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Subject(s)

• Nationalism—Former Soviet republics [Browse]
• Former Soviet republics—Commercial policy [Browse]
• Former Soviet republics—Economic integration [Browse]
• Former Soviet republics—Foreign economic relations [Browse]

Series

• Cornell studies in political economy. [More in this series]
• Cornell Studies in Political Economy

Summary note

How do national identities affect the world economy? Building on the insight that nationalisms and national identities endow economic policy with social purpose, Rawi Abdelal proposes a novel theoretical framework, a distinctively Nationalist perspective on international political economy, to answer this question. Using this framework, and drawing on field research in Lithuania, Ukraine, and Belarus, he provides an in-depth look at the link between national identity and the economic policies of the new states formed by the breakup of the Soviet Union. All these states, from the Baltic coast to central Asia, were economically dependent on Russia during the 1990's. However, they reacted very differently to that dependence, and their reactions can be traced, Abdelal contends, to their individual societies. Some, such as Belarus, found dependence inevitable and sought economic reintegration with Russia. Others, like Lithuania, interpreted dependence as a large-scale security threat and reoriented their economies away from Russia. A third group, typified by Ukraine, demonstrated no coherent economic policy at all regarding dependence. Abdelal distinguishes the Nationalist tradition in international political economy from the Realist tradition, and shows that economic nationalism is different than mercantilism. He demonstrates the ways that national identity affects economic policy and explains why some governments seek economic autonomy while others prefer regional reintegration. He then applies his approach to other cases of economic reorganization after the end of empire-eastern Europe in the 1920's after the Habsburgs, 1950's Indonesia, and French West Africa in the 1960's.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

Language note

English

Contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• Preface
• 1. Nation, State, and Economy
• 2. A Nationalist Perspective on International Political Economy
• 3. Economic Relations among Post-Soviet States
• 4. Lithuania: Toward Europe and the West
• 5. Ukraine: Between East and West
• 6. Belarus: Toward Russia and the East
• 7. Political Economy after Empire
• 8. Conclusions
• Index

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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

Other title(s)

Post-Soviet states in comparative perspective

ISBN

• 1-5017-2039-2
• 0-8014-3879-9

OCLC

• 1080550497
• 1088915516

Doi

• 10.7591/9781501720390

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