Post-Soviet Politics: Post-Soviet Politics
About the Book Series
The last decade has seen rapid and fundamental change in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Although there has been considerable academic comment on these changes over the years, detailed empirical and theoretical research on the transformation of the post-Soviet space is only just beginning to appear as new paradigms are developed to explain change. Post-Soviet Politics is a series focusing on the politics of change in the states of the former USSR. The series publishes original work that blends theoretical development with empirical research on post-Soviet politics. The series includes work that progresses comparative analysis of post-Soviet politics, as well as case study research on political change in individual post-Soviet states. The series features original research monographs, thematically strong edited collections and specialized texts. Uniquely, this series brings together the complete spectrum of work on post-Soviet politics, providing a voice for academics world wide.
Crisis Management Challenges in Kaliningrad
1st Edition
By Eugene Krasnov, Anna Karpenko
March 28, 2014
Crisis Management Challenges in Kaliningrad captures the evolving nature of the types of crises faced by a society as it transforms and evolves. Once the westernmost bastion of the Soviet Union and now the westernmost part of the Russian Federation, the Kaliningrad Oblast remains cut off from ...
The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia
1st Edition
By Cameron Ross, Vladimir Gel'man
November 28, 2010
By the end of the 2000s Russia had become an increasingly authoritarian state, which was characterised by the following features: outrageously unfair and fraudulent elections, the existence of weak and impotent political parties, a heavily censored (often self-censored) media, weak rubber-stamping ...
The Politics of Security in Modern Russia
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Galeotti
January 28, 2010
The Putin era saw a striking 'securitization' of politics, something that he has bequeathed to his chosen successor, Dmitry Medvedev. The omens from the early days of the Medvedev presidency have been mixed, marked both by less confrontational rhetoric towards the West and by war with Georgia and ...
Public Opinion and the Making of Foreign Policy in the 'New Europe': A Comparative Study of Poland and Ukraine
1st Edition
By Nathaniel Copsey
December 28, 2009
By drawing a new boundary between the EU and its eastern neighbours, the European Union has since 1989 created a frontier that has been popularly described in the frontier states as the new 'Berlin Wall'. This book is the first comparative study of the impact of public opinion on the making of ...
Authoritarian Backlash: Russian Resistance to Democratization in the Former Soviet Union
1st Edition
By Thomas Ambrosio
January 28, 2009
Authoritarian Russia has adopted five strategies to preserve the Kremlin's political power: insulate, bolster, subvert, redefine and coordinate. Thomas Ambrosio examines each of these in turn, all of which seek to counter or undermine regional democratic trends both at home and throughout the ...
Taming Nationalism? Political Community Building in the Post-Soviet Baltic States
1st Edition
By Dovile Budryte
August 09, 2005
Revisiting the process of political community building in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, this book analyzes the roles that international actors have played in these processes and assesses the unintended consequences of this involvement. The study differs from other works on ethnic minorities and ...
Hegemony, International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia
1st Edition
By Owen Worth
April 07, 2005
This illuminating book explores the neo-Gramscian school of international political economy and their conceptualization of global hegemony, and furthers these by looking at how the often fragmented society of post-Communist Russia can provide insight into the nature and workings of neo-liberal ...