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The 200-year cycle of Western domination of history is ending. We are moving from a mono-civilizational world dominated by the West to a multi-civilizational world of many thriving civilizations. Western academics, especially American academics, are lost. They foolishly abandoned area studies, dumping the study of particular truths in favor of so-called universal truths. As a result, Western academics have been blindsided by the new non-Western world unfolding before our eyes. This is why Voskressenskis volume is both timely and badly needed. It opens our eyes to new realities. His work is a must-read, especially for culture-bound Western academics.

Kishore Mahbubani

Dean of the LKY School of Public Policy,
NUS and co-author of The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace

In this rich volume, Alexei Voskressenski has assembled a group of leading Russian scholars to examine the broad diversity in democracies across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. There is no other volume like it in breadth and depth and it should be carefully read by all professional practitioners who need to know how these countries function and why.

David Shambaugh

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs,
George Washington University, Washington DC

Comparative studies of democracy and democratization are often infused with American or European perspectives that color how we view political processes worldwide. In Voskressenskis Is Non-Western Democracy Possible? we get the Russian perspective on political systems of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The chapter contributors emphasize unique cultural and historical dimensions that inform politics in the non-Western world. While political institutions may appear comparable, it is misleading to assume universal values will ascribe similar meaning to these structures. Political culture is often merely a residual category for Western political scientists, but neglecting the role of tribal factors, religion, or clan interactions limits genuine understanding, as Professor Voskressenski and his contributors remind us. Nations can synthesize the universal elements of democratic government with specific cultural-civilizational characteristics to produce innovative political models. This remarkable volume urges us to consider democracy in a broader context, beyond the classical Anglo-American paradigm.

Charles E. Ziegler

Professor of Political Science and Distinguished University Scholar,
University of Louisville, Louisville

Is Non-Western Democracy Possible? breaks out of the strictures of Western models of democracy and development, and confronts the open question of whether or not a distinct, non-Western model of democracy might exist. This book has both interdisciplinary and international appeal, and is recommended for the educated public and professional communities that deal with the non-Western world.

The late Fred Eidlin (19422016)

Formerly Emeritus Professor of Political Science,
University of Guelph, Ontario

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Voskressenski, A. D. (Alexei Dmitrievich), editor.

Title: Is non-Western democracy possible? : a Russian perspective / [edited by]

Alexei D Voskressenski (MGIMO University, Russia).

Description: New Jersey : World Scientific, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016055432 | ISBN 9789813147379 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Democracy--Asia. | Democracy--Africa. | Democracy--Cross-cultural studies. |

Democracy--Russia (Federation)--Public opinion.

Classification: LCC JQ36 .I855 2017 | DDC 321.8--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016055432

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Copyright 2017 by Editor and Contributors of this book.

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Desk Editor: Jiang Yulin

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About the Book

The book Is Non-Western Democracy Possible? A Russian Perspective, which deals with theoretical and practical analyses of comparative political systems of Eastern countries (Asia and Africa), their political processes and political cultures, describes and analyzes the influence of political culture on political process in the Eastern world. It gives a reader an opportunity to make a comparative appraisal of maturity of a civil society in these countries as well as their specifics in political interactions and internal political competition seen through the eyes of a group of distinguished Russian researchers. The study concentrates also on specifics of political-economic forces and political modernization in the East, and gives an appraisal for the prospects of an emergence of a Western as well as a non-Western democracy in the framework of Eastern political transformations. It also explains why the one-dimensional spread of democracy which completely negates or neglects regional political-cultural specifics may lead to war among civilizations instead of the formation of a more just and fair system of democratic governance.

Contents

Alexei D. Voskressenski

Alexei D. Voskressenski

Marina Strezhneva, Larisa Yefimova

Andrei Yemelyanov

Alek D. Epstein

Irina Kudryashova

Marina Sapronova

Yuri Laletin

Sergei Lunev

Sergei Lunev, Leonid Alayev

Vyacheslav Belokrenitsky

Ekaterina Koldunova, Larisa Yefimova

Sergei Luzyanin

Valery Denisov

Alexei D. Voskressenski, Leonid Gudoshnikov, Victoria Sergeeva

Elgena Molodyakova

Alexei D. Voskressenski

Alexei D. Voskressenski

Subrata Kumar Mitra

Editor and Authors of Forewords and Afterword

The editor Alexei D. Voskressenski is dean of the School of Political Affairs and professor of comparative politics and Asian studies at the School of International Relations, MGIMO University (Moscow). He is a founding editor-in-chief of a peer-reviewed journal Comparative Politics Russia (www.comparativepolitics.org), published in Russia; author, coauthor, and editor of 50 books, of which 12 are research monographs. He got the Best Book in Political Science Award (2008, 2014) by the Russian Association of Political Science, the Best Book in Social Science National Public Award (2011) and is also a recipient of the RF Government Award in education (2014).

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