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  • Between Past and Future: Elites, Democracy and the State in Post-Communist Countries

    A Comparison of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

    by Anton Steen ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1997, this text presents a specific interest in analyzing the role of the elites as a key factor for democratic rule and policy changes. In order to put the elites in perspective the author has also conducted opinion surveys asking some of the same questions among representative samples of the populations in the three countries. Comparing these three rather similar states gives ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Political Elites and the New Russia

    The Power Basis of Yeltsin's and Putin's Regimes

    by Anton Steen ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the crucial strategic actors in reshaping Russia's economy, democratising its political system and decentralising its administration.This book analyses the role of elites under Yeltsin and Putin, discussing the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Elites and Democratic Development in Russia

    Edited by Vladimir Gel'man, Anton Steen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition
    The transformation from Communist rule towards democratic development in Russia cannot be fully understood without taking the elites into full consideration. Elites and Democratic Development in Russia examines how elites support and challenge democracy and why they are crucial to Russian democracy in particular.In this innovative volume, twelve respected scholars investigate how elites have ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Do the U.S, the EU and Russia Form a New Strategic Triangle?

    Edited by Jan Hallenberg, Håkan Karlsson ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere.This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU ... Read more

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  • Post-Soviet Civil Society

    Democratization in Russia and the Baltic States

    by Anders Uhlin ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    The development of civil society has varied greatly across the former Soviet Union. The Baltic states have achieved a high level of integration with the West and European Union membership, while some regions in Russia lag far behind.Now for the first time there is a comparative study of civil society and democratization across post-Soviet national borders. Acknowledging the enormous variation ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • China-Europe Relations

    Perceptions, Policies and Prospects

    Edited by David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider, Zhou Hong ...
    The fast-developing relationship between China and Europe has become one of the most important in international affairs. China-Europe Relations takes an innovative and insightful look at this phenomenon, examining:the state of Chinese studies in Europe and European studies in Chinathe decision-making behind the EU’s China policy, and what the Chinese perceptions and assessments are of Europe that ... Read more

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  • National Minorities in Putin's Russia

    Diversity and Assimilation

    by Federica Prina ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    Using a human rights approach, the book analyses the dynamics in the application of minority policies for the preservation of cultural and linguistic diversity in Russia. Despite Russia’s legacy of ethno-cultural and linguistic pluralism, the book argues that the Putin leadership’s overwhelming statism and promotion of Russian patriotism are inexorably leading to a reduction of Russia’s diversity. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Chinese Politics and Government

    Power, Ideology and Organization

    by Sujian Guo ...
    Over the past two decades, China’s political reforms, open-door policy, dramatic economic growth, and increasingly assertive foreign policy have had an unprecedented regional and global impact. This introductory textbook provides students with a fundamental understanding of government and politics in China as well as the conceptual ability to explore the general patterns, impacts, and nature of ... Read more

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  • Why Communism Did Not Collapse

    Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe

    Edited by Martin K. Dimitrov ...
    This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars working to address the puzzling durability of communist autocracies in Eastern Europe and Asia, which are the longest-lasting type of non-democratic regime to emerge after World War I. The volume conceptualizes the communist universe as consisting of the ten regimes in Eastern Europe and Mongolia that eventually collapsed in 1989–91, ... Read more

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  • Federalism and Regional Policy in Contemporary Russia

    by Andrey Starodubtsev ...
    How do Russian leaders balance the need to decentralize governance in a socially and politically complex country with the need to guarantee political control of the state?Since the early 2000s Russian federal authorities have arranged a system of political control on regional elites and their leaders, providing a "police control" of special bodies subordinated by the federal center on policy ... Read more

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  • East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union

    The Post-Socialist States

    by Michael Bradshaw, Alison Stenning ...
    Series series Developing Areas Research Group
    A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this increasingly popular area of study. Employing a groundbreaking thematic approach the book centres its discussion on the interrelation between contemporary development theories and continuing transition issues in this huge and complex region. ... Read more

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  • The Communist Road to Capitalism

    How Social Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China’s (R)evolution since 1949

    by Ralf Ruckus ...
    The Communist Road to Capitalism explores how a dynamic of social struggles from below followed by countermeasures of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime has pushed the historical evolution of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since 1949.Under socialism until the mid-1970s, during the ensuing transition until the mid-1990s, and in the capitalist period since, the CCP regime responded to ... Read more

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