James Mark

1989 (eBook, PDF)

A Global History of Eastern Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues that communist states had in fact long been shapers of an interconnecting world, with '1989' instead marking a choice by local elites about the form that globalisation should take. Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the 1989 revolutions, this work draws on material from local archives to international institutions to explore the place of Eastern Europe in the emergence, since the 1970s, of a new world order that combined neoliberal economics and liberal democracy with increasingly bordered civilisational, racial and religious identities. An original and wide-ranging history, it explores the importance of the region's links to the West, East Asia, Africa, and Latin America in this global transformation, reclaiming the era's other visions such as socialist democracy or authoritarian modernisation which had been lost in triumphalist histories of market liberalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108691437
• Artikelnr.: 66180881

Autorenporträt

My name is James Mark. I am the author of the "Divine Mercy Chaplet - a Deep Meditations." I am 75 years old. My wife and I have 2 children and 5 grandchildren (one by adoption and one through marriage). I now live in a small rural town about 20 miles south of Joliet, Illinois. I attended high school and first year college in the Chicago Diocese's minor seminary. I left the seminary and graduated from College in Rural Southern Illinois. After graduation I spent 2 years in the Peace Corps in Malaysia on the Island of Borneo. My Peace Corps training was in Hawaii for three months. There I learned the Malay language, customs and about tuberculosis, a very common and deadly disease in Malaysia at that time. When I finally arrived in Malaysia I worked in hospitals and clinics. I worked in the lab identifying samples that may contain the tuberculosis germ or not. Later I went out into the field and helped vaccinate children against the disease. The cure for tuberculosis at that time required taking 3 medications for two years. Many times, people would not come to the clinic to get their monthly supply of meds, so I would drive on my motorcycle to the kampongs to make sure they had their meds. One time at the local school the science teacher had to leave so I filled in for about a month as well as doing my duties in the clinic when I returned to America, I attended Illinois State University where I earned a master's degree in Special Education. It was also where I met my wife, Donna. I taught in Sp.Ed. classrooms for 27 years before retiring. After retiring from teaching I started a small lawn mowing business and helped out at my local parish, Immaculate Conception. There I am a teacher of religious education, lector, Eucharistic Minister, and help with general maintenance of the parish from time to time.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
0.1 Going global
0.2 The long transition and the making of transitional elites in global perspective
0.3 A global history of the other '1989s'
0.4 The end of the '1989' era?
1. Globalisation
1.1 From socialist internationalism to capitalist globalisation
1.2 Debt and ideological re-orientation
1.3 The choice of 'neoliberal' globalisation
1.4 Authoritarian transformations?
1.5 Transformation from within
1.6 Conclusion
2. Democratisation
2.1 Reforming elites
2.2 Opposition from the local to the global and back
2.3 Alternatives to '1989': authoritarianism and violence
2.4 Disciplining transition and democratic peace
3. Europeanisation
3.1 The early Cold War: a divided Europe
3.2 Helsinki - re-bordering Europe?
3.3 An anti-colonial Europe: critiquing Helsinki
3.4 A prehistory of Fortress Europe: civilisational bordering in late socialism
3.5 Eastern Europe, a buffer against Islam?
3.6 After 1989: 'Fortress Europe'?
3.7 Conclusion
4. Self-determination
4.1 The rise of anti-colonial self-determination
4.2 The Soviet withdrawal
4.3 Peace or violence
4.4 Reverberations of Eastern European self-determination
4.5 Conclusion
5. Reverberations
5.1 1989 as a new global script
5.2 Instrumentalising 1989: the West and new forms of political conditionality
5.3 'Taming' the left
5.4 Interventionism and the '1989' myth
5.5 Eastern Europeans and the export of the revolutionary idea
5.6 From Cuba to China: rejecting '1989'
5.7 Conclusion
6. A world without '1989'
6.1 Towards the West? Ambiguous convergence
6.2 Who is the true Europe? The turn to divergence
6.3 Beyond the EU: post-socialist global trajectories
6.4 Conclusion.