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Author Ardeleanu, Constantin, author.

Title The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948 : an experiment in international administration / by Constantin Ardeleanu
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 379 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Series Balkan studies library ; volume 27
Balkan studies library ; v. 27.
Contents Russophobia, Free Trade and Maritime Insecurity -- The Danube Question and the Making of Two River Commissions -- A Quest for Authority and Autonomy -- 'Civilising and Disciplining Nature' -- On Money, Tolls and Standards -- Threats, Opportunities and Institutional Survival -- On Transnational Bureaucrats and Rulemaking -- The Lower Danube and Romanian Nation-Making -- Europolis : from a Piratical Republic to a Collective Colony -- Between Experimentalism and Anachronism : the Road to the Abolishment of the European Commission of the Danube
Summary "In The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948 Constantin Ardeleanu offers a history of the world's second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe's Concert of Powers to remove insecurity from the Lower Danube. Delegates of rival empires worked together to 'correct' a vital European transportation infrastructure, and to complete difficult hydraulic works they gradually transformed the Commission into an actor of regional and international politics. As an autonomous and independent organ, it employed a complex transnational bureaucracy and regulated shipping along the Danube through a comprehensive set of internationally accepted rules and procedures. The Commission is portrayed as an effective experimental organisation, taken as a model for further cooperation in the international system."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Regional & national history
European history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 18, 2021)
Subject Commission européenne du Danube.
SUBJECT Commission européenne du Danube. fast (OCoLC)fst00585262
Europäische Donaukommission gnd
Subject Shipping -- Danube River -- History
Shipping -- Government policy -- Europe -- History
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Regulation of rivers and lakes.
Shipping.
Shipping -- Government policy.
Wasserstraße
Flussregelung
Danube River.
Danube Commission.
Inland shipping.
International watercourses.
Maritime security.
SUBJECT Danube River -- Regulation -- History
Subject Danube River.
Europe.
Donau
Donauländer
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019059236
ISBN 9789004425965
9004425969