International dimensions of authoritarian persistence : lessons from post-Soviet states / edited by Rachel Vanderhill and Michael E. Aleprete Jr.
"While the international system has been evolving in an increasingly liberal direction, the level of democratic practice within the post-Soviet region has, on the whole, declined. Two decades after the popular uprisings against communism, many governments in the region have successfully blunted...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: authoritarian persistence in history's aftermath / Michael E. Aleprete
- International relations and political centralization during Putin's first term / Michael E. Aleprete
- Petroleum vs. Western aid: external influences and authoritarian tendencies in Russia / Olga Beznosova
- Rent seeking and authoritarian consolidation in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan / Assel Rustemova
- Central Asian conceptions of democracy: ideological resistance to democratization / Mariya Omelicheva
- The promulgation of anti-democratic norms in South Ossetia / Carmen Gayoso
- Azerbaijan: the state as a crossroads of internal policy and external interests / Rovshan Ibrahimov
- Ukraine: a democratic post-Soviet state? / Rachel Vanderhill
- Out of the authoritarian labyrinth: post-2009 Moldova / Theodor Tudoroiu
- Authoritarian Belarus between Europe and Russia: four scenarios / Thomas Ambrosio
- Conclusions: the international dimension of authoritarian persistence / Rachel Vanderhill.