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Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How can defense alliances reap the efficiency gains of working together when coordination and opportunism costs are high? Although specializing as part of a collective comes with economic and functional benefits, states must bargain over the distribution of those gains and ensure the costs of collective action are minimized.
J. Andrés Gannon
wiley   +1 more source

The reasons of creation of the Eurasian Economic Union: economics or politics?

Studia Humanitatis, 2015
The article considers creation of the Eurasian economic Union. It is shown that Russia is the main provider of integration in the post-Soviet space. The author identifies several reasons for the establishment of the Eurasian economic Union.
Mukhametov Ruslan Salikhovich
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Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities

, 2015
Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book explores the everyday lives of 'lesbian' women in urban Russia. Part I ('time') examines generational differences between women: it shows how the Soviet system shaped understandings and experiences of ...
Stella, Francesca
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The logic of secret alliances

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Alliances are typically understood as agreements intended to deter aggression from enemy states. By signaling an ally's commitment to a protégé state, a shared enemy may be deterred from attacking. In light of this signaling logic, secret alliances are puzzling.
Peter Bils, Bradley C. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Competitive diplomacy in bargaining and war

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract War is often viewed as a bargaining problem. However, prior to bargaining, countries can vie for leverage by expending effort on diplomacy. This article presents a dynamic model of conflict where agenda‐setting power is endogenous to pre‐bargaining diplomatic competition.
Joseph J. Ruggiero
wiley   +1 more source

Hegemony to humanity: reimagining masculinity through Sam Miller's adaptation of <i>A Gentleman in Moscow</i>. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Steve AJ, Preetha R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Alternative empires : Soviet montage cinema, the British documentary movement & colonialism [PDF]

This is a study of Soviet montage cinema and the British documentary movement of the 1930s which brings together two usually divergent methodologies: postcolonial theory and "new" film history.
Stollery, Martin
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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Traditional Islam in Kazakhstan: historical formation, state discourse, and contemporary challenges. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Kerim S, Kurmanaliyev M.
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Cognitive Mapping of Kyiv: from Soviet to Post-Soviet Urban Space

, 2009
Nowadays Kyiv is experiencing transformation from industrial capital of Soviet republic into the center of independent Post-Soviet state. Soviet and Post-Soviet in urban space could be understood not only as two different epochs, but rather as two ...
Хвиль, Анна
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