The International Economic Crisis And The Post Soviet States

Author : Valentina Feklyunina,Stephen White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317981404

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The International Economic Crisis and the Post-Soviet States by Valentina Feklyunina,Stephen White Pdf

At first, it seemed as if the international financial crisis that broke out in 2008 would have little effect in Russia and the other post-Soviet states. But, by the end of the year, growth was slowing, banks were reluctant to lend, share values had collapsed and unemployment was rising inexorably. The stability of the Putin leadership, it appeared, had been built on the turnaround in economic performance that it had managed to achieve over more than a decade. How would it cope with a sudden reversal? In Ukraine, living standards fell even more sharply. In Belarus, there were fewer obvious signs of economic difficulty, but it could hardly be unaffected by the performance of its major trading partners. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, an international group of scholars address the impact of the international financial crisis in the post-Soviet states and the continuing implications of the crisis for these countries themselves and for the wider world. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, now known as East European Politics.

Author : Felix Jaitner,Tina Olteanu,Tobias Spöri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351234443

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Crises in the Post‐Soviet Space by Felix Jaitner,Tina Olteanu,Tobias Spöri Pdf

The breakup of the Soviet Union led to the creation of new states and territorial conflicts of different levels of intensity. Scrutinising the post‐Soviet period, this volume offers explanations for both the frequency and the intensity of crises in the region. This book argues that the societies which emerged in the post-Soviet space share characteristic features, and that the instability and conflict-prone nature of the Soviet Union’s successor states can be explained by analysing the post-independence history of the region and linking it to the emergence of overlapping economic, political and violent crises (called 'Intersecting Crises Phenomena’). Transformation itself is shown to be a decisive process and, while acknowledging specific national and regional characteristics and differences, the authors demonstrate its shared impact. This comparison across countries and over time presents patterns of crisis and crisis management common to all the successor states. It disentangles the process, highlighting the multifaceted features of post-Soviet crises and draws upon the concept of crisis to determine the tipping points of post-Soviet development. Especially useful for scholars and students dealing with the Soviet successor states, this book should also prove interesting to those researching in the fields of communist and post‐communist Studies, Eurasian politics, international relations and peace and conflict studies.

Author : Marshall I. Goldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134376841

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The Piratization of Russia by Marshall I. Goldman Pdf

In 1991, a small group of Russians emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union and enjoyed one of the greatest transfers of wealth ever seen, claiming ownership of some of the most valuable petroleum, natural gas and metal deposits in the world. By 1997, five of those individuals were on Forbes Magazine's list of the world's richest billionaires.

Author : Neil Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351150545

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Reforging the Weakest Link by Neil Robinson Pdf

Originally published in 2004. The collapse of the USSR and the emergence of 15 new states from its ashes presents another challenge to the global economy: how to reintegrate the post-Soviet space into the international economy. The spread of liberal market ideology and integration of national economic spaces into a global marketplace faces unique difficulties in the former USSR. This insightful volume explains these challenges, showing how Soviet legacies have worked against a smooth re-entry of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus into the global economy. It also demonstrates how and why global economic forces have had very uneven effects in the area, how the area differs from other parts of the post-communist world where reintegration has proceeded more smoothly, and what the future prospects and political implications are for the region in the global economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780881325522

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Russia After The Global Economic Crisis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anders Åslund
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Economic stabilization
ISBN : UCSC:32106010368998

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The Post-Soviet Economy by Anders Åslund Pdf

In the context of the Soviet economic crisis of 1991, this work offers the views of 12 economists - half from the USSR, half from the West. While all agree on the need for a market economy, the Soviet writers here argue for a markedly more gradual change than do their Western counterparts.

Author : Klaus Segbers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351807531

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Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks by Klaus Segbers Pdf

This title was first published in 2001: Based on extensive research, this trilogy provides new insights into Post-Soviet transformations without taking refuge in the traditional assumption that Russia is unique. Using powerful analytical tools, this trilogy marks the re-integration of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) into the main current of political science. An invaluable resource for all those interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states. This first volume focuses on state, sectoral, and transnational actors from a predominantly rational choice perspective. The book includes an extensive introduction by the editor which uses additional material gathered by the project team on two polls, 1999 and 2000, which, in addition to the individual studies, provide sufficient data to obtain unprecedented insights into the basic preferences and the logic of action of the main players in Russia. The outcomes of this research will be particularly relevant for students, researchers, journalists and decision-makers interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states’ politics, international relations, economics, social policy and sociology.

Author : Mark Beissinger,M. Crawford Young
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 193036508X

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Beyond State Crisis? by Mark Beissinger,M. Crawford Young Pdf

The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.

Author : Jeffrey Mankoff
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Economic forecasting
ISBN : 0876094760

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The Russian Economic Crisis by Jeffrey Mankoff Pdf

Nearly two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, the character of Russia, its principal successor state, remains unresolved. So, too, does the character of Russia's relationship with the West. Though the intense U.S.-Soviet rivalry of the Cold War is over, Russia has not become the consistent partner that many on the outside hoped would emerge after the Cold War's end. The United States and Europe have taken issue with many elements of Russia's domestic trajectory and regional and international posture, including its democratic practices, energy-related activities in Europe, stance on Iran's nuclear program, and actions in the 2008 Russia-Georgia conflict. At the same time, many Russians are also disappointed with Western policies and actions, including sympathy for Georgia, U.S. plans for missile defense, and, above all, the enlargement of NATO. This has made for a mix of resentment and assertiveness in Moscow. A principal factor enabling this assertiveness in recent years has been Russia's strong economic growth. Since 2008, though, Russia, like many other countries, has experienced a deep economic crisis. The question is how this crisis might affect Russia's domestic politics and foreign policy and, consequently, whether any change is warranted in U.S. policy toward Moscow.

Author : Keith A. Darden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521866538

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Economic Liberalism and Its Rivals by Keith A. Darden Pdf

Darden traces the decisions that shaped the entry of post-Soviet states into the world economy.

Author : Vladimir Gel'man,Otar Marganiya
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739143759

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Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia by Vladimir Gel'man,Otar Marganiya Pdf

By the end of the 2000s, the term 'resource curse' had become so widespread that it had turned into a kind of magic keyword, not only in the scholarly language of the social sciences, but also in the discourse of politicians, commentators and analysts all over the world-_like the term 'modernization' in the early 1960s or 'transition' in the early 1990s. In fact, the aggravation of many problems in the global economy and politics, against the background of the rally of oil prices in 2004D2008, became the environment for academic and public debates about the role of natural resources in general, and oil and gas in particular, in the development of various societies. The results of numerous studies do not give a clear answer to questions about the nature and mechanisms of the influence of the oil and gas abundance on the economic, political and social processes in various states and nations. However, the majority of scholars and observers agree that this influence in the most of countries is primarily negative. Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia: Oil, Gas, and Modernization is an in-depth analysis of the impact of oil and gas abundance on political, economic, and social developments of Russia and other post-Soviet states and nations (such as Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan). The chapters of the book systematically examine various effects of 'resource curse' in different arenas such as state building, regime changes, rule of law, property rights, policy-making, interest representation, and international relations in theoretical, historical, and comparative perspectives. The authors analyze the role of oil and gas dependency in the evolution and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union, authoritarian drift of post-Soviet countries, building of predatory state and pendulum-like swings of Russia from 'state capture' of 1990s to 'business capture' of 2000s, uneasy relationships between the state and special interest groups, and numerous problems of 'geo-economics' of pipelines in post-Soviet Eurasia.

Author : Barry K. Gills,Shahid Qadir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015034270986

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Regimes in Crisis by Barry K. Gills,Shahid Qadir Pdf

The revolutions in Eastern Europe, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and China's transition to a market economy, have thrown many Third World countries that proclaimed commitment to a socialist development path into crisis. This collection explores the nature of this crisis. It examines the recent experiences of radical and socialist regimes as they attempt to adjust to the new geopolitical and economic realities of the 1990s - the formerly Afro-Marxist states, the radical Arab regimes, as well as China, Vietman, Cuba and North Korea. It looks at why the Soviet economic model collapsed and at the important structural shifts that global capitalism went through in the 1980s. It asks if there is such a thing as a socialist development strategy and, if so, what it might comprise in a world where the Soviet statist model has been defeated but where poverty, inequality and exploitation grow ever more stark.

Author : D. Lockwood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333981566

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The Destruction of the Soviet Union by D. Lockwood Pdf

Is there a link between the collapse of the Soviet Union, the radical reforms in China and Vietnam, and the current crisis in East Asia? David Lockwood argues that the common factor in each is the crisis of state-controlled economies, besieged by the developing forces of globalization. This book examines the collapse of the Soviet Union not as the 'end of history', or the beginning of a 'new world order', but as an illustration of processes that are taking place the world over. The author concludes that it was globalization that brought down the communist system. Globalization continues to threaten state-controlled economies - from the remaining 'socialist' state to the NICs of East Asia.

Author : Valentina Feklyunina,Stephen White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317981411

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The International Economic Crisis and the Post-Soviet States by Valentina Feklyunina,Stephen White Pdf

At first, it seemed as if the international financial crisis that broke out in 2008 would have little effect in Russia and the other post-Soviet states. But, by the end of the year, growth was slowing, banks were reluctant to lend, share values had collapsed and unemployment was rising inexorably. The stability of the Putin leadership, it appeared, had been built on the turnaround in economic performance that it had managed to achieve over more than a decade. How would it cope with a sudden reversal? In Ukraine, living standards fell even more sharply. In Belarus, there were fewer obvious signs of economic difficulty, but it could hardly be unaffected by the performance of its major trading partners. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, an international group of scholars address the impact of the international financial crisis in the post-Soviet states and the continuing implications of the crisis for these countries themselves and for the wider world. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, now known as East European Politics.

Author : Chris Miller
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469630182

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The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy by Chris Miller Pdf

For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundbreaking study, Chris Miller shows that Gorbachev and his allies tried to learn from the great success story of transitions from socialism to capitalism, Deng Xiaoping's China. Why, then, were efforts to revitalize Soviet socialism so much less successful than in China? Making use of never-before-studied documents from the Soviet politburo and other archives, Miller argues that the difference between the Soviet Union and China--and the ultimate cause of the Soviet collapse--was not economics but politics. The Soviet government was divided by bitter conflict, and Gorbachev, the ostensible Soviet autocrat, was unable to outmaneuver the interest groups that were threatened by his economic reforms. Miller's analysis settles long-standing debates about the politics and economics of perestroika, transforming our understanding of the causes of the Soviet Union's rapid demise.