ZOiS Newsletter
December 2023
Meet the Author | Katharina Bluhm
‘The Focus on Putin has Narrowed the Perspective’
In her book Russia and the West (Russland und der Westen), Katharina Bluhm explores how the illiberal conservative countermovement to liberalism and Western integration – a movement which increasingly sought to establish itself in the political arena from the late 1990s – is turning into a project that is led and driven forward by the state. But this is not only about ideology and power politics: political-economy and social policy factors also come into play.

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Season's Greetings
Dear friends of ZOiS,

We thank you for your interest in our work and your ongoing support and wish you a happy new year!
 
 
Publications
ZOiS Spotlight 23/2023
State Dominance and its Discontents among Azerbaijani Youth
by Veronika Pfeilschifter and Cesare Figari Barberis
Young Azerbaijanis are expected to reproduce the state ideology centred on Karabakh/Artsakh. A tiny minority of them has persistently resisted it and the dominant discourse around self-victimhood and just revenge. In the face of growing state repression, these alternative youth discourses have been all but silenced.

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Events
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Media
Episode of the Carnegie politika podcast with Alexandra Prokopenko (13/12/2023)
Article for Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) with comments by Tsypylma Darieva (12/12/2023)
Article by Anastasiya Leukhina for Carnegie Europe (05/12/2023)
 
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