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Narratives of moral superiority in the context of war in Ukraine: Justifying pro-Russian support through social creativity and moral disengagement. [PDF]
Br J Soc PsycholAbstract The war in Ukraine has deepened ideological divides, particularly in neighbouring countries such as Romania and Moldova. This study examines how pro‐Russian supporters in these nations construct narratives to sustain moral superiority while justifying the invasion of Ukraine.
Bliuc AM, Muntele-Hendreș D.
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Why Fight? The Combatant Careers of the Anti‐Kyiv Fighters in the Donbas War1
Sociological Forum, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 1220-1244, December 2023., 2023 Based on original qualitative data on the mobilization of anti‐Kyiv combatants during the war in eastern Ukraine (started in 2014), this article suggests an approach for understanding the spontaneous mobilization of nonstate armed groups during contemporary military conflicts.
Natalia Savelyeva, Svetlana Erpyleva
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Young‐age exposure to armed conflict and women's experiences of intimate partner violence
Journal of Marriage and Family, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 7-32, February 2023., 2023 Abstract Objective This study examines the legacy of experiencing armed conflict in childhood and adolescence on women's later risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) in four ex‐Soviet countries. Background Prior research is largely concerned with male soldiers and perpetration, and rarely considers when, during the life course, conflict occurs.
Orsola Torrisi
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Declarations of Independence after the Cold War: Abandoning grievance and avoiding rupture
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 1268-1285, October 2021., 2021 Abstract Declarations of Independence (DoIs) tend to employ the grievance topoi as a means to legitimize their demands for statehood. We find, however, that after the end of the Cold War a new subgenre of DoIs emerged, which deploys topoi not referring to grievances against the host state.
Argyro Kartsonaki, Aleksandar Pavković
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Settling with Autonomy after Civil Wars: Lessons from Aceh, Indonesia
Global Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 204-213, April 2021., 2021 Abstract Autonomy arrangements short of secession have been popular among international actors as a solution to deadly self‐determination conflicts. However, the number of peace agreements incorporating autonomy, while clearly eliminating the possibility of secession, is limited in practice.
Kentaro Fujikawa
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Armed Conflict and the Timing of Childbearing in Azerbaijan
Population and Development Review, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 501-556, September 2020., 2020 Abstract Research on fertility changes in former Soviet states of the South Caucasus is scant and has overlooked the role of armed conflicts. This study contributes to filling these gaps by providing the first detailed account of fertility changes in Azerbaijan since independence and by exploring them in relation to the Nagorno‐Karabakh conflict with ...
Orsola Torrisi
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Practising Populism: How Right‐wing Populists Negotiate Political Competence
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 58, Issue 4, Page 890-908, July 2020., 2020 Abstract This article introduces a new way to consider right‐wing populism in Western Europe through practice theory. While historically, right‐wing populist parties have not been seen as one homogenous movement, their populist practices constitute a transnational challenge to the European political establishment.
Beatrix Futák‐Campbell +1 more
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The Scientific World Journal, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 Vulnerability to climate change of the Moldavian part of the Dniester river was assessed as the function of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of its basin’s natural and socioeconomic systems. As a spatial “scale” of the assessment, Moldova’s administrative‐territorial units (ATUs) were selected.
Roman Corobov +6 more
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The collapse of the USSR forced newly independent states to forge national identities while grappling with imperial legacies. This study investigates nation‐building strategies in post‐Soviet states during 1990–1999, using the Nation‐Building Policies (NBP) dataset from the ETHNICGOODS project, which includes all socially and politically ...
Emre Amasyalı, Andrei Tarasov
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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