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Geopolitics on a Shoestring? Unpacking the EU'S Geopolitical External Assistance to Central Asia

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines how the European Union's (EU) increasingly emphasised geopolitical ambitions are reflected in the practice of its external assistance policy. An analysis of EU documents around various policy initiatives and funding instruments reveals that in the Commission's understanding, geopolitical external assistance increases EU ...
Balázs Szent‐Iványi, Dóra Piroska
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Spectral photoresponse of Ni–n-GaAs surface‑barrier structures

Технологія та конструювання в електронній апаратурі, 2008
The results of a study of the photoresponse spectra of fabricated Ni–n-GaAs structures are presented in the photon energy range h=0.9–2.3 eV under illumination from the semitransparent nickel layer side.
D. Melebayew, G. D. Melebayewa, Yu. V. Rud, V. Yu. Rud   +3 more
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Central Asian integration as a way of guaranteeing regional security, economic growth, feasibility and prospects [PDF]

, 2010
Nowadays, CA countries are facing serious challenges. Their industries are slowly recovering from the disruption of “supplier-producer” ties among former Soviet republics and East European states.
Najmitdinov, Ahadhon
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Estimating the Size and Growth of Unrecorded Economic Activity in Transition Countries: A Re-evaluation of Electric Consumption Method Estimates and their Implications [PDF]

, 2003
It is widely acknowledged that underground (unrecorded) economic activities play a major role in transition economies. Evaluations of the success and failure of the transition experience should therefore be based on total economic activity [TEA], namely,
Feige, Edgar L., Urban, Ivica
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Regional Community Building in Hard Times: Communal and Functional Filtering at EU Borders During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Pandemics are times of closure. States typically restrict the entry of persons to protect their national communities from external health hazards. In this regard, the COVID‐19 pandemic presented the European Union (EU) with a severe challenge. We ask to what extent the border policies of EU member states during the pandemic supported regional ...
Christian Freudlsperger, Jana Lipps, Frank Schimmelfennig   +2 more
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Turkmenistan's natural gas industry and diversification of exports

You-qi chuyun, 2020
As a country rich in oil and gas resources, Turkmenistan's natural gas industry has become a pillar industry of its national economy. However, Turkmenistan's natural gas export shows a weak growth trend due to insufficient productivity construction and ...
Meng LIANG, Yanyun ZHANG, Yingying PENG, Li SUN, Zhongyuan REN, Qi ZHANG, Ying YANG   +6 more
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Economic Co-operation of the Regions of Russia with Turkmenistan [PDF]

Among the CIS countries Turkmenistan is known as one of the most closed state, information about which could hardly be found. At the same time these dates are contrary to each other.
Jahan Orazdurdiyeva, Vyacheslav Vashanov
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Improving child mental health and learning outcomes and reducing stigma and discrimination in conflict setting: findings from a cluster randomized controlled trial of a classroom‐based psychosocial intervention in rural primary schools in Afghanistan

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Conflict and crises have long‐lasting and dramatic consequences on the mental health of children. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a psychosocial intervention on child mental health in Afghanistan. Methods A two‐arm cluster‐randomized controlled trial was conducted in 83 rural primary schools within three provinces of Afghanistan.
Jean‐Francois Trani, Yiqi Zhu, Saria Bechara, Shuya Yin, Parul Bakhshi, Ian Kaplan, Ramkrishna K. Singh, Mohammed A. Modaber, Hashim Rawab, Madelyn Yoo, Kim Thuy Seelinger, Ganesh M. Babulal, Ramesh Raghavan   +12 more
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Make Social Media Social Again: How Platform Interoperability Can Fix Social Media and Future‐Proof Democracy

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues that social media document (rather than fuel) the decline of political democracy while helping revive organizational democracy, including through ‘decentralized autonomous organizations’ (DAOs). Yet, despite giving everyone a voice and the ability to organize across borders, social media could over‐concentrate power if, in ...
J.P. Vergne
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The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Post-Soviet Central Asia Countries

Международная аналитика, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has a significant impact on socio-economic and political processes in Central Asia. The political specifics of the countries in the region affected the methods and approaches taken by the authorities of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz ...
A. M. Akhunov
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