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Interview A. Gunya Insurgency Governance North Caucasus
Click for interview with Dr. Alexey Gunya in Russian
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Koehler, Jan/Gunya, Alexey/Alkhazurov, Magomed 2016: Insurgency Informed Governance in the North Caucasus: Observations from Chechnya, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkaria, in: Small Wars and Insurgencies 27: 3, 367-391.
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Afghanistan – top-down modernisation and “realexistierende Governance”
Russia’s March into a Corner of its own chosing
Die Weltvernichtungsmachine aus Dr. Strangelove ist zurück
Aussichten auf einen möglichen Showdown mit einem Regime, das sich selbst um seines Erhaltes willen (nicht um den Erhalt des Staates oder des Landes willen) in eine Ecke manövriert hat:
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Violence and Latin America
Democracy and liberalism under pressure
Konflikt, Stabilität und und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Was bringt externe Demokratieförderung?
OSCE implemented elections in Kosovo, 2001
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Elections in a divided society and fragmenting state?
There are strong signs that Ukraine today is a divided society and a fragmented state. These divisions have not been invented or imposed by the enlargement policy of the EU or the forceful and decisive Russian reaction to this, however divisive those have been and still are.
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What the “useful idiots” have in common
The motive behind Schmidts and Schröders support of Russia’s actions may be different in normative as well as political terms (given his age the former may be forgiven to argue as if the Soviet Union was still intact as a predictable adversary embedded in a stable bipolar international order and the latter may not be forgiven for his venal opportunism).