Philipp Ther, “Europe since 1989: A History”
European University Institute, Florence
Tuesday 04 October 2016
18:00 to 20:00
Europe since 1989: A History
Sala del Torrino , Villa Salviati
Philipp Ther—a firsthand witness to many of the transformations, from Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution to postcommunist Poland and Ukraine—offers a sweeping narrative filled with vivid details and memorable stories. He describes how liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had catastrophic effects on former Soviet Bloc countries. He refutes the idea that this economic “shock therapy” was the basis of later growth, arguing that human capital and the “transformation from below” determined economic success or failure. Most important, he shows how the capitalist West’s effort to reshape Eastern Europe in its own likeness ended up reshaping Western Europe as well, in part by accelerating the pace and scope of neoliberal reforms in the West, particularly in reunified Germany. Finally, bringing the story up to the present, Ther compares events in Eastern and Southern Europe leading up to and following the 2008–9 global financial crisis.
Philipp Ther is professor of Central European history at the University of Vienna. From 2007 to 2010 he was professor of Comparative and Transnational History at the EUI. His books include The Dark Side of Nation-States: Ethnic Cleansing in Modern Europe and Center Stage: Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe.
Commentators: Vera Scepanovic (EUI, Max Weber Fellow), Federico Romero (EUI), Pavel Kolár (EUI)
Chair: Dorothee Bohle (SPS)
Location:
Sala del Torrino , Villa Salviati
Affiliation:
Department of History and Civilization,Department of Political and Social Sciences
Type:
Lecture
Discussant:
Vera Scepanovic – EUI – Max Weber Postdoctoral Programme
Professor Pavel Kolar – EUI
Federico Romero – EUI – HEC
Organiser:
Pieter Judson – EUI – Department of History and Civilization
Prof. Dorothee Bohle – Central European University
Professor Pavel Kolar – EUI
Speaker:
Prof. Philipp Ther – University of Vienna
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Das 2014 bei Suhrkamp publizierte Buch von Philipp Ther “Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent. Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa” ist nun auch in Polen erschienen.
Philipp Ther
Nowy ład na starym kontinencie. Historia neoliberalnej Europy
Die polnische Version wird vom Kurhaus-Verlag in Warschau verlegt.
2015.
Philipp Ther
Nový pořádek na starém kontinentě
Příběh neoliberální Evropy
Prag 2016.
Europe since 1989:
A History
Philipp Ther
Translated by Charlotte Hughes-Kreutzmüller
2016
http://iog.univie.ac.at/publikationen/neuerscheinungen/
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10812.html
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Usp. dosadašnje obavijesti na portalu Historiografija.hr:
— Historiografija.hr, 21.03.2015, Die Gewinner des Preises der Leipziger Buchmesse 2015 – Philipp Ther: “Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent. Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa”
http://historiografija.hr/news.php?id=1646
—- Historiografija.hr, 28.02.2015, The talk and roundtable discussion on the book “The New Order on the Old Continent. A History of Neoliberal Europe since the 1980s”
http://historiografija.hr/news.php?id=1560
—- Historiografija.hr, 25.11.2014, Buchpräsentation, „Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent“
http://historiografija.hr/news.php?id=1250