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How a 'top-performing' Asian school system formulates and implements policy: The case of Singapore [PDF]
, 2014 This article analyses the paradox inherent in the ‘top-performing’ yet tightly controlled Singapore education system. As government controls have increased in complexity, existing policymaking conceptual heuristics in accounting for centre-periphery ...
Dimmock, C, Tan, CY
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Cyclical Development of Empires - an Application of Krugman’s Theory [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2007 The study of empires’ development has prided itself on great traditions in historical sciences. However, understanding the development courses meets difficulties if the geographical environment is disregarded. In my opinion, with the help of studying the
Viktor Eszterhai
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Livy’s Cato and Commodities at Centre and Periphery
Lexis, 2021 This paper is part of a larger project on how Livy represents the Elder Cato, from his entrance into the text in Book 29 to his last witticism preserved in the summary of Book 50, the longest biographical arc in this first third of Livy’s text.
Jaeger, Mary K.
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Explaining Myanmar's Regime Transition: The Periphery is Central [PDF]
, 2014 In 2010, Myanmar (Burma) held its first elections after 22 years of direct military rule. Few compelling explanations for this regime transition have emerged.
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Cercando l’Europa. “Traduzioni” dell’Italia nella cultura estone di inizio Novecento
Lea, 2017 The beginning of the 20th century was a period of linguistic and literary renewal in Estonia, where Italian literature became a reference point for the young generation of local modernists.
Daniele Monticelli
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Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
Baltic Region, 2023 This paper examines the transformation of the territorial structure of tourism in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The spatial and temporal organisation of tourism in these countries has undergone significant changes since they became independent and ...
Aleksandrova A. Y., Krasavtsev I. V.
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A Sketch on the Balkans as a “Centre of Peripheries”
Zeszyty Cyrylo-MetodiańskieThroughout its history, the Balkan Peninsula has been encompassed within various expansive cultural and historical spheres, as well as state-like political formations.
Raymond Detrez
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Le « centre » et la « périphérie » en question : deux concepts à revoir pour les diasporas
Pallas, 2012 This paper intends to reexamine two highly debatable notions in the current historiographical field. It would be interesting to question their pertinence for a world defined by a massive spreading in the Mediterranean and by abundant movements of ...
Madalina Dana
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Rétrospective sur la voix de la rue au Maroc : Tout ne change pas pour ne rien changer
L’Année du Maghreb, 2019 In Morocco, the relative liberalisation of the authoritarian regime combined with the management of the “years of lead” have contributed to transforming the modulations of the “voice of the street”, without however “defusing” its disruptive character ...
Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi
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Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2015 The paper looks into the dynamics of the population size of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus after the census of 1989. Regions and cities of these countries were the focus of the research (territorial units level NUTS-3).
Karachurina Liliya, Mkrtchyan Nikita
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