For far too long, views of Eastern Europe as an entrenched, deprived and peripheral region have shaped common perceptions of this area of the world. Presenting important contemporary research, Globalizing Eastern Europe: Politics, Culture and Economics from the 18th to the 21st Century offers a series of refreshing arguments to counter such misconceptions.
From grain production, which rose to challenge the American Midwest, to the making of modern international law, and from emancipatory educational concepts that countered Victorian doctrines to the de-nationalisation of classical music, this volume recasts Eastern Europe as a globally active region. With a contemporary focus, its contributions also provide a fresh look at current Chinese infrastructure investments in the region, at Russia’s pivotal role in climate change, and at debates regarding the uneven urban developments between core and periphery. With a view to tracking historical trajectories, and an emphasis upon agency as a driving motor in global entanglements, Eastern Europe emerges as a globally engaged region. In doing so, this volume further enriches the perennial debates regarding the region’s spatial and cultural boundaries.
Globalizing Eastern Europe
Gilad Ben-Nun, Katja C. Naumann & Lena Dallywater
Cutting-edge research on the global political interconnections of Eastern Europe over the past century.Rights Sold
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Book Details
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date: 18-09-2025
Format: Paperback | 234 x 156mm | 320 pagesAbout the Editors
Gilad Ben-Nun is a global historian of modern international law. A former EU - Marie Curie Individual fellow at Verona University's International law department, and a former Ford Foundation Fellow at UNIDIR and a UNDP Middle East Program Officer, Gilad Ben-Nun's I.B. Tauris monograph Seeking Asylum in Israel: Refugees and the History of Migration Law received the 2017 US National Jewish Book Award.
Lena Dallywater is researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig, Germany and coordinator of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Eastern Europe Global Area (EEGA). In her dissertation and project-based publications, she has focussed on transregional entanglements, particularly in the area of intellectual engagement and emancipatory activism in the middle of the 20th century. Most recently, she published Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa: new perspectives on the era of decolonization, 1950s to 1990s, Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023, together with Chris Saunders (University of Cape Town) and Helder Adegar Fonseca (University of �vora).
Katja Castryck-Naumann is senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) Leipzig. She has been a visiting scholar at the ENS Paris and the GHI Warsaw, a visiting professor at Science Po Lyon and the University of Arhus, and a fellow at the GHI Washington. Her research focuses on the history of international organisations, the global connections of East Central Europe, and the writing of world history. Her recent publications include the edited volume "Transregional Connections in the History of East Central Europe" (de Gruyter, 2021) and the article Competing Politics in Regionalizing the Social Sciences. UNESCO, CODESRIA, and the European Research Council (Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines, 2022).
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