Central Asian, Russian & East European Studies

Edited by Susanne Oxenstierna

During the early 2000s the market liberalization reforms to the Russian economy, begun in the 1990s, were consolidated. But since the mid 2000s economic policy has moved into a new phase, characterized by more state intervention with less efficiency and more structural problems. Corruption, weak…

Hardback – 2015-04-22
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Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

By Marcin Kaczmarski

The book explores developments in Russia-China relations in the aftermath of the global economic crisis, arguing that the crisis transformed their bilateral affairs, regional liaisons and, crucially, altered the roles both states play on the international arena. Discussing how Russo-Chinese…

Hardback – 2015-03-19
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

By Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz

Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television…

Hardback – 2015-03-12
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

By Lena Jonson

The Pussy Riot protest, and the subsequent heavy handed treatment of the protestors, grabbed the headlines, but this was not an isolated instance of art being noticeably critical of the regime. As this book, based on extensive original research, shows, there has been gradually emerging over recent…

Hardback – 2015-02-24
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Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

Edited by Shinichiro Tabata

Taking a long view, and a wide perspective, this book by Japan's leading scholars on Asia and Eurasia provides a comprehensive and systematic comparison of the three greatest powers in the region and assesses how far the recent growth trajectories of these countries are sustainable in the long…

Hardback – 2015-01-08
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Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

By Alfrid K. Bustanov

Orientalism – the idea that the standpoint of Western writers on the East greatly affected what they wrote about the East, the "Other" – applied also in Russia and the Soviet Union, where the study of the many exotic peoples incorporated into the Russian Empire, often in quite late imperial times,…

Hardback – 2014-12-03
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Central Asian Studies

Edited by Europa Publications

This excellent reference source brings together hard-to-find information on the constituent units of the Russian Federation. The introduction examines the Russian Federation as a whole, followed by a chronology, demographic and economic statistics, and a review of the Federal Government. The…

Hardback – 2016-02-22
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Europa Territories of the World series

Edited by Jelena Džankić, Simonida Kacarska, Nataša Pantić

This book looks at how Europeanisation affects the link between citizenship and governance in and across the new states of South East Europe. Contributors unpack the intimate relationship between the European Union, national governments, and citizens through a tripartite model that captures the…

Hardback – 2016-02-05
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Edited by Dorota Kołodziejczyk, Cristina Şandru

A quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and from the vantage point of a post-Cold War, globalised, world, there is a need to address the relative neglect of postcommunism in analysis of postcolonial and neo-colonial configurations of power and influence. This book proposes new…

Hardback – 2016-01-28
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