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The Unintended Consequences of German Deterrence
ABSTRACT Germany's evolving deterrence posture boils down to continued participation in NATO nuclear sharing and an ambitious conventional rearmament program. Due to its non‐nuclear status and a result of decades of underinvestment, Germany prioritizes modern conventional weapons.
Ulrich Kühn
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Belarus at a crossroads. Bruegel Policy Contribution Issue 2016/02 January 2016 [PDF]
Highlights: • Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Belarus has maintained a largely non-market economic system. This did not prevent rapid growth of its economy over a sustained period up to 2011.
Dabrowski, Marek
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ABSTRACT As hybrid threats blur the line between war and peace and challenge conventional deterrence logics, states increasingly turn to concepts of resilience, civil preparedness and whole‐of‐society as elements of their security strategies. This raises the question of how civilian agency can be viewed as an element of deterrence and what the ...
Agata Mazurkiewicz, Heljä Ossa
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Dolomedes plantarius (Clerck, 1757) is becoming another iconic species within European conservation programmes. It is commonly accepted that the densest populations of this species are situated in Western Europe and many records confirm this. At the same
Prishepchik, Oleg +5 more
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ABSTRACT Hereditary angioedema (HAE) with C1 inhibitor deficiency is a rare disease characterized by unpredictable episodes of tissue swelling (angioedema), which, in most cases, occur first under the age of 18 years, and entail a significant burden of disease not only for the patients but also for their families.
Henriette Farkas +128 more
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Financing Firm Start-up and Restructuring in Transition Countries: Evidence from Belarus, the Ukraine and Russia [PDF]
Investigates how entrepreneurs in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine finance start-up and restructuring. Data from 600 de novo, privatised or state-owned firms shows the critical importance of the personal funds of the main owner(s), with a limited level of ...
Valentijn Bilsen, Elena Mitina
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The article concerns the activities of the Belarusian independence and democratic opposition, formed after the rigged presidential elections in Belarus in 2020, and Belarusian-Ukrainian relations in the context of Russian aggression. The author discussed
Grzegorz Baziur
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Global Apparel Value Chain in the Post‐MFA Era: Exploring Bangladesh's Competitive Edge
ABSTRACT This study revisits Bangladesh's competitive edge by examining patterns of global apparel trade during the post‐Multi‐Fibre Arrangement (MFA) era using a large bilateral panel of 27 leading apparel exporters trading with 163 destinations with coverage of 90% of the world apparel exports.
Abul Bashar Mohammed Fakhruzzaman
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Guardrail Selection in Line Charts to Contextualize Persuasive Visualizations
Abstract Charts used for persuasion can easily veer into being outright misleading when, for instance, cherry‐picked data is paired with a deceptive caption, as is commonly encountered on social media. The rise of interactive time‐series data explorers for hotly debated topics makes such framing easy to produce and spread.
K. A. Nadib, M. Kogan, A. Lex, M. Lisnic
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The general low efficiency of integration in the post-Soviet space has one obvious exception — the Union State. At the same time, certain problems exist in the Union State.
A. N. Mezhevich, I. P. Sytov
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