, and fix the vanishing world, where universal (Habsburg heritage) predominates, in which national (in these cases Czech, Jewish, Ukrainian) and anti-colonial issues are intertwined. Key words: Central Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, prose, space, apocalyptic, anti-imperialism.

scholarly journals Neighbourhood Policy vs. Remembrance Policy: Romania and Hungary

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Barna Bodó
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
European Situation ◽  
Determining Factor

Abstract In East-Central Europe, the past has always been a determining factor as a framework for interpretation: the social construction of the past often serves (served) current political purposes. It is no wonder that in the countries of the region, often different, sometimes contradictory interpretations of the past have emerged. In today’s European situation, however, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are perhaps most keenly faced by the transformation of Europe, with unclear, chaotic ideas dominating political and intellectual markets instead of previous (accepted) values – in the tension between old and new, Europe’s future is at stake. The question is: what role the states of Central and Eastern Europe play/can play, to what extent they will be able to place the neighbourhood policy alongside (perhaps in front of) the policy of remembrance and seek common answers to Europe’s great dilemmas.

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