TY - BOOK ID - 85702475 TI - The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948 : an experiment in international administration PY - 2020 SN - 9004425969 9004412530 PB - Brill DB - UniCat KW - Shipping KW - Marine shipping KW - Marine transportation KW - Maritime shipping KW - Ocean KW - Ocean traffic KW - Ocean transportation KW - Sea transportation KW - Shipping industry KW - Water transportation KW - Communication and traffic KW - Marine service KW - Transportation KW - Merchant marine KW - Government policy KW - History. KW - Economic aspects KW - Regional & national history KW - European history KW - Commission européenne du Danube. KW - Danube River KW - Regulation KW - Commission européenne du Danube, Galați, 1856 KW - -Comisia Europeană a Dunării KW - C.E.D. (Commission européenne du Danube) KW - CED (Commission européenne du Danube) KW - Tuna Avrupa Komisyonu KW - European Commission of the Danube KW - Danubius River KW - Donau River KW - Duna River (Germany-Romania) KW - Dunai River KW - Dunaj River KW - Dunărea River KW - Dunav River UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85702475 AB - 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. ER -