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ABSTRACT This paper argues that the growing space for industrial policies, at least in its present form and shape, is unlikely to promote sustainable development in most Global South countries, especially in the smaller economies. This claim builds on those who have thought about structural transformations for and from the Global South throughout ...
Nicolás M. Perrone
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Regime change in the Aegean after the Second World War: Reconsidering the foreign influence [PDF]
According to the conventional view held by the Greek sources, the United States was involved in the establishment of the 1967 Greek junta and helped sustain it. Similarly, the existing literature on the 1950 Turkish transition to democracy holds that one
Gursoy, Yaprak, Gürsoy, Yaprak
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China's Strategic Approach to Tech Diplomacy in a Time of Global Uncertainty
ABSTRACT In the wake of U.S.‐China technological competition and the COVID‐19 pandemic, “tech diplomacy” has gained prominence in Chinese political and academic discourse. This concept is often ideologically framed to critique Western hegemonic narratives perceived as hindering China's technological advancement.
Zhao Alexandre Huang, Xiang Meng
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Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition? [PDF]
How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and ...
Golinelli, Roberto, Rovelli, Riccardo
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The communist press as an important element in the atheist propaganda in the Albanian totalitarian regime 1960 – 1970 [PDF]
In the Albanian totalitarian regime, the communist press played an outstanding role throughout the regime, from 1945 to 1990. The only purpose of the Albanian media would be assisting the totalitarian state.
Paja, Sokol
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ABSTRACT Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies.
Enea Fiore +2 more
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Russia: Political and Institutional Determinants of Economic Reforms [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to analyze the course, determinants and political economy of economic reforms in Russia conducted in the period 1985-2003. The year 1985 can be considered an important turning point in Soviet/Russian history, marked as it was
Aleksey Shapovalov +6 more
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Social Policies and Structures: Institutional Frictions and Traps in the Czech Republic After 1989 [PDF]
This paper compares the standard economic and a complementary socio-economic approach to the transition. While the economic approach looks at social problems from the outside and views them as costs of transition, the socio-economic approach looks at ...
Vecernik, Jiri
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Unpacking China's Digital Ascent in the Global South: The Case of Huawei in North Africa
ABSTRACT Despite frequent concerns in Western policy and media circles about the risks of using Chinese telecommunications suppliers, firms like Huawei have encountered little resistance from governments or citizens in the Global South. Empirical research explaining this acceptance remains limited.
Tin Hinane El Kadi
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Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
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