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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"East-Central Europe"”.
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Structural and Conjunctural Factors of Gorbachev’s Concessionary Policies vis-à-vis East Central Europe and the Baltic Republics
… studies Gorbachev’s policies vis a vis East Central Europe and the Baltic Republics, namely, the Kremlin’s gradual retreat and systematic loosening of Soviet control over these regions. According to the theoretical tradition of historical institutionalism, the study explains …
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Trianon And The Predestination Of Hungarian Politics: A Historiography Of Hungarian Revisionism, 1918-1944
… Hungary's geopolitical position in the heart of Europe, and the nation's unfortunate orientation between the policies of Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia predestined the nation to its fate in World War II. There was no other choice for Hungarian policy in World War II but the Axis alliance. The …
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Reacting to Hitler: Polish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, and Romanian foreign policy, 1933-1939
<p>The nations of East Central Europe have traditionally been portrayed as “victims” of Nazi German expansionism. In this work the foreign policies of Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, and Romania from 1933 to 1939 were examined through the paradigm of Hitler's major foreign policy achievements to …
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Memorializing Wartime Rape During the Second World War
… were euphemistically called comfort women. In East-Central Europe, approximately two million German women were raped during the Soviet liberation and occupation, 1945 to 1949. This thesis examines three public memorials that memorialize rape as a particular violent assault against the …
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The Construction of National Identity in post-1918 Poland
… following the state’s creation in 1918. Its central aim is to argue that although much of Poland’s national identity was, in fact, the product of the revolutionary eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the twentieth century, ethnocultural foundations proved essential in the process of …
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The Role of *Education in Economic Transition and Political Transformation in Post -Communist Countries
… countries of the former Soviet Union and East-Central Europe. In the first section an empirical analysis of the determinant of economic growth and investment in physical capital is performed. This analysis detects positive impact of investment in secondary education on economic growth …
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Railway cooperation among V4 states — The role of political spillovers in rail transport integration between the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Republic of Poland, and the Slovak Republic (1999–2021)
… means, and limits of railway integration in East Central Europe through identifying and interpreting the European integration’s political spillovers in the Visegrad Group’s transport cooperation. The examination of the V4 cooperation’s transport aspects is the linkage where the dissertation …
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Of bureaucracies and motorways: administrative reform and infrastructure policy for national roads in Poland
… direction of transportation policy throughout East-Central Europe (ECE) since the democratic transition began in 1989. In Poland, the government has been developing a nationwide network of motorways and expressways in order to meet economic and social demand. The Polish government has pursued a …
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Socially necessary labour: countering the regime of speculative capital. A decolonial case-study from the east-central european semiperipheries in the age of illiberal democracy
… authoritarian turn of the two countries in the East-Central European (ECE) semiperiphery, commonly referred to as ‘illiberalism’. To gauge the current state of the ECE region, the work redefines the notion of Europe and Europeanness in the first chapter, relying on the seminal scholarship of …
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Conflicting Logics? : Implementing Capacity and EU Adaptation in a Postcommunist Context
… be vital to enhance implementing capacity in the East Central European countries. It is argued that there is a potential conflict between measures needed to meet EU requirements and measures needed to strengthen implementing capacity. Secondly, it applies the theoretical framework to an in-depth …