Essays about: "ussr"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the word ussr.

  1. 1. The Russian Playbook : Using History & Path Dependence to Analyse How Russia Operationalises Grand Strategy in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova.

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Justine Westbrook; [2023]
    Keywords : Russia; Security; International Relations; Conflict; History; Path Dependence; Georgia; Ukraine; Moldova; War; Historical Institutionalism; USSR; Post-Soviet; Deception; Russian Influence; Weaponization; Weaponisation; Donba; South Ossetia; Crimea; Transnistria; Pridnestrovia; Russian Grand Strategy; Abkhazia; Frozen Conflict; Playbook;

    Abstract : To predict and prevent future armed conflicts like Russia’s war against Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2022, there is more value in knowing how these wars occurred rather than why they occurred. The Russian Playbook is built from three distinct “plays” employed by Moscow and organised in the theoretical framework of Historical Institutionalism through Path Dependence modelling. READ MORE

  3. 2. Conflict in Central Asia - A Soviet Affair

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Hugo Axelsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Soviet Union; Central Asia; relative deprivation; state coercion; historical legacies; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : After the fall of the Soviet Union, two prominent Islamic groups, the IMU in Uzbekistan and the IRPT in Tajikistan, took to arms against their governments. To explain the contexts of these movements, this thesis utilises historical legacy theory to establish a continuity between the Soviet and post-Soviet regimes, which together with relative deprivation theory can explain why violent religious conflicts arose in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan after the collapse of the USSR. READ MORE

  4. 3. Cold War Politics and Sports : Ice Hockey Competitions and the Image of the USSR in Western Mass Media

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Oscar Angestav; [2022]
    Keywords : Sports; Politics; Cold War; Ice hockey; Soviet Union; USA; Canada; Critical Discourse Analysis;

    Abstract : The notion that politics and sport should not be mixed together have been a common notion throughout the 20th century. Nevertheless, the fact that sport is political has continuously been revealed and apparent, in particular during the period of the Cold War. READ MORE

  5. 4. Economic Interdependence and Conflict: The case of the post-Soviet space

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Linn Alice Backlund; [2022]
    Keywords : Trade; Interdependence; Conflict; Former Soviet Union; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : There is still little consensus on whether trade promotes peace or not This thesis aims at investigating the relationship between economic interdependence and conflicts in post-Soviet countries, contributing to the empirical literature on the regional level. Using dyadic measures of trade and conflict, I investigate the relationship between interdependence and onset conflict, ongoing conflict, and conflict intensity. READ MORE

  6. 5. The European Misery Report

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialmedicin och global hälsa

    Author : Tiffany Lael Lee; [2019]
    Keywords : health; happiness; social determinants of health; multiple logistic regression; cross-sectional study; unhappiness; self-rated health; income status; welfare regimes; Europe; public health; Medicine and Health Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The burden of unhappy individuals in society is a vast and costly public health issue. Europe hosts some of the happiest countries in the world, but there are still many health inequalities. READ MORE