Power and Policy in Putins Russia

Informationen zum Autor Richard Sakwa is Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury and an Associate Fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs! Chatham House. He has published widely on Soviet! Russian and post-communist affairs. Zusammenfassung A landmark analysis of Putin’s presidency, neither condemning nor praising but providing a sober evaluation of how Russia changed under Putin, and how the world began to come to terms with these changes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Putin’s Leadership: Character and Consequences Richard Sakwa 2. Putin’s Legacy and Russia’s Identity Alfred B. Evans, Jr 3. Party Politics in Russia: From Competition to Hierarchy Vladimir Gel’man 4. ‘It’s the Economy, Comrade!’ Parties and Voters in the 2007 Russian Duma Election Ian McAllister and Stephen White 5. Patronage and the Party of Power: President–Parliament Relations Under Vladimir Putin Thomas Remington 6. Adaptive Federalism and Federation in Putin’s Russia Elena Chebankova 7. Corruption and Organised Crime in Putin’s Russia Leslie Holmes 8. Changes in Elite Patterns Oxana Gaman-Golutvina 9. Putin’s Economic Record: Is the Oil Boom Sustainable? Peter Rutland 10. Russian Policy in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea Region Andrei Kazantsev 11. Restoration and Revolution in Putin’s Foreign Policy Angela E. Stent 12. Russia–EU: The Partnership That Went Astray Fyodor Lukyanov

Product details

• Authors: Richard (University of Kent At Canterbury Sakwa
• Assisted by: Richard Sakwa (Editor), Sakwa Richard (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2009
• EAN: 9780415486323
• ISBN: 978-0-415-48632-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, History and Archaeology, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)