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  • The Republics and Regions of the Russian Federation: A Guide to the Politics, Policies and Leaders

    A Guide to the Politics, Policies and Leaders

    by Robert W. Orttung, East West Insitute ...
    Russia is divided into seven federal districts encompassing 89 units -- regions (oblasts), territories (krais), and republics. As central power has weakened, the importance of these units and their local leadership has increased commensurately. This work brings together in one volume all basic political, economic, and demographic data on every territorial unit of the Russian Federation, its local ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Russia's Battle with Crime, Corruption and Terrorism

    Edited by Robert Orttung, Anthony Latta ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
    This book examines Russia's attempts to tackle the challenges of the new and increasing security threats of rising crime, corruption and terrorism that it has experienced since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. It demonstrates the close links between the rising drug trade, border problems, migration issues, organised crime, corruption and terrorism.Uncovering information not seen before by ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Putin's Olympics

    The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia

    by Robert W. Orttung, Sufian Zhemukhov ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    President Vladimir Putin’s Olympic venture put the workings of contemporary Russia on vivid display. The Sochi Olympics were designed to symbolize Russia’s return to great power status, but subsequent aggression against Ukraine, large-scale corruption, and the doping scandal have become the true legacies of the games. The Kremlin’s style of governance through mega-projects has had deleterious ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Beyond the Euromaidan

    Comparative Perspectives on Advancing Reform in Ukraine

    Edited by Henry E. Hale, Robert W. Orttung ...
    Beyond the Euromaidan examines the prospects for advancing reform in Ukraine in the wake of the February 2014 Euromaidan revolution and Russian invasion. It examines six crucial areas where reform is needed: deep internal identity divisions, corruption, the constitution, the judiciary, plutocratic "oligarchs," and the economy. On each of these topics, the book provides one chapter that focuses on ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability

    Edited by Robert W. Orttung ...
    Series series Advances in Urban Sustainability
    Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy solutions to promote sustainability. Cities are taking a leading role in defining a sustainable future at a time when national, state, and regional governments in several countries do not provide sufficient leadership.Capital cities stand out among cities ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • The Russian Parliamentary Elections of 1995

    Battle for the Duma

    by Laura Belin, Robert W. Orttung, Ralph S. Clem, Peter R. Craumer ...
    This book is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the elections held on 17 December 1995 to the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament. It analyzes the entire electoral process, from the adoption of the electoral law to the announcement of the final results. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Russian Energy Power and Foreign Relations

    Implications for Conflict and Cooperation

    Edited by Jeronim Perovic, Robert W. Orttung, Andreas Wenger ...
    Series series CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
    This book examines Russia's new assertiveness and the role of energy as a key factor in shaping the country's behavior in international relations, and in building political and economic power domestically, since the 1990s.Energy transformed Russia's fortunes after its decline during the 1990s. The wealth generated from energy exports sparked economic recovery and political stabilization, and has ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Russian Business Power

    The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations

    Edited by Andreas Wenger, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups.Russian Business Power explores the powerful impact these new actors are having on the evolution of the Russian state and its foreign behaviour. Unlike other books, which focus either on Russia's foreign and security policy, or on the evolution of ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Urban Sustainability in the Arctic

    Measuring Progress in Circumpolar Cities

    Edited by Robert W. Orttung ...
    Series Book 3 - Studies in the Circumpolar North
    Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities. In delivering rich material about northern cities in Alaska, Canada, and Russia, the book examines how well the ISO 37120 measures sustainability and how well it applies in northern conditions. In ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • Russia after 2012

    From Putin to Medvedev to Putin – Continuity, Change, or Revolution?

    Edited by J.L. Black, Michael Johns ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book provides an overview of the state of Russia after the 2012 presidential election. It considers a wide range of both domestic and international issues, examining both the run up to and the consequences of the election. It covers political, economic, and social topics. It assesses the political scene both before and after the election, and discusses the nature of and likely future of ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • The State as Investment Market

    Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective

    by Johan Engvall ...
    Series Book 24 - Central Eurasia in Context
    Based on a detailed examination of Kyrgyzstan, Johan Engvall goes well beyond the case of this single country to elaborate a broad theory of economic corruption in developing post-Soviet states regionally—as a rational form of investment market for political elites. He reveals how would-be officials invest in offices to obtain access to income streams associated with those offices. Drawing on ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Frontline Ukraine

    Crisis in the Borderlands

    by Professor Richard Sakwa ...
    The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD