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Geopolitics on a Shoestring? Unpacking the EU'S Geopolitical External Assistance to Central Asia
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 1473-1495, July 2026.ABSTRACT The paper examines how the European Union's (EU) increasingly emphasised geopolitical ambitions are reflected in the practice of its external assistance policy. An analysis of EU documents around various policy initiatives and funding instruments reveals that in the Commission's understanding, geopolitical external assistance increases EU ...
Balázs Szent‐Iványi, Dóra Piroska
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A Note on Measuring the Unofficial Economy in the Former Soviet Republics [PDF]
This note argues that the most commonly used estimates of the size of the unofficial economies in the former Soviet republics are flawed. Most important, they are based on calculations that disregard the variation in unofficial economic activity across ...
Michael Alexeev, William Pyle
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Architecture and Counter-revolution: The Ideology of the Historiography of the Soviet "Avant-garde" [PDF]
, 2018 The thesis produces a history of the Western historiography of Soviet architecture, looking at its trends and the evolution of its narratives. It focuses on the development of historiographical categories and their transformations, as an exercise of what
Ruivo Pereira, Ricardo
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Pan‐Europe Revisited: Inter‐War Debates and the EU's Pursuit of Geopolitical Power
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The European Union's (EU) transformation from a peace project to an assertive geopolitical actor reflects enduring tensions in integration theory dating back to the inter‐war period. This paper develops a comparative framework distinguishing territorial integration logic, which emphasises bounded political communities and collective defence ...
Kamil Zwolski
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АрхитектонThe study examines the influence of Soviet aesthetic ideals on the functional structure and imagery of interiors. Tendencies are identified in Soviet public interior design in the 1930s.
Voitov Ruslan V.
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RIHA Journal, 2019 Vilnius presents itself today as the easternmost and northernmost European city of the Baroque, and the Baroque heritage played an important role in 1994 when the historic centre of Vilnius was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Marija Drėmaitė
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The ‘Geopolitical Commission’: 40 Years in the Making?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised MEPs she would deliver a ‘Geopolitical Commission’ during the five years of her term in office, unbeknown that the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine were around the corner.
Robert Kissack
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Academia: Архитектура и строительство, 2018 The article is focused on participation of the Soviet delegation in the International Architecture Congress in Rome (1935). This participation is considered through the prism of tasks for the international activities of the Union of Soviet Architects in ...
Evgeniya V. Konysheva
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
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On the “Alive Foxes in a Furrier’s Shop”, Proletarian Culture and Petty-Bourgeois Households
Проект Байкал, 2017 While taking black or white threads from the fanciful, absurdist and far from black-and-white pattern woven by the time of changes into the strong fabric of the Soviet history of the 1920s-30s, we get simple models of the real life processes.
Elena Bagina
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