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History, EarlyView.Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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Towards a fragmented neighbourhood: policies of the EU and Russia and their consequences for the area that lies in between [PDF]
, 2014 In the current volatile climate, the EU needs a strategy towards Russia that goes beyond sanctions. In reviewing the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership, the EU’s incoming leadership should be more sensitive towards the existing ...
Delcour, Laure, Kostanyan, Hrant
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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Russia’s Turn to the East: Prospects for Cooperation with Greater Eurasian Countries
Евразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политикаAim and tasks. The study is aimed at studying the prospects of the Asian vector of Russia’s foreign policy in the context of the implementation of the “Turn to the East” policy.
A. V. Nikolaenko, E. N. Kurkina
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In a context of unprecedented urbanization, nineteenth‐century European cities faced the ‘housing question’, i.e. precarious housing standards and affordability problems. While existing research has well described these historical housing problems in single‐city studies or in national urbanization histories, to our knowledge, there are hardly ...
Sebastian Kohl +2 more
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New Geo-Political Perspectives in Eastern Asia, Two Decades After the Fall of the USSR
Sfera Politicii, 2012 By the end of the 20th Century, after the dissolution of the former communist block and the end of the bipolar world, Russian Federation as the successor of the former Soviet Union had to face the new multi-polar world and its challenges. With a weakened
Attila Iakob, Raluca-Maria Nicoară
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Privatisation and restructuring of water supply in Russia and Ukraine [PDF]
, 2005 Examines the problems and policy issues in the water sector on Russia and Ukraine, the experiences with privatisation and reform so far, the activities of international institutions, and of multinational and Russian companies in the water ...
Hall, David, Popov, Vladimir
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Census data are foundational to democracy, research and equitable urban policy. In addition to supporting political reapportionment and redistricting, census data serve as the backbone of the federal statistical data system and are often considered the highest quality data—the ‘gold standard'—for scholarly and policy research.
Jason R. Jurjevich
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Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
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