The emergence of a European region: business cycles in South-East Europe from political independence to World War II

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Morys ◽  
Martin Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
European Region ◽  
World War ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Political Independence

The gold standard, fiscal dominance and financial supervision in Greece and South-East Europe, 1841–1939

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Morys
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Financial Supervision ◽  
World War ◽  
East Europe ◽  
East European ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Fiscal Dominance

Abstract We add a historical and regional dimension to the debate on the Greek debt crisis by analysing repeated cycles of entry and exit from the gold standard, government default, and financial supervision for four South-East European countries from political independence to World War II. The prevailing pattern of fiscal dominance was broken only under financial supervision, when conditionality scaled back the treasury’s influence; only then were central banks able to stabilize their exchange rates. A political economy analysis for Greece finds that financial supervision was politically acceptable as it made successfully adhering to gold more likely in the view of contemporaries.

scholarly journals Freedom on the post-totalitarian horizon

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Matusiak ◽  
Andrzej Polak ◽  
Monika Wolting
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
European Countries ◽  
World War ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe

The authors of this sketch are drawing a panorama of the potential interpretational aspects of understanding the category of freedom in the societies of the post-communist part of Europe. At the same time, they attempt to define the horizon for finding the answer to the identity-forming question that is key for this georegion, i.e. about the essence and the specificity of processes, phenomena and mechanisms of emancipation of culture and societies of post-totalitarian European countries from the legacy of World War II, and particularly its post-Yalta consequences which embedded the countries and nations of Central, East and South-East Europe in the sphere of imperial subordination of Soviet dominance for nearly another half a century.

British Policy in South-East Europe in the Second World War

1977 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 643
Author(s):  
Gerasimos Augustinos ◽  
Elisabeth Barker
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
East Europe ◽  
South East Europe ◽  
British Policy ◽  
Second World

scholarly journals The ′ugliness′ of Jewish prayer: Voice quality as the expression of identity

Muzikologija ◽  
2007 ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Judit Fridjesi
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
World War ◽  
Ashkenazi Jews ◽  
East Europe ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Jewish Prayer ◽  
Aesthetic Concepts

This article is based on the musical material and interviews the author collected in Hungary, France, Czechoslovakia, the USA and Israel in the course of thirty years of her fieldwork among the traditional East-Ashkenazi Jews. It relates to the aesthetic concepts of the prayer chant of the Ashkenazi Jews of East Europe (?East -Ashkenazim?) as it appears to have existed before World War II, survived in the oral tradition until the 1970s and exists sporadically up to the present.

Some Theoretical Aspects of Economic Development

1954 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Degree Of Freedom ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
World War ◽  
Native Population ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
The World ◽  
Freedom Of Action

While the problem of economic development long has been a standard topic for economic historians, it has not been until recent years that most other modern economists have displayed a more dian casual interest in this subject. Two sets of factors have been particularly important in stimulating this new activity. The first, of course, concerns the ever-increasing efforts being made to accelerate economic development in the so-called “backward” regions of the world. Since World War II a number of the countries in the economically backward list have received eitfier complete political independence or a much greater degree of freedom. And one of the major ways they are using this new freedom of action is to plan and undertake extensive governmental development projects. For rightly or wrongly most of these countries feel that their former rulers thwarted the type of economic development most beneficial to the native population, and they are almost fanatically anxious to remedy this condition.

Myrdal's "Asian Drama" (Review Article)

1968 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 618-625
Author(s):  
Jan Tinbergbn
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Problem Area ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Background Information ◽  
World War ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
First Order ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
History Of

The publication by one of Europe's greatest scholars about the world's most important problem area is an event of the first order. The scholar I mean is Myrdal and the area South-Asia. I am happy to offer some comments on this book, called "Asian Drama", with the well-chosen subtitle "An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations" [1], both because of its merits and because of the challenges it contains to somebody so sympathetic to the author's view and at the same time so full of doubt with regard to a number of methodological issues raised. The book covers an impressive multitude of subjects and is fascinating in many respects. It brings a good deal of history of the area, from before its political independence obtained after World War II, to to-day and gives a lot of interesting background information in Chapters 4 and 5 on how the frontiers of the countries were established. It gives pictures of the great leaders of in¬dependence, Gandhi (pp.92, 754-55 for some striking elements), Nehru and Jinnah. It deals extensively with the backgrounds and consequences of Parti¬tion (Chapter 6) and with the not-too-good role the French and the Dutch played (p. 226) in their colonies.

Colonizing Palestine

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-120
Author(s):  
Mahmoud O. Haddad
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
The United States ◽  
European Countries ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
East Europe ◽  
East European ◽  
Eastern Question ◽  
Strategic Policies

This study compiles historical information to highlight the role played by both East and West European countries in the creation of Israel since before World War I. East European countries, especially Russia, Poland, and Romania, were as effective in this regard as the West Europeans. While racial policies were paramount in East Europe, including Germany, religious and strategic policies were as effective in the West, especially in Britain. Two points can be redrawn in this regard: That the question of Palestine was a Western question on both sides of the continent; it had nothing to do with the Eastern question that engulfed the Ottoman Empire before and during World War I. Additionally while World War II did not start the process of creating Israel, it accelerated it since the United States became an active supporter of the Zionist project. The second conclusion explains why all major powers give so much latitude to Israel, regardless of its constant neglect of international law to this very day.

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