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PSIA Seminar: ‘The other Austrians’: Austria’s Challenges to Become a Multiethnic and Multicultural State

Small Auditorium, 5th Floor, 516M , AUA Main Building 40 Marshal Baghramyan Ave, Yerevan, Armenia

About the Event: Among the 8.82 mln. people inhabiting Austria, every fifth Austrian has a so-called migration background, and 15.8% of the total population are foreign-born residents. Austria’s population is thus divided into “native Austrians” representing the majority, the traditional ethnic minorities and new ethnic minorities with migration-background (Turks, people from former Yugoslavia) having already […]

PSIA Seminar: Religion and the Conservative Turn in Russia’s Public Sphere and Politics

About the Event: The last decade witnessed a conservative turn on the global scale. There has been a strong rise in the political and social mobilization of the groups who were opposing the liberal universalist values. The Russian case fits well to this global conservative turn. The political elite has consolidated under a conservative agenda […]

PSIA Seminar: Winning by Losing: Revolution, War, and Development

Small Auditorium, 5th Floor, 516M , AUA Main Building 40 Marshal Baghramyan Ave, Yerevan, Armenia

About the Event: While the Russo-Georgian War of 2008 is seen as a lose-lose-lose (Georgia-Russia-World) event in history, we claim that Georgia gained economically while losing territorially. By constructing a historical counterfactual (synthetic control) for Georgia, we show that over half of the effect that usually is attributed to the Rose Revolution actually is a […]