The financial history of the Anatolian and Baghdad railways, 1889–1914

Barth, Boris; Whitehouse, J. C.

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“…The Baghdad Railway was the most prized victory, especially considering that Deutsche Bank almost sold it to the Russians 2 years ago as it saw no hope for it (Barth and Whitehouse, 1998: 122). Along with it, Germany received two other assets: a telegraph cable from Berlin to Istanbul (BOA, Y.A.HUS.390/88, 01.11.1898) and a new port in Istanbul, the Haydarpasa quays, which Britain and France had strenuously opposed (O’Conor to Salisbury, 08.02.1899).…”

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Bad influence: social networks, elite brokerage, and the construction of alliances

Sazak

2020

European Journal of International Relations

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If all states want to survive, why do some of them enter unpropitious alliances? International Relations (IR) theory’s conventional answer is that imperfect information and systemic complexity result in miscalculation. This explanation begs the question: any alliance that fails is a miscalculated one, so the puzzle is not whether but why such mistakes are made. This article imports from recent scholarship on network theory and interpersonal trust to offer an alternative explanation. Alliances are not entities ethereally formed out of strategic imperatives, but products of interactions within transnational social networks of political, military, and business elites in the prospective allies. Such interactions enable alliances because people who are connected to each other through mutual association or previous exchanges develop mutual trust and gain subjective certainty about each other’s intentions and capabilities, which points at a previously ignored mechanism in alliance behavior: brokerage. In a case study that combines theory-based archival research and social network analysis, this article uses historical evidence on the Turco-German alliance to empirically demonstrate the brokerage role Colmar von der Goltz, the head of the German military mission to the Ottoman Empire, played in the two countries’ relations at the turn of the century and their eventual alliance in the First World War. The analysis points at a potential means of bridging IR, history, and sociology while expanding our understanding of alliance behavior and providing policy-relevant insights on geo-economic competition and the weaponization of interdependence at a time of growing strategic rivalry on the world stage.

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Bad influence: social networks, elite brokerage, and the construction of alliances

Sazak

2020

European Journal of International Relations

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Capitals of Capital

Cassis

Collier²

2006

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International financial centres have come to represent a major economic stake. Yet no historical study has been devoted to them. Professor Cassis, a leading financial historian, attempts to fill this gap by providing a comparative history of the most important centres that constitute the capitals of capital - New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore - from the beginning of the industrial age up to the present. The book has been conceived as a reflection on the dynamics of the rise and decline of international financial centres, setting them in their economic, political, social, and cultural context. While rooted in a strong and lively historical narrative, it draws on the concepts of financial economics in its analysis of events. It should widely appeal to business and finance professionals as well as to scholars and students in financial and economic history.

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Organizational Innovation in Nineteenth-Century Railway Investment: Peripheral Countries in a Global Economy

Silva¹

2014

Bus. Hist. Rev.

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The relationship between ownership and control of distant ventures has been a major topic in business history. This relationship prompted the creation of a specific organizational form, the freestanding company, particularly active in international business before World War I. The freestanding form and railway companies such as Companhia Real share the common characteristic of being stand-alone firms based on foreign direct investment (FDI), but their legal ownership and management strategy were different. The freestanding companies offshored legal ownership; Companhia Real offshored top management since it was incorporated in the country hosting FDI. This business configuration was usual in French investments across European peripheral countries. This article introduces a new concept into the current international business literature, emphasizing the polymorphous character of foreign investment before World War I.

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The financial history of the Anatolian and Baghdad railways, 1889–1914

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Bad influence: social networks, elite brokerage, and the construction of alliances

Bad influence: social networks, elite brokerage, and the construction of alliances

Capitals of Capital

Organizational Innovation in Nineteenth-Century Railway Investment: Peripheral Countries in a Global Economy

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