CHAIR
Christopher Hartwell
(Zurich U of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
PAPERS
Maria J Hierro
(Yale U, US)
Economic Adversity and National Attitudes​
Anthony J Evans
(ESCP Business School, UK)
Did Transition Work?
A Comparative Assessment of the Legacy of Shock Therapy versus Gradualism
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Antonio Amuza
(U of Bucharest, Romania)
Affective Geopolitics and Post-Soviet Imaginaries: Algorithmic Sentiment in Romanian
and Moldovan Media Coverage of Donald Trump and the United States, 2023–25
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Lena Pieber
(ZOiS Berlin, Germany)
Researching Economies in Hard-to-Access and Data-Sparse Settings:
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Sinziana Stanciu
(Cornell U, US)
Founding an (Inter)National Oil Industry: Romanian Oil, 1895-1913
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Don Van Atta
(UNC Chapel Hill, US)
Water Power in Tajikistan:
(Agrarian) Politics in a post-Soviet Hydraulic Society
DISCUSSANT
Peter Rutland
(Wesleyan U, US)
PANEL N13
The Political Economy of Nationalism