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American students study the research executed by the IWP

11:49 AM 8-1-2013

The Institute of World Policy research «How to get rid of Post-Sovietness?» was included in the curriculum of the Hartwick College (USA).Amy Forster Rothbart, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of the Department of Political Science Hartwick College informed IWP about it.

Institute of World Policy undertook a big project «How to get rid of Post-Sovietness?» In cooperation with the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (Georgia) and the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives Viitorul with the support of the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation Marshall Fund.

The purpose of the research is to eradicate the negative phenomen in politics and society inherent post-soviet period of development. The post-Sovietness in this study is defined as a kind of socio-political mutation, where old Soviet values, practices and standards get modified, combined, mixed and interlinked with their Western counterparts.

The project consists of three parts, in which the phenomenon of post-Sovietness in Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia is studied. Choice is motivated not only because those countries were part of the Soviet Union, but also by the fact that they have officially declared the will to join the European Union. In the course of the study, the Institute of World Policy identified attributes of post-Sovietness in politics and society

Text of the study can be found here