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Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
, 2018 This dissertation is the first major study of a slave trade that captured up to one million slaves along the Russian and Iranian frontiers over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries alone.
J. Eden
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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 +2 more
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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 +12 more
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EPIC CULTURE IN TURKMEN LITERATURE
Uludağ Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2023 Turkmens; with its rich oral cultural products, strong national ties and dynamic lifestyle, it forms an important part of the Turkish cultural circle. In various sources, there is information that the epic is composed of poetry or parable genres, with the mention that it is based on the literary reworking of prose genres such as tales, legends, and ...
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Etnicidad, nacionalismo y el Estado en Afganistán
, 2002 The paper begins by surveying the cultural, linguistic, occupational and sectarian diversity of Afghanistan's population, going on to discuss the origins of the modern Afghan state in the reign of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan in the late 19th century.
Beattie, Hugh
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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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Situation of the Turkmens of the Stavropol province in the 19th century (historiographical review)
Nomadic Civilization: Historical ResearchThe study of the nomads of the South of Russia still arouses continued interest among Russian and foreign scholars, who study nomad, local historians, whose works reflect the history of nomads in Central Asia.
R. S. Shurguchinov
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Out-of-pocket payments for health care services in Bulgaria: financial burden and barrier to access.
, 2012 BACKGROUND: In recent years, Bulgaria has increasingly relied on out-of-pocket payments as one of the main sources of health care financing. However, it is largely unknown whether the official patient charges, combined with informal payments, are ...
Atanasova, Elka +4 more
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Geopolitics and Aspirations for Sustainability: Turkey's Emergence as an Energy Hub
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Turkey is pursuing three main objectives in the energy sector: enhancing its geopolitical position, expanding its domestic production and renewable energy capacity, and becoming a natural gas hub linking producers from the Middle East, the Caspian region, and Russia to European markets.
Umud Shokri
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Nomadic Civilization: Historical ResearchThe publication analyzes the peculiarities of the Russian imperial administrative experience in combating desertification in the Bazhigan and Bakylzan sand massifs of the Achikulak bailiwick of Stavropol province in the late 19th — early 20th centuries ...
A. T. Dzhumagulova
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