Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations and Tables
Introduction
1 An ‘Experiment in International Administration’
2 Expert Mobilisation and the Study of International Rivers
3 The Commission and Europe’s Nascent Security Cooperation
4 On Institutional Visibility, Corporate Branding and Expert
Exposure
5 A Brief Historiographical Survey of the Commission
6 Outline of the Book
1 Russophobia, Free Trade and Maritime Insecurity
1 Urquhart, Russophobia and Danube Navigation
2 Grain and Steamship
3 Danubian Hindrances
4 Banditry and Corruption in Russian Sulina
5 ‘Mistrust’, ‘Remonstrances’, ‘Vexations’
6 The Apogee of Russian ‘Neglect’ and the Conspiracy to Close Off
the Danube
7 Conclusions
2 The Danube Question and the Making of Two River Commissions
1 A German View on the Freedom of the Danube
2 The Danube Question
3 Crimean War Diplomacy and the Internationalisation of the
Danube
4 Austria’s Struggle for ‘Special and Exclusive Advantages’
5 The Right of Non-Riparian Countries to Regulate Danube
Navigation
6 Removing Russia from the Maritime Danube – Territorial Cessions,
Imperial Honour and Revisionism
7 The Riverain Commission and the Making of the 1857 Navigation
Act
8 A Juridical Conflict between 1815 and 1856
9 Riparians vs. Non-Riparians at the 1858 Paris Ambassadorial
Conference
10 Conclusions
3 A Quest for Authority and Autonomy
1 On Dual Institutional Hosting
2 On Appointing Commissioners and the Role of Expertise
3 Early Decision-Making Mechanisms
4 Diverging Views on the Binding Force of the Commission’s
Regulations
5 Migration and Human Insecurity in a Russian-Ottoman
Borderland
6 The Fishermen of Vylkove, Border Disputes and the Commission as
a Conflict Mediator
7 A Tansnational ‘Constitution’ – the 1865 Public Act
8 On the Commission’s Exceptional Character
9 Conclusions
4 ‘Civilising and Disciplining Nature’
1 ‘The Father of the Danube’
2 Post-Crimean War Transnational River Expertise
3 Logistical Challenges in the Periphery
4 Techno-Political Power Play
5 A European Hydraulic Triumph
6 Celebrating a European Monument of Civilisation
7 Hartley’s Professional Prestige
8 Exhibiting Transnational Hydraulic Success
9 Deepening the Sulina Bar
10 Mobile Property and Memory Politics
11 Environmental Challenges in the Danube Delta Area
12 ‘Civilising and Disciplining’ the River
13 Protecting Hydraulic Works in Times of War
14 Techno-Political Intrusions in the ‘Organic Machine’
15 Conclusions
5 On Money, Tolls and Standards
1 A Tour for Collecting Multilateral Financial Guarantees
2 The Sublime Porte’s Financial Advances
3 Perspectives on Financial (In)Security
4 The Making of the Navigation Tariff
5 Standardising the European Tonnage Measurement
6 An International Organisation on the Capital Market
7 Political Turmoil and a Test on the International Bond
Market
8 Towards Collective Financial Security
9 Complete Financial Independence
10 Conclusions
6 Threats, Opportunities and Institutional Survival
1 An Hydraulic Expert
2 Canal vs. Railway vs. River
3 An International Organisation and a National Seaport
4 In Defence of Organisational Reputation
5 Narratives of Institutional Success
6 Opening Up River Tributaries and the Establishment of a Sibling
International Organisation
7 The London Conference (1871) and the Prolongation of the
Commission
8 Gordon’s Disinterest in the Commission
9 Stokes’ Epistemic Communities
10 Conclusions
7 On Transnational Bureaucrats and Rulemaking
1 An Early International Civil Service
2 The Internal Administration of the Commission
3 In Search of Juridical Powers
4 The Modern Organisation of Pilotage
5 Regulating Lighterage Operations
6 Pensions for International Civil Servants
7 Categories of Staff and Their Immunities
8 Appointment and Promotion Procedures
9 Administrative Works In Favour of Navigational Safety
10 A Statistical Perspective on Shipping Security
11 Conclusions
8 The Lower Danube and Romanian Nation-Making
1 An Invitation to Transnational Expert Cooperation
2 ‘A Gift of the Danube’ – Thinking Romania’s Geopolitical
Relevance
3 Southern Bessarabia and the Securitisation of the Maritime
Danube
4 Europe’s Concert and the Danube Question
5 The Berlin Congress as a Security Management Institution
6 ‘In Complete Independence of Territorial Authority’
7 ‘The Freedom of the Danube Is a Key Condition for the Political
and Economic Development of Riparian States’
8 The Fluvial Danube – between Austrian Hydro-Imperialism and
European Multilateralism
9 The 1883 London Danubian Conference – a Story of
Inclusion/Exclusion
10 International Law and the Danube Question
11 Conclusions
9 Europolis – from a Piratical Republic to a Collective Colony
1 Europolis – from Literary to Scholarly Interest
2 Imperial Security-Making and a ‘Piratical Republic under
Austrian Protection’
3 Law and Order in Early Ottoman Sulina
4 On the Beginnings of Peacekeeping Corps – European Warships at
Sulina
5 From Shipping Security to the Making of a Free-Trade Zone
6 Steaming to Profit – Commercial Opportunities at the Lower
Danube in the Post-Crimean War Context
7 On Schleps and Tariffs
8 From Transnational Brigands to European Bureaucrats
9 Urban Transformations – Geological Cosmopolitanism and Modern
Public Services
10 Cholera, Malaria, Typhoid Fever – on the Danube Delta’s Silent
Threats
11 Cosmopolitan Headstones and Their Stories of Insecurity
12 Conclusions
10 Between Experimentalism and Anachronism – the Road to the
Abolishment of the European Commission of the Danube
1 The Limits of Neutrality – the Commission during the First World
War
2 Internationalism and Exceptionalism – the Danube Regime at the
Paris Peace Congress
3 ‘The Most Unbelievable Anachronism’ – Revisionism along the
Lower Danube
4 Between the Nazis and the Soviets – the Commission in the Second
World War
5 ‘The Door Was Open to Come In; the Same Door Is Open to Go Out’
– the Danube under Soviet Hegemony
6 The Danube Commission – Inclusion and Exclusion
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
Constantin Ardeleanu, Ph.D. (2006), ‘Nicolae Iorga’ Institute of History, Bucharest, is Professor of Modern History at the ‘Lower Danube’ University (Galaţi). In previous years he was a Research Fellow at Utrecht University and New Europe College (Bucharest).
"Constantin Ardeleanu goes beyond the study of the Danube to offer
a complementary perspective on international cooperations, as
studied today in history, political science and in the social
sciences generally […] This work prompts reflection on our
present-day debates and controversies around the construction of a
European community’."
Emmanuel Bioteau, in Francia-Recensio, 4 (2021)
“The story of the European Commission of the Danube, set up at the
end of the Crimean War to reopen the mouths of one of Europe’s
longest rivers for maritime commerce, proves an absorbing one in
the hands of Constantin Ardeleanu […] the author makes a convincing
case for regarding the ECD as ‘a Europe in miniature’, a sort of
poster-child for international cooperation and regulation. The book
is clearly and engagingly written, largely free from technocratic
jargon.”
Ian D. Armour, in Slavonic and East European Review
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