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Key binding constraints, structural reform, and growth potential of Azerbaijan via economic diversification: A computable general equilibrium policy impact analysis 关键约束、结构改革和阿塞拜疆经济多样化的增长潜力:一个可计算的一般均衡政策影响分析

Journal of Eurasian Studies Pub Date : 2022-05-10 DOI: 10.1177/18793665221096688

Gouranga G. Das, Edimon Ginting, Aimee Hampel, Mark Horridge

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A spatial-based explanation for institutional trust in Georgia: Evidence from the maternal healthcare system 格鲁吉亚机构信任的空间解释:来自孕产妇保健系统的证据

Journal of Eurasian Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1177/18793665221079344

Medea Badashvili, Anastasiya Byelousova, Parth Gupta, Amy H. Liu, Elise Pizzi, Michael Sanchez, L. Shengelia, Mariana Unapkoshvili, Lyndsey Wang, Katherina Wierschke

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Hardly visible, highly admired? Youth perceptions of the EU in Kazakhstan 几乎不显眼，却备受推崇?哈萨克斯坦青年对欧盟的看法

Journal of Eurasian Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI: 10.1177/18793665211058187

Zhanibek Arynov

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Nationalism and Siberian archeology of the 19th century 民族主义与19世纪西伯利亚考古学

Journal of Eurasian Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-23 DOI: 10.1177/18793665211066318

Nikolay Ternov, D. Mikhailov

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Energy, climate change and security: The Russian strategic conundrum 能源、气候变化和安全:俄罗斯的战略难题

Journal of Eurasian Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-23 DOI: 10.1177/18793665211054518

Jakub Godzimirski

引用次数: 1

Decentralization, legitimacy, and democracy in post-Soviet Central Asia 后苏联中亚的权力下放、合法性与民主

Journal of Eurasian Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-23 DOI: 10.1177/18793665211068525

D. Siegel

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The European Union–Azerbaijan high-level transport dialogue: A timely reaction to the structural changes? 欧盟-阿塞拜疆高级别运输对话:对结构变化的及时反应?

Journal of Eurasian Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-22 DOI: 10.1177/18793665211054516

S. Abilov, Beyrak Hajiyev

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Book Review: The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century: Paving a New Silk Road 书评:《21世纪的中亚经济:开辟新丝绸之路》

Journal of Eurasian Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-22 DOI: 10.1177/18793665211066317

Valijon Turakulov

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Monastic Pathways on the Fourth and Fifth Hills of Constantinople (Eleventh–Fifteenth Centuries) 君士坦丁堡第四和第五山上的修道院小路(11 - 15世纪)

Journal of Eurasian Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-07 DOI: 10.1163/24685623-12340112

Nicholas Melvani

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Seeing the Unseen: Plaster Reliefs in Middle Byzantine Constantinople 看不见的:中拜占庭君士坦丁堡的石膏浮雕

Journal of Eurasian Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-07 DOI: 10.1163/24685623-12340111

Flavia Vanni

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