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“alexey malashenko”

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  • The Fight for Influence

    Russia in Central Asia

    by Alexey Malashenko ...
    Russian influence in Central Asia is waning. Since attaining independence, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have forged their own paths-building relationships with outside powers and throwing off the last vestiges of Soviet domination. But in many ways, Moscow still sees Central Asia through the lens of the Soviet Union, and it struggles to redefine Russian ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    The Rise of the Oligarchs—A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder

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    The New York Times bestselling author of Bringing Down the House and The Accidental Billionaires tells his most incredible story yet: A true drama of obscene wealth, crime, rivalry, and betrayal from deep inside the world of billionaire Russian oligarchs that Booklist called “one more example of just how talented a storyteller [Mezrich] is.”Meet two larger-than-life Russians: former mathematician ... Read more

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  • The China Model

    Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

    by Daniel A. Bell ...
    How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model ... Read more

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  • The New Emperors

    Power and the Princelings in China

    by Professor Kerry Brown ...
    China has become the powerhouse of the world economy and home to 1 in 5 of the world's population, yet we know almost nothing of the people who lead it. How does one become the leader of the world's newest superpower? And who holds the real power in the Chinese system? In The New Emperors, the noted China expert Kerry Brown journeys deep into the heart of the secretive Communist Party. China's ... Read more

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  • Russia in the Shadows (The original unabridged edition)

    by H. G. Wells ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "Russia in the Shadows (The original unabridged edition)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Russia in the Shadows is the title of the book by H. G. Wells published early in 1921, which includes a series of articles previously printed in The Sunday Express in connection with Wells's second visit to Russia in September and ... Read more

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  • Logics of Hierarchy

    The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations

    by Alexander Cooley ...
    Political science has had trouble generating models that unify the study of the formation and consolidation of various types of states and empires. The business-administration literature, however, has long experience in observing organizations. According to a dominant model in this field, business firms generally take one of two forms: unitary (U) or multidivisional (M). The U-form organizes its ... Read more

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  • Reforming Urban Governance in Bangladesh

    The City Corporation

    by Pranab Kumar Panday ...
    This book provides an analysis of the urban government system in Bangladesh, focusing on its upper tier, the City Corporation (CC), and the institutional and legal frameworks within which it operates. Along with a discussion of the scale and magnitude of urbanization, the book presents a comprehensive analysis of the reform agendas of CCs including their functional assignments, local political ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Duterte

    A Populist Revolt against Elite Democracy

    by Richard Javad Heydarian ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book draws on the extensive literature on populism, democracy, and emerging markets as well as interviews with senior government officials, experts, and journalists in the Philippines and beyond, This book is the first to analyze the significance and implications of the rise of Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte within a rapidly-changing Asia Pacific region. As China's power in the Pacific ... Read more

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  • Minister of Finance Incorporated

    Ownership and Control of Corporate Malaysia

    by Edmund Terence Gomez, Thirshalar Padmanabhan, Norfaryanti Kamaruddin, Sunil Bhalla, Fikri Fisal ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is a study of Malaysia’s new political economy, with a focus on ownership and control of the corporate sector. It offers a pioneering assessment of government-linked investment companies (GLICs), a type of state-owned institution that has long prevailed in the corporate sector but has not been analysed. Malaysia’s history of government-business ties is unique, while the nature of the nexuses ... Read more

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  • Governance of Biotechnology in Post-Soviet Russia

    by Tatyana Novossiolova ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the governance of biotechnology in post-Soviet Russia. The rapid advancement of the life sciences over the past few decades promises to bring tremendous benefits, but also raises significant social, ethical, legal, and security risks. Nations’ adaptability to the twin challenges of attempting to secure the benefits while reducing the risks and threats ... Read more

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  • National Security, Statecentricity, and Governance in East Asia

    Edited by Brendan Howe ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book assesses the extent to which an emphasis on national security and prioritization of state interests has dominated governance policy-making in Northeast and Southeast Asia, at the expense of human security, human development, and human rights. The findings are that in many cases, there are embedded structural obstacles to achieving human-centered governance objectives in the region. These ... Read more

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  • Law, State and Inequality in Pakistan

    Explaining the Rise of the Judiciary

    by Muhammad Azeem ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Through a detailed historical and empirical account of post-independence years, this book offers a new assessment of the role of the judiciary in Pakistani politics. Instead of seeing the judiciary as helpless or struggling against an authoritarian state, it argues that the judiciary has been a crucial link in the creation of state and political inequality in Pakistan. This rubs against the ... Read more

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