recommend new book on old dependence and ISI policy

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                 ANDRE  GUNDER  FRANK

         1601 SW  83rd Avenue, Miami, FL.  33155 USA
      Tel: 1-305-266  0311   Fax:  1-305  266 0799
                E-Mail :  franka@fiu.edu
   Web/Home Page:  http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/agfrank
    




ETATISM & DIPLOMACY IN TURKEY ... 1929-1939 
by Dilek Barlas, Brill 1998

shows in detail how econ, pol, diplomatic turn of Turkey 
to statism, import substitution, industralization, exchange/foreign trade
controls, diplomacy were direct result of 1929 and world econ depression 
crisis that severly cut into export earnings.

Chapter 1 also reviews how the same policy reaction occured in/for each of
Hungary, Poland [with some variation] Jugoslavia, Romania,Bulgaria,
Greece, Iran, individally and in Balkan concert.

Evokes Manoiliescu, not only as theorist but also as Cabinet Minster in
Romania, and his theory/policy also as objectively and for him
subjectively the direct result of the world and Balkan econ crisis. 

Turkish in depth review is of econ relations and policy, politics,
diplomacy, and ideologists of the same who, whatever the political
differences among them, all agreed that Turkey was a dependent raw
materials exporter exploited by unequal exchange in a
metropolitan/[neo]colonial structured world market dominated
by the industrial countries. 

Hence when after 1929, commodities exports and earnings
fell and foreign exchange crisis erupted [also due to sudden clampdown on
credit availabity after US action], all of these countries individually
and in concert[and attempts at a common market that failed since all
exported the same things] turned to state led import substitution
industrailization, and foreing exchange/trade controls. 

Unfortunately for them, their state natiomalist
policies also used German barter agreements [ to avoid payment in
scarce/non-existen foreign exchange] at the same time that Germany was
pushing  the same to assure itself of commodities supplies and export
markets for its industry and war machine, so that the
Balkans,Turkey,Iran anti-world market  dependence policies made them
increasingly dependent on Germany.

Nonetheless, this very good book is a clear demonstration of how
ideology and policy follow changing econ pol circumstances and that
the Balkans did the same - only much more self-consicously, as the ISI
Latin American countries, and that the Balkan/Turk prewar ideology/theory
long foreshadowed Latam postwar structuralism and dependence theories.

 p.s I met the author in Istanbul where she gave me her book.
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                 ANDRE  GUNDER  FRANK

         1601 SW  83rd Avenue, Miami, FL.  33155 USA
      Tel: 1-305-266  0311   Fax:  1-305  266 0799
                E-Mail :  franka@fiu.edu
   Web/Home Page:  http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/agfrank