; the United States and Russia have vied to influence the placement of pipeline routes; and attention to the region …'s resources has increased pressure on disputes between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia and Georgia over … Abkhazia, and Russia and Chechnya. And all of these developments are unfolding against a backdrop of deepening ecological …

This paper tests the explanatory and predictive power of a theory of dictatorship (e.g., Wintrobe 1998, 2007) when … explanatory power of the theory of dictatorship, showing that never in the history of the temporal power of the Church have the … four categories of dictatorship that the theory foresees (tinpot, tyrant, totalitarian and conceivably timocrat) proven …