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Ronald Grigor Suny – Provisional Stabilities: The Politics of Identities in Post-Soviet Eurasia

This article considers the impact of ethnic identity in Eurasia following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of fifteen nation-states that are home to a variety of dispersed ethnic communities 다운로드. Using a constructivist approach to the study of ethnic and national conflicts, author holds that it is fallacious to assume that nations and states possess a single identity that drives their domestic and foreign policies 신규 노제휴 다운로드.

Suny, R. (1999/2000). Provisional Stabilities: The Politics of Identities in Post-Soviet Eurasia. International Security 24 (3), 139-78 다운로드.

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Giorgi Gvalia, David Siroky, Bidzina Lebanidze & Zurab Iashvili – Thinking Outside the Bloc: Explaining the Foreign Policies of Small States

What explains change and continuity in the foreign policy behavior of small states? The standard emphasis is made on external and international factors with the conclusion that small states are more likely to bandwagon with threatening great powers than to balance against them 다운로드. Contrary to this approach, this article suggests that state- and individual-level variables can play a greater role in explaining the foreign policy behavior of small states and that small states sometimes choose to balance rather than bandwagon, especially when elite ideology is deeply embedded in formulating foreign policy 007 스펙터.

Gvalia, G., Siroky, D., Lebanidze, B., & Iashvili, Z. (2013). Thinking Outside the Bloc: Explaining the Foreign Policies of Small States 웹페이지 파일 일괄 다운로드. Security Studies, 22(1), 98-131.

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