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068788
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134144
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2014.
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The author looks at the problem of the legitimacy of the 2013 presidential election in Tajikistan as a sine qua non of social and political stability and, consequently, of the country's security and territorial integrity. In Tajikistan's specific case, the election could only be legitimate if the opposition forces, primarily the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRP), which comes second after the institution of presidential power as the most influential political force, did not boycott it.
Despite the easily predicted results (another term for President Rakhmon), the IRP leaders decided to take part in the process: an Islamic revival could only take place in a politically stable Tajikistan. To gain public legitimacy for their decision, they organized a series of consultations with representatives of the public to formulate and realize the idea of an Alliance of the Reformist Forces of Tajikistan (ORST), which nominated human rights activist Oinihol Bobonazarova as its joint presidential candidate. She did not run because, after failing to present the necessary number of signatures gathered in her support to the Central Election Commission, she was not registered as a candidate. The IRP leaders abstained from voting, but denied all accusations of boycotting the election.
President Rakhmon, who won the election, and the IRP, which stuck resolutely to its course and was able to keep the Islamic revival going, were both winners. The country benefited the most-the election did not shake the frail stability, while Tajikistan's enemies lost another chance to interfere in its domestic affairs with destructive intentions.
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099469
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171588
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118634
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ID:
110990
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2012.
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With the death of its most recent president Malam Bacai Sanha, Guinea-Bissau has once again been plunged into turmoil and political uncertainty.Kate Thomas assesses the best-and worst case scenarios for the troubled country.
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ID:
087097
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2009.
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It would seem to be impossible not to recognize the historical significance and symbolism that Barack Obama's election represents, regardless of whether someone supported Obama, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, or any of the other thirteen contenders for the presidency. Just 45 years after Dr. Martin Luther King's ''I Have a Dream'' speech and Birmingham Public Service Commissioner Bull Connor directed fire hoses to be aimed at civil rights demonstrators, an African-American was elected president of the United States. No matter how Obama fares as president, this is a remarkable milestone in U.S. history.
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172692
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We use spatial econometrics on a unique data set covering 229 Korean regions to analyze the outcome of Korea’s 2017 presidential election. We see strong statistical evidence of spatial correlation, suggesting that neighboring regions vote similarly, which is in accord with findings in the international context. Our findings are distinct in that we see little evidence that Korea’s 2017 outcome was driven by the economic disparities between the southeast and the southwest, a highly sensitive political issue in the country. Voters’ region of origin and age are the two most important factors in vote choice, irrespective of the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of their regions.
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ID:
149818
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concerns about government stability ahead of the 2018 presidential election are driving Vladimir Putin into reforms of Russia's security apparatus. Mark Galeotti surveys changes that could substantially reorient Moscos's internal security and espionage posture.
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ID:
129598
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ID:
080232
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Westport, Praeger Security International, 2007.
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x, 174p.hbk
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9780275999995
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
053065 | 958.1047/MOR 053065 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
149859
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Australia's relationship with China and the United States will be increasingly difficult to balance. In the wake of the US presidential election and subsequent policy uncertainty, and growing assertiveness from Beijing, John Bruni examines the outlook for Canberra.
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ID:
131664
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131656
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ID:
117378
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2012.
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IN FRANCE, presidential campaigns and elections are always impressive and memorable events, the results of which extend for the next five years. No wonder, the public and the political class alike try to reassess the realities in an effort to arrive at more or less clear ideas on the key issues of the country's external and internal policies. The president is elected by direct general vote; each of the French citizens over 18 has the right to vote and, therefore, determine the outcome. This explains the high legitimacy of the president who enjoys wide powers, especially in foreign policy, under the Constitution of the Fifth Republic. People prefer charismatic politicians and brilliant personalities yet the programs of the contenders are no less important. In other words, the future of the country, at least for the next five years, depends on people's vote.
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ID:
155346
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THE FRENCH MEDIA wrote about the 2017 presidential campaign in France as unprecedented: for the first time in the history of the Fifth Republic, it was neck-and-neck race of four candidates in the first round of election. Emmanuel Macron who posed as an independent candidate got 24.1% of the votes; President of the National Front Marine Le Pen. 21.3%; nominee of the Republicans Fran�ois Fillon finished with 20.1%. and the leader of extreme left Jean-Luc Mélenchon with 19.58% was the last of the four at the finishing line.1 The extent of disorientation of the French electorate and the unprecedented split were amply confirmed in the second round by the fairly good results of Marine Le Pen (33.9%) confronted by practically all political forces of France; by the much lower turnout - 74.56% against 77.77% in the first round - and a much bigger share of votes blancs: 4.86 million or 11.52%.
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ID:
133462
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2014.
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During a private conversation following Egypt's bitterly contested and closely fought presidential election of 2012, a Western diplomat marveled, naively, at the multitudes of veiled women who had come out to support the old regime's candidate, the avowedly anti-Islamist figure of Ahmed Shafik. It was during this campaign that strongly held anti-Islamist themes were aired widely and used to mount a campaign against the potent, often bigoted, Muslim Brotherhood. Many of these same views were advanced in support of the military's removal of the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi, victorious candidate for the presidency and, with his electoral victory, successor to President Hosni Mubarak.
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ID:
152210
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ID:
126341
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2013.
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One of the shortcomings of the implicit racial attitudes literature is that it relies almost exclusively on white subjects. Arguably, there are two possible reasons for this. First, these measures were created to address issues of social desirability among whites who harbor negative racial attitudes toward blacks. Second, social desirability pressures and antiblack affect were not viewed as significant among black respondents (see Craemer 2008). This assumption is problematic because it treats black racial attitudes as a monolith. Rather than examining black racial opinion as a complicated and multivalenced set of evaluations about their own group and others, there has been an over emphasis on measures of group solidarity (e.g., linked fate). Understandably, bloc voting and cohesive policy opinions have partially justified this focus; however, the black community is more diverse than presidential election turnout suggests. Price (2009) argues that linked fate, the most common measure for black racial identity, is not adequately problematized as a potentially positive or negative measure of psychological attachment. Here, we hope to build on this literature by using an implicit black identity measure.
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ID:
089549
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2009.
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The 2008 United States presidential election compaign presented a sharp contrast in the study of political discourse.The Democratic Party was represented by a candidate who owed his meteoric Political rise to his remarkably skillful and inspiring plitical oratory.
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