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Digital Inequalities in European Post-Soviet States

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter observes developments in the complicated area of European post-Soviet states since the dismantling of the Soviet Union and the advent of the World Wide Web in relation to digital inequalities, so as to establish a framework of comparison for
Glenn W. Muschert   +5 more
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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

The EU’s Eastern Partnership: Normative or Geopolitical Power Projection? [PDF]

open access: yesEastern Journal of European Studies, 2016
This paper examines the European Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) initiative through the lens of theoretical debate between constructivist and rationalist approaches with a specific focus on the normative and geopolitical dimensions of the EU’s power ...
Kamala VALIYEVA
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Pensions and social protection in central Asia and south Caucasus: developments in the post-Soviet era

open access: yes, 2010
At independence all the countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) inherited a extensive system of social welfare, including a comprehensive pay-as-you-go pension system characterised by low retirement ages, relatively generous opportunities for early ...
Falkingham, Jane, Vlachantoni, Athina
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Post-Soviet Central Asia [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
"Post-Soviet Central Asia" from the International Institute for Asian Studies is a scholarly work that examines the political, economic, and social transformations in Central Asia following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

open access: yesThe 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)
wiley   +1 more source

Spousal separation, selectivity and contextual effects: exploring the relationship between international labour migration and fertility in post-Soviet Tajikistan [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on the impact of temporary migration on fertility in origin areas. It examines the case of male labour migration from post-Soviet Tajikistan, a significant and relatively recent phenomenon.
David Clifford
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Soviet and Post-Soviet Area Studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The essay traces the origins and development of Soviet area studies from their inception in the early 1940s to the present. The first part examines the institutional framework and the funding sources for Soviet and post-Soviet area studies.
Breslauer, George W.   +1 more
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Multilateral cooperation in the Post-Soviet space

open access: yes, 2023
openIn the thesis, I am exploring the multilateral and bilateral cooperation between the Post-Soviet countries starting from the collapse until the present day.
YDYRYSOVA, AEMILIA
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Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
wiley   +1 more source

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