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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Caucasus"”.
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Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus
… position, the most central aspect of the South Caucasus today is the multiple foreign policy agendas at play in the region. The United States, Russia, Iran and Turkey all compete for influence in the region. Thus, the South Caucasus will retain a high degree of geopolitical significance in the …
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Georgian Polyphonic Imaginaries: The Politics of Representation in the Caucasus
… in Georgia, an emerging democracy in the Caucasus. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in the city of Tbilisi over nine months in 2009 to investigate public opinion and observe changes in heritage-related endeavors. The liberal policies are part of a reform initiative of president Mikheil …
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Deciphering the Tectonics of the Caucasus from Post-Collisional Volcanism
… region of continental collision. The Caucasus mountains lie at the centre of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt, and differs from their better studied neighbours by the presence of intense, largely mantle derived post-collisional magmatism. Volcanism began 5-15 Ma after the initial …
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A Regional Framework for Historical Developments in the Caucasus, 1917-1921
… for the political and military history of the Caucasus during the period of the Russian Revolution and Civil War. Based on journalistic materials, archival documents and contemporary publications in Russian, Georgian, French and English, this chronological study demonstrates that political, …
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Explaining ethnic conflict in the South Caucasus : Mountainous Karabagh, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia
(cont.) the USSR and finds that a focus on opportunity provides the best explanation for the presence or absence of mass mobilization. Finally, the dissertation argues that conventional state security concerns best explain the start of escalation. Union republic opponents, Azerbaijanis and …
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The Russian-Soviet Resettlement Policies and Their Implications for Ethno-Territorial Conflicts in the South Caucasus
… and Soviet resettlement policies in the South Caucasus with a focus on Azerbaijan, and their implications for the ethno-territorial conflicts in the region. The periods of 1817-1840 as well as from 1878- 1914 during Russian Imperial rule are juxtaposed to the period of 1941-1953 of the Soviet …
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The Impact of the Russian Military System on Nineteenth Century Russian Expansionism in the Caucasus and Central Asia
… separate conflicts. The Russian conquests of the Caucasus and Central Asian regions are the expansionist efforts under focus, and specifically battles at Dargo in the Caucasus and Khiva in Central Asia are analyzed. It is argued that, due to a Russian military system that refused to move away from …
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Compliance with judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: analysing South Caucasus states on a spectrum of democratization
… Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the three South Caucasus states: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. It critically assesses their compliance behaviour as states on a spectrum of democratisation varying from democratising to increasingly authoritarian tendencies, raising concerns about their ability …
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The center cannot hold?: Elite mobility and patronage in the North Caucasus during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods
… of elite mobility and patronage in the North Caucasus across the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The North Caucasus is defined as Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachaevo-Cherkessia, and Stavropol krai. The thesis examines the career mobility and patronage …
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Terorizmo įsigalėjimo sąlygos Šiaurės ir Pietų Kaukaze /
… of Terrorism in the North and South Caucasus. Terrorism, as a political phenomenon, is a very complex conception. It has been in the centre of attention since the Cold War, but especially in recent years terrorism has managed to spread the fear of it to a very large audience across …
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Organological geopolitics and the Balaban of Azerbaijan: comparative musical dialogues concerning a double-reed aerophone of the post-Soviet Caucasus
… musical instrument found throughout the South Caucasus. In Azerbaijan this instrument is called the balaban; in Armenia, the duduk; and in Georgia it is known as the duduki. The value locally assigned to this instrument by citizens of these countries is most apparent through the discourses that …
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The impact of the eurasian economic union and china’s belt and road initiative on two regions (central asia and the caucasus)
… development in Central Asia and the Caucasus. It finds that the EAEU promotes rule-based integration through tariff liberalization, regulatory harmonization, and labor mobility, while the BRI advances connectivity via infrastructure projects, loans, and soft power. Together, these …
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From order to narrative: assembling eventfulness through Bayesian chronologies. A view from the Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) South Caucasus
… case” for the archaeology of the South Caucasus and Southwest Asia. In this dissertation, I challenge the notion of “events” as extraordinary happenings in favor of pervasive “eventfulness”, extended to the repeating events that maintain organic and inorganic temporal cycles. Within this …
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The world is a window
… the continents of Europe and Asia, the South Caucasus, the name referring to the geographical region that stretches from the Black Sea to the Caspian has played an important role in connecting peoples. Traversed by a great chain of mountains rising to a height of 18,000 feet, it was used by …
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Kinematically consistent, elastic block model for the eastern Mediterranean constrained by GPS measurements
… (EU), Nubia (NU), Arabia (AR), Anatolia (AN), Caucasus (CA), South Aegea (AE), Central Greece (GR), North Aegea (NE), Southeast Aegea (SE), Macedonia (MA), and Adria (AD). Two models are presented, one in which the best-fitting locking depth for the entire region (-15 km) is used on all …
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Sergei Kirov and the Struggle for Soviet Power in the Terek Region, 1917-1918
… the multi-national Terek Region, in the Northern Caucasus, from the February Revolution to the establishment there of a Soviet government in March 1918. The presence of Sergei Kirov, who subsequently became an important supporter of Stalin and a member of the ruling Politburo, lends additional …
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The Defence and Evacuation of the Kuban Bridgehead, January – October 1943
… bulk of German Army Group A withdrew from the Caucasus in early 1943 to avoid encirclement following the Soviet counter-offensive at Stalingrad, Seventeenth Army was ordered to hold a bridgehead on the Kuban Peninsula as a jumping-off point for a future resumption of the German offensive into …
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Visible Dead: Ancestral Landscapes in Prehistory between the Mediterranean and the Near East
… the marginal landscapes of the Near East and the Caucasus, such as kurgans, dolmens, and nawamis, attempts at their understanding within the cognitive world of ancient societies have often been hampered by the lack of archaeological data from potentially associated settlements. Thus, this research …
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