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UNINA9910792267703321 |
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Autore |
Desai Padma |
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Titolo |
Conversations on Russia [[electronic resource] ] : reform from Yeltsin to Putin / / Padma Desai |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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0-19-029371-3 |
0-19-534581-9 |
1-280-84617-8 |
1-4294-0299-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (398 p.) |
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Privatization - Russia (Federation) |
Russia (Federation) Economic policy 1991- |
Soviet Union Economic policy 1986-1991 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Reform maximalists -- Boris Yeltsin : the wrecking ball -- Anatoly Chubais : the "neo-bolshevik" privatizer -- Yegor Gaidar : the shock therapist -- Boris Nemtsov : the political activist -- Mikhail Kasyanov : the pro-market prime minister -- Strobe Talbott : Bill Clinton's "Russia hand" -- Reform gradualists -- Grigory Yavlinsky : the permanent oppositionist -- Sergei Rogov : in search of checks and balances at home and abroad -- Nodari Simonia : the pro-Putin vote -- George Soros : the active philanthropist -- Five policy perspectives -- Sergei Dubinin : monopoly sector reform in progress -- Oleg Vyugin : monetary policy in action -- Boris Jordan : media man and investor -- Anatoly Vishnevsky : demographic dilemmas -- Jack Matlock, Jr. : the road ahead -- The role of history -- Martin Malia : history lessons -- Richard Pipes : the past in the present. |
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Much of the discussion of Russia's recent post-Communist history has amounted, both in Russia and the West, to a series of monologues by strong-minded people with starkly divergent views. In contrast, Padma Desai's conversations with influential, intelligent participants and observers providethe reader with a broad, nuanced view of what has |
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and has not happened in the last fourteen years, and why. Conversations from Russia will thus serve as a much-needed reference volume, both for academics who study Russia and for laypeople who only have vague perceptions of what has occurred inRussia since |
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UNINA9910792067203321 |
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Autore |
Ehteshami Anoushiravan |
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Dynamics of change in the Persian Gulf : political economy, war and revolution / / Anoushiravan Ehteshami |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
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1-135-07285-X |
0-203-06625-1 |
1-299-27984-8 |
1-135-07286-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (599 p.) |
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Persian Gulf States Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Geopolitics of the Persian Gulf -- The Persian Gulf from Cold War to the post-Cold War era -- Regional balance of power and the Persian Gulf -- Oil and the Persian Gulf economy -- Globalization of the Persian Gulf -- Asianization of the Persian Gulf -- Revolution and regime change in the Persian Gulf -- Political change in the Persian Gulf oil monarchies -- Between boundary and frontier: Islam and Persian Gulf politics -- Impact of inter-state conflict on Persian Gulf relations -- The role of external powers in Persian Gulf security relations -- Militarization and Persian Gulf security. |
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The Persian Gulf has come to represent one of the most strategically significant waterways of the world. In terms of geography, geopolitics, resources, global political economy, and regional influence, the Gulf is perhaps home to the world's most significant group of countries. Focusing on the complexities of the interplay between domestic-level |
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changes and region-wide interactions, this book presents the reader with the first comprehensive survey of the dynamics of change in this crucial area.Systemic-oriented in its approach, the impact of war and revolution on the co |
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