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When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
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Russia's Wartime Economy: Measuring Regional Inequalities From Outer Space
Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study Russia's February 2022 full‐scale invasion of Ukraine as a natural experiment to determine how sudden disruptions to international market access reshape sub‐national economic inequalities. Using remotely‐sensed nighttime lights as a proxy for economic activity, we estimate the economic effects of the war at the national and regional ...
Irakli Barbakadze +3 more
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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
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Tonogenesis and tone renewal in Baltic and Slavic languages
DiachronicaAbstract This article discusses the rise of new tones in Baltic and Slavic languages. It draws attention to the underlying mechanisms in the rise of these new tones and adduces typological parallels for some of the sound changes involved.
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Localizing AI: Evaluating Open-Weight Language Models for Languages of Baltic States
CoRRAlthough large language models (LLMs) have transformed our expectations of modern language technologies, concerns over data privacy often restrict the use of commercially available LLMs hosted outside of EU jurisdictions. This limits their application in governmental, defence, and other data-sensitive sectors.
Bergmanis, Toms +2 more
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
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Making Boundaries: Polish Memory, Identity and the Ukrainian Other
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Political elites use historical references abundantly when drawing national boundaries. Despite the prominence of such language, we know little about the ways in which ordinary citizens internalise historical narratives of the Other to construct their national identity.
Félix Krawatzek
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Hypnodontopsis confertus comb. nov. from Baltic amber [PDF]
, 2001 The first record of a sporophyte of Muscites confertus Goeppert & Berendt described as fossil species from Baltic amber revealed that this species can be attributed to the genus Hypnodontopsis. It is very similar to the extant H. mexicana known from only
Frahm, Jan-Peter
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