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Cleft Countries
During the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, the second largest country in Europe came close to a violent break-up similar to that in neighboring Moldova, which witnessed a violent …
James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism
"James Joyce and the Mythology of Modernism" examines anew how myth exists in Joyce's fiction. Using Joyce's idiosyncratic appropriation of the myths of Catholicism, this study …
Georgian Regime Crisis of 2003-2004, the
The Republic of Georgia remains characterized by an unstable socio-political economy and by gross levels of economic inequality, corruption, ineffective policing, a weak judiciary, …
New Directions in Russian International Studies.
Western social scientists can improve their understanding of post-Soviet Russia by studying the new discipline of Russian International Relations (IR). This collection introduces …
Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin's Russia I
Escaping from the Prison-House of Language and Digging for Meanings in Texts Among Texts
Margaret Atwood's novels are photographs of her characters' lives: while words only ever describe her protagonists' blurred visions of their pasts, their 'true' stories are told in …
Political Anti-Semitism in Post-Soviet Russia. Actors and Ideas in 1991-2003
Anti-Semitism was a major feature of both late Tsarist and Stalinist as well as neo-Stalinist Russian politics. What does this legacy entail for the emergence of post-Soviet …
Europeans and the Public Sphere
What kind of public sphere is possible in the European Union with its considerable diversity of national identities, languages, and media systems? Against the backdrop of debates …
Words As Swords
Verbal violence, as a sophisticated means of persuasion and manipulation, is as effective on the stage as physical violence. Since the destructive effects of verbal violence are …
Bulgaria's Democratic Consolidation and the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant. the Unattainability of Closure. With a Foreword by Richard J. Crampton
Bulgaria's post-communist experience has been a fractured transition both politically and economically. How deeply has its democracy been consolidated? Has the residue of …
The Democratic Developmental State
The concept of a democratic developmental state is part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated on by academics, and embraced by …
Post-Soviet Russian-Belarussian Relationships. The Role of Gas Transit Pipelines
Until the February 2004 gas crisis when Gazprom cut off all gas flows via Belarus, the issue of Belarus as a gas transit route was not addressed seriously despite this country's …