Shrinking autonomy for Tatarstan and Gagauzia: the perils of flexible institutional design [PDF]
, 2016 No abstract ...
Prina, Federica
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Vernacularizing the Best Interests of the Child: Comparative Insights From Three Legal Systems
Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study investigates how the Best Interests of the Child principle in the UN Children's Rights Convention (Article 3) has been adapted in custody disputes in Egypt, Sweden, and Uzbekistan. Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child offers a common normative benchmark, divergent legal cultures shape its domestic meaning: Egypt is ...
Anna Lundberg +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Reform of mental health services in Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics: progress and challenges since 2005. [PDF]
BJPsych Int, 2019 Muijen M, McCulloch A.
europepmc +1 more source
Editorial: Public health challenges in post-Soviet countries during and beyond COVID-19. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2023 Glushkova N +2 more
europepmc +1 more source
Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
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War as a Phenomenon of Inquiry in Management Studies
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract We argue that war as a phenomenon deserves more focused attention in management. First, we highlight why war is an important and relevant area of inquiry for management scholars. We then integrate scattered conversations on war in management studies into a framework structured around three building blocks – (a) the nature of war from an ...
Fabrice Lumineau, Arne Keller
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When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
wiley +1 more source
Screening for chronic hepatitis B and C in migrants from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, the former Soviet Republics, and Vietnam in the Arnhem region, The Netherlands. [PDF]
Epidemiol Infect, 2014 Richter C +6 more
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Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
wiley +1 more source
TRENDS IN KAZAKHSTAN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE DEMOGRAPHIC DIMENSION
Halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦atynastar ža̋ne halyk̦aralyk̦ k̦u̇k̦yk̦ seriâsì, 2016 The article "Trends in Kazakhstan higher education: the demographic dimension" explores some of the challenges facing the government in the implementation of reforms in the educational system whole.
Steve Green
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