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Post-Soviet power hierarchies in the making: Postcolonialism in Tajikistan’s relations with Russia

Review of International Studies
Karolina Kluczewska - Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS - UGent)

Russia’s quest for influence in Africa after the 2022 Ukraine invasion

Elias Götz & Jonas Gejl Kaas - Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
This report offers an analysis of Russia’s Africa policy since its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Three major conclusions emerge from it. First, Russia is engaged in a concerted effort to maintain and, if possible, extend its politico-military influence on the continent. To this end, it employs a range of relatively cheap but effective policy instruments. These include the provision of security assistance, weapons transfers, information operationsand diplomatic levers. Read more
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Fear of the future? The missing peace

Jannie Lilja - Institute for Development and Peace (INEF)

The Rise of Digital Repression in Indonesia under Joko Widodo

Andreas Ufen - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Links Between the Balkan Far-Right and the War in Ukraine

Asya Metodieva, Michael Colborne - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

(En)Countering epistemic imperialism: A critique of “Westsplaining” and coloniality in dominant debates on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Tereza Hendla, Olga Burlyuk, Mila O’Sullivan, Aizada Arystanbek - Institute of International Relations (IIR)

Authoritarian power and contestation beyond the state

Globalizations
Julia Gurol et al. - Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI)

Power, Poverty, and Knowledge – Reflecting on 50 Years of Learning with Robert Chambers

IDS Bulletin
Stephen Thompson, Mariah Cannon (eds.) - Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Reform of the European electricity market: small steps before the revolution?

Andreas Rüdinger - Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI)

Digital Power: State of Power 2023

NIck Buxton et al. - Transnational Institute TNI
Big Tech has concentrated vast economic power with the collusion of states, which has resulted in expanded surveillance, spiraling disinformation and weakened workers' rights. TNI’s 11th flagship State of Power report exposes the actors, the strategies and the implications of this digital power grab, and shares ideas on how movements might bring technology back under popular control.
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Power and Informality in Urban Africa: Ethnographic Perspectives

Open Access Book
Laura Stark, Annika Björnsdotter Teppo (eds.) - Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)
This open access book brings together contributions from urban studies, geography, and anthropology to provide new insights into the social and political dynamics of African cities, as well as uncovering the causes and consequences of urban inequality. Featuring rich new ethnographic research data and case studies drawn from across the continent, the collection shows that Africa’s new urbanites have adapted to their environs in ways which often defy the assumptions of urban planners.
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Impossible Histories, Power, and Exclusion in the Gold Coast and Ghana 1930–2020

in: Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries
Paul Austin Stacey - Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University (RUC)

Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries: An introduction

in: Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries
Paul Austin Stacey - Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University (RUC)