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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"post-Soviet space"”.
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Conceptualizing Regional International Societies: Examining the Post-Soviet Space
… scholars have demonstrated the existence of a post-Soviet regional international society. However, what is lacking is a clear defining of the members and institutions of this society. This paper gives particular attention to three questions: who are the actors, what are the primary and …
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SOCIAL MEDIA IN POST-SOVIET SPACE: SERVING TO AUTOCRACY OR SIMULATING DISSENT?
… determines either group's success in digital space. I define two dimensions along which autocrats and their rivals from the opposition might benefit from using social media: informational and mobilisation facets. In the first two articles of my paper-based dissertation, I concentrate on the …
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Healing Russia with Islam: Spiritual journeys, conversions, and belonging in the late Soviet and post-Soviet space, 1970-2020
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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To Bridge or to Bond? Exploring the Impact of Facebook Use on Protest Participation in Moldova
… this in less-established democracies such as the post-Soviet space. This study addresses this gap by examining the impact of Facebook use and online social capital on offline protest participation through the case of the post-Soviet Moldova: a hybrid state with a politically monopolised media, but …
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Eurasian Economic Union: Towards Economic Prosperity, or towards Power Gains?
… public discourse is a comparison to the former Soviet Union. To tackle the issue, the thesis asks: What are the main motives for participation in the project? Which main benefits are expected by the members to be gained? These questions are answered through a content analysis of verbal …
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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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The Medvedev years : an examination of the external forces & internal dynamics affecting the Kremlin's foreign policy decisions
… Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are traced from the Soviet democratization during the 1980’s and the constitutional empowerment of the Russian presidency during the 1990’s. These two coexistent forces of empowering the average citizen in a country in which the President is the most powerful authority …
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Institutional Dynamics of State-Minority Relations in Slovakia and Azerbaijan
… how the newly independent states in the broader post-Soviet and post-socialist space developed their institutional frameworks for national minorities. For this purpose, it draws empirically from two case studies – Slovakia and Azerbaijan as examples of states which followed similar historical and …
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Post-Soviet women writers and the national imaginary, 1989-2009
This project is a case study of how post-Soviet women writers have attempted to renegotiate women's (and women writers') traditional roles in and vis-à-vis their newly independent postcommunist nations through fiction that engages the questions of gender and national identity in the post-Soviet …
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Charismatic leadership of media businesses: a case study of leaders of two media businesses in the post-Soviet states of Russia and Kyrgyzstan (1991-2016)
… media companies after the break-up of the Soviet Union and managed to grow them from small businesses into the present media holdings.In comparing the media holding from Russia, which is the former Soviet Union’s largest economy, and the one from Kyrgyzstan, which is one of the smallest …
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The Georgian Crisis and U.S.-Russian Relations
… shifted like a precarious seesaw. The former Soviet space has become a stage for an ambitious political game for regional supremacy between Moscow and Washington. Russia, eager to reestablish its great power status has tried to find a balance between collaboration with the West and its …