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TROPICAL FRENCH THEORY: Henri Lefebvre and the Reinvention of Urban Planning in Havana, Cuba (1968–1971)

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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La Russie de Vladimir Poutine et l’intégration économique de l’espace post-soviétique

Études Arméniennes Contemporaines, 2013
This article analyses Russian policy towards former Soviet republics. Having gained independence in 1991, they have been pursuing stronger ties and cooperation with western international organizations, such as NATO and the European Union.
Lilit Vardanyan
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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In the shadow of Moscow: the Stalinist reconstruction of the capitals of the Soviet republics

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2015
Looking through the prism of USSR national policy the article analyzes the reconstruction of Stalinist cities. The study is based on the visual analysis of the city landscapes of the capitals of 12 of 15 former Soviet republics. Focusing attention on the
Rasa Čepaitienė
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What might the Soviet Union learn from the OECD countries in economics and politics ? An article from 1991 with some comments from 2005 [PDF]

When cleaning up my archives I came across a short article of April 1991 co-authored with Jan Tinbergen, on what the Soviet Union might learn from OECD countries in economics and politics.
Jan Tinbergen, Thomas Colignatus, Thomas Cool   +2 more
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Elite opinion and foreign policy in post-communist Russia [PDF]

, 2007
Russian elite opinion on matters of foreign policy may be classified as ‘Liberal Westerniser’, ‘Pragmatic Nationalist’ and ‘Fundamentalist Nationalist’, terms that reflect longstanding debates about the country’s relationship with the outside world.
Allison R., Almond G. A., Arbatov A., Arbatova N., Baker P., Batchikov S., Belkovsky S., Chubais A., Chubar'yan A., Delyagin M., Delyagin M., Dugin A., Dugin A., Dugin A., Dugin A., Dugin A., Dugin A., Dugin A., Dzyaloshinsky I., Frolov V., Glaz'ev S., Gorbachev M., Holsti O. R., Illarionov S. I., Inozemtsev V., Inozemtsev V., Inozemtsev V., Ishchuk A., Karaganov S., Karaganov S., Karaganov S., Karaganov S., Karaganov S., Kosachev K., Kosachev K., Kosachev K., Kosachev K., Kosachev K., Kosachev K., Krivitsky Y., Krivitsky Y., Kugushev S., Kvitsinsky Y., Kvitsinsky Y., Kvitsinsky Y., Light M., Luzhkov Y., Margelov M., Margelov M., Margelov M., Medvedeva I. Y., Migranyan A., Migranyan A., Miller W. L., Narochnitskaya N., Orlov B., Orlov D., Oznobishchev S., Polyannikov T., Primakov Y., Putin V., Rogozin D., Ryabov A., Schneider E., Sergunin A. A., Shevtsova L., Stephen White, Trenin D., Trenin D., Trenin D., Trenin D., Voronov K., Zyuganov G., Zyuganov G., Zyuganov G.   +74 more
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Evolving Geopolitics and Japan's Economic Security–Trade Nexus: ‘New Capitalism’ as a Balancing Act?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid intensifying geopolitical tensions, governments increasingly perceive economic interdependence as a strategic vulnerability. Japan, situated geopolitically between two great powers—the United States and China—attempts to navigate geopolitics by prioritising economic security.
Minako Morita‐Jaeger
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The Soviet city and the ‘other cultural’ heritage

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Little is known about the relationship between ‘ours’ and the ‘other’ in Soviet architecture. Attitudes to heritage in the Kaliningrad region and in the former Central Asian republics, despite their dissimilarity, have much in common.
Юлия Косенкова
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The Economies in the Black Sea Region: How Did They Fare after the Collapse of the Soviet Union? [PDF]

This paper analyzes the economic developments in countries bordering the Black Sea. Of the three former soviet republics bordering the Black Sea, Georgia showed the best economic per-formance, in particular in the late 1990s.
van der Hoek, M. Peter
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