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Power, People, and the Political: Understanding the Many Crises in Belarus

The many recent crises in Belarus are often seen through the prism of democratization, post-communist transition, and nation- and identity-building. As a rule, it is put into the context of the 1989 democratization in Central and Eastern Europe and compared with similar societal mobilization in Georgia (2003), Ukraine (2004; 2014), and Kyrgyzstan (2005). This article, however, argues that while these theoretical approaches provide an important explanatory potential, they nevertheless fail to account for informal, hidden, and unstable processes presently unfolding in the Belarusian society, leading to profound change. We argue that, in the vulnerable, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world of today, our knowledge and ability to plan and achieve desirable outcomes are limited in contrast to a largely positivist or interpretivist epistemology of the mainstream theories, which conceive of the world as a closed system. In this article, we offer an alternative explanation of the many crises in Belarus by drawing on the insights of complexity-thinking to suggest that (hidden) transformative change in the country is now irreversible

From principle to practice? The resilience–local ownership nexus in the EU Eastern Partnership policy

By emphasizing concepts such as resilience and local ownership, recent updates in the EU's foreign policy strategy have marked a narrative turn and signaled a shift in EU external governance toward its neighborhood. This article has two aims. First, we unpack the EU's conceptual understanding of resilience and local ownership as reflected in its recent strategic documents. Second, we examine the implications of the EU's narrative turn on actual policy practices in Eastern Partnership countries. We highlight a gap between the EU's broad understanding of resilience and local ownership and the narrow operationalization of these concepts in the EU's eastern policy. The article shows that the EU continued relying on the previously established policy frameworks, according to which resilience develops through approximation with EU templates. This strong path dependence precluded any effective policy turn toward local ownership

Resilience is dead. Long live resilience!

Reflections about the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic and its implications for Europe and the world engendered the view that ‘resilience is dead’. In this post, Elena Korosteleva & Irina Petrova argue that what we observe today is the demise of the ‘neo-liberal’ framing of resilience. Meanwhile, the resilience of human grit lives on

Music Computer Technologies, Supply Chain Strategy and Transformation Processes in Socio-Cultural Paradigm of Performing Art: Using Digital Button Accordion

The article traces the transformation of the socio-cultural paradigm of button accordion performing as a dichotomy of traditional and innovative cultural directions. The authors carry out a diachronic analysis of the formation and development of electronic button accordion playing in the XX-XXI centuries, analyzing the psychoacoustic transformation of the socio-cultural perception of the musical electronic environment, identify the causes of social devolution of electronic button accordion in the XX century, and carry out a historical and cultural analysis of the process of the revival of performing on various modifications of electronic harmonicas in Russia. Performance on a digital button accordion is seen as a logical outcome of the evolution of the instrument accordion complex and the socialization of instrumentation in the new socio-economic conditions of the digital society. The article reveals the features of the formation of performance on a digital button accordion in the modern high-tech process of musical creativity, which opens up great prospects for contemporary forms of cultural and socio-cultural activity of a modern musician. Music and computer technologies are considered as an integral part of the cognitive-creative component of the work of the modern musician of the digital age

From ‘the global’ to ‘the local’: the future of 'cooperative orders' in Central Eurasia in times of complexity

Living in times of increasing complexity is hard; it becomes even harder with the realisation of diminishing control. How do we adapt our governance to this complexity to ensure peaceful cohabitation of the established and emergent order regimes? This paper contends that it is important to embrace complexity in full, conceptually and practically, by shifting from ‘the global’ to ‘the local’, to understand the pressure of transformational change and to prepare the ground for the emergence of more resilient and cooperative orders. We apply this complexity-thinking, using a 3P analysis, to Central Eurasia, presently a battleground of three competing order-making regimes - the EU, China and Russia. We argue that for more resilient and cooperative orders to emerge, it is essential to understand and enable ‘the local’ and embrace the region in is diversity, to facilitate a more joined-up and bottom-up governance in managing the complexity of a changing world

How complex climate networks complement eigen techniques for the statistical analysis of climatological data

Eigen techniques such as empirical orthogonal function (EOF) or coupled pattern (CP) / maximum covariance analysis have been frequently used for detecting patterns in multivariate climatological data sets. Recently, statistical methods originating from the theory of complex networks have been employed for the very same purpose of spatio-temporal analysis. This climate network (CN) analysis is usually based on the same set of similarity matrices as is used in classical EOF or CP analysis, e.g., the correlation matrix of a single climatological field or the cross-correlation matrix between two distinct climatological fields. In this study, formal relationships as well as conceptual differences between both eigen and network approaches are derived and illustrated using exemplary global precipitation, evaporation and surface air temperature data sets. These results allow to pinpoint that CN analysis can complement classical eigen techniques and provides additional information on the higher-order structure of statistical interrelationships in climatological data. Hence, CNs are a valuable supplement to the statistical toolbox of the climatologist, particularly for making sense out of very large data sets such as those generated by satellite observations and climate model intercomparison exercises.Comment: 18 pages, 11 figure