- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
Soviet and Post-Soviet Caucasus 3620-ZOSP-H-OG
I. INTRODUCTION.
Geographical environment and ethnic composition. Southern Caucasus and the Middle East. The problem of the frontier region. The Russian conquest: Northern and Southern Caucasus. The historical pivotal point. Between authonomy and limited incorporation. Two models of Russian policy. The Russian 1905-1907 revolution; the political awakening an ethnic conflict. From regional federalism to the experiment of independence. In the shadow of Otoman Turkey. The British episode. Diplomacy in search for rescue. The sources of national communism. The second Russian conquest.
II. THE SOVIET CONQUEST AND THE NATIONAL SOCIAL AGREEMENT.
The Soviet nationalities policy and the "korenizatsia" ("rooting"). The period of transformations; the time of fear, emigration federalism and the Polish Republic, World War II, the Caspian oil, the Iranian Azerbaijan and the beginning of the Cold War.
III. THE LENGTHY TWILIGHT OF THE EMPIRE. The Caucasian periphery and the structural crisis of the empire. Ethnic conflict and political awakening for the second time.
IV. POST-SOVIET INDEPENDANCE. Attempts of post-Soviet revolutions, in the enchanted circle of neighborhood quarels: the Karabakh and Abkhazia. The stabilization of the nomenclature, structures and processes of political life.
V. THE PRIMACY OF FOREGN POLICY. The long shadow of Russia. Alternatives: the NATO, the EU, the New Silk Road, the USA and the independent republics of the Caucasus, the pipeline policy.
VI. THE TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY AND GEOPOLICY. The currents of post-Soviet economy, the new foreign trade model, the social costs of economic transformations, the oil and the economy.
VII. CONCLUSIONS. The new wave of post-Soviet revolution: Georgia 2003.
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- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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