DE FACTO STATES IN THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD: BETWEEN RUSSIAN DOMINATION AND EUROPEAN (DIS)ENGAGEMENT. THE CASE OF ABKHAZIA [PDF]
With the ratification of the Association Agreements with Georgia and Moldova in 2014, the European Union (EU) has been confronted in its integration policies with several post-Soviet de facto states (Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria).
Sebastian RELITZ
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Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms
ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
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ABSTRACT Electricity grid infrastructures shape future publics and the contours of political belonging or exclusion, including citizenship. But in fire‐prone, more precariously grid‐connected regions in California, experiments with micro‐ and home nanogrids, subsidized by the state and built in many cases with Tesla products, provide new opportunities ...
Joanne Randa Nucho
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SUMMARY: 1. The Sentence 42/2014, of the Constitutional Court of Spain, about the «Declaration of sovereignty and the right to decide of the people in Catalonia». 2.
Joan Ridao i Martín
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Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War, and Economic Growth: Region‐Level Evidence From Former Yugoslavia
ABSTRACT This paper studies the long‐term effects of the Yugoslav civil war (1987–1995) on subnational economic growth across 78 regions in five former Yugoslav republics from 1950 to 2015. We construct counterfactual growth trajectories using a robust region‐level donor pool from 32 conflict‐free countries.
Aleksandar Kešeljević +2 more
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Secession and revival: Louth Free Methodist Church in the 1850s [PDF]
At Louth in Lincolnshire there emerged in the 1850s a Free Methodist Church. Wesleyans had been hugely successful in the area, but there was internal opposition to Methodist Conference policies. The corn merchant J.B.
Bebbington, David William
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Confrontation to Prejudice Can Function as Identity Safety Cues on Social Media for Asian Americans
ABSTRACT Online confrontations to prejudice can meaningfully shape experiences of racism online for minoritized individuals. We investigate whether confrontation can also operate as an identity safety cue (ISC) within online spaces. In Study 1, we examined the effects of confronter group membership and their confrontation style on Asian Americans’ (n =
Gretchen Nihill, Chanel Meyers
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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
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Stem water potential estimation from images using a field noise-robust deep regression-based approach in peach trees. [PDF]
Yamane T +5 more
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Probing Prediction‐Related Processes in Language Using an EEG Word Stem Completion Paradigm
ABSTRACT Humans comprehend language rapidly, with active prediction of upcoming words as a key mechanism. Studies using sentences have documented facilitations in behavior and brain activity (N400) when people encounter predictable words, and brain responses (anterior positivity) specific to prediction violations.
Hui‐Sun Chiu +2 more
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