The globalisation process and the Eastern bloc countries in the 1970s and 1980s

Steiner, André

doi:10.1080/13507486.2014.888704

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“…ut why the American influence in all of this? It is essential because the United States perceives the US as heir to Western civilization, and the country thus had a duty to protect the West against its adversaries, of which the then Soviet Union-led communist bloc, sometimes termed "the ast" ranked among the most prominent (Loth & Knight, 1994;Steiner, 2014;Kurth, 2017).…”

Section: Concept Of Emerging World Regionsmentioning

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Contemporary globalization, the social sciences and the challenge of scholarship in the emerging world regions

Okeke

Iloh

2020

ASSHJ

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This contribution interrogates contemporary globalization, the social sciences and the challenge of scholarship in the emerging world regions. It identifies contemporary globalization as a synonym for the third wave of globalization, commencing post World War II, with a large American globalism measure. It is accepted in the paper that “any discipline or branch of science that deals with human behaviour in its social and cultural aspects” is classifiable as a social science. In this work, a reference to social science scholarship is specifically to Africa, Asia, Latin American, and the Middle Eastern nations in the emerging world regions. The paper's thesis is on the global need for new interdependencies and sensitivities in social science scholarship under contemporary globalization.

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Contemporary globalization, the social sciences and the challenge of scholarship in the emerging world regions

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Iloh

2020

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“…However, market reformist ideas did not remain in the ideological freeze box for long in Hungary. Faced with the negative impact of the global economic crisis of 1973 and apparent limitations to COMECON integration, the leaderships of the Soviet bloc regimes were forced to bow to the pressures of capital – what Trotsky (1977: 27) had described as the ‘whip of external necessity’ – and gradually abandon central planning in favour of the market and greater integration with the capitalist world economy (Germuska, 2014; Shields, 2012; Steiner, 2014). This was to be achieved by importing advanced machinery and technology from the West, which was to be financed through loans from Western states, private banks and international financial institutions (IFIs) (Aldcroft and Morewood, 1995: 157).…”

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The origins of neoliberalism in late ‘socialist’ Hungary: The case of the Financial Research Institute and ‘Turnabout and Reform’

Fabry

2017

Capital & Class

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This article contributes to ongoing debates in the transformatology literature, as well as the wider literature on the global neoliberal revolution, on the origins of neoliberalism in Soviet-style economies. Within these debates, the transition to a (free) market economy and liberal democracy in Hungary and elsewhere in the former Soviet bloc has commonly been perceived as an exogenous process, dating to the annus mirabilis of 1989. This article challenges this consensus. Through a case study of the Financial Research Institute ( Pénzügykutatási Intézet), the official research institute of the Ministry of Finance, and a programme of radical economic reform, known as ‘Turnabout and Reform’ ( Fordulat és Reform), published in 1987 by a group of experts at the institute, the article demonstrates that in the case of Hungary, neoliberalism was not simply an ‘imported project’, which arrived ‘from the West’ on the eve of the formal transition in 1989–1990. Rather, it is argued that it emerged organically in Hungarian society in the 1980s, as a response by domestic economic and political elites to the deepening crisis of the Kádár regime. Hence, the essential aim of the ‘neoliberal turn’ was to reconfigure the Hungarian economy in line with the exigencies of the capitalist world economy, while ensuring that the political transition went as smoothly as possible. As such, while obviously a repudiation of past policy, policymakers in Budapest pursued the similar objectives as central planners under ‘actually existing socialism’.

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“…Already in the 1980s, more subtle forms of cooperation emerged when Western automobile firms started using the Eastern Bloc as an 'extended workbench'. 24 Thus, a further promising avenue for research would be to analyse how these entanglements were deepened but also renegotiated after the fall of the Berlin Wall.…”

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East–West cooperation in the automotive industry: Enterprises, mobility, production

Fava

Gatejel

2017

The Journal of Transport History

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The paper introduces the special issue ‘East–West cooperation in the automotive industry: Enterprises, mobility, production’ which includes four contributions on the development of socialist automotive industry and on the technological relations between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War. The 1960s and 1970s intense relations between socialist governments and Western European automobile companies provide further evidence of the permeability of the Iron Curtain, the early entanglements between the two blocs and the lack of internal cohesion inside each of them. The papers stress the role of the enterprise, both socialist and capitalist, as a crucial agent in directing East–West flows of technology and knowledge. They invite to reconsider the classical vision of West–East transfer of technology and to go deeper in the study of the political uses of foreign technology and on the processes of reception, adaptation and transformation of Western technologies in Socialist Europe.

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The globalisation process and the Eastern bloc countries in the 1970s and 1980s

Cited by 22 publications

References 16 publications

Contemporary globalization, the social sciences and the challenge of scholarship in the emerging world regions

Contemporary globalization, the social sciences and the challenge of scholarship in the emerging world regions

The origins of neoliberalism in late ‘socialist’ Hungary: The case of the Financial Research Institute and ‘Turnabout and Reform’

East–West cooperation in the automotive industry: Enterprises, mobility, production

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