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Russia has embarked on a slow but steady path of foreign policy alignment with the West. President Vladimir Putins market-oriented economic policies and structural reforms have added momentum. But in the long run, the decisive factor in Russias relationship with the West will be the nature of the political order it builds on the ruins of communism. There is a broad consensus among Western observers that Russias effort to build Western-style democratic institutions in the eleven years since the Soviet collapse has stalled somewhere between democracy as understood in the West and the highly authoritarian order Russia inherited from the USSR. Some would say that Russia is doomed by its history and political culture to a lengthy period of semi-authoritarianism. In Russias Road to Deeper Democracy, Tom Bjorkman presents evidence that this assessment is too pessimistic and underestimates the forces for political change that lie beneath the surface of what seems to be an era of politi

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
      Publication Date: 5/9/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780815708995, 978-0815708995
      ISBN10: 0815708998

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      Russia has embarked on a slow but steady path of foreign policy alignment with the West. President Vladimir Putins market-oriented economic policies and structural reforms have added momentum. But in the long run, the decisive factor in Russias relationship with the West will be the nature of the political order it builds on the ruins of communism. There is a broad consensus among Western observers that Russias effort to build Western-style democratic institutions in the eleven years since the Soviet collapse has stalled somewhere between democracy as understood in the West and the highly authoritarian order Russia inherited from the USSR. Some would say that Russia is doomed by its history and political culture to a lengthy period of semi-authoritarianism. In Russias Road to Deeper Democracy, Tom Bjorkman presents evidence that this assessment is too pessimistic and underestimates the forces for political change that lie beneath the surface of what seems to be an era of politi

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