Pavlo Fedorchenko-Kutuev
& Denys Kiryukhin

THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY:
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES
IN THE TIMES OF SYSTEMIC ANTHAGOMISM.
INTRODUCTION

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Paul D’Anieri

POWER POLITICS AND THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY:
BALANCE, HEGEMONY, AND THE REALPOLITIK
OF DOMESTIC POLITICS

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Denys Kiryukhin

THE ELUDING DREAMS:
UKRAINE AND THE CRISIS
OF DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION

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Mikhail Minakov

POLITICAL CREATIVITY
AND IT’S DEMOCRATIC AND AUTOCRATIC
OUTCOMES: THE CASE OF THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD, 1989–2022

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Svitlana Shcherbak

STUDYING POPULISM:
A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
AND THE CASE OF UKRAINE

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Andrii Bahinskyi,
Tetiana Kolomiiets
& Oleksii Iakubin

LIBERAL PEACE, DEMOCRATIC PEACE
AND NATION-STATE BUILDING
IN THE PROCESS OF SOCIO-POLITICAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION *

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Pavlo Fedorchenko-Kutuev, Igor Pygolenko
& Andrii Khomiak

UKRAINIAN STATE
BETWEEN THE IMPERATIVES OF DEMOCRACY
AND POST-WAR MODERNIZATION *

148

Sergey Grigorishin

WUQUF YELBASY:
ISLAMIC MYSTICISM AND KAZAKH DEMOCRACY **

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Maksym Yenin,
Hennadii Korzhov
& Olha Vasylets

DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRACY IN UKRAINE:
GLOBAL CHALLENGES
AND THE NEED FOR INSTITUTIONAL RE-START *

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Olena Pavlova
& Mariya Rohozha

MARIUPOL SIEGE VIBER-COMMUNITY
AS A FORM OF GRASSROOT MOVEMENT
IN THE CONTEXT OF “DECLINING STATE
OF GLOBAL DEMOCRACY”

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Burim Mexhuani

IDEOLOGY AND POLITICAL PARTY DYNAMICS
IN KOSOVO: AN EXPLORATION
OF POLITICAL PARTIES’ PROGRAM AND IDEOLOGY

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Andreas Umland

HISTORICAL ESOTERICISM
AS A METHOD OF COGNITION. HOW RUSSIAN PSEUDOSCIENTISTS CONTRIBUTED
TO MOSCOW’S ANTI-WESTERN TURN **

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Atıl Cem Çiçek
& Metehan Karakurt

THE MANIFESTATION OF NATIONALISM
IN THE CINEMA: READING THE TURKISH NATION BUILDING PROCESS
THROUGH THE Türkiye’nin Kalbi Ankara MOVIE (1934)

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Inxhi Brisku

BOOK REVIEW:
Klejd Këlliçi, (2023) Një varrim për çdo regjim
[from Alb.: A Burial in Every Regime]. Tirana: Berk

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