RUSSIAS
POLICY CHALLENGES
RUSSIAS
POLICY CHALLENGES
SECURITY, STABILITY, AND DEVELOPMENT
STEPHEN K. WEGREN
EDITOR
First published 2003 by M.E. Sharpe
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Russias policy challenges: security, stability, and development / [edited] by Stephen K. Wegren.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7656-1079-5 (alk. paper)ISBN 0-7656-1080-9 (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. Russia (Federation)Politics and government19912. National securityRussia (Federation) 3. Russia (Federation)Social policy. 4. Russia (Federation)Economic policy19911. Title: Title on CIP data: Russias policy changes. II. Wegren, Stephen K., 1956
JN6695 .R868 2003
320.60947dc21
2002030925
ISBN 13: 9780765610805 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9780765610799 (hbk)
This volume is dedicated to the next generation of students, who hopefully will study Russia, understand its problems and potential, and help it become a better place to live.
Table of Contents
Stephen K. Wegren
James R. Millar and Stephen K. Wegren
John Reppert
Dale R. Herspring
Mikhail A. Alexseev
Gregory Gleason
Herbert J. Ellison
Louise I. Shelley
Darrell Slider
Christopher Marsh
Joel C. Moses
Debra Javeline
Timothy Heleniak
Stephen K. Wegren, Vladimir R. Belenkiy, and Valeri V. Patsiorkovski
Craig ZumBrunnen and Nathaniel Trumbull
Stephen K. Wegren is associate professor of political science at Southern Methodist University. He is the author or editor of six books and dozens of articles on the politics and economics of Russias transition, including most recently Rural Reform in Post-Soviet Russia (2002); Winners and Losers in Russian Agrarian Reform, Journal of Peasant Studies (2003); and Searching for Agrarian Capitalism in Russia (forthcoming).
Mikhail A. Alexseev is associate professor of political science at San Diego State University. He is the author of Without Warning: Threat Assessment, Intelligence, and Global Struggle (1997) and A Federation Imperiled: Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia (1999). His current research focuses on ethnic hostility and public opinion concerning Chinese migration into the Russian Far East.
Vladimir R. Belenkiy is professor and director of the Institute for Land Relations and Land Planning in Moscow. He has authored or coauthored over 200 books and articles on social development of villages, land relations, and the land market in Russia.
Herbert J. Ellison is professor of history and international studies at the University of Washington. He has written extensively on Russian foreign policy, particularly relations with East Asia and Western Europe. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the Yeltsin and Putin eras that provides extensive treatment of the transformation of Russias international role following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Gregory Gleason is professor of political science at University of New Mexico. His research interests focus on political relations with Near Abroad and the political economy of development in Central Asia.
Timothy Heleniak is adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a demographer at the World Bank. He has published widely on migration and demographic problems in Russia. The research for his chapter was completed while he was a research fellow at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center, in Washington, DC.
Dale R. Herspring is professor of political science at Kansas State University. He is the author or editor of nine books and dozens of articles on the Soviet Union, Germany, and Poland. His most recent book is titled Putins Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain (2002).
Debra Javeline is assistant professor of political science at Rice University. Her research interests focus on political behavior. Her publications include Protest and the Politics of Blame: The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages (2003) and The Role of Blame in Collective Action: Evidence from Russia, American Political Science Review (2003).
Christopher Marsh is associate professor of political science at Baylor University. His research interests focus on communist studies and transition politics in Russia and China, about which he has published numerous articles and books. His most recent books include Russia at the Polls: Voters, Elections, and Democratization (2002) and Civil Society and the Search for Justice in Russia (2002).
James R. Millar is professor of economics and international affairs at George Washington University. He is former director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at GWU. He was also the editor for Problems of Post-Communism.
Joel C. Moses is professor of political science at Iowa State University. His research focuses on regional politics in Russia. His recent publications include Dilemmas of Transition in Post-Soviet Countries (2002) and Political-Economic Elites and Russian Regional Elections, 19992000, Europe-Asia Studies (2002).
Valeri V. Patsiorkovski is professor and laboratory chief at the Institute for Socio-Economic Studies of the Population, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. His research interests focus on rural sociology and informal networks in rural Russia. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles, including most recently Household Capital and the Agrarian Problem in Russia (2000).
John Reppert is executive director of Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. He joined the center after retiring as a brigadier general in the U.S. Army, in which he served for thirty-three years. His research focuses on international arms control and military affairs in the former Soviet Union.
