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The Failure of Integration: The CIS and other international organisations in the post-Soviet era, 1991-2006. OSW Study 26/2007 [PDF]
, 2007 Institutional integration processes in the post-Soviet area have ended in failure. It proved impossible to transform the Commonwealth of Independent States into an instrument of real co-operation, even though Russia, which was the most interested in ...
Konończuk, Wojciech
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The effects of the Saakashvili era reforms on informal practices in the Republic of Georgia [PDF]
, 2014 Since the 2003 Rose Revolution, the Georgian government implemented a number of major institutional reforms which have succeeded in modernising Georgia’s state institutions, reducing corruption and ‘formalising’ the public sector.
Aliyev, Huseyn
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Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
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Post-Soviet Islam : An Anthropological Perspective - Introduction [PDF]
, 2006 This is an electronic version of an article published in Rasanayagam, J. (2006). 'Post-Soviet Islam: An Anthropological Perspective - Introduction.' Central Asian Survey 25(3) pp. 219-233.
Rasanayagam, Johan
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Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz +2 more
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The Pubs оf Yerevan аs Spaces оf Post-Soviet Transformation
Banber Erevani Hamalsarani. Sots'iologia, 2020 The article describes a study conducted in Yerevan (Armenia) of pubs as a specific urban space formed in the post-Soviet period. The aim of the study was to identify the codes of the post-Soviet transformation.
Lilit Babayan
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RUSSIA’S POSITION AND ROLE IN THE POST-SOVIET SPACE [PDF]
Prostranstvennaâ Èkonomika, 2011 The potential cooperation among CIS countries in the political and economic spheres is analyzed. The relationship between Russia and the CIS states located in the European, Trans- Caucasian and Central-Asian regions is shown.
Tsvetkov V. A.
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Gender and Meritocracy in Education Discourse: Language Matters [PDF]
, 2013 This paper is an attempt to provide an answer to the question: to what extend is the word "meritocracy" justified and correct for all modern societies especially post-Soviet countries.
Семенюк, І. С.
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
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Digital Geography and SocietyThis paper presents a survey-based case study of the experiences and perceptions of, and attitudes towards, various forms of online deviance amongst a largely female, educated sample of young people drawn predominantly from the Armenian capital city of ...
Tim Hall, Ulrike Ziemer
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