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Ukrainian Issues in Geopolitical thought of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Ukrainian lands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have been in proximity of great geopolitical changes several times. During that time the Ukrainian nation – due to various factors – encountered a number of “windows of opportunity” for ...
Reginia-Zacharski, Jacek
core   +3 more sources

Shadows of empire: post-Soviet parastates in Russian foreign policy

open access: yesJournal of Regional Security
The post-Soviet period has seen dramatic political upheaval across Eastern Europe and the Caucuses. The shadow cast by centuries of Russian influence on Eurasia still affects political tensions in the region. Previous studies have examined both Russian foreign policy in the twenty-first century and the implications of parastates on Russia's periphery ...
John Hardy, Ruxandra Vlad
openaire   +2 more sources

The Making of Russian Foreign Policy: Lines of (Dis)continuity in a Process of Affirmation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper looks at the dynamics underlying Russian foreign policy, with the aim of identifying drivers, strategies and goals in a process embedded in complexity.
Freire, Maria Raquel
core   +1 more source

Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
wiley   +1 more source

Turkey's global strategy: Turkey and the Caucasus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Turkey has had long-standing links with the region called the ‘South(ern) Caucasus’, comprised of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, including the de-facto independent entities of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The area was, for a long time,
Oskanian, Kevork
core  

Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Anytime, Anywhere”: Online Language Tutoring Platforms and the Rise of the (Im)Mobile Language Teacher

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how online tutoring platforms (OTPs) have facilitated new forms of (im)mobility—and discourses of (im)mobility—among online English tutors. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with online tutors, the article critically interrogates OTPs' primary selling point: that online tutors can work “anytime, anywhere.” While OTPs ...
Nate Ming Curran
wiley   +1 more source

Trading on Preconceptions: Why World War I Was Not a Failure of Economic Interdependence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
World War I is generally viewed by both advocates and critics of commercial liberal theory as the quintessential example of a failure of economic integration to maintain peace.
Beckett Ian F.W.   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
wiley   +1 more source

FEATURES OF DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY OF THE ENTENTE POWERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

open access: yesВестник Брянского государственного университета, 2022
The article analyzes the prerequisites for the formation of the Palestinian question in the policy of the «great powers» of the period preceding the First World War.
Kolobov O.A.   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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