The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century

How the Past Informs the Present

Barbara Ann Chotiner, Linda J. Cook (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3609-6 (ISBN)

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The Postcommunist World in the Twenty-First Century presents studies by senior scholars and practitioners that are highly relevant to contemporary political challenges. The democratic vision that accompanied the collapse of communist regimes in the Soviet Union and East Central Europe has been replaced by a range of authoritarian, semi-authoritarian and democratic regimes, and growing division between Western and Russian influence. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to renewed tensions and international crisis. China, which presents major challenges to the US, Europe, and the global order, has emerged as a critical actor in the international conflict. The need to understand the internal dynamics and international behavior of communist and authoritarian regimes is more urgent at this time. The expertise provided by the volume’s contributors is especially timely, offering new insights into the past and contemporary politics of these states, the agendas driving their behavior, regimes’ domestic strengths and weaknesses, and the role of leaders’ differing perceptions in exacerbating international conflict. Practitioners demonstrate how such knowledge can inform effective policy and ameliorative efforts.

Barbara Ann Chotiner is professor emerita of political science at The University of Alabama. Linda J. Cook is professor emerita of political science and Slavic studies at Brown University.

Foreword: To Bialer’s Successors: How the Soviet Past Informs the Post-Soviet Present by Jack Snyder

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Seweryn Bialer: Scholar, Teacher, Mentor by Linda J. Cook

Part I: The Study of Leaders and Leadership in Domestic and International Politics

Chapter 1: Haunted: Cold War Ghosts and the United States in an Era of Disruption by Bruce Parrott

Chapter 2: The Russo-Georgian War and the Turn to Great Power Rivalry by Thomas Sherlock and Andrew Sherlock

Chapter 3: Trapped on the Eve of War, 1941: Stalin and His Generals Failing Separately and Together by Cynthia Roberts

Chapter 4: Recovering Institutional Authenticity: Redeveloping the Central Organs of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1953-64, and Effects by Barbara Ann Chotiner

Chapter 5: Populism in Power? Discourses of Leadership in Putin’s Russia, 2000-2020 by Andrea Chandler

Chapter 6: Avoiding the Succession Trap: Leadership Change in Survivor Communist Regimes by Gerald M. Easter

Chapter 7: Russia and Post-Soviet Political Institutions: An Evolutionary Comparison of Regime Types by Mikael Sandberg

Part II: The Realms of Policy and Practice

Chapter 8: East European Public Health and the Cold War: In Search of Circulation by Susan Gross Solomon

Chapter 9: Food Security and Stability in Contemporary Russia by Stephen Wegren

Chapter 10: Applied Sovietology: Refugee Claims from the Post-Soviet Space by Peter H. Solomon Jr.

Chapter 11: The Tenacity of Conscience in the Face of Global Upheaval by Kate Schecter

Chapter 12: Studying under Professor Seweryn Bialer: Recollections and Lessons Gleaned for Career in Diploma by Michael S. Klecheski

Erscheinungsdatum	23.06.2022
Co-Autor	Andrea Chandler, Barbara Ann Chotiner, Linda J. Cook
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 228 mm
Gewicht	608 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-7936-3609-5 / 1793636095
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-3609-6 / 9781793636096
Zustand	Neuware