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Sustainable Development and Structural Bottlenecks in Transition Economies: New Uzbekistan
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study assesses the sustainable development of Uzbekistan over 2016–2024. The methodology combines min–max normalization and unweighted aggregation to derive goal‐level composite scores and an overall SDG index, correlation analysis, and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to characterize the goals that shape the country's progress; key ...
Khusanboy Abdufattokhov +1 more
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Secure Enough? Sufficiency and Security in the New Geological and Geopolitical Reality
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article advances sufficiency theorizing by examining its relationship with security in the contemporary geopolitical context. It engages three contextually situated discourses: sustainable development, ecological civilization, and degrowth, to explore how concerns over ecological limits intersect with emerging geopolitical and security ...
Pasi Heikkurinen +3 more
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Increasingly geopolitical?: The EU's approach towards the post-Soviet space [PDF]
Journal of Regional Security, 2016 Throughout the past decade the policy of the European Union (EU) towards its eastern neighbors has avoided focusing on security issues. However, the Ukraine crisis had had a deep impact on the EU's foreign policy and its approach towards post-Soviet ...
Nitoiu Cristian
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Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through the Intersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.While identity research has given sustained attention to marginality, intersectionality, and the effects of power on identity, the formal interactional dynamics through which identities are constituted remain limited. I present identity entanglement as a useful framework for better understanding and articulating the relational complexities of identity.
Jules Vivid
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Possible Scenarios of Development of Migration Processes in the Context of Eurasian Integration
Международная аналитика, 2019 The article talks about migration processes in the post-Soviet space in the context of Eurasian integration. It is noted that recently, due to the natural population decline in Russia, migration is one of the mechanisms for compensating for demographic ...
A. A. Kazantsev, L. Yu. Gusev
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Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings +3 more
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HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHIC MODELING THE FIRST SIEGE OF THE ALBAZINSKY PRISON. II
Вестник Брянского государственного университетаThis material is the second part in a series of articles describing the first siege of the state-owned Albaza prison in June 1685. The paper presents a description of the numerical number and composition of artillery of the ground forces and warships of ...
Lokhov A.Y., Eremin I.E., Natsvin A.V.
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Traditional magic or European occultism? Commercial fortune-telling and magic in post-Soviet Russia and their relationship to Russian tradition [PDF]
, 2009 The article examines the vibrant commercial magic and fortune-telling industry in Russia today. Based on fieldwork in Petersburg conducted in 2006, supplemented by printed and, in particular, web material, it seeks to show that, despite the many ...
Wigzell, F.
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that the current debate over defence spending in the United Kingdom is fundamentally flawed. Too much emphasis is being placed on preparing for a form of warfare with Russia that is unlikely to occur. As this article points out, the Russians actually want to avoid a traditional battlefield confrontation with NATO.
Rod Thornton
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HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL MODELING OF THE ALBAZIN FORT DURING THE SECOND SIEGE. III
Вестник Брянского государственного университетаIn previous works, the authors presented 3D models of artillery bastions, a powder magazine and dugouts. However, for the most complete three-dimensional visualization of the Albaza fortress, it was necessary to develop three–dimensional models of its ...
Lokhov A.Yu. +2 more
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