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Alliance-building between great power commitment and misperceptions: failed balancing despite alignment efforts in the post-Soviet space

The Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2022
This paper focuses upon alignment behaviour in the post-Soviet space and seeks to explain why balancing Russia by certain post-Soviet states, despite their numerous efforts to form alliances, has failed.
Kavus Abushov
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Historical Stories of Modern Memorial Wars in the Post-Soviet Space

Tempus et Memoria, 2021
The author analyzes the process of the collapse of a single system of historical images that developed during the Soviet period and the reasons for the increase in memorial wars in the Post-Soviet space. It is concluded that historical stories and images
A. Kompleev
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Russia’s policy in the “frozen conflicts” of the post-Soviet space: from ethno-politics to geopolitics

, 2020
The article analyzes the evolution of Russia’s policy in secessionist conflicts in the post-Soviet space in 1991–2018. The authors differentiate the patterns of Russian policy between the “first” and “second” generation of frozen conflicts.
A. Kazantsev, P. Rutland, S. Medvedeva, I. Safranchuk   +3 more
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Is academic freedom feasible in the post-Soviet space of higher education?

, 2020
The legacy of totalitarianism thwarts discourse and practice of academic freedom in post-Soviet universities. For legacy-holders, “academic freedom” causes disorientation, irresponsibility, demoralization and inequity. They see more threats than benefits
A. Oleksiyenko
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The Stability of the Global Wheat Trade in the Post-Soviet Space: A Trade Duration Approach

German Journal of Agricultural Economics
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Iron Wall as well as the emergence of Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and Romania as major actors on international grain markets since 2000 had increased the hope for a more stable international grain market. However,
Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani, T. Glauben, L. Götz, M. Svanidze, S. Prehn   +4 more
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Authoritarian legal harmonization in the post-Soviet space

Democratization, 2020
Faced with common threats to their regimes from independent civil society, organized opposition groups and protest movements, authoritarian governments in the former Soviet Union have learned from one another and adopted similar policies to consolidate ...
Edward Lemon, O. Antonov
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The End of Russian Hegemony in the Post-Soviet Space? War in Ukraine and Disintegration Processes in Eurasia

European Studies
The article examines the disintegration processes that are a consequence of the collapse of the Russian hegemonic order in the post-Soviet space. Russia’s disagreement with the established system of international order and US hegemony was one of the ...
R. Zaporozhchenko
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Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space

, 2021
As a concept of international law, the right to self-determination is widely renowned for its lack of clarity. Broadly speaking, one can differentiate between a liberal and a nationalist tradition.
Johannes Socher
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Global deinstitutionalisation policy in the post-Soviet space: A comparison of child-welfare reforms in Russia and Kazakhstan

, 2020
This article compares how the global policy of deinstitutionalisation (DI) of child welfare travelled, was translated and institutionalised in two post-Soviet countries – Russia and Kazakhstan.
S. An, Meri Kulmala
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Reorganizing the Neighborhood? Power Shifts and Regional Security Organizations in the Post-Soviet Space and Latin America

, 2020
The article explores how power shifts in world politics and the emergence of regional powers affect regional security governance. We identify the post-Soviet space and Latin America as two regions where a traditional hegemon and Cold War superpower (the ...
Brigitte Weiffen, Andrea Gawrich, Vera Axyonova   +2 more
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