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Norm Circles and the Limitations of European Union Normative Projection in Afghanistan

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Norm diffusion research explains the international travel of norms in semantic terms, through resonance, framing, grafting and localisation. Such accounts presuppose norms to be portable objects whose identity persists through transit. Yet, ontologically, norms exert causal force only where a real social group endorses and enforces them.
Oz Hassan
wiley   +1 more source

Manifestations of politics in Lithuanian architecture: examples of architectural dehumanisation during the transition from a Soviet to a Post-Soviet society

open access: yes, 2007
During practically the entire development of Lithuanian architecture in the 20th century, one can observe open architectural politicisation as being one of the most important ideological ways of giving meaning to space. Themes of national romanticism that were exploited during the interwar period were followed by a feverish attempt during the Soviet ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Light, Harold, University Of California at Davis Television Program on Soviet Jewry (Box 99, Folder 18)

open access: yes, 1971
Digitized audiocassettes include recordings of Light's conversations with those in Congress, local and national news media, and others involved in the Soviet Jewry movement. There are also interview recordings with leading figures in the Bay Area Council
Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews
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Sustainable and Seismically Resilient Confined Masonry: Global Progress in Research and Design Practice

open access: yesEarthquake Spectra, Volume 42, Issue 4, November 2026.
Modern confined masonry (CM) construction consists of masonry walls confined by reinforced concrete (RC) tie‐columns and tie‐beams. When built correctly, CM buildings have shown good performance in earthquake's shaking. Even though CM construction has been practised for almost a century in some Latin American countries, its use and standardisation are ...
Ahsana Parammal Vatteri   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Housing architecture in Soviet and post-Soviet capital of Kyrgyzstan: From Frunze to Bishkek

open access: yes, 2021
In this study housing architecture of Kyrgyzstan's capital city is analyzed and compared in two different periods: Soviet and Post-Soviet. The study will lead you through changes Bishkek went through; the way history has affected housing habits of its citizens. In contrast to Soviet Frunze, contemporary Bishkek offers chaotically built but diverse
openaire   +1 more source

Baku and architecture: from Soviet building to archistars

open access: yesGeopolitical, Social Security and Freedom Journal, 2018
Abstract The present paper intends to analyse the current urban situation of the city of Baku. Starting from its history and the vicissitudes that have seen the alternating city periods of splendour with gloomy moments, some of the great urban projects realised since the end of the 20th century and which are transforming the ...
openaire   +1 more source

Westin, Dr. Jerry, report on trip to Soviet Union (Box 99, Folder 5)

open access: yes, 1970
Digitized audiocassettes include recordings of Light's conversations with those in Congress, local and national news media, and others involved in the Soviet Jewry movement. There are also interview recordings with leading figures in the Bay Area Council
Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews
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Restoring Autonomy out of Context. Selective Heritagisation of the Drama Theatre in Veliky Novgorod

open access: yesLes Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale, Urbaine et Paysagère
This article considers the politics of heritagisation in relation to late Soviet built environments within a contemporary authoritarian context. It examines the imaginaries underpinning the 2020 competition for the renovation of the Novgorod Drama ...
Ksenia Litvinenko
doaj   +1 more source

Modernism in the woods: Soviet architecture for rural landscapes

open access: yesRural History
Abstract This paper explores the urban-type reconstruction of Soviet rural non-agricultural settlements during the Cold War, focusing on timber production workers’ settlements in the Republic of Karelia of the north-west Soviet Union.
openaire   +1 more source

Summit Mobilization: Demonstration For Soviet Jews In Washington, D.C. (2 digital images)

open access: yes, 1987
Summit Mobilization, Demonstration For Soviet Jews In Washington, D.C., includes crowd and Washington Monument.
Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry
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