The Dynamics of Oil and Social Movements in the Niger Delta of Nigeria by Victor Ojakorotu

“…The global triumph of capitalism and the fall of communism gave the local people an opportunity to organize social movements with similar interests to international civil society to challenge the policies of successive governments and the activities of oil multinationals in the Niger Delta. …”
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Czech Republic and Military Operations Abroad by Tomáš Karásek

“… Czech Republic started deploying its soldiers abroad shortly after the fall of communism. However, there are still questions which need to be answered: What were the main motives for sending out these operations? …”
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« Si vous votez la loi d’exclusion aujourd’hui, c’est vous qui serez exclus demain » by Bilel Kchouk

“…As in the case of the fall of communism, we defend the idea of an enlargement of the political elite space allowing newcomers to cohabit with former political elites. …”
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THE IDEA OF THE “STATE” IN CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION THEORY by D Schultz

“…First, it describes and examines how the rise of neo-liberalism and the fall of communism have produced a crisis in public administration theory through a redefinition of the boundaries between traditional governmental and non-governmental activities. …”
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The Dynamics of Oil and Social Movements in the Niger Delta of Nigeria by Victor Ojakorotu

“…The global triumph of capitalism and the fall of communism gave the local people an opportunity to organize social movements with similar interests to international civil society to challenge the policies of successive governments and the activities of oil multinationals in the Niger Delta. …”
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Exploring/Inventing East-European Noir. An Attempt to Modelling Historical Transformation by Caius Dobrescu

“…Accordingly, it substantiates the assumption that similar political, social, cultural, economic threats and opportunities contributed to the preservation of a certain air de famille among the genre productions of the countries of the area even after the fall of Communism. The common Communist heritage of genre fiction, cinema, and television is synthesised in three main categories: Cold War “noir” and Socialist “grey”, alternative noir, and popular noir. …”
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From Wallerstein to Rothschild by Andrzej Turkowski, Tomasz Zarycki

“…As we show that the fall of communism and related transformation in the Polish field of power brought about dramatic shift in terms of their career trajectories as well as their ideological orientation and in consequence a sudden disappearance of this academic ecosystem. …”
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The past of the socialist childhood through the lens of the Bulgarian literature by Luleva Ana

“…In this paper I will take a close look at the presentations of the Socialist Childhood in some popular Bulgarian novels, written after the Fall of Communism by authors belonging to different generations. …”
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Reflecting the Unionist Message in the Romanian Press by Cătălin NEGOIȚĂ, Dr. habil.

“…However, the unionist press has pervaded the entire Romanian media, since the fall of communism until nowadays. It is known that, after the change in 1989, the references to the space between the Prut and the Dniester Rivers, populated mostly by Romanians, grew exponentially, as the former Soviet republic shook off the traces of the past and the burden of imperial history. …”
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Central Europe in the new Millennium: The new Great Game? US, Russian and Chinese interests and activities in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia by Šárka Waisová

“…After the fall of communism, Central Europe (CE) was a region with relatively high US interest and support. …”
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UNPACKING GENDER DYNAMICS IN ALBANIAN JOURNALISM: A POST-COMMUNIST PERSPECTIVE by Jonila Godole

“… This study provides evidence of the challenges faced by women journalists in Albania after the fall of communism based on a nationwide survey of 295 journalists. …”
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A Critical Literature Review of New Party Success in Central and Eastern Europe by Yuxiang Lin

“…The paper offers a critical literature review of existing explanations for new party success in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of communism in 1989. The paper presents the strengths and weaknesses of existing approaches, arguing that the historical analysis, the sociological explanation, and the institutional framework can provide sources of changes in party systems, and set constraints to political party leaders, but fail to elucidate variations in individual parties. …”
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Secret Sisters: Women Religious under European Communism Collection at the Catholic Theological Union by Vincent P. Tinerella

“…After the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Pope John Paul II asked Catholics around the world to assist members of the Church who had suffered under the yoke of communist oppression as a result of their commitment to Catholicism. …”
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Communist Politics of Archives: The Case of the Ethnomusicology Archive at the Institute of Folk Culture in Tirana by Inis Shkreli

“…Ultimately, I depict how the Soviet paradigm and the methodology continued also after the fall of communism, and how some young scholars, ethnologists and ethnomusicologists attempt for a paradigm shift (Roth 2014).…”
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Is Cultural Policy in Poland In the Process of Recentralization? by Katarzyna Kopeć

“…<p>One of the key mottos of system transformation in Poland after the fall of communism in 1989 was far-reaching decentralization. …”
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Miejsce Rosji w doktrynie Giedroycia by Michał Siudak

“…The evolution of the centre's views on the role and place of Russia in the geopolitical security system of Central and Eastern Europe from the immediate post-war period to the fall of communism and Polish accession to the EU and NATO is presented. …”
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Fragmented legacies. Memories of agriculture and the railway in the transformation of Stacioni i Trenit in Tirana (Albania) by Stela Muçi, Franck Dorso

“…This district used to house the central station, until it was destroyed in 2013, as well as agricultural facilities which were dismantled after the fall of Communism in 1990. This site now forms a 25-hectare wasteland, characterized by a variety of informal uses, the incomplete reprivatisation of land, and a major urban transformation project. …”
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The Analytical Framework of the Conceptualization of Globalization by Marcela Monica Stoica

“…After the fall of communism and the transition to a democratic regime and after more than 6 years from accession to European Union, Romania recorded a decline of democratic consolidation process according to the latest reports of Freedom House called „Nations in Transition”. …”
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Socioeconomic gradients in eastern european countries: Evidence from PIRLS 2006 by Caro, D, Mirazchiyski, P

“…Economies and educational systems of these countries have undergone critical transformations since the fall of communism. The authors' analyses, using data collected almost 20 years after this period, help explain how these transformations affected the equity and quality of educational outcomes in the region. …”

False promises: The failure of conservative economics

“…Contributions focus on how to measure economic performance; Canada's economic performance--inequality, poverty, and growth; the provincial performance in the case of British Columbia; the political economy of deficit-phobia; a new direction for macroeconomic policy; monetary and fiscal policy in the 1980s; the fall of communism and the future of socialism; a historical perspective of women in the labor force, 1911-86; the conservative attack on labor unions; regional trading blocs and Canadian trade policy; urban growth in Greater Vancouver; sustainable social development; and social services and restraint. …”