The 'Orientalization' and 'de-Orientalization' of East Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula

Autor:	Robert Bideleux
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Cultural Studies History Communist state Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Empire Ancient history Geography Balkan peninsula East-Central Europe Cold war European integration East europe media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. 23:9-44
ISSN:	2573-9646 2573-9638
DOI:	10.1080/0965156x.2015.1068581
Popis:	This article first explains how Western “Orientalization” of East Central Europe, the Balkan Peninsula and the Russian Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries resulted in crude and demeaning “Western” caricatures of “East Europe(ans)”. After 1945, such stereotypes were reinforced by the Cold War East–West divide. From the 1980s to 2007, European integration brought about substantial “de-Orientalization” of most of Europe’s former communist states. Since 2008, unfortunately, further headway in these directions has been seriously jeopardized by recent “wrong turns”, crises and setbacks in the European integration process, above all by the ill-conceived Eurozone project.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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