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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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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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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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European Union Policy in the South Caucasus after the Karabakh War of 2020
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2022 The article focuses on the transformation of the European Union’s policy in the South Caucasus after the NagornoKarabakh war of 2020. Before the war, the foreign and security policy in the region had depended on the OSCE Minsk Group, Georgia’s role in ...
K. V. Yumatov
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Expanding security eastward: NATO and US military engagement in Georgia [PDF]
, 2000 This repository item contains a single issue of Behind the Breaking News, a briefing published from 1999 to 2009 by the Boston University Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and ...
DeTemple, Lt. Col. James
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The collapse of the USSR forced newly independent states to forge national identities while grappling with imperial legacies. This study investigates nation‐building strategies in post‐Soviet states during 1990–1999, using the Nation‐Building Policies (NBP) dataset from the ETHNICGOODS project, which includes all socially and politically ...
Emre Amasyalı, Andrei Tarasov
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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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Evolution of crop phenotypic spaces through domestication
New Phytologist, EarlyView.Summary We used domestication as an in vivo replicated experiment to investigate how divergent selection has shaped the evolution of multivariate phenotypic spaces. We measured 11–57 qualitative and quantitative traits in 13 species, either unique or shared between species, and established a framework for cross‐species comparisons. Our results revealed
Arthur Wojcik +18 more
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Can OSCE Cope with the Caucasus? [PDF]
, 1999 Lepagnot-Leca Françoise, Mignaval Pierre, Causse Jean-Pierre. N° 16 — CAUSSE Jean-Pierre. In: Témoins et acteurs des politiques de l'éducation depuis la Libération. Tome 4 - Inventaire de soixante-quatre entretiens. Paris : Institut national de recherche
Lanskoy, Miriam
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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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