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Coercion, compliance and the collapse of the soviet command economy [PDF]
Are command systems that rest on coercion inherently unstable, and did the Soviet economy collapse for this reason? Postwar evidence is inconsistent with the hypothesis that the Soviet economy was unstable. If it was not unstable, why did it collapse?
Harrison, Mark
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Post-soviet migration transition in Ukraine: to the history of migration practices
Український соціологічний журнал, 2018 The author states that migration doctrine of the soviet pattern after the dissolution of the USSR has radically changed in the Ukraine. The country passed from passport regime to the freedom of movement and free choice of residence and working place ...
Iryna Prybytkova
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores Australian media commentary on white Rhodesians migrating to Australia, focusing on the period of Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership (1975–1983). The main argument is that the Australian media debates about whether to classify white Rhodesians as ‘migrants’ or ‘refugees’ were not merely semantic but reflected a deeper ...
George Bishi, Ana Stevenson
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The failed promise of foreign direct investment: some remarks on ‘malign’ investment and political instability in former Soviet states [PDF]
The policy of key international organisation continues to be informed by the assumption that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has an unambiguously positive effect on recipient nations.
Beck, Matthias, Acc-Nikmehr, Nataliya
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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
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ROLE OF THE DIASPORAS IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES: LESSONS FROM ARMENIA
The paper develops additional economic arguments to emphasize the potential importance of the Diasporas’ contribution to economic transformation of former socialist economies.
Freinkman, Lev
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Growth in Transition: What We Know, What We Don't, and What We Should [PDF]
This essay surveys macroeconomic issues that marked the transition from centrally planned to market economy in Central and Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries. We first establish a set of stylized facts of the transition so far, namely: (1)
Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli
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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
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Kazakh and Russian identities in transition : the case of Kazakhstan
, 2011 This dissertation concerns the development and interaction of Kazakh and Russian identities in post-Soviet Kazakhstan. My research questions were: (1) what was the character of these identities in 2003/04 (the time of my research); (2) how have these ...
Howard, Natalia V.
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Проблеми на постмодерността, 2018 In many regions of the world, societies are in a phase of rapid transition due to political and socio-economic changes, combined with changes in the natural environment, climate change and biodiversity loss.
Susanne Elsen, Stefan Zerbe
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