Presentation Year

2016

Depreciated Participant

Matthew DerrickGeographyFaculty,Merien TownselGeographyUndergraduate Student,Hyejin JunGeographyUndergraduate Student

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Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

This project, an overview of an in-progress edited book, interrogates Eurasia as a form of regional definition for the states that gained independence after the USSR’s breakup, arguing for the continued relevance “post-Soviet” as a regional construct. The idea of the post-Soviet is positioned as a heuristic device to evaluate existing prior attempts at regional definition. Path-dependency as a concept suggests that preexisting institutions condition the institutional form that follows political transition; the condition of path-dependency remains relevant across the post-Soviet successor states.

Permission to Publish Work

Yes

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112

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