Ruxit Revisited: Unravelling Russia's Dissociation From the Pan‐European Security Order
ABSTRACT Russia's first invasion of Ukraine in 2014 marked the culmination of Russia's dissociation from the project of institutionalised pan‐European security and from the global liberal order more generally. While not denying the relevance of studying the causes of Russia's attacks on Ukraine, this study focuses on Russia's progressing dissociation ...
Mikhail Polianskii
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Armenia is becoming an important test-case for relations between the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union [PDF]
Armenia is one of the four members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), which was formally established at the beginning of 2015. Laure Delcour and Kataryna Wolczuk write that pressure from Russia following Armenia’s growing engagement with the EU left ...
Delcour, Laure, Wolczuc, Kataryna
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The Development of Japan's Indo‐Pacific Strategy: Security Concerns and Instrumental Principles
ABSTRACT The Free and Open Indo‐Pacific (FOIP) has served as Japan's central diplomatic vision since its launch in 2016. This paper examines how and why Japan's FOIP has evolved in response to changing strategic environments since its inception. This paper addresses this question by examining the three versions of FOIP and analyzing the evolving ...
Hidetaka Yoshimatsu
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Towards a Eurasian economic Union: the challenge of integration and unity [PDF]
otherwise – without the prior permission of ...
Blockmans, Steven+2 more
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Putin's and Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union: A hybrid half-economics and half-political "Janus Bifrons" [PDF]
The Eurasian Economic Union is an institution formalized in January 2015 for the purpose of regional economic integration; it includes five countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, and Kyrgyzstan, and may include Mongolia and Tajikistan in the ...
Bruno S. Sergi
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Marriage has long been a legacy of overseas deployment for Australian servicemen. In the case of the war in Vietnam, Australian men often interacted with local women on base, in civilian spaces, or in passing. Occasionally, couples would form private relationships and, in some cases, marry and return to Australia at the end of deployment.
Anna Wilkinson
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The UN European economic commission in the context of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development goals [PDF]
The author studies the role and principal activities of the UNECE in the field of realization of the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development Goals. Attention is drawn to the fact that the UNECE contributes a lot in the context of the 2030 agenda to ...
Igor Shcherbak
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Playing the sycophant card: The logic and consequences of professing loyalty to the autocrat
Abstract Despite the centrality of the loyalty–competence framework in research on authoritarian politics, scholars have only focused on material aspects of what elites do in their service to the dictator. Yet nonmaterial aspects such as sycophantically praising the autocrat in speech—a common, everyday practice under authoritarianism, have been ...
Alexander Baturo+2 more
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Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?
Abstract Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption? Such campaigns use messaging about how people typically behave (descriptive norms) or ought to behave (injunctive norms). Drawing on survey and lab experiments in Ukraine, we unpack and evaluate the distinct effects of these two types of social norms.
Aaron Erlich, Jordan Gans‐Morse
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