Divided Development: Post-War Ideas on River Utilisation and their Influence on the Development of the Danube

Lagendijk, Vincent

doi:10.1080/07075332.2013.859165

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“…During Second World War, inter-ethnic tensions and persecution under German occupation prevailed, leaving communities and religious sites plundered, many largely destroyed. In the post-Second World War climate, Yugoslavia and neighboring regions received assistance from the US through the Truman Doctrine, European Recover Act, and direct assistance programs (see Lees, 1978), as well as development diplomacy through the US Tennessee Valley Authority (Lagendijk, 2015). Soviet support, too, was forthcoming, but Tito’s alliance with the US undermined communist leverage (Frendo et al., 1996; Morgenthau, 1962).…”

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Heritage interests: Americanism, Europeanism and Neo-Ottomanism

Luke

2018

Journal of Social Archaeology

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The district of Novi Pazar in southwestern Serbia offers an ideal case study to explore heritage and diplomacy. By analyzing processes of Europeanization and perceptions of Neo-Ottomanism in heritage practices, the article demonstrates how past, present, and future plans for South East Europe are embroiled in development trajectories that encompass partners from not only Europe and Turkey but also the United States, Asia, and the Middle East. The World Heritage Center at UNESCO and its partner organization, International Council on Monuments and Sites, hold firm commitments to the Christian identities of Stari Ras and Sopoćani and legacies of medieval Raška as well as the legacies of Imperial Rome. Yet, they operate in a vacuum, neglecting to consider the hyper-connectivity that is transforming not only the physical landscapes of the region and the revitalization of Sandžak and Islamic identities but also the corporate and diplomatic spheres of transnational and multidimensional interests.

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Heritage interests: Americanism, Europeanism and Neo-Ottomanism

Luke

2018

Journal of Social Archaeology

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“…Several elements of the ‘Iron Gates’ project were part of a discontinuous technological history, the first plans for improving transportation and stream ‘regularisation’ being conceived in the late nineteenth century and then reconsidered in the 1930s. As early as 1948 the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) had identified the potential for building a dam on the Danube gorges (Lagendijk ). The core element in the early multilateral co‐operation regarding the Danube was the improvement and management of navigation.…”

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“…In the twentieth century the Danube gained a special geopolitical importance. After the First World War, and especially during the Cold War, the Danube was involved in a ‘hydro‐political struggle’ (Lagendijk , p. 5). This geopolitical relevance of the river was not limited to the riparian states.…”

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“…As early as 1925 the possibility of building a hydropower plant at the Iron Gates was considered. The tensions between the USSR and Yugoslavia were also present in the council, leading to the decision to plan the construction of Iron Gates independently of the CMEA and in closer connection with the Danube Commission (Lagendijk ).…”

Section: The Communist Politics Of Hydropowermentioning

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The Political Economy of Hydropower in the Communist Space: Iron Gates Revisited

Creţan

Vesalon

2017

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This paper proposes a critical discussion of the political economy of hydropower construction in the communist space. We use political economy, economic history and political ecology literature in order to reveal the economic and political relations in which hydropower is embedded in socialist states. The case analysed is the Iron Gates, a joint Romanian‐Yugoslav project which raises specific questions about the techno‐political framework of the new ‘hydraulic landscape’ and its place in socialist economies and societies. The case reveals important transformations in the political and economic relations within the Soviet bloc and provides a description of the complex institutional setting used in the construction of the hydropower system. In parallel, the paper explores the contribution of political power in the construction of the Iron Gates and especially its use in connection with the ideological production of the new communist regime.

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“…Bilateral agreements were signed between riparian governments for the improvement of navigation and the use of the river for joint economic projects.49 Plans for large-scale irrigation and electricity production, in which Soviet and American models of river development were used, aimed to increase the economic prosperity of the area. 50 The end of the Cold War was a tumultuous period for Danubian Europe. The German unification, the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the wars in Yugoslavia changed its membership structure, which is, at the same time an image of new Europe, as it is of Cold War age Europe.…”

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