Brian D. Taylor

State Building in Putin's Russia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Showing that many of the weaknesses of the Russian state that existed under Boris Yeltsin persisted under Putin, this book argues that Vladimir Putin's strategy for rebuilding the Russian state was fundamentally flawed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 823g
• ISBN-13: 9780521760881
• ISBN-10: 0521760887
• Artikelnr.: 32467091

Autorenporträt

Brian D. Taylor is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Previously, he served as Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 and holds a Master's of Science from the London School of Economics and a BA from the University of Iowa. He is a 2011 Fulbright Scholar to Russia and was a Carnegie Scholar from 2002 to 2003. He was also a Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Politics and the Russian Army: Civil-Military Relations, 1689-2000, and his work has appeared in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Europe-Asia Studies, the International Studies Review, Survival, Millennium and the Journal of Cold War Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Bringing the gun back in: coercion and the state
2. The power ministries and the siloviki
3. Coercion and capacity: political order and the central state
4. Coercion and capacity: centralization and federalism
5. Coercion and quality: power ministry practices and personnel
6. Coercion and quality: the state and society
7. Coercion in the North Caucasus
8. State capacity and quality reconsidered.