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Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Unsuccessful efforts to update the middle power concept for the contemporary international system have prompted calls for the concept to be “historicized”—to be retired from common use and treated as a purely historical term. The problem with this proposal is that “middle power” has become increasingly popular in the 2020s in analysis ...
Kim Richard Nossal
wiley   +1 more source

Using visibility in teaching the Russian language to foreign meteorological students

open access: yesЯзык и текст
The active use of visual aids and innovative technologies is a priority in the modern approach to teaching Russian as a foreign language. The relevance of this article lies in the fact that it is the first to explore the use of visual and ...
T.V. Kalugina, M.G. Romanenkov
doaj   +1 more source

Trends in first union formation in post-Soviet Central Asia

open access: yes, 2009
This study used recently available survey data to examine trends in the rate of first union formation in the post-Soviet Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Clifford, D.
core  

An Ontological Security Interpretation of Global South Middle Powers' Non‐Alignment in the Ukrainian War

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores why a group of Global South middle powers has adopted stances on the Ukrainian war that diverged from the positions of the United States under President Joe Biden, the European Union and the broader NATO/Western alliance. I claim that these disparities are partially explained by the affiliation these states have with the ...
Marco Vieira
wiley   +1 more source

The State of Public Health Education and Science During and After the Fall of the Soviet Union: Achievements, Remaining Challenges, and Future Priorities. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Public Health, 2022
Gotsadze G   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Layered Incoherence in Middle Power Foreign Policy: Indonesia and the U.S.‐China Rivalry

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid the intensifying U.S.‐China rivalry, middle powers, especially those from the global south, are often portrayed in IR literature as strategic hedgers, expected to balance between major powers to preserve regional autonomy and stability. Yet many, like Indonesia, display contradictory foreign policy behaviour by rhetorically championing ...
Moch Faisal Karim
wiley   +1 more source

Rendezvous in Space: Tech Diplomacy and the Commercial Space Era—A Study of Rendezvous and Docking Technologies and Space Exploration Co‐Operation Since the Cold War

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On‐orbit rendezvous and docking constitute one of the most technically challenging activities in the history of space activities. As space endeavours mature to crewed missions, space rendezous and docking technologies (RDT) emerge as an area of technological innovation critical to advances in future crewed space exploration.
Nikita Chiu, Markus Kornprobst
wiley   +1 more source

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