Kickoff Workshop for the DeFacto Project
Defacto Project Kickoff Workshop, held via Zoom September 16, 2020.
Defacto Project Kickoff Workshop, held via Zoom September 16, 2020.
Due to travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 virus, the workshop was held online.
After a round of introductions, project participants and experts discussed the project plan, deliverables, and individual contributions by the expert team. The project covers all eight existing de facto states that have a patron: Abkhazia, Donetsk, Luhansk, Nagorno-Karabakh, Northern Cyprus, South Ossetia, Taiwan and Transnistria.
Project deliverables include surveys in all eight de-facto states, an edited volume, and peer-reviewed articles in international journals. In addition, the team will engage in a number of outreach activities, including public seminars, op-eds, policy briefs, and podcasts.
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Through surveys, fieldwork and expert interviews, the DeFacto project aims to address three overarching questions:
- How do popular attitudes restrain/resource de facto state leaders vis-a-vis the patron?
- How do these leaders navigate between domestic demands and the patron's expectations?
- And how do patron states exert their influence?