The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests are also dominating Russia’s foreign policy and explain why Russia did not succeed in becoming an integral part of Europe. The latter is, at least, wished by many Russian citizens.
Author(s): Andrey Makarychev, André Mommen
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 328
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
Index
