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Going Global [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
[Excerpt] What power can counter the growing strength of MNCs and the forces of globalization? National governments have an important role to play, singly and together, as do international institutions of regulation such as the European Commission, the ...
Gordon, Michael E, Turner, Lowell
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Strangers on the ladder of the party‐state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 273-288, March 2026.
Abstract As the ruling party of a party‐state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well‐trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service.
Joseph Lawson
wiley   +1 more source

Succint analysis of the social expenses in Romania

open access: yesEIRP Proceedings, 2009
The satisfaction of social needs, aiming the improvement of life conditions for each person in a given society, defines anaspect of the importance of public expenses.1The amount of public expenses allocated for socio-cultural actions has an essential ...
Luminita Maria Craciun
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The Long-Run Relationship Between Commerce And Sustainable Development In Baltic And Central And Eastern European Countries [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper investigates the long-run relationship between commerce intensity and a measure of sustainable development for ten ex-communist countries that have recently joined the EU.
Basarab Gogoneaţă
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Churchill and Germany: A ‘Special’ Relationship

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 237-254, March 2026.
Abstract No other country defined the trajectory of Churchill's political career more than Germany, a country of which he had little direct knowledge but which he either sought to emulate, accommodate or oppose throughout his time in politics. This article traces Churchill's relationship with Germany from his entry into politics at the beginning of the
T. G. Otte
wiley   +1 more source

‘Three Circles’: Winston Churchill's Approach to International Relations

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 155-167, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article introduces a special issue that explores Winston Churchill's relationship with different countries. As its starting point, this piece takes Churchill's world view that Britain derived her status from its position at the focal point of three intersecting circles: Europe, the British Empire and the wider English‐speaking world ...
ALLEN PACKWOOD   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Migration as an Element of Young People’s Life Strategies

open access: yesSociologie Românească, 2017
In this article our main interest is oriented toward the question of the extent to which immigration is an element of life strategies of the young generation in Europe that formerly experienced communism.
Jaroslaw Domalewski
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Foreign banks in Bulgaria, 1875-2002 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
We use the analogy of ecological succession as our conceptual framework. We apply this analogy to the history of foreign banks in Bulgaria and argue that the current predominance of foreign banks is unlikely to be permanent, even without government ...
Koford, Kenneth, Tschoegl, Adrian E.
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Linkages between Political and Economic Reforms in Post-Communist Countries [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyses the interaction between the political and economic reforms undertaken in post-communist countries since the early 1990s. The empirical investigation uses panel data from 27 transition countries for the period 1991 to 2005 ...
Karsten Staehr
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Religion in Eastern Europe After the Fall of Communism: From Euphoria to Anxiety

open access: yes, 2020
In the decades prior to the implosion of the communist system, change could be discerned here and there in Eastern Europe. The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview of the most pertinent developments that spurred the transition from ...
Mojzes, Paul B
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