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Towards an “uncivil” society? Informality and civil society in Georgia 走向一个“不文明”的社会？格鲁吉亚的非正规性和民间社会

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2019-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2019.1690384

Tatia Chikhladze, H. Aliyev

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We need to talk about Putin: how the West gets him wrong 我们需要谈谈普京:西方是如何误解他的

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2019-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2019.1626150

B. Tashev

引用次数: 3

The social and spatial insularity of internally displaced persons: “neighbourhood effects” in Georgia’s collective centres 国内流离失所者的社会和空间孤立性:格鲁吉亚集体中心的“邻里效应”

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2019-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2019.1617652

David Gogishvili, Suzanne Harris-Brandts

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引用次数: 7

Armenia’s path to democratization by recursive mass protests 亚美尼亚通过反复的大规模抗议走向民主化

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2019-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2019.1614751

A. Grigoryan

引用次数: 8

Borderization theatre: geopolitical entrepreneurship on the South Ossetia boundary line, 2008–2018 边界化剧场:2008-2018年南奥塞梯边界线上的地缘政治企业家精神

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2019-01-24 DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2019.1565192

Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail), Gela Merabishvili

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引用次数: 13

Dictator’s Instagram: personal and political narratives in a Chechen leader’s social network 独裁者的Instagram:车臣领导人社交网络中的个人和政治叙事

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2019-01-18 DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2019.1567145

E. Rodina, Dmitriy Dligach

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引用次数: 14

Out of the shadow? Georgia’s emerging strategies of engagement in the Eastern Partnership: between external governance and partnership cooperation 走出阴影？格鲁吉亚参与东方伙伴关系的新战略：外部治理与伙伴关系合作之间

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2019-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2018.1541218

L. Fix, Andrea Gawrich, Kornely K. Kakachia, Alla Leukavets

引用次数: 1

Being here and there: a case study of Muslim Meskhetians’ identity and belonging, formation and reconstruction in the United States 在这里和那里：以美国穆斯林Meskhetians的身份和归属、形成和重建为例

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2018-09-21 DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2018.1499299

Ekaterine Pirtskhalava

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引用次数: 1

Pre-acceptance as a method to combat publication bias in area studies: a pilot in the Caucasus 预验收作为对抗地区研究中出版偏见的一种方法：高加索地区的一名试点

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2018-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2018.1522796

Aaron Erlich

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引用次数: 1

Joining the club: explaining alliance preferences in the South Caucasus 加入俱乐部：解释南高加索的联盟偏好

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Caucasus Survey Pub Date : 2018-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/23761199.2018.1507599

N. Abbasov, David S. Siroky

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引用次数: 4