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Area, EarlyView.Abstract This paper develops a historical and political geographical analysis of the UK Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD). Empirically it is grounded in archival study of IRD files concerning operations in Ghana and South Africa during the Cold War and specifically the 1960s and 1970s.
Ben Gowland
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Color Revolutions: Export of the Post-Soviet Space
Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017 The new phenomenon of the beginning of XXI century in the political transformations became the «color revolutions» that have a significant force in the fight against the enemy and geopolitical engendered under the pretext of spreading the ideas of ...
O. E. Grishin, E. M. Samsonova
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Computers and chess masters: The role of AI in transforming elite human performance
British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have made significant strides in recent years, often supplementing rather than replacing human performance. The extent of their assistance at the highest levels of human performance remains unclear. We analyse over 11.6 million decisions of elite chess players, a domain commonly used as a testbed for AI
Merim Bilalić, Mario Graf, Nemanja Vaci
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GUAM as a Project of Alternative Integration in the Post-Soviet Spac
Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2014 The article deals with GUAM as an example of alternative integration in the post-Soviet space. The author reveals the goals and objectives of this international organization. The paper states that GUAM was formed as an economic and political organization,
G G Machavariani
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The Weakness of Post-Communist Civil Society Reassessed. CES Papers - Open Forum #11, 2012 [PDF]
, 2012 During the last two decades, scholars from a variety of disciplines have argued that civil society is structurally deficient in post-communist countries.
Ekiert, Grzegorz, Foa, Roberto
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Sinophobia in the Post-Soviet Space
Russia in Global Affairs, 2020 Yuri V. Kulintsev +3 more
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Managing Ambiguous Amphibians: Feral Cows, People, and Place in Ukraine’s Danube Delta [PDF]
, 2018 This paper analyzes how a herd of feral cattle emerged in the core zone of Ukraine’s Danube Biosphere Reserve and why it still exists despite numerous challenges to the legality of its presence there.
Richardson, Tanya
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Long‐lasting health effects of Soviet education
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract Education systems serve various purposes, including the enhancement of later‐life health, though effects can differ by sociopolitical regime. This paper examines the effect of communist education, which exposed children to a distinct curriculum and ideological content, on later‐life health.
Joan Costa‐Font, Anna Nicińska
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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference‐in‐differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who did and did not grow up in religious households ...
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
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Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi +1 more
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