Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, named Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 and, one year later, President, has been something of a media darling in the West, having successfully marketed...
The world's foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy exposes the hollow promises of democracy in American actions abroad--and at home The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene against "failed states" around the globe.
This volume seeks to fill the vacuum created by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress's decision to cease publishing comprehensive assessments of Russia's performance and potential.
The book concludes that Putin will continue to address his country's problems in an incremental and centralized manner as he moves toward his goal of restoring Russia to the status of a world power.
Sounding an urgent alarm, Putin's Russia is a gripping portrayal of a country in crisis and the testament of a great and intrepid reporter, who received death threats and survived assassination attempts for her scathing criticism of the ...
Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain
The volume also analyzes if and to what extent Moscow can fulfill its ambitions in a context of falling oil prices and international sanctions.
... Russia,” in Public Policy and Law in Russia: In Search of a Unified Legal and Political Space, ed. Robert Sharlet and Ferdinand Feldbrugge (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005), 149–67. 50. For an analysis of the challenges ...
Now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition, this classic text provides an authoritative and current analysis of contemporary Russia.
This revised edition includes and examination of the recent presidential and parliamentary elections and their effects on Putin's leadership and Russia. Praise for the previous edition: Out of her blunt,...