University of Rhode Island
University of Denver
St. John's University / College of St. Benedict
Liberty University
Defense Intelligence College
University of Central Florida
State University of New York, Buffalo State College
Union College - Schenectady, NY
Colby College
Georgetown University
Christian Rap In Latvia: A New Page In The History Of Contemporary Christian Music In Baltic Christianity,
2022
University of Latvia
Christian Rap In Latvia: A New Page In The History Of Contemporary Christian Music In Baltic Christianity, Ņikita Andrejevs
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
Excerpt: "In the context of the Soviet period and the huge effectiveness of Christian gospel rock as a vehicle of evangelization, however, these innovations’ proximity to “worldly” music, and the notion of protest and/or renewal that came along, provided the necessary attraction for Christians, converts, and people interested in contemporary Western music. Christian rap in Latvia, on the other hand, has developed in a context where popular culture including rap music was readily available to the audiences, and rap acquired the notion of protest that to most rappers and listeners, religious or not, is incompatible or even in conflict ...
Post-Soviet Russian Aggression: An Analysis Of Russian Conflicts, Invasions And Humanitarian Crisis,
2022
Kennesaw State University
Post-Soviet Russian Aggression: An Analysis Of Russian Conflicts, Invasions And Humanitarian Crisis, Colin Benz
Immigration Scholarship: History, Trends and Development in Global Immigration
This project discusses Russian events in recent years especially highlighting the invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, Russian Policy on Immigration, Foreign relations, its view of its place in the world and how previous acts of aggression in Ukraine will compare to the current invasion. We can see the UN swiftly responding to the current Ukraine crisis with one million refugees already in the care of neighboring UN countries. UN/NATO Response has also delivered humanitarian aid and weapons to the citizens of Ukraine currently stuck within the country. We can see that Russia’s actions have little regard ...
Czech Republic As A Deferring Factor For European Union To Achieve Climate Change Measures,
2022
European Studies, School of Strategic and Global Studies, University of Indonesia
Czech Republic As A Deferring Factor For European Union To Achieve Climate Change Measures, Kris Razianto Mada, Henny Saptatia Drajati Nugrahani
Journal of Strategic and Global Studies
This study aims to finds out causal factors for Czech Republic yet to decide on phasing out coal-fired power plant and the impact of delaying the preparation of the coal-fired power plant phase-out plan by Czech on the EU's goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The researcher conducts an analysis based on two research questions: what are causal factors for Czech Republic yet to decide on phasing out coal-fired power plant and what impact will it have on the EU's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and become fully carbon neutral by 2050. The method used ...
"Letter To The Central Committee Of The World Council Of Churches," By The Conference On Religion And Politics In The Context Of The War Against Ukraine,
2022
George Fox University
"Letter To The Central Committee Of The World Council Of Churches," By The Conference On Religion And Politics In The Context Of The War Against Ukraine, Various Authors
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
No abstract provided.
Book Review: Ina Merdjanova, Ed. Women And Religiosity In Orthodox Christianity,
2022
University at Albany, SUNY
Book Review: Ina Merdjanova, Ed. Women And Religiosity In Orthodox Christianity, Nadieszda Kizenko
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
A review of Ina Merdjanova, ed. Women and Religiosity in Orthodox Christianity (New York: Fordham University Press, 2021), 287 + xix pp., $35, ISBN: 9780823298617.
A Situation Of The Crimeans Diocese Of The Orthodox Church Of Ukraine In Russian Occupied Crimea (2014-2022),
2022
Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Kyiv
A Situation Of The Crimeans Diocese Of The Orthodox Church Of Ukraine In Russian Occupied Crimea (2014-2022), Andrii Ivanets, Iryna Krasnodemska
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
The article is devoted to the situation regarding the Crimean Diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine after the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. It should be noted that Orthodoxy and Islam are the most common religions on the peninsula. The Crimean Diocese of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is the largest and most prominent among the Crimean religious organizations. The authors highlight Russia's consistent discriminatory policy toward the Ukrainian Orthodox Church–Kyiv Patriarchate/the Orthodox Church of Ukraine on the temporarily occupied peninsula, which is aimed at their gradual but rigorous expulsion from Crimea. The methods ...
Between Oriental Orthodoxy And European Modernity: Georgian Orthodox Church, Market Economy, And Social Message,
2022
University of Latvia
Between Oriental Orthodoxy And European Modernity: Georgian Orthodox Church, Market Economy, And Social Message, Leons Gabriels Taivans
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
Excerpt: "This article aims to ask what the history of the Protestant ethic might contribute to our understanding of the contemporary relationship between Georgian Orthodoxy, economics, and capitalism. In doing so, we engage with a handful of retrospections that offer engagements with Weber regarding this interface. We begin with the key arguments advanced in The Protestant Ethic. Then we incorporate contemporary Pentecostalism into Weber's genealogical account of the rise of capitalist modernity. Thus, we hope to find parallels between twenty-first-century Pentecostalism and the seventeenth-century ascetic Protestantism as a sort of modernization paradigm.
The second part of the article is ...
Opportunity Calls: The Moral Economy During Existential Economic Transition In The Ural Mountains And Appalachia, 1991 - 2008,
2022
College of the Holy Cross
Opportunity Calls: The Moral Economy During Existential Economic Transition In The Ural Mountains And Appalachia, 1991 - 2008, Nora Springer
Of Life and History
It is often assumed that economists and businessmen act outside of moral constraints, even in times of existential economic crisis. The econometrics of Chubais and Gaidar, as well as the accounting of Deloitte, have all been used to characterize engineers of transition as cold, academic, and removed from reality. However, in both Appalachia and the Urals, mathematics about what will make a profit is inextricable from moral questions of what should make a profit. The goals of economic transition, and ideology about what economic transition should mean, were baked into the calculations of both transitions. Further, the data used to ...
How And Why Do Great Powers Weaponize Bordering Diasporas In Foreign Policy.,
2022
University of Louisville
How And Why Do Great Powers Weaponize Bordering Diasporas In Foreign Policy., Matthew A. Payne
College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, many ethnic groups found themselves suddenly as a diaspora across the various republics. Most notable among these would be the Russians who radiated out from the Russian SFSR into the periphery states. In two states in particular, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, was there simultaneously an overall large community of these dispersed Russians and in which that community formed a substantial share of the host state’s population. In 2014, in the wake of a pro-European regime change in Ukraine, a civil war erupted as Moscow directed pro-Russian separatists to seek independence.
This ...
The Contradiction Of The Welfare Dictatorship: The Stasi’S Role In Preserving And Undermining East German Human Rights,
2022
Murray State University
The Contradiction Of The Welfare Dictatorship: The Stasi’S Role In Preserving And Undermining East German Human Rights, Mallory Wooldridge
Honors College Theses
Constructed four years after WWII in a kind of pendulum swing response to the Third Reich, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was an experiment in socialism. Under the Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands (The Socialist Unity Party of Germany, SED) no East German was to go hungry, unemployment would be eradicated, housing guaranteed, women treated as equals, and human rights interwoven into the fabric of this socialist society. However, SED socialism in practice did not conform to this original vision and would eventually represent the disillusionment with the socialist project as a whole.
This project seeks to understand human rights in the ...
Ukraine: Experience Of War,
2022
Bogomolets National Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukraine: Experience Of War, Natalia Ishchuk
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
"The May issue of OPREE is being published during the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the massive invasion of Putin’s Russian army. The unjust war of aggression launched by Russia in 2014 has been going on for more than eight years. But three months ago, the destructive leader of our neighboring state to the east wished a great victory over Ukraine. This prompted a major slaughter between the two nations."
Popular Protests And Democratization In Post-Soviet Countries: An Analysis Of Why Some Democracy Movements Failed And Others Succeeded,
2022
University of Mississippi
Popular Protests And Democratization In Post-Soviet Countries: An Analysis Of Why Some Democracy Movements Failed And Others Succeeded, David Mcdonald
Honors Theses
This thesis seeks to analyze pro-democracy movements in post-Soviet countries through the lens of existing theories of democratization to determine why a particular protest movement succeeded or failed. Through a qualitative analysis of theories of democratization and four case studies – Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Belarus – this thesis finds that the theories of democratization are ultimately applicable and helpful in understanding these case studies, albeit in different ways. Whereas the theories and their predictions might be proven correct in the cases of Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, the opposite is true in Russia and Belarus, where authoritarian regimes have taken steps to counteract ...
Pows In The Age Of The Internet,
2022
United States Military Academy & Army Cyber Institute
Pows In The Age Of The Internet, Jan Kallberg, Mark Visger, Stephen S. Hamilton, Todd Arnold
West Point Research Papers
A future great power conflict could potentially involve large numbers of prisoners of war (POWs)—US, Allied, and partner nations—imprisoned by regimes that could seek to utilize and exploit these captives for propaganda gain. Deepfakes and digital manipulation technology provide an advantageous opportunity for a captor aiming to mitigate international humanitarian law concerns regarding the rules for POW treatment. Such an adversary could use manipulated audio and images of POWs to forward their cause, undermine the Alliance cohesion, attack the mutual will to fight, and reduce POWs’ will to resist. The risk of becoming a POW has steadily disappeared ...
Ukrainian Women: Victims Of Putin's War And Sex Industry Predators,
2022
University of Rhode Island
Ukrainian Women: Victims Of Putin's War And Sex Industry Predators, Donna M. Hughes
Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
No abstract provided.
Žene Iz Ukrajine: Žrtve Putinovog Rata I Predatora Seks-Industrije,
2022
Univerzitet Roud Ajlend, SAD
Žene Iz Ukrajine: Žrtve Putinovog Rata I Predatora Seks-Industrije, Dona M. Hjuz
Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
No abstract provided.
How Ultra Firms In Former Soviet And Yugoslav States Became Political Actors,
2022
SIT Study Abroad
How Ultra Firms In Former Soviet And Yugoslav States Became Political Actors, Alex Pelletier
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
When you go to a football match one of the first things that you will undoubtedly notice are the ultras. Their loud coordinated chants and movement fill the stadium with energy that would not be there otherwise, and their tifo and flairs add an artist’s touch to the stands. There are ultras for just about every club, and every city in the world, with each group having their own unique identity. The local standing of football clubs, paired with the devoted and organized structure of ultras has seen them become political and military actors across the world. Ultras based ...
Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations Against The United States: A Playbook For The Current Crisis In Ukraine,
2022
US Army War College
Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations Against The United States: A Playbook For The Current Crisis In Ukraine, Conrad C. Crane
Articles & Editorials
No abstract provided.
Unrest In Belarus: The Legal Perspectives For Russian Integration And The Potential Western Response,
2022
University of Georgia School of Law
Unrest In Belarus: The Legal Perspectives For Russian Integration And The Potential Western Response, Trevor Eck
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Editorial: Blending Of Delusions In Russia Rationalizing Its War To Annex Ukraine,
2022
Rosemont College
Editorial: Blending Of Delusions In Russia Rationalizing Its War To Annex Ukraine, Paul B. Mojzes
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
While it is obvious that Russia’s motives for the unprovoked brutal war against Ukraine are complex, what is not quickly apparent is the incendiary intermingling of a collective delusion of persecution and the delusion of grandeur of an individual.
Frontmatter (Volume 42, Issue 7),
2022
Rosemont College
Frontmatter (Volume 42, Issue 7), Paul B. Mojzes
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe
No abstract provided.
