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  • The Lands in Between

    Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War

    Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war. While most citizens in the West are new to the problems of election hacking, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, influence operations by foreign security services, and frozen conflicts, citizens of the frontline states between Russia and the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • From Triumph to Crisis

    Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries

    The postcommunist countries were amongst the most fervent and committed adopters of neoliberal economic reforms. Not only did they manage to overcome the anticipated domestic opposition to 'shock therapy' and Washington Consensus reforms, but many fulfilled the membership requirements of the European Union and even adopted avant-garde neoliberal reforms like the flat tax and pension privatization. ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

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    The Lands in Between

    Russia vs. the West and the New Politics of Hybrid War

    Narrated by Bob Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 24 min

    Russia's stealth invasion of Ukraine and its assault on the US elections in 2016 forced a reluctant West to grapple with the effects of hybrid war. While most citizens in the West are new to the problems of election hacking, state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, influence operations by foreign security services, and frozen conflicts, citizens of the frontline states between Russia and the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Market Reform Debate

    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China’s path. In the first post-Mao decade, China’s reformers were sharply divided. They agreed that China had to reform its economic ... Read more

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  • The China Boom

    Why China Will Not Rule the World

    by Ho-fung Hung ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung details the competing interests and economic realities that temper the dream of Chinese supremacy ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Housing Struggles

    A Structural Field of Contention Approach

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar ... Read more

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  • How Capitalism Was Built

    The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

    by Anders Aslund ...
    Anders Aslund is known to make bold predictions that initially arouse controversy but soon become common wisdom. In Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform (1989), he foresaw the collapse of the Soviet political and economic system. After Russia's financial crisis of 1998, observers declared the market economic experiment a failure, Aslund foresaw market economic success (Building Capitalism, ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • China-Europe Relations

    Perceptions, Policies and Prospects

    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

    $62.99 USD

  • Transition Economics

    Two Decades On

    Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in transition economics and comparative economic systems. Given the passage of time, Transition Economics: Two Decades On reviews and accounts for the outcomes in the so-called transition economies and, from an academic perspective, takes the reader through ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Russia's Changing Economic and Political Regimes

    The Putin Years and Afterwards

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests are also dominating Russia’s foreign policy and explain why Russia did not succeed in becoming an integral ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Taking Stock of Shock

    Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions

    Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-communist transition, contextualizing the rise of populism in Eastern Europe. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, more than 400 million people suddenly found themselves in a new reality, a dramatic transition from state socialist and centrally ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Tax Politics in Eastern Europe

    Globalization, Regional Integration, and the Democratic Compromise

    by Hilary Appel ...
    “This is the first book to systematically examine the variation in policies of Eastern European countries. There is a theoretical contribution to understandings of variation in tax policies, but just as impressive is the in-depth empirical analysis and in particular the data from interviews with key players in the process.”—Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin-MadisonPost-Communist tax reform, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD