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Turkey's global strategy: Turkey and the Caucasus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Turkey has had long-standing links with the region called the ‘South(ern) Caucasus’, comprised of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, including the de-facto independent entities of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The area was, for a long time,
Oskanian, Kevork
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Nation‐Building in the Wake of Empire: Identifying Patterns of Minority Policies in the Aftermath of Soviet Collapse

open access: yesNations 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
wiley   +1 more source

The EU’s Policy in the South Caucasus [PDF]

open access: yesL'Europe en Formation, 2018
Dans cet article, nous analysons comment l’Arménie, l’Azerbaïdjan et la Géorgie réagissent et essaient de façonner la politique de l’UE dans le Caucase du Sud. L’UE a développé depuis les années 2000 des politiques différenciées pour les trois pays.
Delcour, Laure, Hoffmann, Katharina
openaire   +3 more sources

Beyond Genocide, Ethnocide and Identicide: Russia's ‘Strategic Imperial Demographic Policy’ of Russifying Ukrainian Children

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the Russian Federation's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken from occupied territories and transferred to Russia. On 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court officially recognized these actions as a war crime.
Ayşegül Aydıngün   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human adaptation to high‐altitude: A contemporary comparison of the oxygen cascade in Andean, Tibetan and Ethiopian highlanders

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Human populations native to high altitude have evolved distinct physiological adaptations to chronic hypoxia. This adaptation is evident in the O2 transport cascade. In this review, with brief inclusion of the related genetic adaptations, we compare the O2 cascade across three well‐characterized high‐altitude populations: Andeans (Aymara and ...
Ayechew A. Getu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Stability Pact for the Caucasus in Theory and Practice - A Supplementary Note. CEPS Working Document No. 152, September 2000 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
In response to appeals of the leaders of the South Caucasus for a Stability Pact for the region, CEPS published in May 2000 a consultative document with a comprehensive proposal (available on www.ceps.be).
Emerson, Michael   +2 more
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The Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan: the identity and social position of a once-dominant minority [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Based on recent empirical findings and field observations, this article examines the Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan. Nowadays numbering about one and a half percent of the population, the main threat to its continuity is not persecution nor ...
De Cordier, Bruno
core   +1 more source

Oaks and Climate Change: Contrasting Range Responses of Mediterranean and Temperate Quercus Species in the Western Palearctic

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2026.
We analyzed past and future range dynamics of six oak (Quercus) species across the western Palearctic using ecological niche models, reconstructing distributions for the Last Glacial Maximum, the present, and two future scenarios. Quantitative metrics of centroid shifts, range limits, and area change revealed that temperate and transition‐zone species ...
Elif Deniz Ülker   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pressure of Invasive Alien Species Trachemys scripta on Native Species Under Future Climate Change Scenarios

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 2, February 2026.
In this study, ecological niche models are provided for Trachemys scripta and its competing species in Turkey. In 20‐year intervals, the map indicates the future habitat areas suitable for the invasive species as well as its competitors. The results of this study have led to a determination of the regions where invasive species are likely to be ...
Nilgün Kaya   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

South Caucasus in Motion

open access: yes, 2019
The people of the South Caucasus aspire for their countries to become strong middle-class societies, and they are on track to make that aspiration a reality. Two decades of social and economic progress have changed the societies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
openaire   +3 more sources

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