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The West and Russia’s War of Aggression against Ukraine
(2024)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue covers the Western reaction to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. It starts with a critical comment by James Sherr questioning the West’s response and resolve. Robert Orttung then goes on to look at the internal struggle about support for Ukraine in US politics, focusing on the foreign policy stance of the Republican Party. In another case study Stefan Meister presents a critical assessment of Germany’s policies in ...Journal Issue -
Urban Borderlands: Difference, Inequality, and Spatio-Temporal In-Betweenness in Cities
(2024)Urban PlanningJournal Issue -
Impact of Russia’s War on Ukrainian Agriculture
(2024)Ukrainian Analytical DigestThe topic of this issue is Impact of Russia’s War on Ukrainian Agriculture. Oleg Nivievskyi and Roman Neyter make an interim assessment of the financial consequences of the war-related damages and losses in Ukrainian agriculture; Alexander Mkrtchian and Daniel Müller used Sentinel-2 satellite imagery to estimate the extent of abandoned croplands on both sides of the front line after the onset of war. A section with export statistics rounds ...Journal Issue -
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Russian Environmentalism During the War
(2024)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)The topic of this issue is Russian Environmentalism During the War. Maria Tysiachniouk analyzes the changing dynamics of the environmental NGO community in Russia, reflecting on the complex interplay between state control, international collaboration, and grassroots activism; Maria Chiara Franceschelli explores the complex interplay between environmentalism, center-periphery relations, and ethnonationalism in Russia during both peacetime ...Journal Issue -
Russia’s Role in the South Caucasus and Central Asia
(2024)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue examines Azerbaijan’s and Uzbekistan’s evolving relationship with Russia amidst significant geopolitical changes: Rail Safiyev explores Azerbaijan’s strategic maneuvering in the wake of its military success in Karabakh, highlighting its balancing act between ties with the West and maintaining good relations with Russia against the backdrop of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Firdavs Kobilov shifts the focus to Uzbekistan, analyzing ...Journal Issue -
Western Sanctions and Russia’s Role for Global Energy
(2024)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue deals with Western Sanctions and Russia’s Role for Global Energy. Nina Poussenkova explores the impact of Western sanctions on the Russian oil sector since February 24, 2022; Irina Mironova provides an overview of the current situation in the Russian natural gas sector; finally, Martin Jirušek assesses the stability and security of the EU’s gas supply portfolio after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the EU’s subsequent focus ...Journal Issue -
Indoctrination
(2024)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue looks at the impact of indoctrination in schools and universities. Eugenia Nazrullaeva et al. discuss Russian indoctrination in comparative perspective. Allyson Edwards examines youth indoctrination through the case study of Yunarmiya. In a republished interview, Andrei Yakovlev tells the post-Soviet story of the Higher School of Economics from an insider’s perspective. Nikolai Petrov presents the results of a recent study ...Journal Issue -
Iran and the South Caucasus after the Second Karabakh War
(2024)Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)The papers in this issue address the regional dynamics following the Second Karabakh War of 2020. Iran has found itself having more and more of a foot in the South Caucasus as a result. The prospects and modalities of the so-called ‘Zangezur Corridor’ (a proposed land connection between Azerbaijan proper and its exclave of Nakhchivan/Nakhichevan) include economic, geopolitical, strategic, cultural, and ideological components, perceived ...Journal Issue -
Negotiations, Security, and EU-Integration
(2024)Ukrainian Analytical DigestIn this issue, Volodymyr Fesenko examines the paradoxes and prospects for negotiations to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. His analysis is complemented by survey data on what Ukrainians actually think about negotiations. Yuliia Kurnyshova discusses whether shared threat perceptions between Ukraine and the West will accelerate Ukraine's integration into the EU and NATO. And André Härtel considers whether Ukraine and the EU are ready ...Journal Issue -
Capsule 2023
(2023)Capsule: International Review of Radical Design & Desire TheoryCapsule is delving into the world of design in its broader definition – one that encompasses interiors and architecture, fashion and technology, ecology and craft. A hybrid between a magazine and a book, paying homage to a lineage of Italian radical design to explore our relationship with desire and consumption, Capsule is released annually during Milan Design Week. Indulging in a lavish physicality, Capsule is itself an object of radical ...Journal Issue -
Superposition Workout
(2023)SuperpositionSuperposition Workout investigates the architecture and design practice of the now. It tries to understand why the way we work is closely related to the work we produce. In this current times of predicament, the working process becomes as important as the work itself, and new tendencies in how we shape our working environments arise in parallel to new formats of collaborations and create multiple possibilities for individuals, collectives, ...Journal Issue -
KOF Analysen 2023, Nr. 4, Winter
(2023)KOF AnalysenDer vorliegende Beitrag dokumentiert die Ergebnisse der Winterprognose 2023 der KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle der ETH Zürich vom 13. Dezember 2023. Zuerst werden die jüngsten Wirtschaftsentwicklungen in der Schweiz und im Ausland diskutiert. Danach folgen die wichtigsten Prognoseergebnisse für die verschiedenen Wirtschaftsbereiche der Schweiz, aufgeteilt nach den wichtigsten verwendungsseitigen Komponenten des Bruttoinlandprodukts (BIP). ...Journal Issue -
The Architect as Public Intellectual / De architect als publieke intellectueel
(2023)OaseJournal Issue -
Architecture in the Foreign Aid-Funded Knowledge Economy. Part 1: Expertise
(2023)ABE JournalThe decolonization of large parts of the world in the second half of the 20th century drastically altered the ways in which architecture and spatial planning, both as practice and as field of knowledge, were enmeshed in global flows of exchange. In particular the politics and economies of foreign aid shaped these flows of exchange from the 1950s to the late 1980s and gave rise to a whole infrastructure destined to assist the progress ...Journal Issue -
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DELUS
(2023)DELUSThe pilot issue of DELUS offers a range of diverse insights into landscape and urban questions. It introduces new methods to unpack multiple worlds and narrate manifold stories. The contributions range from unraveling histories of land-body relations through recipes with Luiza Prado de O. Martins, following living fossils and their mythical counterparts with Christina Gruber, working with communities to examine extractive environments ...Journal Issue -
Architektur und Konflikt
(2023)Kritische Berichteas vorliegende Heft ist dem Konflikt in der Architektur gewidmet. Wir legen ihm ein Verständnis von Architektur zugrunde, das Planungen und Bauwerke an den wichtigsten – konflikthaften – Stationen betrachtet, an denen eine Fülle unterschiedlicher Akteur:innen beteiligt ist. Architektur und Denkmalpflege werden dadurch stärker in Politik-, Sozial- und Geschichtswissenschaften eingebettet und Kontroversen und Differenzproduktion forschungsleitend. ...Journal Issue -
Taking Russia to Court
(2023)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue focuses on legal options for holding Russia accountable for crimes committed in Ukraine. In the first analysis, Gleb Bogush summarizes investigations and possible legal options, such as a special international tribunal to prosecute Russian crimes. In the second analysis, Monika Nalepa and Thomas Remington show how transitional justice principles could be used in post-war Russia with a view to restoring relations with the West.Journal Issue -
Impact of the Russian War against Ukraine on Georgia
(2023)Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)The topic of this issue is the Impact of Russia’s War against Ukraine on Georgia. Firstly, Tatia Chikhladze and Shota Shiukashvili examine new pro-Russian disinformation narratives promoted since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; secondly, Natia Seskuria analyses security, political and economic implications of the influx of Russians in Georgia, as well potential short and long-term implications of controversial ...Journal Issue