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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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Forging Success : Soviet Managers and False Accounting, 1943 to 1962 [PDF]
Attempting to satisfy their political masters in a target-driven culture, Soviet managers had to optimize on many margins simultaneously. One of these was the margin of truthfulness.
Harrison, Mark
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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, 2018 The assembly of noted scholars in this book has taken on a subject of tremendous importance. The book illuminates the legacy of Soviet higher education in an increasingly status-conscious world of multipolar complexity and unprecedented technological ...
Postiglione, GA
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Chapter Broadcasting Communist Morality: Sex Education in Soviet Latvia
, 2023 Mass media was an important technology of sexual enlightenment in the Brezhnev-era USSR. In the Latvian SSR, sex education materials positioned medical experts working within the state healthcare system as the chief authority on matters related to both ...
Hearne, Siobhán
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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The terms-of-trade effects from the elimination of state trading in Soviet - Hungarian trade [PDF]
Economists have debated whether the Soviet Union subsidized trade with its Eastern European partners in the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA).
Oblath, Gabor, Tarr, David
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Marriage and fertility change in post-Soviet Tajikistan
, 2009 This thesis, structured into four separate but related papers, uses survey birth history data to examine marital and fertility change in post-Soviet Central Asia, with a particular focus on Tajikistan.The first paper, ‘Through civil war, food scarcity ...
Clifford, David Michael
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