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  • State Capability and Challenges to Russia’s Food Security in the Twenty-first Century

    by Stephen K. Wegren ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Russia
    This book offers a rigorous examination of Russia's state capability through the critical lens of food security, revealing profound implications for domestic stability and international relations.Drawing on extensive research, the author demonstrates how food insecurity has historically catalyzed political instability in Russia, explaining the Putin regime's substantial investment in agricultural ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Putin's Russia

    Edited by Darrell Slider ...
    Thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated, the new edition of this classic text provides the most authoritative and current analysis of contemporary Russia. Leading scholars explore the domestic and international problems Russia confronts, including political, economic, societal, and foreign policy issues. The new edition provides an analysis from multiple perspectives on the major challenges ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Rural Adaptation in Russia

    Edited by Stephen K. Wegren ...
    The current dominant approach to Russian peasant behaviour emphasizes rural resistance to reform in broad terms, and to the introduction of market forces in particular. Bringing together some of the finest scholars on rural Russia, this groundbreaking volume examines this perception with an analysis of both historical and contemporary patterns of rural adaptation in Russia.Four articles included ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Russia's Food Revolution

    The Transformation of the Food System

    by Stephen K. Wegren ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book analyzes the food revolution that has occurred in Russia since the late 1980s, documenting the transformation in systems of production, supply, distribution, and consumption. It examines the dominant actors in the food system; explores how the state regulates food; considers changes in patterns of food trade interactions with other states; and discusses how all this and changing habits ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Russia's Policy Challenges

    Security, Stability and Development

    by Stephen K. Wegren ...
    Designed for use in courses on contemporary Russia, this volume explores Russia's policy dilemmas in three realms: international security, socio-political, and socio-economic. In each of these categories, Russia faces daunting problems, none of which is likely to be resolved quickly or easily. Yet, over the longer term, the extent to which policymakers are successful in dealing with these ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Food Policy and Food Security

    Putting Food on the Russian Table

    by Alexander Nikulin, Irina Trotsuk, Stephen K. Wegren ...
    Series series Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Politics
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Russian food policy. Food policy is defined as the way government policy influences food production and distribution. Russia’s food policy is important for several reasons. The first and most obvious reason is that a dysfunctional food policy is symptomatic of larger political and societal problems. A failing food policy is often the precursor to ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Russia’s Role in the Contemporary International Agri-Food Trade System

    Edited by Stephen K. Wegren, Frode Nilssen ...
    Series series Palgrave Advances in Bioeconomy: Economics and Policies
    This Open Access book analyses the emergence of Russia as a global food power and what it means for global food trade. Russia's strategy for food production and trade has changed significantly since the end of the Soviet period, and this is the first book to take account of Russia's rise as a food power and the global implications of that rise. It includes food trade policy and practice, and ... Read more

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    The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations

    Edited by Andreas Wenger, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups.Russian Business Power explores the powerful impact these new actors are having on the evolution of the Russian state and its foreign behaviour. Unlike other books, which focus either on Russia's foreign and security policy, or on the evolution of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Great Rebirth

    Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism

    Edited by Anders Åslund, Simeon Djankov ...
    The fall of communism transformed the political and economic landscape in more than two dozen countries across Europe and Asia. In this volume published on the 25th anniversary of the fall, political leaders, scholars, and policymakers assess the lessons learned from the "great rebirth" of capitalism and highlight the policies that were most successful in helping countries make the transition to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Putinomics

    Power and Money in Resurgent Russia

    by Chris Miller ...
    When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin’s economic policies? What patterns can be discerned? In this new analysis of Putin’s Russia, Chris Miller examines its economic policy ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • Russia after 2012

    From Putin to Medvedev to Putin – Continuity, Change, or Revolution?

    Edited by J.L. Black, Michael Johns ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book provides an overview of the state of Russia after the 2012 presidential election. It considers a wide range of both domestic and international issues, examining both the run up to and the consequences of the election. It covers political, economic, and social topics. It assesses the political scene both before and after the election, and discusses the nature of and likely future of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Famine in North Korea

    Markets, Aid, and Reform

    by Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland ...
    In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.As households, enterprises, local party ... Read more

    $32.39 USD