Going it alone: Belarus as the non-European European state

Eurasian Geography and Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 780-798

  Clem, Ralph ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

authoritarian populism; Belarus; censorship; corruption; economic freedom; education; energy subsidies; human development; human rights; Internet use; Latvia; Lithuania; Lukashenka; nationalism; Poland; Russia; sultanism; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; CORRUPTION; ECONOMIC INSTABILITY; EDUCATION; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNET; ISLAMISM; NATIONALISM; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

BELARUS; LATVIA; LITHUANIA; POLAND; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; UKRAINE;

EID: 84855490465     PISSN: 15387216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1539-7216.52.6.780     Document Type: Conference Paper

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