Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical analysis of Putin's domestic and foreign policies covering leadership and regime change, political parties and democratisation, economy and society, regional politics, Chechnya, and foreign policy.
Table of ContentsLeadership and Regime Change
1: Vladimir Putin's leadership in comparative perspective - Archie Brown
2: Regime change from Yeltsin to Putin: normality, normalcy or normalisation? - Richard Sakwa
Political parties and democratisation
3: Russia’s law on political parties: democracy by decree? - Edwin Bacon
4: The Putin paradigm and the cowering of Russia’s communists - Luke March
5: Russia's disempowered electorate - Stephen White
Economy and society
6: The economic legacy: what Putin had to deal with and the way forward - David Lane
7: The Russian economy under Vladimir Putin - William Tompson
8: Politics and the mass media under Putin - Laura Belin
Regional politics
9: Putin’s federal reforms - Cameron Ross
10: Measuring and explaining variations in Russian regional democratisation - Christopher Marsh
11: Regional elections and democratisation in Russia - Valentin Mikhailov
Foreign policy
12: Russian foreign policy under Putin - Dmitry Polikanov and Graham Timmins
13: Russian foreign policy towards the European Union - Jackie Gower
14: Russia and Chechnya - Mike Bowker
15: Russian foreign policy: the CIS and the Baltic States - Ella Akerman and Graeme P. Herd
