10 Citations
Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front, and: Child Soldiers in the Age of Fractured States (review)
- Art
- 2011
and re-inscribe gender stereotypes. The bar girls’ “victimization” is used both consciously and unconsciously by antitraffickers even (or perhaps especially) when the women do not behave like…
Making Russia Multicultural Kazan at Its Millennium and Beyond
- Chemistry
- 2007
Putin may be more willing than imagined to buy into Tatarstan's bottom-up form of federalism, which emphasizes the culturally plural nature of the Russian Federation.
Defining Civil War by Examining Post-Soviet Conflicts
- Political Science
- 2007
Great many violent events happened during 1991–2005 in the 12 states that emerged after the collapse of the USSR but only a few civil wars are registered in the major datasets. That brings up a…
Borders, Conflict, and Security in the Caucasus: The Legacy of the Past
- Political Science
- 2006
Even in today's globalizing world where many traditional barriers to communication seem to be disappearing, conflicts about territorial and ethnic borders continue to bedevil many regions of the…
Putin's Counter-Terrorism: The Parameters of a Strategic Dead-End
- Political Science
- 2006
Russia’s struggle against terrorism has been used instrumentally by President Putin for achieving a range of international and domestic political goals. This trademark instrumentalization, however,…
Globalization and its Effects: Introduction and Overview
- Economics
- 2006
In 1997-98 Thailand, Korea, and Indonesia were attacked by international financial interests convinced that the countries were not running their economies properly. The trio had borrowed heavily in…
Evidence of Russia's Bush Doctrine in the CIS1
- Political Science
- 2005
Abstract The article discusses the emergence of a Russian version of the Bush doctrine in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Russian officials’ conceptual stretching of the strategic…
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Islamisation of the Chechen Separatist Movement
- Political Science
- 2005
THE CONFLICT IN CHECHNYA and its consequences are among the most serious challenges currently facing Russia-draining the country of valuable human and material resources, impeding democratic…
Instrumentalizing Counterterrorism for Regime Consolidation in Putin's Russia
- Political Science
- 2004
Since the late 1990s, Russia has been among the countries most painfully affected by terrorism and President Putin has shown little doubt and even much enthusiasm in joining the U.S.-led "war"…
Russian Democracy under Putin
- Sociology
- 2003
Russians seem content with the current quasi-democratic, quasi-autocratic order.