Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks: Actors and Sectors in Russia Between Accommodation and Resistance to Globalization

by Segbers, Klaus

• ISBN13: 9780754616337
• ISBN10: 0754616339
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

Based on extensive research, this trilogy provides new insights into Post-Soviet transformations without taking refuge in the traditional assumption that Russia is unique. Using powerful analytical tools, this trilogy marks the re-integration of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) into the main current of political science. An invaluable resource for all those interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states.This first volume focuses on state, sectoral, and transnational actors from a predominantly rational choice perspective. The book includes an extensive introduction by the editor which uses additional material gathered by the project team on two polls, 1999 and 2000, which, in addition to the individual studies, provide sufficient data to obtain unprecedented insights into the basic preferences and the logic of action of the main players in Russia.The outcomes of this research will be particularly relevant for students, researchers, journalists and decision-makers interested in Russia and the Post-Soviet states' politics, international relations, economics, social policy and sociology.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Diagrams	viii
List of Contributors	xiv
Preface	xvii
List of Abbreviations	xix
Actors and Interests in a Changing Russia	1	(34)
Klaus Segbers
International Financial Organizations and Globalization by Default	35	(20)
Ognian Hishow
The Origins and Management of the Federal Debt to the World	55	(17)
Artos G. Sarkisiants
Financial Supervision and Moral Hazard on an Emerging Market	72	(25)
Irina N. Iudina
Large Corporations as National and Global Players: The Case of Gazprom	97	(19)
Andreas Heinrich
Large Corporations as National and Global Players: The Case of Lukoil	116	(20)
Sergei P. Peregudov
The Mining and Metals Industry and Globalization	136	(28)
Stephen Fortescue
The Banking Sector and its International Involvement	164	(13)
Artos G. Sarkisiants
Financial Groups and the Development of Market Institutions	177	(24)
Grigorii V. Krasnov
The Mass Media between Political Instrumentalization, Economic Concentration and Global Assimilation	201	(27)
Ivan I. Zasurskii
The Telecommunications Sector: Signs of Liberalization and Globalization	228	(16)
Elena K. Rytsareva
High-Technology Defense Production: The Move into Foreign Markets	244	(24)
Ruslan N. Pukhov
Defense Industry Managers and the Dynamics of Intra-Sectoral Divergence	268	(24)
Leonid I. Kosals
Rozalina V. Ryvkina
Actors in Agro-Food Policy: Who Shapes Outcomes?	292	(18)
Evgeniia V. Serova
Agrarian Actors in the Localities	310	(21)
Zemfira I. Kalugina
Industrial Managers' Aspirations Towards Foreign Markets: Motives, Methods and the Consequences for Companies	331	(20)
Igor B. Gurkov
Small Business in the Context of International Integration	351	(15)
Tat'iana A. Alimova
The Self-Denying Middle Class in the Global Age	366	(19)
Harley D. Balzer
Bibliography	385	(18)
Index	403	(4)
Reference to `Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks' vol. 2 and vol. 3	407