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Eesti maapiirkonna kohalike omavalitsuste toetused LEADER meetmetest
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The rural inter-enterprise collaboration problems: the case of Läänemaa
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Läänemaa as well as Europe are facing the marginalization of rural areas, including socioeconomic and cultural decline. It has been argued that cooperation between rural enterprises can have a positive impact not only ... -
The impact of Cypriot discourses of collective trauma and victimhood on the peace process
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Very nice! How Kazakhstan uses nation branding for external legitimization
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Comparison of governmental approaches to counter Russian information influence in the Baltic states
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Numerous studies on information influence activities such as mis- and disinformation or inauthentic behaviour on social media have been published in recent years, mainly concentrating on the prevalence, characteristics and ... -
Where are the extremists? The Mexican case for a new understanding in the study of the far right
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This work addresses the question of Why has there not been an increase in support for far-right organizations in Mexico? The author uses process tracing with a wide data range in order to overcome the lack of academic ... -
The surge of souverainism in radical right populism. The Italian case of the League
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Countering the Russian military threat in the Baltics: implementation of asymmetric non-linear defense model by the Estonian Defense League
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The recent conflicts in Georgia, Ukraine and Syria have demonstrated that the Russian Federation is willing to use armed forces to achieve foreign policy goals. The next possible target for Russia’s expansionist foreign ... -
The influence of domestic-level factors on system-level pressures for alignment: the case of Australia and the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue - 2007, 2008, 2017
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (hereinafter the Quad) is an alignment between Australia, India, Japan and the United States of America against a perceived threat to a rules-based order and of a rising China. With the ... -
The rise of Euroscepticism and vote contestation in the European Parliament
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Eurosceptic parties have been rising in both national and European elections. This has given a rise to an interesting research agenda that analyzes the role of Eurosceptic actors and the polarization of opinions in the ... -
Does the rise of illiberal allies matter for the durability of the NATO alliance? Theory testing liberal and realist perspectives to the cases of Poland and Turkey
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Can illiberalism lead to problems for the durability of NATO? The objective of this thesis is to prove that illiberal states do not disrupt alliances, particularly the NATO alliance. I will compare competing hypotheses of ... -
Pragmatism or identity-driven foreign policy? - Russia in Estonian parliamentary foreign policy debates between 2004-2020
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The objective of this thesis is to analyse Estonian foreign policy discourse on Russia after the accession into the EU, in light of crises in bilateral and multilateral relations. My research questions are, first, how ... -
Ethnopolitical regimes and state-minority relations: a comparative case study of Abkhazia, Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli in Georgia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)After the collapse of the Soviet Union (SU), recently independent governments with heterogenous populations had to find ways to establish a new political power balance between the ethnic groups. But while some nation-building ... -
From bronze soldier crises to Crimea annexation: a resilience typology in Estonia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Resilience is seen elsewhere as a static definition. Usually under a positivist approach process of bouncing-back, adaptation, or transformation after a pressure. Seldomly it is seen as a constructive concept that relies ... -
The essence of Jadidism in Turkestan. In search of anti-colonialism and liberation in the Jadid literature
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Jadidism and the Jadid literature have been subject to various interpretations by the western and nativist scholars. The Jadid literature is often perceived as anti-colonial resistance literature that aimed at liberating ... -
Welcome Madam President: effects of a female presidential candidate on the mobilisation of young, female voters in Slovakia
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Slovakia did not appear frequently in international media headlines until the election of the first female President to the republic, Zuzana Čaputová, in 2019. Women are underrepresented in Slovak politics, and young women ... -
Visegrád countries’ engagement in ASEAN from 2011 and their prospect in the region: the cases of Hungary and Poland
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Hungary and Poland have addressed Asia-Pacific countries in their foreign policy strategy since the early 2000s. However, the European financial crisis in 2008 and the wave of Euroscepticism have influenced both countries ... -
The reality of Hungarian kin-state support in Vojvodina, Serbia: a minority perspective
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Hungary is one of the most proactive kin-states in Europe. It has more than 2 million compatriots living in neighbouring countries. With around 250.000 ethnic Hungarians, the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina is no ... -
Conservative women’s representation in the European Parliament (2014-2019)
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The European Parliament is an important institution in improving gender equality in the European Union. Generally, both descriptive and substantive women’s representation is much stronger in left-wing political parties ... -
Bringing others into line: discourse on the roles within the Russian opposition - a regional glance
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)The theoretical scholarship differentiating between various types of opposition entities, coined originally in the West, was successfully applied to the Russian political habitat. Known mostly as the ‘non-/systemic opposition’ ...
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