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187056
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The years between 1978 and 1992 saw China enter a turbulent period of socio-economic recovery and foreign policy recalibration after the death of Mao Zedong. A string of organised expeditions to Europe by Chinese journalists produced a collection of first-hand, in-depth reportage, which vividly exemplified the reconstruction of Chinese media discourse on the outside world. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this article explores how the delegations formulated their discourses on Europe and argues that these discourses revealed a series of ideological and practical paradoxes that would continue to dominate China’s perception of and strategies towards Europe far beyond 1992.
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187052
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This article examines the media framing of immigrants around the 2015–2017 EU refugee crisis in two Central European countries, Czechia and Slovakia. Unlike most similar studies I investigate how framing varies regarding different migrant groups. Using quantitative content analysis, I show that security and cultural frames are most commonly employed while the opposite holds for the victimisation frame. Particular frames are, however, more frequently used to depict certain immigrants. Those with a Muslim background and/or from the Middle East or North Africa (MENA) are more often framed in security and cultural terms. The victimisation frame is employed more often regarding immigrants from MENA and the economic frame regarding Eastern Europeans.
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187050
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Transnational actors with Russian origins have recently appeared on the global stage and become influential in world politics. In this article we revisit the theoretical debate about subgroups within the Russian diaspora such as ‘Russian compatriots’, representatives of the ‘Russian world’ (Russkii mir) and so-called ‘Global Russians’. Filling a gap in the scholarly analysis, we define Global Russians as individuals who self-identify with Russian civilisation and actively engage in Russian political, social or cultural affairs while living abroad and contributing to business, academic and cultural life at a global level.
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187057
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The article explores how transport networks in the Western Balkans are transformed from physical infrastructures into political instruments. It concentrates on two case studies: the construction of the ‘Brotherhood and Unity’ Highway and the EU connectivity agenda in the Western Balkans. It examines how the first was part of the process of constructing a Yugoslav ‘community of nations’ and how the latter has been integrated into the broader scheme of ‘region building’ in the Western Balkans. The analysis considers how transport networks were used in each case and reflects on the limits and the durability of this political endeavour.
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187051
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It is no secret that the modernisation process in Russia via state-owned companies has run into a dead end. A full understanding of this stagnation requires an investigation of the governance systems and the changes going on behind them. Using the example of the two most important state-owned companies of the aviation sector, the JSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) and the non-profit organisation (state corporation—Gosudarstvennaya Korporatsiya) Rostec, this article shows the main differences in state corporate governance systems, identifying a presidential and a governmental governance system. In the context of this work, the term governmental is limited only to the federal cabinet and its administrations, thereby creating an awareness that different executive state bodies can exercise different forms of state governance. Overall, the sector is characterised by growing informalisation and industrial incorporation.
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187055
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Critics have argued that the provision of support by the Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to Central Asian police risks reinforcing authoritarianism. This article examines OSCE police-related activities in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan during the 2010s, highlighting persistent gaps between the OSCE’s commitment to democratic policing and OSCE practices on the ground. It identifies two institutional mechanisms that skew implementation in favour of Central Asian governments: micromanagement by participating states and implementers’ adaption to institutional environments that are not conducive to democratic police governance. Police-related activities in Central Asia showcase the limitations and risks of providing international support to the security sectors of non-liberal states.
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ID:
187054
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The case of civic activism discussed here is one of the very few successful campaigns in Georgia. We argue that the success of the ‘Save Gudiashvili Square’ initiative was largely due to its framing process, recruitment tactics and protest repertoire, coupled with changes in the political system. These factors, alongside the close intergroup ties within the organisation and its openness at the right moment, make the campaign distinctive in the history of modern Georgia.
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ID:
187053
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