Category Archives: Conference Papers

Explaining EU Eastern Partnership Failure: Impediments to Policy Learning

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Oral presentation of the paper, “How the EU’s Learning Deficits Created Eastern Partnership Failure: A Complex-Systems Explanation of Political Failure,” to the Conference Security in the European Union and its Neighbourhood: Challenges and Policy Responses, University of Dundee, 15-16 June … Continue reading →

Religion and Political “Modernization” in ex-Soviet Central Asia

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Paper Presented to the International Society for Sociology of Religion, Twenty-third Congress, Quebec City, 26–30 June 1995. Abstract Despite a large literature in Occidental behavioural science, prior to the collapse of the USSR in 1991, on the “Islamic factor” in … Continue reading →