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A Journey in Noble Gas Cosmochemistry and Geochemistry
(2023)Geochemical PerspectivesI started my journey in science by studying noble gases implanted by the solar wind in dust grains on the surface of the Moon, and with many colleagues I have studied solar wind implanted noble gases in natural and artificial samples throughout my career, the latter exposed primarily by the Genesis space mission. Major questions are what noble gases in the solar wind can tell us about the present and the past Sun, and how they can contribute ...Journal Issue -
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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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How to Study Russia
(2023)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)The articles in this issue of the RAD explore transformations of the Russian Studies field. Some of these were already under way before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine but have been accelerated by the war and its impact on the field. The approaches identified here include the need for a thicker conceptualization of Russia that gives the floor to more interpretative methods and seeks to refine existing approaches; an expansion of ...Journal Issue -
Russia’s War against Ukraine: Connectivity and Disruption in the South Caucasus
(2023)Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)Connectivity and disruption are key elements in analysing the impact of the Russian large-scale war against Ukraine on the South Caucasus. Laurence Broers analyses the simplified, securitised and conservative thinking about connectivity in the South Caucasus. For Katja Kalkschmied, China’s interest in the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route has increased. Vali Kaleji argues that the security balance in the South Caucasus has shifted ...Journal Issue -
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The Value of Public Opinion Polls
(2023)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)This issue focuses on the methodological challenges of wartime polling. Denis Volkov engages with criticisms of Levada surveys. Bryn Rosenfeld answers four questions about wartime surveys. Jeremy Morris challenges the very existence of public opinion. Heiko Pleines introduces Discuss Data’s collection of open-access raw opinion data. Anna Biriukova discusses wartime polling by Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. Elena Koneva and ...Journal Issue -
Hidden Resistance to the Russian-Ukrainian War Inside Russia
(2023)Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)The topic of this issue is Hidden Resistance to the Russian-Ukrainian War Inside Russia. Irina Meyer-Olimpieva explores the network of volunteers helping Ukrainian refugees who have ended up on Russian territory while fleeing the war zone; Daria Zakharova examines attacks against Russian military enlistment offices and how the Russian state-run media discuss them; Vera Dubina and Alexandra Arkhipova focus on the less visible, “silent” ...Journal Issue -
Informality and Informal Practices in the Time of COVID-19: The Case of Georgia
(2023)Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)The topic of this issue is Informality and Informal Practices in the Time of COVID-19: The Case of Georgia. Firstly, Irakli Korkia addresses corruption by analysing 1) simplified state procurement procedures related to the healthcare sector and quarantine zones and 2) the vaccine deployment process; secondly, Rhiannon Segar discusses how informal forms of social capital have impacted the dissemination of information during the pandemic ...Journal Issue