This book reassesses Putin's attempt to reverse the
decentralization of power that characterised centre-regional
relations in the 1990s, focusing on regional responses to Putin's
federal reforms. It explains the decline of regionalism after 2000
in terms of the dynamics of regional boundaries, understood as the
juridical boundaries which demarcate a region's territorial extent
and its resources; institutional boundaries that sustain regional
differences; and cultural boundaries that define the ethnic or
technocratic principles on which a region could claim legitimate
existence. The book questions the conventional wisdom regarding the
success of Putin's regime. It shows how regional governors
responded not by attempting to deflect the reforms with outright
resistance, but by mimicking Putin's centralisation of power at the
regional level. In turn, this facilitated the homogenisation of
regional political regimes and regional mergers. The book
demonstrates how the reordering of regions advanced sporadically,
how pockets of resistance persist, and how the potential for the
revival of regionalism continues.
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