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This chapter provides an overview of the rationales and motivations behind the research project as a whole. Specifically, this project examines regional dynamics inside the former Soviet space by observing the structuration of a region, how it relates to states and other processes of polity-making, and to what extent “the regionals”—i.e., all the various regionally-scaled articulations of political units—unfold through this dialectics.
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Russo, A. (2018). Introduction. In: Regions in Transition in the Former Soviet Area. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60624-8_1
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