Russia's Encounter with Globalisation PDF Download

Author: J. Wilhelmsen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230347576
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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An analysis of Russia's response to globalization. This book explores how Russian domestic politics shape this international engagement. Thematically, the focus is on Russia's external engagement with areas of policy relating to globalization, namely energy, climate, health, direct foreign investment, finance, and international terrorism.

Author: Vlad Strukov
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317235584
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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This book brings together scholars from across a variety of disciplines who use different methodologies to interrogate the changing nature of Russian culture in the twenty-first century. The book considers a wide range of cultural forms that have been instrumental in globalizing Russia. These include literature, art, music, film, media, the internet, sport, urban spaces, and the Russian language. The book pays special attention to the processes by which cultural producers negotiate between Russian government and global cultural capital. It focuses on the issues of canon, identity, soft power and cultural exchange. The book provides a conceptual framework for analyzing Russia as a transnational entity and its contemporary culture in the globalized world.

Author: Douglas W. Blum
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN: 0801888425
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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Russia is a battered giant, struggling to rebuild its power and identity in an era of globalization. Several of the essays in this diverse and original collection point to the difficulty of guaranteeing a stable domestic order due to demographic shifts, economic changes, and institutional weaknesses. Other contributors focus on the country's efforts to respond to the challenges posed by globalization, and discuss the various ways in which Russia is reconceptualizing its role as an international actor. Ambivalence is a recurrent theme, according to editor Douglas W. Blum—ambivalence about globalization’s costs and benefits and the efforts required to manage them.

Author: James Henderson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1789900387
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Gazprom has dominated the Russian gas industry. However, the markets in which it operates have changed dramatically, with the company increasingly being challenged at home and abroad. At this critical moment, this insightful book analyses the involvement of the Russian gas industry in the changing international gas market and the dramatic implications for Russia’s role as a global supplier of gas in the future.

Author: Marshall I. Goldman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134376847
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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In 1991, a small group of Russians emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union and enjoyed one of the greatest transfers of wealth ever seen, claiming ownership of some of the most valuable petroleum, natural gas and metal deposits in the world. By 1997, five of those individuals were on Forbes Magazine's list of the world's richest billionaires.

Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264044817
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 457

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This book analyses key elements of the trade performance of the so-called BRIICS: Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa, in relation to the rest of the world, focusing on trade and other policies influencing that performance. It also presents a separate chapter for each country.

Author: Helge Blakkisrud
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319697900
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more broadly – have changed since the onset of the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Following the 2014 annexation and the subsequent enactment of a sanctions regime against the country, the Kremlin has emphasized the eastern vector in its external relations. But to what extent has Russia’s 'pivot to the East' intensified or changed in nature – domestically and internationally – since the onset of the current crisis in relations with the West? Rather than taking the declared 'pivot' as a fact and exploring the consequences of it, the contributors to this volume explore whether a pivot has indeed happened or if what we see today is the continuation of longer-duration trends, concerns and ambitions.

Author: Kerry Bolton
Publisher: Black House Publishing
ISBN: 9781912759033
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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The Western world is in eclipse, after a long epoch of decay. Yet the West is ever more optimistic. Under U.S. leadership, a diseased corpse, with an outward façade covering the rotting pestilence, and falsely labelled 'Western way of life', looms over the world in the name of 'democracy' and 'human rights', bombing into submission where the blandishments of loans, cultural perversity, and techno-junk don't succeed in subverting reticent nations. We are assured that this is 'the American century', that 'America is exceptional', and since its founding has had a world mission to create in its own image - godlike - a 'new order of the ages' - the motto on the U.S. Great Seal; now called 'the new world order' and 'globalisation'. This universal utopia which is marketed as the culmination of all human striving, is called by its spokesmen such as Francis Fukuyama, 'the end of history', beyond which there is nothing more to achieve. Into this scenario steps Russia, the perennial outlaw, with her own world-mission, one of redeeming mankind; an outlook which she has maintained - 'eternal Russia' - whether under Czarism, 'Bolshevism', or 'democracy'. Because Russia is the primary bulwark - the Katechon - against this nightmare scenario of global conformity, she is targeted for destruction on multiple levels. 'Russia and the Fight Against Globalisation' examines numerous aspects of Russia's role as the bulwark against the 'new world order', and the possibilities of its redeeming character in helping to save Europe from walking along the path towards destruction.

Author: Russian Academy of Sciences
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309089395
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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This report is the proceedings of a December 2001 international symposium in Washington, DC organized by the National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The symposium addressed (1) characteristics of peaceful management of tensions in multiethnic societies, particularly in Russia; (2) policies that have contributed to violence in such societies; (3) steps toward reconciliation; and (4) post-conflict reconstruction.

Author: Ray Taras
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415520584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Bringing together leading scholars from Russia and outside experts on Russia, this book looks at the difference between the image Russia has of itself and the way it is viewed in the West. It discusses the historical, cultural and political foundations that these images are built upon, and goes on to analyse how contested these images are, and their impact on Russian identity. The book questions whether differing images explain fractiousness in Western-Russian relations in the new century, or whether distinct 'imaginary solitudes' offer a better platform from which to negotiate differences. Providing an innovative comparative study of contemporary images of the country and their impact, the book is a significant contribution to studies of globalisation and international relations.