Limits of a Post-Soviet State
Title | Limits of a Post-Soviet State PDF eBook |
Author | Abel Polese |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2016-05-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3838268458 |
Though informed by case studies conducted in Ukraine, this book transcends its country-specific scope. It explains why informality in governance is not necessarily transitory or temporary but a constant in most political systems. The book discusses self-protective mechanisms, responses to incomplete or unfocused policy making, and strategies employed by individuals, classes, and communities to respond to unusual demands. The book argues that when state or company expectations exceed normative behavior, informal behavior continues to thrive. New tactics help cope with the reality of governance. Informality also challenges the values imposed by power through attitudes and behaviors that take place "beyond" or "in spite of" the state.
Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States
Title | Warlords and Coalition Politics in Post-Soviet States PDF eBook |
Author | Jesse Driscoll |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2015-07-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107063353 |
This book presents an account of war settlement in Georgia and Tajikistan as local actors maneuvered in the shadow of a Russian-led military intervention. Combining ethnography and game theory and quantitative and qualitative methods, this book presents a revisionist account of the post-Soviet wars and their settlement.
Russia, EU and the Post-Soviet Democratic Failure
Title | Russia, EU and the Post-Soviet Democratic Failure PDF eBook |
Author | Bidzina Lebanidze |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2019-05-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3658264462 |
By studying the influence of the two main external actors in post-Soviet space, the EU and Russia, this study contributes to the increasing body of literature that studies the causes of democratic recession and authoritarian backlash in post-Soviet states and the role of regional actors in these processes. Empirically, the study finds the EU to be both a democracy-promoting and democracy-hindering actor in post-Soviet states. Russia’s impact, on the other hand, is far more negative than the literature on democratization and autocracy promotion typically suggests. It negatively affects both the quality of democracy of post-Soviet states and limits the EU's options for promoting democracy in its neighborhood.
Sovereignty After Empire
Title | Sovereignty After Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Galina Vasilevna Starovotova |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Conflict management |
ISBN |
Religion, Conflict, and Stability in the Former Soviet Union
Title | Religion, Conflict, and Stability in the Former Soviet Union PDF eBook |
Author | Katya Migacheva |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780833099846 |
Religion has become increasingly important in the sociopolitical life of countries in the former Soviet Union. This volume of essays examines how religion affects conflict and stability in the region and provides recommendations to policymakers.
Post-Soviet Secessionism
Title | Post-Soviet Secessionism PDF eBook |
Author | Daria Minakov, Mikhail Sasse, Gwendolyn Minakov, Mikhail Isachenko |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2021-04-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3838215389 |
The USSR’s dissolution resulted in the creation of not only fifteen recognized states but also of four non-recognized statelets: Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria. Their polities comprise networks with state-like elements. Since the early 1990s, the four pseudo-states have been continously dependent on their sponsor countries (Russia, Armenia), and contesting the territorial integrity of their parental nation-states Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova. In 2014, the outburst of Russia-backed separatism in Eastern Ukraine led to the creation of two more para-states, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR), whose leaders used the experience of older de facto states. In 2020, this growing network of de facto states counted an overall population of more than 4 million people. The essays collected in this volume address such questions as: How do post-Soviet de facto states survive and continue to grow? Is there anything specific about the political ecology of Eastern Europe that provides secessionism with the possibility to launch state-making processes in spite of international sanctions and counteractions of their parental states? How do secessionist movements become embedded in wider networks of separatism in Eastern and Western Europe? What is the impact of secessionism and war on the parental states? The contributors are Jan Claas Behrends, Petra Colmorgen, Bruno Coppieters, Nataliia Kasianenko, Alice Lackner, Mikhail Minakov, and Gwendolyn Sasse.
Resisting the State
Title | Resisting the State PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Stoner-Weiss |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2006-06-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1139455710 |
Why do new, democratizing states often find it so difficult to actually govern? Why do they so often fail to provide their beleaguered populations with better access to public goods and services? Using original and unusual data, this book uses post-communist Russia as a case in examining what the author calls this broader 'weak state syndrome' in many developing countries. Through interviews with over 800 Russian bureaucrats in 72 of Russia's 89 provinces, and a highly original database on patterns of regional government non-compliance to federal law and policy, the book demonstrates that resistance to Russian central authority not so much ethnically based (as others have argued) as much as generated by the will of powerful and wealthy regional political and economic actors seeking to protect assets they had acquired through Russia's troubled transition out of communism.