Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization
Founded in 1992, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization is a quarterly print and online journal devoted to analyzing developments in the states of the former Soviet Union. Our focus is on policy-relevant texts that—whether their subject is politics, economics, media, culture or society—in some way shed light on democratic progress and backsliding in the region.
Notable past contributors include former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, former U.S. presidential foreign policy advisor and current Chancellor of Durham University Fiona Hill, and former President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akaev.
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Journal of Illiberalism Studies
The Journal of Illiberalism Studies (JIS) is a biannual journal published by the Illiberalism Studies Program at The George Washington University.
JIS aims to provide an intellectual space for critical analyses of the concept of illiberalism and its derivates. The objective in setting up this new journal is to fill a gap in current academic debates regarding the treatment of the still understudied concept of illiberalism and make a contribution to its relevance for political philosophy, political science, sociology, media studies, IR, and cultural anthropology.
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Central Asian Affairs
Central Asian Affairs is a peer-reviewed journal that is published quarterly. It aims to feature innovative social science research on contemporary developments in the wider Central Asian region. Its coverage includes Central Asia, Afghanistan, the Caucasus, Xinjiang, neighboring powers (China, Iran, Pakistan, India, Russia, Turkey), and the role of leading international powers and donors in this region. Central Asian Affairs informs scholarly discourse and policy discussions on the region by engaging experts from across the academic arena, drawing on a diverse array of disciplines including political science, sociology, anthropology, economics, development studies, and security studies.
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Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research
Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research is an international, interdisciplinary academic platform for critical discussion of the processes and phenomena taking place in the post-Soviet space. Since its founding in 2009, the journal has devoted considerable attention to investigations of post-Soviet transformations. Of particular relevance today are the rethinking and reevaluation of the depth and scale of the processes of post-Soviet transformations, which have become part of the broad conceptual framework of postcolonial studies. The postsocialist space, including Russia, remains an important focus for the journal, but the global nature and scale of the ongoing changes significantly expand the geography for possible publications and call for intercultural and interregional comparisons.
The journal is primarily interested in publishing research carried out using qualitative methodology and mixed methods. Laboratorium works toward advancing dialogue among different social science disciplines and accepts texts in any discipline of social sciences including (but not limited to) sociology, cultural anthropology, political science, social geography, cultural studies, gender studies, sociolinguistics, and social history. The journal also seeks to contributes to the advancement of modern research approaches and methods of critical qualitative research, welcoming publications that explore questions of qualitative methodology of social research.
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