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Deconstructing liberal peacebuilding: Lessons from the Western Balkans [PDF]

open access: yesThe Review of International Affairs, 2022
The paper contributes to the deconstruction of the liberal peacebuilding concept, particularly its main components of failed state and statebuilding, through the analysis of two internationally-backed statehood projects in the Western Balkans: Bosnia and
Goran Tepšić, Miloš Vukelić
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National security of independent Ukraine:comprehension of the essence

open access: yesПолітичні дослідження, 2021
An important component of the state-building process in Ukraine is the government’s activities to ensure national security, which is an attribute of independence.
Volodymyr Smolianiuk
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From Offsetting to Emulation: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis of Russia’s Internal Balancing Strategies

open access: yesUrvio, 2022
In 2008, Russia began to implement its largest military reform since the creation of the Red Army in 1918. Previous attempts at reforms in 1992, 1997, and 2003 did not result in fundamental transformations to the country’s military.
Augusto Dall'Agnol
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The Ecuadorian State in the southeastern frontier: a creation based on affection, 1893-1964

open access: yesÍconos, 2021
This article examines the state and nation-building process in Southeast Ecuador (in what is now the Morona-Santiago province) during the first half of the XXth century.
Cecilia Ortiz-Batallas
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The impact of EU state-building policies on the democratization process in Macedonia - a realist analysis [PDF]

open access: yesBezbednosni Dijalozi, 2021
From the early 2000s onwards the EU has embarked on becoming a major state-building actor in the Balkans so that the countries in the region could establish functioning democratic institutions and eventually become member states themselves.
Adrian Waters
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Subcontracting State-Building [PDF]

open access: yesSmall Wars & Insurgencies, 2017
Contemporary development assistance often takes the form of subcontracted statebuilding. Foreign donors hire for-profit firms to provide services and to improveor create institutions in developing countries, particularly those experiencinginternal conflict.
Steele, A., Shapiro, J.N.
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Kosovo: Secession as a Nation-building Project

open access: yesКонтуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2021
The article focuses on stateаnd nation-building in the partially recognized Republic of Kosovo. The main research question is whether it is possible to build effective state institutions within non-consolidated borders after a “remedial secession ...
I. V. Kudryashova, E. Yu. Meleshkina
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Vaccination Policies and State Building in Post-war Angola [PDF]

open access: yesGender a Výzkum, 2019
The article explores how public health policies may be used by the state to (re)gain its legitimacy. The author examines this through the example of the use of vaccination policies in Angola, a Southern African country torn apart by thirty years of civil
Virginie Tallio
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Turkey’s Assistance to Iraq after 2014: Key Determinants and Components

open access: yesВестник Московского Университета. Серия XXV: Международные отношения и мировая политика, 2020
In the 2010s amid the destabilization of the region and the outbreak of new armed conflicts the influence of the Republic of Turkey in the Arab world has significantly increased.
A. I. Aliyeva
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Cement based foam concrete with aluminosilicate microspheres for monolithic construction

open access: yesИнженерно-строительный журнал, 2018
The present paper investigates cement foam concrete of natural hardening with aluminosilicate microsphere made from bottom ash waste from Seversk Heat and Power Station in Tomsk Region.
Aleksei Steshenko   +1 more
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