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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Post-Soviet era"”.
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Sovereign Debt and the New Global Economy: An analysis of Russian and Polish debt treatments in the post-Soviet era
Critics have alleged that the process of negotiating sovereign debt relief is unduly politicized and favors a global capitalist elite over national and democratic interests. This study evaluates the legitimacy of these criticisms by analyzing the cases of Russia and Poland in the six year period …
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Environmental Quality and Economic Development
… which pollution is treated as an externality generated in the production sector and affecting the consumption sector. I consider the transitional dynamics and the steady state of not only the typical nations that start their development with a small stock of capital and a large stock of the …
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Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense: an Overview of Major Programs and Issues of the Abm Debate Over the Past Forty-Five Years
… defense in the face of the Cold War, and now the post-Soviet era. The debate over ballistic missile defense within the United States is unprecedented in its scope and time span. Unlike various other U.S. weapons programs, the debate over anti-ballistic missile defense has a special quality to it. …
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Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn
… by blending premigration symbolism from the Soviet era with adaptations to American society. This study demonstrates that in the post-Soviet era, Victory Day remains an important yet contentious holiday commemorating the end of fascism and World War II. My methodology includes the use of …
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Women of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: Historical legacies impacting contemporary involvement
… the development of the status of women in post-Soviet Central Asia. The research shows that women in Kyrgyzstan are more actively pursuing opportunities to contribute to civil society than what is found in Tajikistan, where the pressures for women to return to more traditional roles has …
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The center cannot hold?: Elite mobility and patronage in the North Caucasus during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods
… 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 relationships of …
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De oeconomia ex natione: An Examination of the Role of Nationalism in Estonia's Transition from Socialism to Capitalism
… in Estonia's transition to capitalism in the post-Soviet era and the way it continues to impact the Estonian economy. I hypothesize that nationalism was the key factor in this transition and that nationalism has placed a disproportionate economic burden on the resident ethnic Russians. First, …
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Towards corpo-nationalism: a Bourdieusian study exploring the relationship between national branding and the reproduction of Polishness (1999 - 2010).
… findings in the contexts of the dominant neo-liberal political economy and promotional culture in Poland, but its examination considers the socio-historical conditions of the post-Soviet era accompanying nation branding as a nation building process. By considering specific settings, it outlines a …
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Survival of a Perverse Nation: Sexuality and Kinship in Post-Soviet Armenia
… into the figure of the “homosexual.” As in other post-Soviet republics, homosexuality has increasingly become defined as the crisis of the times, and is understood by many as a destructive force linked to European encroachment. In Armenia, a growing right-wing nationalist movement since 2012 has …
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Liberalism's loyal opposition : contemporary attitudes to Russia in the wake of the cold war
… that underpin public debate about Russia in the post-Soviet era. It approaches the question using the conceptual framework of new Cold War warriors and re-invented fellow travellers for two reasons. The first is that debates that seek to re-conjure spectres of Marxism or socialism in contemporary …
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Liberalism's loyal opposition : contemporary attitudes to Russia in the wake of the cold war
… that underpin public debate about Russia in the post-Soviet era. It approaches the question using the conceptual framework of new Cold War warriors and re-invented fellow travellers for two reasons. The first is that debates that seek to re-conjure spectres of Marxism or socialism in contemporary …
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Agents of Evil: Curse Accusations and Shamanic Retaliation in Post-Soviet Tuva (Siberia)
… as on sociological and statistical sources about post-Soviet Tuva, this thesis identifies a significant incidence of curse accusations in contemporary Tuva. I argue that this tendency is a repercussion of socio-economic pressures principally related to the post-socialist transition, in particular …
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Essays on aviation, regional economic development, and migration
… to the local economies and sustainability, in general. The first two essays in this dissertation examine the effect of aviation from those above-mentioned angles to local economies in Colorado and California. The third essay focuses on the phenomenon of migration and remittances during the …