21st Century Myth --: Authoritarian Modernization in Russia and China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 21st Century Myth --: Authoritarian Modernization in Russia and China write by Bobo Lo. This book was released on 2022. 21st Century Myth --: Authoritarian Modernization in Russia and China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A 21st Century Myth
A 21st Century Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A 21st Century Myth write by Bobo Lo. This book was released on 2012. A 21st Century Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Authoritarian Modernization in Russia
Authoritarian Modernization in Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Authoritarian Modernization in Russia write by Vladimir Gel'man. This book was released on 2016-08-12. Authoritarian Modernization in Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Post-Communist Russia is an instance of the phenomenon of authoritarian modernization project, which is perceived as a set of policies intended to achieve a high level of economic development, while political freedoms remain beyond the current modernization agenda or are postponed to a distant future. Why did Russia (unlike many countries of post-Communist Europe) pursue authoritarian modernization after the Soviet collapse? What is the ideational agenda behind this project and why does it dominate Russia’s post-Communist political landscape? What are the mechanisms of political governance, which maintain this project and how have they adopted and absorbed various democratic institutions and practices? Why has this project brought such diverse results in various policy arenas, and why have the consequences of certain policies become so controversial? Why, despite so many controversies, shortcomings and flaws, has this project remained attractive in the eyes of a large proportion of the Russian elite and ordinary citizens? This volume intended to place some of these questions on the research agenda and propose several answers, encouraging further discussions about the logic and mechanisms of the authoritarian modernization project in post-Communist Russia and its effects on Russia’s politics, economy, and society.
Modernisation in EU-Russian Relations: Past, Present and Future
Modernisation in EU-Russian Relations: Past, Present and Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernisation in EU-Russian Relations: Past, Present and Future write by Maxine David. This book was released on 2017-10-02. Modernisation in EU-Russian Relations: Past, Present and Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written as EU-Russia relations began their swift decline as a result of the Ukrainian crisis, this book examines the nature of these two actors’ relationship in respect of their Partnership for Modernisation. The contributing authors look at modernisation through different lenses applying varying methodologies, delivering: historical analysis, economic analysis, levels-of-analysis debate, which brings along transnational, transgovernmental and intergovernmental relations and interrelations between the EU and its member states, discourse analysis, new institutionalism as well as policy analysis. The authors each identify the importance of modernisation for Russia, demonstrating why, despite the current state of relations between Moscow and Brussels, modernisation remains relevant for EU-Russian relations. At the same time, the plurality of the chapters shows the complexity of the relationship that will have to be taken into account in order to overcome the current crisis and construct sustainable and mutually beneficial relations.
Russia and China
Russia and China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Russia and China write by Michal Lubina. This book was released on 2017-10-23. Russia and China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book depicts the sophisticated relationship between Russia and China as a pragmatic one, a political “marriage of convenience”. Yet at the same time the relationship is stable, and will remain so. After all, bilateral relations are usually based on pragmatic interests and the pursuit of these interests is the very essence of foreign policy. And, as often happens in life, the most long-lasting marriages are those based on convenience. The highly complex, complicated, ambiguous and yet, indeed, successful relationship between Russia and China throughout the past 25 years is difficult to grasp theoretically. Russian and Chinese elites are hard-core realists in their foreign policies, and the neorealist school in international relations seems to be the most adequate one to research Sino-Russian relations. Realistically, throughout this period China achieved a multidimensional advantage over Russia. Yet, simultaneously Russia-China relations do not follow the patterns of power politics. Beijing knows its limits and does not go into extremes. Rather, China successfully seeks to build a longterm, stable relationship based on Chinese terms, where both sides gain, albeit China gains a little more. Russia in this agenda does not necessary lose; just gains a little less out of this asymmetric deal. Thus, a new model of bilateral relations emerges, which may be called – by paraphrasing the slogan of Chinese diplomacy – as “asymmetric win-win” formula. This model is a kind of “back to the past“ – a contemporary equivalent of the first model of Russia-China relations: the modus vivendi from the 17th century, achieved after the Nerchinsk treaty.
