The studies in this exceptional volume explore the challenges and opportunities presented by globalization events prior to 1950, and identify how countries around the Mediterranean responded to them. In addition to comparative assessments of regional performance, the volume offers detailed case studies of Spain, Italy, the Balkans, Turkey, Israel and Egypt.
Şevket Pamuk, born in 1950, is an internationally recognized professor of economics and economic history. Pamuk is also the older brother of Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk.