Decoding Turkish foreign policy in Abkhazia (2008-2022). A theory-testing process tracing approach to understanding Turkish actions in Georgia’s contested break-away region [PDF]
Over the past three decades, the foreign policy of Türkiye towards its near-abroad regions, consisting of the Caucuses, Black Sea, Middle East, Africa, and the Mediterranean, has taken on remarkably assertive characteristics.
Runkel, William Porter
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Public Opinion in the Eurasian De Facto States [PDF]
Developing reliable social scientific knowledge about public opinion in de facto states is a challenging exercise. Since 2008 we cooperated with a variety of research partners to organize a series of social scientific surveys in all four de facto states ...
O'Loughlin, John, Toal, Gerard
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Gaussian quantum information [PDF]
The science of quantum information has arisen over the last two decades centered on the manipulation of individual quanta of information, known as quantum bits or qubits.
C. Weedbrook +6 more
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The Do-or-Die Dilemma Facing Post-Soviet De Facto States [PDF]
This memo discusses the “do or die” dilemma of post-Soviet de facto states. Our examination looks in to patron-client relations that are highly unequal and asymmetric in terms of resources and capabilities: Russia vis-à-vis Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and ...
Berg, Eiki, Vits, Kristel
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Exploring Hate Speech Detection in Multimodal Publications [PDF]
In this work we target the problem of hate speech detection in multimodal publications formed by a text and an image. We gather and annotate a large scale dataset from Twitter, MMHS150K, and propose different models that jointly analyze textual and ...
Raul Gomez +3 more
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Oriol Rodríguez-Leor, Belén Cid-Álvarez, Soledad Ojeda, Javier Martín-Moreiras, José Ramón Rumoroso, Ramón López-Palop, Ana Serrador, Ángel Cequier, Rafael Romaguera, Ignacio Cruz, Armando Pérez de Prado, Raúl Moreno, en nombre de todos los participantes
O. Rodríguez-Leor +11 more
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Constraints on the redshift dependence of the dark energy potential [PDF]
We develop a formalism to characterize the shape and the redshift evolution of the dark energy potential. Our formalism makes use of quantities similar to the horizon-flow parameters in inflation and is general enough that can deal with multiscalar ...
J. Simón, L. Verde, R. Jimenez
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Georgia and Abkhazia caught between Turkey and Russia: Turkey's changing relations with Russia and the West in 2015-2016 and their impact on Georgia and Abkhazia [PDF]
Following seven months of severely strained relations, Turkey and Russia began to mend ties in late June 2016, when President Erdogan sent a conciliatory letter to his Russian counterpart.
Weiss, Andrea, Zabanova, Yana
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Status Hukum Negara Abkhazia dan Ossetia Selatan Pasca Suksesi Negara Ditinjau dari Hukum Internasional [PDF]
"Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis, mengetahui serta memahami mengenai keabsahan berdirinya negara Abkhazia dan negara Ossetia Selatan menurut hukum internasional dan menganalisis, mengetahui serta memahami akibat hukum yang timbul dari ...
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Legitimacy and ethnic politics in de facto states: rhetoric, legislation and reality in Abkhazia and Kosovo [PDF]
This thesis investigates three closely related research questions. The first is how de facto states make use of minority rights norms to garner legitimacy on the international stage.
Drayton, James Robin
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