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    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the evolution of Russia’s relations with the Global South across political, military-political, and economic domains.Though formally part of the Global North, Russia has, since 2007, increasingly positioned itself as an independent—and often opposing—actor to the West, aligning more closely with the Global South. This volume explores Russia’s foreign ... Read more

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  • Moscow's Evolution as a Political Space

    From Yuri Dolgorukiy to Sergei Sobyanin

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book aims to trace and explain the historical evolution of Moscow, the capital of the Tsardom of Russia, Soviet Union and Russian Federation, as a political entity and political community, and to understand what place Moscow occupied within the Russian political space and what role it played in Russian political life for centuries until 2018. The authors consistently examine the dramatic ... Read more

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  • The Presidentialization of Political Parties in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyses the presidentialization of parties in three countries of the post-Soviet space - Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan - and the role of this phenomenon in their recent political history. The concept of presidentialization of politics means that parties tend to adjust by becoming ‘presidentialised’ in the sense that parties delegate their leaders-as- Presidents to shape both their ... Read more

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