The ‘Geopolitical Commission’: 40 Years in the Making?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised MEPs she would deliver a ‘Geopolitical Commission’ during the five years of her term in office, unbeknown that the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine were around the corner.
Robert Kissack
wiley +1 more source
CHANGES IN AGRICULTURAL MARKETS IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES
Economic reform in the transition economies of the former Soviet bloc has transformed the volume and mix of these economies' agricultural production, consumption, and trade. Output drops in most countries have ranged from 25 to 50 percent.
Liefert, William M., Swinnen, Johan F.M.
core +1 more source
Linkages between Political and Economic Reforms in Post-Communist Countries [PDF]
This paper analyses the interaction between the political and economic reforms undertaken in post-communist countries since the early 1990s. The empirical investigation uses panel data from 27 transition countries for the period 1991 to 2005 ...
Karsten Staehr
core
An example of land-use relaxation and its effect on soil stabilization in the catchment of Lake Lavijärvi, Russian Karelia: insights from multi-proxy sediment analysis. [PDF]
J PaleolimnolHaas M +8 more
europepmc +1 more source
‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commission's anti‐populist articulation of ‘European values’, which constructs ‘populism’ as their constitutive outside.
Alex Yates
wiley +1 more source
Agricultural Cooperative Enterprise in the Transition from Socialist Collective Farming
Cooperative enterprise has appeal as a means of filling gaps in the economic institutions of the rural sectors of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. But in addition to problems that have faced cooperatives
Gardner, Bruce L., Lerman, Zvi
core +1 more source
Vernacularizing the Best Interests of the Child: Comparative Insights From Three Legal Systems
Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The study investigates how the Best Interests of the Child principle in the UN Children's Rights Convention (Article 3) has been adapted in custody disputes in Egypt, Sweden, and Uzbekistan. Although the Convention on the Rights of the Child offers a common normative benchmark, divergent legal cultures shape its domestic meaning: Egypt is ...
Anna Lundberg +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Pragmatic progress? Trade-offs and seed choices in Tajikistan. [PDF]
Agric Human ValuesSpies M, Hofman I.
europepmc +1 more source
Post-Soviet Transitions of the Planned Socialist Towns: Visaginas, Lithuania
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2010 Visaginas, formerly Sniečkus, (Lithuania) was built as a planned socialist town and a satellite settlement to the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. Both the plant and the town were established in order to integrate Lithuania into the All-Union economic structures via the energy supply system.
openaire +3 more sources
Figures of an Agrarian Nation: Indonesia's Agricultural Census, 1963–2023
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why have Indonesia's decennial agricultural censuses defined their key unit of analysis, the ‘agricultural household’, differently? How do changes to that category shape knowledge production among those who rely on census data? This paper compares definitions of the agricultural household across seven censuses with international ...
Colum Graham
wiley +1 more source