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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"the former Soviet Union"”.
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Forecasting Stability Levels for the Countries of the Former Soviet Union
… analyzing factors that contribute to stability. The anticipation of this stability level can facilitate crisis warning and diplomatic strategies for various timelines, including five, ten, and twenty year forecasts. While the problem of forecasting can be tackled in various ways, in the interest …
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Strategic planning for Turkish contracting companies in the former Soviet Union
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
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The Politics of Strategic Offensive Nuclear Weapons in the Former Soviet Union
Since the dissolution of the USSR there has been much concern about the possession and disposition of the nuclear arsenal of the former Super Power. This study examines that problem. It also seeks to clarify the politics and motivations of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan vis-a-vis nuclear …
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The Push Factors that Impact Sex Trafficking in the Former Soviet Union
… is a global problem that has been denounced by the international community as a human rights abuse and determined to be a modern form of slavery. Through a comparative analysis of the experiences of Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine as they were a part of the Soviet Union the study identifies the …
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A strategy for NASA's utilization of space assets in the former Soviet Union
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1993.
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Complete Freedom from Addiction, through Christ: Observation and Life-Stories from the former Soviet Union and Interviews with International Rehabilitation Leaders
Alison Giblett examines principles of the effective drug and alcohol rehabilitation of thousands of addicts in the former Soviet Union using 50 life-stories of ex-addicts and personal observation over six years visiting 60 rehabilitation centres. Addiction is understood to be primarily a spiritual …
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Financing upstream oil and gas ventures in the transitional economies of the former Soviet Union: a study of foreign investment and associated risks
The development of the Foreign Oil and Gas Investment (FOGI) Database permitted a systematic study of all reported upstream projects involving foreign investors throughout FSU, in order to assess the reaction of western capital to the opening up of the FSU's oil industry. While we identified 292 …
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(Neo) revolutionary messages : an analysis of the impact of counter-narratives versus state narratives during the 1991 Coup D'etat in the former Soviet Union
… 19, 1991, government hard-liners overthrew the Soviet Union for a period of 72 hours. Boris Yeltsin, the President of Russia, staged a protest on the steps of the Russian White House, where he gave speeches against the coup d'etat, releasing these speeches for dissemination between the …
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Soviet-Japanese Relations: Past, Present and Future
This thesis attempts to provide an informed perspective toward understanding past and current political, economic and military relations between the former Soviet Union and Japan. By studying recent and contemporary relations between the two countries, with particular attention to the Kurile …
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The roles of regional organisations in international peace and security in the post-modern era. The case of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe with the Former Soviet Union Republic States.
The thesis analyses the systems, dynamics and conditions of international cooperation/non-cooperation in the international community that is embodied through international/regional institutions and organisations. As Robert Cooper describes, the international community consists of the three worlds …
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Jewish Multi -Ethnicities in Post -Soviet Russia: An Eventful Ethnography of the Moscow Choral Synagogue
… political transformation both inside and outside the synagogue can provide new insights into both post-Soviet ethnography and Jewish studies. Much of the research done on emerging market practices in the former Soviet Union emphasizes the concept of transition and fails to fully address the ways …
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Still Standing: Cooperative strategies for the renovation of Soviet mass housing
Mass housing across the former Soviet Union is in varying states of disrepair, having lasted much longer than it was expected to when built in the 1960s. Treatment of the buildings varies greatly depending on context, as some are replaced, others are renovated, and many are neglected. But in most …
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From Dependence to Global Integration for Development: A Case Study of Vietnam—from 1975 to Present
<p>This study examines the process of Vietnam's global integration for development in order to conclude that Vietnam has been able to achieve economic development and human development by joining regional and global institutions and working closely with multilateral international development …
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An Analysis of the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty
During the Cold War the Soviet/Warsaw Pact nuclear and conventional force posture was the paramount threat to the security of the United States and its NATO allies. All NATO defense planning focused on it. However, the U.S. and NATO also relied to a certain extent on the arms control process to …
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Our brothers' keepers: Societal reactions to the Russian aliya in Israel, 1989-1992
The process by which the State of Israel assimilates new Jewish migrants, referred to in Hebrew as olim, has changed drastically in the last two decades. This is especially apparent with the most recent wave, or aliya, of migrants from the former Soviet Union. Some critics assert that the changes …
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Evaluating strategies for countering nuclear-armed terrorist groups
A number of recent studies have concluded that the United States is vulnerable to attack from terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Depending on the circumstances, a terrorist attack with nuclear or radiological weapons could cause more destruction and casualties than one with …
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Charakterisierung der Tuberkulosesituation in der Russischen Föderation : Analyse der epidemiologischen Lage und der Probleme in der Tuberkulosekontrolle auf föderaler Ebene und in der Autonomen Republik Tuva
Russia and the other successor states of the former Soviet Union suffer from high numbers in tuberculosis prevalences and incidences, the problem of tuberculosis spread is aggravated by rising rates of multidrug resistance. Information for this thesis was gathered by literature research and by …
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The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
Out of the violent conflicts in the former Soviet Union, the war over Nagorno-Karabakh is the most threatening to the future development of the region, both economically and politically, as it is no closer to a solution than when the fighting ended in 1994. This is regrettable as there are some …
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