Browsing by Subject "Russia"
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Cuban-Russian Relations in the 21st Century: Oil and Geopolitics
(2015)This thesis examines how the recent discovery of massive oil reserves off the coast of Cuba has driven a resurgence of Cuban-Russian relations in the 21st century. The first chapter demonstrates how the Russian government ... -
Early hematopoietic effects of chronic radiation exposure in humans.
(Health Phys, 2010-09)The major goal of this study is to investigate and quantitatively describe the nature of the relationship between the characteristics of chronic exposure to ionizing radiation and specific patterns of hematopoiesis reduction. ... -
Environmental Activists as Agents of Social Democratization: a Historical Comparison of Russia and Mexico
(2009)This study is a comparative historical analysis of the link between environmental activism and state-society relations in 20th century Russia and Mexico. It explores the three main currents of environmentalism that originated ... -
Organizational Legitimacy: Different Sources - Different Outcomes?
(2013)An abstract of a dissertation that examines different dimensions of legitimacy stemming from different sources, and how they condition the effects of each other. The traditional literature studies organizational legitimacy ... -
Russian Diaspora Policy and the Near Abroad in the 1990s: An Indicator and Warning for Intervention
(2023)The Russian Federation emerged from the ruins of the USSR a diminished power, attempting to reconcile its imperial past with a new post-Cold War order. However, while the Kremlin may have lost a degree of global influence, ... -
Sex Differences in Biological Markers of Health in the Study of Stress, Aging and Health in Russia.
(PLoS One, 2015)BACKGROUND: The apparent contradiction that women live longer but have worse health than men, the so called male-female health-survival paradox, is very pronounced in Russia. The present study investigates whether men in ... -
Stepping Back from the Edge of Darkness: Developing Sustainable Cooperative Threat Reduction Programs with Russia
(2010-12-10)Analysis of CTR programs remains incredibly pertinent today because these programs form the basis of development for new and emerging threat reduction activities. Nunn-Lugar’s reach has already spread beyond the former ... -
The Double Narrative of Domestic Violence in Contemporary Russia
(2015)This thesis examines how domestic violence is talked about both in the Russian Federation after the fall of the Soviet Union and by the Westerners whom have offered their expertise on the matter. The first chapter shows ... -
The Last Shall Be First: The Genealogy of Russian Historical Exceptionalism and the Road to Revolution, 1830-1917
(2023-04-22)The legitimacy of Russia’s October Revolution of 1917 is widely debated due to its divergences from a western-centric Marxist view of historical progression. In particular, socialism was hastily declared amid underdeveloped ...
