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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Овощи России, 2009 Timiryazevka is a familiar and a widely used name of Timiryazev Academy of Agriculture among students, professors and remains a homely place for all university mates ever graduated the academy.
H.G. Dobrutskaya +2 more
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Territorialising Diasporas: The Case of Russians in the Former Soviet Republics [PDF]
Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 1999 Diasporas are usually defined as ethnic groups which lack a territorial base within a given polity. Territoriality, however, is not a given. It is determined not only by such objective factors as geography, demography, and history, but also by perceptions and ideas.
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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INTEGRATION PROCESSES IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE EUROASIAN ECONOMIC UNION)
Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017 In this work authors consider the integration processes in the former Soviet Union which allowed to create the economic and political organizations between the former federal republics.
A. V. Tolochko, D. V. Burdakov
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Foreign and Security Policy of the Newly Independent States: Balancing between Two Power Centers
Plural: History, Culture, Society, 2014 The article is focusing on the interplay between foreign policy agenda of the post-Soviet states at the one hand and internal policy developments in these countries at the other hand. One of the main explanations why the post-Soviet elites in non-Russian
Sergiy G. Fedunyak
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Model władzy w państwach postsowieckich
Politeja, 2016 The Model of Power in the Post-Soviet States The aim of this article is to show the evolution of the model of power in the former Soviet states on the example of Belarus, Azerbaijan and Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan ...
Elżbieta Kużelewska, Adam R. Bartnicki
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