New Book: Sovereign Debt and International Financial Control. The Middle East and the Balkans, 1870-1914

Capture d’écran 2015-10-26 à 17.44.25Ali Coşkun Tunçer, member of the World of Debts project, has just published a book on the history of sovereign debt in the Middle East and the Balkans. This book focuses on the dynamics of debt accumulation and the experience of defaults in the Ottoman Empire (1875), Egypt (1876), Greece (1893) and Serbia (1895). A.C. Tunçer highlights the international mechanisms of debt governance, by studying instruments of international financial control over these countries and their political impact.

Ali Coşkun Tunçer, membre du projet World of Debts, vient de publier un ouvrage sur l’histoire des dettes souveraines au Moyen-Orient et dans les Balkans. Son livre étudie les dynamiques de l’endettement et les expériences de banqueroute publique dans l’Empire ottoman (1875), en Egypte (1876), en Grèce (1893) et en Serbie (1895). A.C. Tunçer s’intéresse aux mécanismes internationaux de gouvernance de la dette et décrit en particulier les instruments du contrôle financier international sur ces Etats, ainsi que leur impact politique.

http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/Sovereign-Debt-and-International-Financial-Control/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137378538

Recent publications

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Kristy Ironside, “Rubles for Victory. The Social Dynamics of State Fundraising on the Soviet Home Front”, Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 15-4, 2014 : http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/kritika/v015/15.4.ironside.html

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