The sustainability of international trade is subject to immense pressure. Apart from
obstructed logistics, disruption of production chains and changes in demand, the …

n this groundbreaking study, The Language of Political Incorporation, Amy Liu focuses on
Chinese migrants in Central-Eastern Europe and their varying levels of political …

Can linguistic diversity in the media impede state language proficiency? In this paper, we
test the extent to which the availability of minority languages in the media affects state …

While authoritarian regimes are often characterized by their civil liberty restrictions, some
dictatorships acknowledge the ethnolinguistic diversity of their population. Are minorities in …

Related to the increasing competition for hegemony in the Indo-Pacific region between the
United States and China, there are concerns that it will impact international Trade, especially …

Abstract Language plays a critical role in society. In the Soviet Union, Russian language
was leveraged as a key strategy to unify the fifteen Soviet Socialist Republics, while also …

This study examines the language policy of independent Azerbaijan in relation to national
identity. Azerbaijan is an independent multi-ethnic republic and has implemented its own …

Scholars often use language to proxy ethnic identity in studies of conflict and separatism.
This conflation of language and ethnicity is misleading: language can cut across ethnic …

This chapter presents an economic analysis of the role of language skills in the labour
market and in international trade. Language has economic value as a tool of …

What explains why some governments recognize minority languages–ie, allow them to be
taught formally in schools–while others do not? What explains why some governments …