Regions in Transition in the Former Soviet Area

Regions in Transition in the Former Soviet Area
Author: Alessandra Russo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319606247

This book aims to understand the “texture” of the post-Soviet region, where waves of de-integration and re-integration have been resonating at different times and through diverse manifestations over the last quarter of century. The post-Soviet states have been evolving in an embryonic system of states in their close neighbourhood, whose boundaries and rules of interactions are still in the making. However, one can already detect specific traits of regional governance, one of these being the presence of overlapping organisations and institutions. It includes reflections on relations between state formation and region formation and a tentative conceptualisation of a post-colonial form of regionalism. The focus on small states, featuring different behaviours vis-à-vis regional organisations and regional imaginaries in their transitional and still unsettled state identities and foreign policy narratives, constitutes a further element of originality. This innovative volume is crucial reading for scholars and researchers of International Relations with a special interest in either the Former Soviet Space or Comparative Regionalism.

Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region

Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region
Author: Adam Swain
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2007-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134353812

This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important 'old economy' 'rustbelt' industrial regions. It shows how local interest groups have successfully frustrated the central government's and the World Bank's proposed market-oriented restructuring, and how a manufacturing-based regional economy is surviving, partially, with restructuring postponed.

Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union

Transitional Justice and the Former Soviet Union
Author: Cynthia M. Horne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108195822

In the twenty-five years since the Soviet Union was dismantled, the countries of the former Soviet Union have faced different circumstances and responded differently to the need to redress and acknowledge the communist past and the suffering of their people. While some have adopted transitional justice and accountability measures, others have chosen to reject them; these choices have directly affected state building and societal reconciliation efforts. This is the most comprehensive account to date of post-Soviet efforts to address, distort, ignore, or recast the past through the use, manipulation, and obstruction of transitional justice measures and memory politics initiatives. Editors Cynthia M. Horne and Lavinia Stan have gathered contributions by top scholars in the field, allowing the disparate post-communist studies and transitional justice scholarly communities to come together and reflect on the past and its implications for the future of the region.

Transitions in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Transitions in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Author: Archana Upadhyay
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-08-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000423239

This book discusses the ideological and historical relevance of the term ‘Eurasia’ as a concept in the global geopolitical and ethno-cultural discourse. It focuses on the contested meanings attached to the idea and traces its historical evolution and interpretations. The volume examines the contours and characteristics of power politics in the Eurasian landscape by exploring the dynamics of the contending and competing interests that have come to occupy the region, particularly in the aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It further examines the multiple narratives that define the socio-political realities of the region and also the policies of the state actors involved, by reflecting upon the multifaceted dimensions of the Eurasian issues. These include nation building strategies, identity, ethnic conflicts, security, democratization, globalization, international migration, climate change and energy extraction. The geopolitical and civilizational aspects of Eurasianism, in which Russia occupies a pivotal geo-political place creates both opportunities and anxieties for other stakeholders in the region. The book also holistically analyses the developmental dimensions of the post-Soviet space and ‘Eurasianism’ as a concept and political practice in domestic, regional and global affairs. The book also analyses the developmental dimensions of the post-Soviet space and ‘Eurasianism’ as a concept and political practice in domestic, regional and global affairs.

Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region

Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region
Author: Adam Swain
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2007-04-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134353820

This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important 'old economy' 'rustbelt' industrial regions. It shows how local interest groups have successfully frustrated the central government's and the World Bank's proposed market-oriented restructuring, and how a manufacturing-based regional economy is surviving, partially, with restructuring postponed.

Ethnicity and Territory in the Former Soviet Union

Ethnicity and Territory in the Former Soviet Union
Author: James Hughes
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780714652269

This volume explores the common trends and differences in the responses of the new post-Soviet states to the problems of state-building in ethnically and regionally divided societies.

East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union

East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union
Author: Michael Bradshaw
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317905032

A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this increasingly popular area of study. Employing a groundbreaking thematic approach the book centres its discussion on the interrelation between contemporary development theories and continuing transition issues in this huge and complex region.

Central and Eastern Europe

Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Regina Cowen Karp
Publisher: Sipri Monograph
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1993
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780198291695

V. The return of history.

Non-traditional Security Threats and Regional Cooperation in the Southern Caucasus

Non-traditional Security Threats and Regional Cooperation in the Southern Caucasus
Author: Mustafa Aydın
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1607506831

This book contains 16 papers, presented at the workshop: Non-Traditional Security Threats and Regional Cooperation in the Southern Caucasus, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2009. Whilst the Cold War did not exclude the existence of other threats, such as environmental hazards, organized crime, terrorism, economic instability and illegal immigration, it is only since the emphasis on East-West rivalry and the specter of nuclear confrontation between the two blocs have diminished that these have become articulated as major sources of concern for global security.