VOLUME 7(1) • 2015
PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
ABSTRACT. Considerable research attention has focused on merit-based pay systems as a component of governmental reform endeavors, stimulant mechanisms in public sector institutions, and the function of pay for performance schemes. The theory that I shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emph..
FROM INCLUSIVE LIBERALISM TO INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENTALISM: THE RECENT TRANSFORMATION OF THE BRAZILIAN DISTRIBUTIONAL REGIME
ABSTRACT. This contribution focuses on the political economy of the Brazilian welfare state, combining the theoretical frameworks of historical institutionalism and the strategic-relational approach. It engages with the renewed “developmentalist” discourse in Latin America, which began to evolve by ..
DON’T LET RUSSIA BE RUSSIA: NEITHER PROVOKE NOR INDULGE
ABSTRACT. Twenty-five years ago Russia was a mess. Yet, even shorn of nearly one-fourth of the Soviet Union’s post-1945 territory, Russia is back now: a bully to former Soviet Republics and allies, and a challenge to the United States and its European partner. As Russians visibly long for their impe..
EDITORIAL: THE EU – KANTIAN PARADISE LOST
ABSTRACT. Due to Hobbesian challenges, the “innocence of the Kantian EU-paradise” might get lost. Author claims that the inner unionistic equilibrium will be maintained only if the Atlantic-Central Europe skillfully calibrates and balances its own equidistance from both assertive Russia and the omni..
THE CRIMEA MODEL: WILL RUSSIA ANNEX THE NORTHERN REGION OF KAZAKHSTAN?
ABSTRACT. This article will explore the possible future annexation of Kazakhstan’s northern region in the context of the annexation of Crimea. The Crimea Model will identify the conditions that would lead to possible annexation of a country/part of a country by Russia. The Crimea Model will be appli..
A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING NATIONALISMS IN UKRAINE: DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS, SEPARATISM AND RUSSIAN HYBRID WAR
ABSTRACT. This article expands the analytical framework for understanding “nationalism” in Ukraine to competing ethnic Ukrainian, Soviet and Russian nationalisms that co-existed uneasily but largely peacefully until the 2013–2014 Euromaidan sparked by Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to sign the EU Assoc..