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- Doeser, Fredrik, 1975-
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Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy Change in Small States : The Fall of the Danish 'Footnote Policy'
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Ingår i: Cooperation and Conflict. - : SAGE Publications. - 0010-8367 .- 1460-3691. ; 46:2, s. 222-241
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article sets out to further an understanding of how domestic politics can impact on foreign policy change in small states. The case of interest is the change that occurred in the foreign policy of Denmark when its government managed to put an end to the ‘footnote policy’ in mid-1988. The main conclusion is that changes in two particular domestic political factors, in terms of political party opposition and public opposition, facilitated a change in foreign policy for the Danish government. Changes in party and public opposition created opportunities for the government to use foreign policy change as a strategy to increase its political power on the domestic scene. In this case of foreign policy change, domestic political factors and external forces were equally important.
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- Käihkö, Ilmari
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Ambiguity and Methodological Transparency in the Study of Civil War : An Answer to Themner’s ‘Lingering Command Structures’ in Liberia
- 2022
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Ingår i: Civil Wars. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-8249 .- 1743-968X. ; 24:4, s. 524-534
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Researchers who study civil wars and other armed conflicts are bound to face ambiguities. This article continues the discussion about research brokers in conflict zones that started in a 2019 special issue of Civil Wars and scrutinises the finding that Liberian wartime command structures continue to linger in informal guises long to the post-conflict. Absent transparent acknowledging of the ambiguities it glosses over, past scholarship risks a far too neat story that imbues arguments with untested assumptions. The result neither captures the complexity of contemporary realities of Liberian former combatants nor helps Liberia to move forward from its difficult past.
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- Nilsson, Niklas, Senior Lecturer, 1979-, et al.
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Georgian Politics since the August 2008 War
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Ingår i: Demokratizatsiya. - 1074-6846 .- 1940-4603. ; 17:3, s. 251-268
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Georgian politics since late 2007 has attracted interest mainly because of itshighly polarized political climate. The leadership of Mikheil Saakashvili, widely heraldedas a beacon of democracy in the post-Soviet space following the peaceful Rose Revolutionof 2003, is pitted against an array of determined opposition forces that seek his removal andaccuse his government of authoritarian tendencies. Yet a closer study of Georgian politicssince the August 2008 Russian invasion suggests that the polarization of its politics is notreflected in society, which overwhelmingly supports conciliation and dialogue rather thananother round of revolutionary change. By mid-2009, the overheated Georgian politicalscene showed signs of adapting to this reality.
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- Nilsson, Niklas, Senior Lecturer, 1979-
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Obstacles to Building a Civic Nation : Georgia’s Armenian Minority andConflicting Threat Perceptions
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Ingår i: Ethnopolitics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1744-9057 .- 1744-9065. ; 8:2, s. 135-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article examines the function of conflicting threat perceptions as obstacles to thedevelopment of a civic national identity in Georgia. The analysis focuses on threats perceived on theinternal and external political arenas, as defined by Georgian government officials and members ofthe Armenian minority settled in the Javakheti region. It is discerned that the government’s policiesfor national integration are seen as threats in the form of discrimination and assimilation by minorityrepresentatives, while incompatible understandings of Russia’s role in Georgian politics provide forindirect questioning of the minority’s loyalty to the state. It is concluded that conflicting threatperceptions provide a serious impediment to Georgia’s ability to build a civic nation.
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