The Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Russia and Globalization: Identity, Security, and Society in an Era of Change
Russia is a battered giant, struggling to rebuild its power and identity in an era of globalization. Several of the essays in this diverse and original collection point to the difficulty of guaranteeing a stable domestic order due to demographic shifts, economic changes, and institutional weaknesses. Other contributors focus on the country's efforts to respond to the challenges posed by globalization, and discuss the various ways in which Russia is reconceptualizing its role as an international actor. Ambivalence is a recurrent theme, according to editor Douglas W. Blum—ambivalence about globalization's costs and benefits and the efforts required to manage them.
What People are Saying
"This volume pools together not only excellent original empirical research, but also new interpretations of the challenges arising from globalization in a specific context of post-Soviet Russia . . . To my knowledge [there is] no single volume that comprehensively covers the key themes of identity and security as part of Russia's globalization. It stands to make a significant contribution to the existing studies."
—Dr. Mikhail Alexseev, Associate Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University
"The best feature of [Russia and Globalization] may be the boldness of its ambition—to bring together scholars from around the world to write on topics from education to international security, and to focus explicitly on both identity formation and globalization in the Russian context. Because of this approach, the book is able to offer insights into a wide variety of questions of interest to many different types of scholar and policymaker."—Dr. Andrew Barnes, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kent State University
Chapter List
Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Russia and Globalization—A Historical and conceptual Framework, Ulf Hedetoft with Douglas W. Blum
Part I. Globalization and Domestic Processes
2 The Russian Demographic Crisis in Cross-National Perspective, Andrey Korotayev and Darya Khaltourina
3 Globalization, Regional Change, and the Territorial Cohesion of the Russian Federation, Michael Bradshaw
4 Russian Identity and Siberia's Self-Identification: Historical Traditions in a Global World, Evgeny Vodichev and Vladimir Lamin
5 The Transformation of the Russian System of Higher Education, Gennady N. Konstantinov and Sergey R. Filonovich
6 The Russian Defense Industry in the Age of Globalization, Alla Kassianova
7 Integration from Below? The Disappointing Effort to Promote Civil Society in Russia, James Richter
Part II. Globalization and Foreign Policy
8 Going "Relativistic": The Changing Vision of "Just International Order" in Russian Foreign Policy, Mikhail Troitskiy
9 Socializing Baltic Sea States into a Security Community: Aspects of Globalization, Erik Noreen
10 Chechnya, the Council of Europe, and the Advocacy of Human Rights in the Toughest of Cases, Rick Fawn
11 Russian Geopolitics in the Context of Globalization, Eduard Solovyev
12 Globalization, Identity, and Changing Understandings of Security in Russia, Alexey Fenenko
13 Conclusion: Links between Security, Identity, and Globalization in Russia,
Douglas W. Blum
Contributors
Index