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"I would like to express my thanks to the Carnegie Research Fellowship for the good chance to participate and to be a fellow of this scholarship. The NCEEER staff made me feel very welcome on my first visit to the United States. It was a good opportunity for my future professional development and career. It was an unforgettable time because I've found new friends, and learned about the American style of life, holidays and traditions."
--Ala Svet, Free University of Moldova
Established in January 2001 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Carnegie Research Fellowship Program brings Russian and former Soviet scholars to the United States for short-term, non-degree research at American universities and research institutions. All fellows spend up to four months at their host universities conducting research on specific topics in their fields and write a 15 to 30-page academic paper for presentation upon the fellow's return home. It is expected that returning fellows will actively participate in the development of the program activities of the CASE with which they are affiliated. Fellows are also expected to present their work at conferences and receive peer evaluation of the results of their research.
Participants in this program receive the following: round-trip airfare from their home cities to the host universities in the United States; pre-departure orientation; an academic orientation in Washington, DC or Seattle; visa support; a monthly stipend; health insurance; a professional development fund; access to libraries and archives; and support for membership in international professional associations in their field. A select number of successful participants are designated as George F. Russell fellows and placed at the University of Washington.
| Name/CASE | Home/US University | Project | Summary |
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| Mher Arshakyan, Yerevan CASE | University of Bern, Switzerland - George Washington University Law School | Tools for Applying Rules: The Interpretive Techniques of Constitutional Norms | The interpretive techniques used in the decisions of the courts of countries with varying degree of judicial review are affected by the legal culture of those countries. |
| Olga Breskaya, Minsk CASE | Brest State University - Texas A+M University | The Space of Religious Community in Contemporary Eastern European City: In Searching for the Adequate Variables | The role of religious communities will strengthen in public space of Eastern European city in various spheres of urban life that demands special methodology of sociology of religion in this region. |
| Oleg Brinza, Minsk CASE | Bizgates Agency for Economic Development - UC Davis | Agricultural Information and Technology Transfer in Emerging Moldova | Despite efforts to develop agribusiness extension, it continues to be unprepared for market challenges. This proposal matches US experiences to Moldovan endeavors to create competitive agribusiness through information and technology transfer. |
| Ketevan Iremashvili, Tbilisi CASE | Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University - University of Washington | Are the Legal Clinics Substantial Components of Legal Education and which Factors do Stipulate their Efficiency? | I identify the hypothesis and objectives of the research. I stress the advantages of US law schools in this field. I do specify the outcomes of the research as benefits for the higher legal education institutions across Georgia. |
| Leonid Litra, Minsk CASE | Information and Documentation Center on NATO - Yale University | The Evolution of Political Parties in the Republic of Moldova in the Post-Totalitarian Period | The multi-party system in Moldova is underdeveloped. The past experience shows that reforms should be done in the financing of political parties and combating the "oligarchization" of political entities. |
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| Anastasiya Stelmakh | Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey) | Black Sea Region: Impact of International Organizations in Forming Single Regional Security Complex | Post-Cold War era appeared to be a fruitful time for the emergence of the new regionalist scholarship as well as new elucidation of security. This paper reviews a literature on the new regionalism, and separates the benefits of the Regional Security Complex Theory by Copenhagen School. RSCT as a favorable tool is applied here for the aim of thorough Black Sea Region’s analysis with further sketching probable theory-based scenarios. Black Sea Region, which also emerged into a distinct entity in the post-Cold War times, sends some signals to the outside world on the probability that it can be transferred into some sort of security entity. Therefore, this paper aims to retain space to consider the possibility of Black Sea security complex formation and reify impact of the international organizations and regional initiatives to tackle the emergence of single regional security space. Hence possible scenarios, based on the clashing interests of the core states (EU, Russia, Turkey) and outside power (USA) are revealed. Black Sea region without a distinct leader in charge so far juxtapose the chances of other regional powers (Ukraine, Turkey etc.) to challenge the regional balance and to reshape it from rather "unstructured security region" into other forms of RSC. | Download File |
| Elene Sekhniashvili | Constitutional Court of Georgia | Economic Consequences of the Constitutional Controland the Impact of the Constitutional Justice on the Transitional Economy in Georgia; Constitutional Court as Political Actor in the Political System | Consequences of the constitutional adjudication and an impact of the constitutional system on the economy, when the court seems to be a political actor, could be comprised in a term "constitutional economic adjudication" or a "constitutional economic judicial review." The constitutional economic adjudication is a complex issue, which could be examined from the legal, economic as well as political perspectives. This research does not assess the topic from any particular viewpoint and the scope of the paper would not suggest the detailed scrutiny or the indepth constitutional analysis of the case-law. The general tool of this study is a comparative method of analysis. American constitutional development as well as politics and history of judicial review in the United States offers significant pattern for the study of the current constitutional and judicial developments in Georgia as well as the other Post-Soviet countries in transition. | Download File |
| Hovhannes Nikoghosyan | Public Policy Institute | Back to the Theory of Humanitarian Interventions | The core scope of this study is to discuss the pros and cons in the sovereignty vs. human rights and "Responsibility to Protect", or R2P, debate. The purpose of this study is to examine the legal background of humanitarian interventions (HIs) with case studies between 1999-2008, to assess the R2P policy developments in the mid-term future.
The central "why" question for this research is, what are the basic criteria to choose the right cases to intervene and others to refrain from? Why should the international community, by and large, support military actions against Saddam Hussein and Milosevic, but remain idle in Rwanda and Sudan (Darfur). And, in general, how can human rights protection be reconciled with the state sovereignty? Does "sovereignty" assume "responsibility"? Is it limited or absolute with regards to domestic politics? The objective of this research is to show the emerging doctrine and legal traditions behind the HI practices from the 1990s until the Russian so-called HI in South Ossetia in August 2008, which provides the main case study. | Download File |
| Mariam Gvelesiani | National Museum of Georgia | Pagan Cults of Pre-Christian Georgia (Ainina-Danina, Zaden) | In my research project I was mentioning that the proposed research is a continuation of my thesis devoted to study of the cult of Armazi, the supreme divinity of the kingdom of Kartli (located in the eastern Georgia and referred to Caucasian Iberia by the Greeks and Romans) personification of which is expected to be a clue to formulation of religious orientation of pre-Christian Georgia. | Download File |
| Marina Kulichikhina | Saratov State University | Body Power in German Romanticism | The study of cultural representations of the body is very important in modern scholarship; - it is an interdisciplinary problem studied in philosophy, feminist and gender criticism, literary criticism, and critical theory. | Download File |
| Mher Arshakyan | University of Bern | Common Law and American Constitutional Interpretation | The central question for this essay is to explore the inherent characteristics of common law legal tradition and its influence on the American Constitutional Interpretation. I will first identify the theoretical or underlying theories of Common Law legal system in terms of application of the precedent and the modes of legal thinking. Understanding the sources and the modes of common law legal reasoning will facilitate the comprehension of theoretical and practical aspects of American Constitutional Interpretation. The United States is part of Common Law legal system and American written Constitution and its interpretation is informed by social changes and common law legal tradition. For this reason the need to do some theoretical and practical analysis of common law rule and reasoning becomes apparent. | Download File |
| Natalia Ryzhova | Institute of Geology and Natural Management | Informal Economy of Translocations: The Case of the Twin Cities of Blagoveshensk-Heihe | The article evaluates economic interactions between people in the adjacent border cities of Blagoveshensk (Russia) and Heihe (China). The article reveals the conflict between the development of translocality around the border of the two countries and recent Russian policy to strengthen the position of the nation-state. | Download File |
| Nikita S. Nikitin | Immanuel Kant State University of Russia, Kaliningrad | Exercise, Massage, and Healthy Eating in the Rehabilitation of People Living with HIV in the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation | The main objective of my research is to determine advisability of using exercise training, massage, and healthy eating in PLHIV (people living with HIV) rehabilitation. The developed methods can be used for increasing the quality of complex rehabilitation of PLHIV. | Download File |
| Olesea Melnicenco | Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova | The International Investment Market and its Role in Social Stability and Sustainable Development during Financial Crises (evidence for the Republic of Moldova) | Foreign investments, primarily foreign direct investments (FDI) are viewed as a major stimulus to economic growth and development. A current positive attitude to FDI is indeed striking. More than that, at the end of the twentieth century developing countries faced a series of serious financial crises differed markedly from those which had occurred previously. Many problems were compounded by the direct influence of transnational corporations – the main players on the global investment market and the main promoters of FDI. It will be analyzed in this paper how these problems affected or may affect social life and sustainable development of the countries. | Download File |
| Olga Breskaya | Brest State University | The Space of religious community in contemporary Eastern-European City: in searching for the adequate variables | Modernization of religious sphere and its development over almost 20 years in Eastern-European region has raised many questions – what kind of model would be taken as the pattern for development and what type of prospects would be build. The absence of sociological theory concerning religious life as such in the region as reflective instrument to interpret the reality during the Soviet years, force us, on the one hand, to apply to the theories of Western European sociologists in our effort to find the necessary language of description and to compare Western and Eastern-European realities. On the other hand, we may seek domestic scholars, who could work within the other area of humanities, but who have described the peculiarities of regional development. We are interested – what kind of sociological theory can grasp the current changes within the religious landscape in Eastern Europe (the region of Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, and Russia)? | Download File |
| Tamar Makharadze | Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University | Employment Policy towards Persons with Disabilities – What Georgia Can Learn from the Experience of the United States | The study examines different factors reinforcing and interfering with employment of persons with disabilities in the US and Georgia. The main aim of this research is to develop policy recommendations toward employment of people with disabilities in Georgia by analysing the American model and its applicability to the Georgian context. The study will be carried out in two countries--the US and Georgia. | Download File |
| Volha Chakmarova | Belarusian State University | Belarus in the World: Finding the Way to Overcome Economic Difficulties | The purpose of this research is to analyze small business development as a part of the economic transformation occurring in Belarus.
In this research, three types of resources are used: 1) Current Belarusian law and business environment; 2) Law of the United States, as a country that has significant experience in small business development, as well as a rich theoretical literature on entrepreneurship; and 3) The documents of international organizations dealing with economic development in countries in transition (United Nations Organization, World Bank, IMF) | Download File |
The CRFP competition is open to university faculty, researchers, advanced graduate students, and scholars in the social sciences and humanities from the Russian cities of Kaliningrad and Rostov-na-Donu, and from the countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
Citizens of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia are encouraged to visit the Caucasus Research Resource Center's site for information on applying to the CRFP. Citizens of Belarus, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine should complete and mail in the following documents:
A primary goal of this program has been to integrate Russian and former Soviet social scientists and humanists into the work of regional Centers for Advanced Study and Education (CASEs), originally supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in cooperation with the Kennan Institute, INO-Center Moscow, and the Russian Ministry of Higher Education. The CASEs have become magnets for scholars who both teach and undertake research through their auspices. The mission of this multi-year commitment has been to strengthen regional universities, restore academic communities, foster a new generation of social scientists and humanists, and integrate scholars from Russian and former Soviet regions into collegial communities with their Western colleagues.
The CASEs currently include the following centers:
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