{"title":"Rampart nations: bulwark myths of east European multiconfessional societies in the age of nationalism","authors":"W. Morgan","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2022.2141812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2141812","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42029944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Russian cold: histories of ice, frost, and snow","authors":"Robert W. Orttung","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2022.2143840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2143840","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48275772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Balogh, Zoltán Gál, Z. Hajdú, S. Rácz, J. Scott
{"title":"On the (geo)political salience of geographical imaginations: a central European perspective","authors":"P. Balogh, Zoltán Gál, Z. Hajdú, S. Rácz, J. Scott","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2022.2142146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2142146","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article introduces a Research Colloquium that investigates relationships between the production of Central European geopolitical imaginaries and processes of European integration. Specifically, we interrogate the ways in which Central European geopolitical imaginaries have involved the recasting of old and the emergence of new framings of regional identities, regional cooperation and geopolitical orientations. Our specific focus on Hungary is not coincidental; since 2010 the Hungarian government has pursued a strident and rather noisy ”geopoliticization” of its relations with the EU, its Central European neighbors and beyond. Together with Poland, Hungary has been an active producer of scenarios of national and European destiny according to conservative and often reactionary notions of identity and illiberal values. Contextual background explaining the rise of EU-skeptic imaginations of national purpose is provided and suggests that economic disparities as well as unresolved national tensions between liberalism and conservatism have been major drivers. As we will argue, stubborn reliance on fixed geopolitical ideas as a source of influence and power can lead to rigid commitments to identity politics that can both thwart more effective regional cooperation and harm national economic and political interests.","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":"63 1","pages":"691 - 703"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44465800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insecurity, incoherence, and imagined geographies in Central Europe","authors":"P. Richardson","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2022.2138485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2138485","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This Commentary for the Research Colloquium on “Geopolitical Imaginaries of Regional Cooperation and National Identity: A Central European Perspective” foregrounds the significance of imagined geographies for driving policies, shaping nations, and making identities. It highlights the urgency of countering the self-aggrandizing, ethno-nationalist, illiberal, reductionist, and conservative imagined geographies that have emerged in recent years across Central Europe, in particular in Hungary. A more critical, pluralistic, and inclusive geopolitics of the region is presented in this Research Colloquium, which is in stark contrast to the attempts of certain political and intellectual elites to fix identities that foment mistrust and division within and between societies. The regional imaginaries espoused by some political leaders, and their tenuous historical and geographical grounding, tell us little about the geographical concepts and areas they purport to represent but much about the insecurities and agendas of the political elites who directly benefit from the uptake of these imaginings.","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":"63 1","pages":"779 - 786"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42579172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Localized bargaining: the political economy of China’s high-speed railway program","authors":"Guo Jie","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2022.2140175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2140175","url":null,"abstract":"Localized Bargaining uses the fragmented authoritarianism framework to shed light on China ’ s central – local relations. The book argues that localities have wrangled stations along China ’ s sprawling high-speed rail network by bargaining with the central government. Localities with privileged positions in the bureaucratic hierarchy have been able to extract such infrastructure most quickly","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43689709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China and Africa: the new era","authors":"Ya-Bin Wu","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2022.2138484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2138484","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46681489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development aid and domestic regional inequality: the case of Myanmar","authors":"Matteo Fumagalli, A. Kemmerling","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2022.2134167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2134167","url":null,"abstract":"There is a cyclical nature to the dilemmas confronting international donors willing to operate in Myanmar. Brief periods of relative openness led to rapid surges in development assistance, regularly interrupted by long phases of military rule and disengagement by donors. Amidst all this, many predicaments remain. This article engages with one of them: the inequality between regions. How have international donors reacted to the issue of domestic regional inequality? Recent studies suggest that official development assistance (ODA) does not target poor regions very well, but it is not always clear why this is the case. Myanmar’s sudden, yet uneven and unequal liberalization from 2011 to 2021 catalyzed huge inflows of ODA, while it also confronted donors with new policy dilemmas. The article shows that aid providers struggle with the problem of rising regional inequality, especially for political reasons. Donor and recipi- ent interests often do not align well on this issue. In the case of Myanmar, donors who press for regional inequality to sit prominently on the agenda might fare less successfully than those who address the issue indirectly. The article concludes that regional inequality and the politics of targeting deserve a more central role in the political economy of ODA.","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41773448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russian modernization. A new paradigm","authors":"T. Cox","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2022.2137549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2137549","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42705375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Galvanizing Nostalgia? Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Siberia","authors":"S. Mannila","doi":"10.1080/15387216.2022.2134169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15387216.2022.2134169","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47508,"journal":{"name":"Eurasian Geography and Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46672028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}