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EU’s External Action and Russia: How Can Institutionalisation Affect Decision Making? 欧盟对外行动与俄罗斯：制度化如何影响决策？

Central European Journal of International and Security Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.51870/ndws5736

H. Moshirzadeh, Issa Adeli

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Terrorism Financing Typologies: Comparison of PKK and ISIL in Turkey 恐怖主义融资类型：土耳其库尔德工人党与伊黎伊斯兰国的比较

Central European Journal of International and Security Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.51870/eqvw6260

Behsat Ekici, Musa Tuzuner

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Half-Hearted or Pragmatic? Explaining EU Strategic Autonomy and the European Defence Fund through Institutional Dynamics 半心半意还是实事求是？通过制度动力解释欧盟战略自主权和欧洲防务基金

Central European Journal of International and Security Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.51870/fslg6223

Seray Kilic

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Western Orientalism Targeting Eastern Europe: An Emerging Research Programme 以东欧为目标的西方东方学：新兴研究计划

Central European Journal of International and Security Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.51870/aemq7827

Mart Kuldkepp

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‘A Decolonising Moment of Sorts’: The Baltic States’ Vicarious Identification with Ukraine and Related Domestic and Foreign Policy Developments 某种非殖民化的时刻"：波罗的海国家对乌克兰的替代性认同及相关的国内和外交政策发展

Central European Journal of International and Security Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.51870/ypij8030

Dovilė Budrytė

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Transcending Two Percent: Toward a Prioritarian Model of NATO Burden-Sharing 超越百分之二：北约负担分担的优先模式

Central European Journal of International and Security Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-14 DOI: 10.51870/snht6810

David Rubin

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Identifying Security Logics in the EU Policy Discourse: The “Migration Crisis” and the EU 欧盟政策话语中的安全逻辑辨析:“移民危机”与欧盟

Central European Journal of International and Security Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-08 DOI: 10.51870/wujq2612

John Louis B. Benito

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The Role of the UN Security Council in the Fight Against Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea 联合国安理会在几内亚湾打击海盗活动中的作用

Central European Journal of International and Security Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-04 DOI: 10.51870/lqhu1305

Frederick Boamah

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Small Powers, Geopolitical Crisis and Hypersecuritisation: Latvia and the Effects of Russia’s Second War in Ukraine 小国、地缘政治危机和超安全化:拉脱维亚和俄罗斯在乌克兰的第二次战争的影响

Central European Journal of International and Security Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI: 10.51870/rncc4980

Māris Andžāns

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Constructing Nazis on Political Demand: Agenda-Setting and Framing in Russian State-Controlled TV Coverage of the Euromaidan, Annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbas 在政治需求上建构纳粹:俄罗斯国家电视台报道亲欧盟运动、吞并克里米亚和顿巴斯战争的议程设置和框架

Central European Journal of International and Security Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI: 10.51870/fuqi2558

Alona Shestopalova

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