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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"post-Soviet states"”.
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Political socialization of youth in post-soviet states
… and international politics. Utilizing post-Soviet Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine as theoretical model, this study discusses the expediency of political socialization framework in identifying nation-building techniques. Examination and comparison of youth political socialization …
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Welfare Reforms in Post-Soviet States: A Comparison of Social Benefits Reform in Russia and Kazakhstan
… in Kazakhstan. Given their comparable Soviet political and economic characteristics in the immediate aftermath of Communism’s disintegration, why did the implementation of social benefits reform succeed in Kazakhstan, but largely fail in Russia? I argue that although several political …
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Effect of Resource Curse on Child Well-being in Resource-rich States, Specifically in Post-Soviet States
… worldwide, (2) focusing specifically on six post-Soviet countries, and (3) developing a policy or policies to break the resource curse, in this case focusing on one resource-rich LMI country. The first paper presents a new conceptual model to test the link between the resource curse and child …
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Understanding barriers and opportunities in agricultural information management in post-Soviet states: a case study of Kazakhstan.
After the break-up of the former Soviet Union in 1991, several states declared independence, including the Republic of Kazakhstan. Under the centralised soviet system Kazakhstan provided mainly raw materials to the USSR, and agriculture operated under a Moscow-based command and control model. …
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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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Minority rights and democracy: The transitions of post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania
… of multiethnic societies by focusing on three post-Soviet states--Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania. In particular, it explores how the three states are attempting to deal with the national question as they seek to institutionalize democracy. The building of democracy--even if considered only in …
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Russia's fight against drug trafficking: Challenges in developing local law enforcement capabilities
… conducted on two border programs that operate in post-Soviet states, EUBAM and BOMCA, provide real-world examples of challenges posed by traffickers, as well as challenges that exist in the current policing structures of Russia. The final section briefly offers policy suggestions that Russia …
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Being Ethnic on the Eurasian Steppe: Civic Nation-Building Discourse in Kazakhstan and Russia
… within the political discourses of various post-Soviet states, particularly in relation to the status of ethnic minorities in Russia and Kazakhstan. This dissertation investigates the institutional efforts to establish civic nations in these states among their non-titular populations. My …
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The Development of Post-Soviet Health Systems: A Mixed Methods Historical Case Study
After independence, post-Soviet countries embarked on various trajectories of health system development, some more successfully than others. Several countries throughout the region, limited by political and economic constraints, continue to struggle with health systems strengthening, leading to …
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Scapegoating International Socialisation: Russia’s (Re-)Encounter Narrative 1999-2018
… identity, the thesis’s starting point is to take states’ socialisation memory seriously and study how it evolves and shapes state identity and behaviour. I argue that Russia, through its changing memory of the intense socialisation in the 1990s, developed a two-pronged negative self-perception as …
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Structural and Conjunctural Factors of Gorbachev’s Concessionary Policies vis-à-vis East Central Europe and the Baltic Republics
… gradual retreat and systematic loosening of Soviet control over these regions. According to the theoretical tradition of historical institutionalism, the study explains institutional transformations in the Kremlin. Its primary added value is utilizing up to 16 000 pages-long published Russian …