Narrow down by keywords: Governance and public policy, Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS
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- The War Next Door: A Study of Second-track Intervention during the War in ex-Yugoslavia
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Author: Large, Judith Issue: Volume 8, Numbe ...
Book review - admin - 2009-12-22 09:05
- How people can influence government policy – stories from the Caucasus
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It is very motivating to see vulnerable people becoming strong advocates for their own rights and persuading their government to act; or to see passionate young economists influencing the state and effecting positive change for tens of thousands of poor ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-05 14:06
- Aiding and abetting the politicians?
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The British government has increasingly assumed the role of international arbiter and peacekeeper, both with and without a UN mandate. The hijacking of the moral high ground and recurrent assertion of global consensus - even in the presence of overwhelmin ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:45
- International food prices, agricultural transformation, and food security in Central Asia
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This study addresses the impact of global food prices on domestic food prices, the short-term policy responses taken by national governments, and major constraints on long-term food security in Central Asia. A surge in domestic food-price inflation in C ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 10:24
- NGOs, civil society and the State: building democracy in transitional countries
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40 participants from 24 countries took part in this workshop, organised by the International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) in Oxford, UK. Much of the workshop was spent trying to reach agreement on what civil society means, and the degree to w ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:56
- Two agricultural shocks in the former USSR, 60 years apart
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Besides wars and revolution, Russia and its neighbours suffered two major agricultural shocks in the last century: the collectivisation crisis of 1929–33 and the collapse of the collective farms in the 1990s. Both were in some sense policy-induced ...
Abstract - dwardle - 2011-08-16 10:29
- Dismantling former Yugoslavia, recolonising Bosnia
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Recent conflicts in the Balkans have been portrayed largely in terms of ethnic and religious divisions, with Western military and diplomatic intervention seen as essential to securing a positive outcome. However, these divisions are the consequence of a d ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58
- Kafka meets Machiavelli: post-war, post-transition Eastern Slavonia
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As the agonising over `what next' for Kosovo and Serbia continues, Eastern Slavonia offers a transition experience and timescale from which we may learn. Each case is specific in historical and political terms, and in the nature of international intervent ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- Globalism and nationalism: which one is bad?
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The author differentiates between globalism, an ideology, and globalisation, a process that affects us all. He compares globalism and nationalism, considering the positive, negative, and similar, aspects of each, using examples from Eastern Europe where a ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:02
- A social change model of health development in the Republic of Georgia:
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Government of Georgia has been struggling to provide healthcare services to a population experiencing a deterioration in health status, while at the same time restructuring and reforming the delivery, priorities, re ...
Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06
