EAST EUROPEAN DISPATCH

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Middle East Islamism in the European Arena

An important new development has been the extension of Middle Eastern movements and ideologies to other parts of the world, especially Europe. This article evaluates how these groups and their ideas are extending the reach of Middle East politics to other parts of the world. This has been particularly true of the “jihad movement,” generally associated with Usama Bin Ladin but involving many oth...

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REES)

REES156 Sophomore Seminar: East European Jewish Experience Our concept of the life of East European Jews has been dominated by the Hollywood and Broadway blockbuster FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. The shtetl has been the paradigm of East European Jewish experience. But the powerful imagery of the shtetl is largely a creation of 19th-century writers. This course will take us beyond the shtetl and will loo...

Stemming Approaches for East European Languages

During this CLEF evaluation campaign, the first objective is to propose and evaluate various indexing and search strategies for the Czech language that will hopefully result in more effective retrieval than language-independent approaches (n-gram). Based on the stemming strategy we developed for other languages, we propose that for the Slavic language a light stemmer (inflectional only) and als...

Investigation of the market efficiency of emerging stock markets in the East-European region

The presence of stock market efficiency is a distinctive characteristic of the effectively functioning market economy. Investigation of the market efficiency of seven emerging East-European stock exchanges is carried out as their major stock indices (BELEX15, BET, CROBEX, ISE100, PFTS, RTSI, SOFIX) are studied in respect of long-range dependence (LRD), persistency, and forecasting possibili...