Russia's Changing Economic and Political Regimes: The Putin Years and Afterwards

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Editors’ preface
Introduction
	After 4 December 2011: a new Russia- in-the-making?
	A new wave of democratization: the contours of a new agenda
	The pitfalls of economic reforms
	The intricacies of economic growth
	The issue of foreign direct investments
	Strategies of foreign economic policy
	Notes
1. Master Signifier in decay: evolution of Russian political discourse since Putin’s comeback
	The golden age of Putin’s Mastery
	Semantic crisis in hegemonic articulations
	The Russian opposition as a symptom
	Conclusion
	Notes
2. New media and political protest: the formation of a public counter- sphere in Russia, 2008–12
	Premises of this research
	Theory and hypotheses
	Quantitative–qualitative methodology
	The situational analysis
	The hybridization and development of the Internet-based media sphere in Russia: the rise of the counter-sphere
	Research findings
		The structure of the protest community and their regular media diet
		The emergence of the counter-sphere
		Media and the protests: organizers, but not only?
		Media or people? The impact factors of the protest
		The protest impact: changes in media diets
		The protest impact: changes in political behavior online
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgement
	Notes
3. Russian identity after the fall of the USSR: from generation “П” to generation “T” (“transnational”)?
	Cosmopolitan patriotism
		“Homo onlinus”
	Demands for independence and personal freedom
		“La double identité” and bilingualism
	Implications and conclusions
	Notes
4. Foreign policies of Putin’s regime: strategies of politicization and depoliticization
	Introduction
	Conceptualizing depoliticization
		Depoliticization: international dimensions
		Strategies of depoliticization
	Does depoliticization work?
	Islands of politicization
	Conclusion
	Notes
5. Modes of integration in the world economy: the case of Russia under Putin
	From anti-capitalist rallying point to US client state?
	Putin’s economic policy and global capitalism
	Energy policy and the West
	Gazprom
	Oil
	Privatization and foreign direct investment
	From world to regional power, economic consequences
	Russia’s place in the world economy, 21 years after the collapse of the SU
	Other transition economies
	Conclusion
	Notes
6. New trends in Russia’s energy policy?
	Institutional characteristics of the gas industry
	Political aspects of the development of the gas industry
	Principal–agent relationship
		The state is the principal, OAO Gazprom is the agent
		OAO Gazprom is the principal, the state is the agent
		The division of roles is not clear
	Conclusion
	Notes
7. Modernization in Russian relations with EU member states: conventional goal, new means, unexpected consequences?
	Introduction
	Competing approaches to modernization in the EU–Russian partnership: a conventional goal of Moscow
	EU countries as anchors for the Russian vision of modernization: new means?
	A new classification of EU member states in their relations with Russia: an unexpected consequence?
	Conclusion
	Notes
8. On the normative gap in EU–Russian relations
	Introduction
	Normative positions of the EU and Russia and political norms and values underpinning EU–Russian relations
	Challenges of the normative rapprochement
	The concept of the “normative gap”
	Dynamics in the normative realm
	Notes
9. From multi- vector to vectorless: Ukraine’s policy towards Russia and the European Union
	Introduction
	Dashed hopes of post-Soviet reintegration
	EU–Ukraine relations: new game in town?
	Economic and financial crisis: survival, not growth
	Russia’s offer: Customs Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan
	Ukraine: different from Russia53
	Conclusions
	Notes
10. German–Russian dialogue and economic interaction
	The Putin–Medvedev team
	A German–Russian rapprochement
	Economic relations
	Germany, intermediary between East and West?
	Angela Merkel
	Towards a European Security Treaty?
	Finally …
	Notes
11. China and Russia: globalizing partners in trade?
	Russia’s and China’s foreign trade policy
	China’s four modernizations
	China’s oil consumption
	China’s oil diplomacy
	Russia as China’s close ally
	To an ever-closer Sino-Russian alliance?
	Central Asia and the Far East
	Developing bilateral trade relations
	Allies in world politics?
	Conclusion
	Notes
12. Another face of glocalization: cities going international (the case of North- Western Russia)
	Cities as new international actors
	Kaliningrad: an “island of glocalization”?
	Kaliningrad and the Euroregions: experiences, promises and problems
	The Euroregion Baltic
	City-twinning: another venue for glocalization?
	Conclusion
	Notes
13. Quality of governance, globalization and regional inequality: the Russian case
	Introduction
	The role of good governance in globalization
	The state as key to good governance
	Two responses to globalization: border regions and the city of Moscow
		a Trans-border cooperation
		b Global cities
	Asymmetric Russia
	Russia needs a different state
	Conclusion
	Notes
14. The future of Putinism
	The essence of Putinism
	Fiscal policy
	Economic policy
	Globalization
	Economic modernization
	Conclusion
	Notes
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