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Why the EU is failing in its neighbourhood: the case of Armenia [PDF]
As the Arab Spring has made clear, the EU’s strategic aim of being surrounded by a ring of secure, democratic, and prosperous friends has not yet materialized. While most previous analyses have found fault with inconsistent application of conditionality,
Van Hoof, Lieve
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A Privilege That Can Be Withdrawn: Regulation of Exit in Russia and Other Post‐Soviet Republics
ABSTRACT The former Soviet Union's restrictions on citizens' foreign travel or emigration were notoriously draconian. Yet what replaced them in the fifteen independent states of the post‐Soviet region has not been well analysed. Outside the Baltic republics, the monolithic and prohibitive policies of the Soviet past have given way to a patchwork of ...
Matthew Light, Leonid Kosals
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Spillovers from the Arab Revolts: is Armenia next in line? [PDF]
Regime changes through taking to the streets do not always progress peacefully and produce intended results. The recent successful revolutions that have brought down two North African dictators have also inspired reform advocates in the EU’s Eastern ...
Kostanyan, Hrant
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Geopolitical Uses of Organised Forced Migration
ABSTRACT State use of organised forced migration has played a central role in geopolitics and foreign policy. In this piece, we draw attention to its prevalence, including its widespread use as a tool in contemporary migration management policies. In order to effectively tackle questions of forced migration, it is necessary to first recognise that it ...
Fiona B. Adamson, Kelly M. Greenhill
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Abstract This article interrogates the EU's ‘geopolitical turn’ by examining its external engagement in Armenia after the 2020 Nagorno‐Karabakh war and in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Drawing on feminist approaches to geopolitics and post‐socialist coloniality, it asks whose security is served by a ‘geopolitical’ EU in Armenia and how ...
Laura Luciani
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More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran
ABSTRACT This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in
Ehsan Kashfi
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Russia’s influence on the conflict dynamics in Nagorno Karabakh
Frozen conflict in Nagorno Karabakh has been representing a threat to the regional stability for the last two decades. Sudden escalation of violence in 2016, known as Four-Day War, spurred new discussions on factors influencing the territorial dispute ...
Pavlína Bláhová
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Abstract The Nazi regime's aggressive expansion across Europe during WWII created a landscape of suffering, resistance, and collaboration. How do lay Europeans today reconstruct their ingroup's roles during Nazi occupation, and how do different role representations relate to defensive responses aimed at protecting the ingroup from threat? We tested two
Fiona Kazarovytska +2 more
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Turkey's global strategy: Turkey and the Caucasus [PDF]
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
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The ISCIP Analyst, Volume II, Issue 14 [PDF]
This repository item contains a single issue of The ISCIP Analyst, an analytical review journal published from 1996 to 2010 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and ...
Cavan, Susan +8 more
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