Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Part I The political economy of state socialism -- Chapter 1 The … The state -- Chapter 7 State capacity and the rule of law -- Chapter 8 State consolidation: Russia in a comparative … Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union with this book. It takes them from the end of central planning to the …

increasingly attrac­tive alternative route between Europe and China. Russia’s war has disrupted overland connectivity via the New …Among the many significant geopolitical consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine has been the reinvigoration of the … Middle Corridor, both as a regional economic zone comprising Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Turkey but also as an …

to examining the extent to which Russia – by far the largest, whether measured by geography, population, economy, or … powerful state can deploy to influence a neighbor, the paper considers the extent to which, if at all, Russia may have made use … other non-Baltic post-Soviet countries. The discussion suggests that, while Russia deployed all three modes of influence …

depicted the success of Russia's market transformation in How Russia Became a Market Economy (1995), when others saw little but … chaos. After Russia's financial crisis of 1998, ijlund insisted that Russia had no choice but to adjust to the world market … (Building Capitalism, 2002), although most observers declared the market economic experiment a failure. - Why did not Russia …