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Russia’s Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus in the Context of Increasing New Regional Competition
Journal of Political Science: Bulletin of Yerevan UniversityThe purpose of this article is to study various factors of Russia’s foreign policy in the South Caucasus during the 44-day Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) war of 2020 and in the post-war period.
Zhak Manukyan
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Illusion of Power: Russia after the South Caucasus Battle. CEPS Working Document No. 311, 24 February 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 The war in the South Caucasus sent shockwaves throughout the post-Soviet world, European capitals and across the Atlantic, making more urgent the demand for a re-evaluation of policies towards Russia.
Secrieru, Stanislav.
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Representation of obligate groundwater‐dwelling copepod diversity in European protected areas
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Groundwaters sustain diverse surface ecosystems and are populated by metazoan species, mostly invertebrates, that provide fundamental ecological functions and are often of prominent conservation value due to narrow endemism and high phylogenetic rarity.
Francesco Cerasoli +7 more
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Bribery and Its Effect on Innovation: When Bank Finance Matters
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the effect of bribery on innovation performance and whether bank finance serves as an effective channel of the impact. In doing so, we compute an innovation performance index for Vietnamese small and medium enterprises. We then conduct mediation analysis on the triad of bribery, bank finance and innovation performance
Thanh Le +3 more
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New Geopolıtıcal Features of the South Caucasus Regıon
Social Development & SecurityPurpose. To identify the main geopolitical trends of the rapid transformations that have occurred in the security architecture of the South Caucasus after the Second Karabakh War. Method.
Zafar Nuri Najafov
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Geopolitics and Aspirations for Sustainability: Turkey's Emergence as an Energy Hub
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Turkey is pursuing three main objectives in the energy sector: enhancing its geopolitical position, expanding its domestic production and renewable energy capacity, and becoming a natural gas hub linking producers from the Middle East, the Caspian region, and Russia to European markets.
Umud Shokri
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Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 2023 Climate-change-induced environmental impacts has an especially strong influence on water resources. Declining water availability not only results in droughts, but is also responsible for decreasing the quality of water in water-scarce regions, such as ...
Firuz Suleymanov
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The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the Talysh people's ethnic identity, tracing its evolution from the Russian Empire, through the Soviet Union's nationality policies, to the current situation in independent Azerbaijan.
Petr Kokaisl
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Interdisciplinary Political Studies, 2012 While free and independent media, sometimes qualified as the "forth estate", is a pillar of civil society, the European Union (EU) is rather absent from media development in democratizing countries.
Elisabeth Cadoux
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Möjligheter och begränsningar för EU:s aktörskap i södra Kaukasus
Nordisk Østforum, 2020 : EU Actorness in the South Caucasus: Possibilities and Limitations Despite significant institutional changes and refinements since its creation in 2004, the ENP (European Neighborhood Policy) remains a major tool available to the EU for providing ...
Michel Anderlini
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