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  • Random Dictatorships

    Unpredictability of Authoritarian Politics in Eurasia

    by Alexander Libman ...
    Post-Soviet Eurasia continues to puzzle observers, defying expectations of experts. Most Russia watchers failed to predict the full-scale invasion against Ukraine in 2022, and this failure triggered intensive debates and multiple rounds of self-reflection. Random Dictatorships: Unpredictability of Authoritarian Politics in Eurasia argues that the supposedly unexpected turns of Eurasian politics ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Excessive Loyalism in Putin’s Authoritarian Regime

    The Costs of Sycophancy

    by Alexander Libman ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides new insights into how excessive loyalism hinders Russia’s authoritarian government. When Russian bureaucrats, diplomats and academics go to great lengths to display their loyalty to the regime in Moscow, many observers regard it as a show of regime’s strength. Yet where this results in overcompliance, excessive praise or needlessly aggressive rhetoric, it becomes a source of ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • International Organizations Amid Global Crises

    Analysing Role Selection and Impact through Role Theory

    by Alexander Libman, John F. Clark, Laura von Allwörden, Maria J. Debre, Sebastian Harnisch, Rikard Bengtsson, Leslie E. Wehner, Amy Below, Stefan Rother, Jeremy Youde ...
    International Organizations (IOs) have been at the forefront of responding to crises in the 21st century, and yet there is little comparative research on how, and how effectively, they have done this.This book fills this gap by exploring what roles IOs take in response to global crises and to what effect. Bringing together a range of international contributors, the book examines a vast array of ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Global Governance and Interaction between International Institutions

    Eurasian International Organizations in the World Politics and Economy

    Edited by Alexander Libman, Anastassia Obydenkova ...
    This book builds on theory of authoritarian regionalism and is the first attempt to analyse the interaction of authoritarian regional organizations in Eurasia with their global and regional counterparts (NATO, EU, WTO, IMF etc.). It analyses three decades of the development of post-Soviet regional organizations prior to the tectonic geopolitical and security changes of 2022.Eurasian regional ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Historical Legacies of Communism

    Modern Politics, Society, and Economic Development

    by Alexander Libman, Anastassia V. Obydenkova ...
    Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, culture, and society of post-Communist regions in the 21st Century. The authors show how this impact is not driven by Communist ideology but by the clientelistic practices, opportunism and cynicism prevalent in the CPSU. Their study is built on a novel ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Consequences of Informal Autonomy

    The Case of Russian Federalism

    by Alexander Libman ...
    The book is the first to provide a systematic overview of the interplay of formal and informal institutions as elements of the Russian federalism from the early 1990s to the mid-2010s. It discusses the crucial role of informal power structures and practices in the relations between the center and the regions in Russia, which survived the centralization policy of the Putin government. Using ... Read more

    $62.79 USD

  • Federalism in China and Russia

    Story of Success and Story of Failure?

    by Alexander Libman, Michael Rochlitz ...
    Series series Studies in Fiscal Federalism and State-local Finance series
    Based on the synthesis of a large empirical and theoretical literature on center-region relations in China and Russia, Federalism in China and Russia is one of the first attempts to integrate this literature from different disciplines into a coherent common framework. Libman and Rochlitz argue that the divergence in growth performance between Russia and China can be - at least partially - ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Authoritarian Regionalism in the World of International Organizations

    Global Perspective and the Eurasian Enigma

    by Anastassia V. Obydenkova, Alexander Libman ...
    The interconnection between international organizations (IOs) membership and democratization has become a topic of intense debate. However, the main focus of the literature so far has been on IOs created by democratic states and comprised mostly of democracies, for examples the European Union. In contrast to existing studies, this book focuses on another group of regional IOs, referred to as 'non ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Eurasia on the Edge

    Managing Complexity

    by Andrei Kazantsev, Fyodor Lukyanov, Viktoria Akchurina, Martin Greiger, Leonid Grigoryev, Zhao Huasheng, Timofei Bordachev, Ruta Karpauskaite, Richard Burchill, Alexander Libman, Alexander Lukin, Ivan Safranchuk, Vincent Della Sala, Leah Sherwood, Nikolai Silaev, Andrey Sushentsov, Yong Wang, Richard Weitz, Evgeny Vinokurov, Piotr Dutkiewicz ...
    Series series Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Politics
    Eurasia, wherever one draws the boundaries, is very much at the centre of discussions about today’s world. Security across Eurasia is a global concern and has been subject to a range of discussions and debate. However, the current tensions over security and world order, with the growing challenges from Eurasia and Asia, require more intense scrutiny. The goals of the book are to explore the ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Holding-Together Regionalism: Twenty Years of Post-Soviet Integration

    by Alexander Libman, E. Vinokurov ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    An in-depth analysis of one of the most important and complex issues of the post-Soviet era, namely the (re-)integration of this highly interconnected region. The book considers the evolution of 'holding-together' groups since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, looking at intergovernmental interaction and informal economic and social ties. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Autocratic and Democratic External Influences in Post-Soviet Eurasia

    by Anastassia Obydenkova, Alexander Libman ...
    Series series Post-Soviet Politics
    As the Ukrainian Crisis shows both political regimes and national borders in Eurasia are still in a state of flux. Bringing together literatures on the external influences of democratization, the post-Soviet space and support for autocracy Autocratic and Democratic External influences in Post-Soviet Eurasia provides a comprehensive overview of the interaction of domestic and international politics ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Re-Evaluating Regional Organizations

    Behind the Smokescreen of Official Mandates

    by Evgeny Vinokurov, Alexander Libman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book re-evaluates the regional organizations landscape and discusses how organizations with similar mandates can exercise strikingly different goals. Even economic organizations, which do not produce any outcomes in terms of economic cooperation, can be valuable for their members or individual stakeholders. The book’s argument is supported by a combination of quantitative and qualitative ... Read more

    $107.09 USD