Ruth Deyermond explores the linkage between post-Soviet security politics and the development of state sovereignty in the region, focusing on Russia's interactions with Ukraine, Georgia, and Belarus.
Among the contentious issues that come into play in relations between Russia and the other post-Soviet states, security concerns are arguably at the top of the list. This text explores...
Galvanizing Nostalgia? explores critical questions for the survival of Russia in its nominally federal form.
... Union Republics and the Autonomous Republics were organised according to a complex architecture of “differentiated” and “competing” sovereignties which were “possessed both by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a whole and the Union ...
This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev.
This comprehensive volume examines what food sovereignty might mean, how it might be variously construed, and what policies it implies. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Globalizations.
After World War II, states transformed into ‘collective fortresses’ in order to protect competing ideological systems.
The final chapter relates the evolution of these conflicting loyalties to the global weakening of the nation-state, and distinguishes what is particular to the Soviet state and its demise from more significant questions of analytical ...
This study of international society deals with social theory, the structure of society, ideology, conflicts and the authority within.
Empirically rich, the book adopts a comparative historical approach with an emphasis on Russian attempts to establish hierarchy in post-Soviet space, particularly in Georgia and Ukraine.