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This comprehensive volume observes how, after 25 years of
transition and uncertainty in the countries that constituted the
former Soviet Union, their political geographies remain in a state
of flux. The authors explore the fluid relationship between Russia,
by far the dominant economic and military power in the region, and
the other former republics. They also examine new developments
towards economic blocs, such as membership in the European Union or
the competing Eurasian Economic Union, as well as new security
arrangements in the form of military cooperation and alliance
structures. This book reflects the broad range of changes across
this important world region by engaging in insightful analysis of
current developments in Central Asia, Ukraine, Russia, the
Caucasus, and separatist regions. The authors explore new state
alliances and the evolving cultural and geopolitical orientations
of former Soviet citizens. Some chapters also examine the dynamics
of wars that have occurred in the post-Soviet space, as well as how
local political developments are reflected in electoral preferences
and struggles over control of public spaces. The chapters in this
book were originally published in the journal Eurasian Geography
and Economics.
This comprehensive volume observes how, after 25 years of
transition and uncertainty in the countries that constituted the
former Soviet Union, their political geographies remain in a state
of flux. The authors explore the fluid relationship between Russia,
by far the dominant economic and military power in the region, and
the other former republics. They also examine new developments
towards economic blocs, such as membership in the European Union or
the competing Eurasian Economic Union, as well as new security
arrangements in the form of military cooperation and alliance
structures. This book reflects the broad range of changes across
this important world region by engaging in insightful analysis of
current developments in Central Asia, Ukraine, Russia, the
Caucasus, and separatist regions. The authors explore new state
alliances and the evolving cultural and geopolitical orientations
of former Soviet citizens. Some chapters also examine the dynamics
of wars that have occurred in the post-Soviet space, as well as how
local political developments are reflected in electoral preferences
and struggles over control of public spaces. The chapters in this
book were originally published in the journal Eurasian Geography
and Economics.
Taken together, the Russian census of 1897 and the Soviet censuses
of 1926, 1959, 1970, and 1979 constitute the largest collection of
empirical data available on that country, but until the publication
of this book in 1986, the daunting complexity of that material
prevented Western scholars from exploiting the censuses fully. This
book is both a guide to the use of and a detailed index to these
censuses. The first part of the book consists of eight essays by
specialist on the USSR, six of them dealing with the use of census
materials and the availability of data for research on ethnicity
and language, marriage and the family, education and literacy,
migration and organization, age structure, and occupations. The
second part, a comprehensive index for all the published census,
presents more than six hundred annotated entries for the census
tables, a keyword index that enables researchers to find census
data by subject, and a list of political-administrative units
covered in each census.
Since coming to power in 1999, President Hugo Chavez has used the
windfall of high oil prices to remake Venezuela internally along
the model of twenty-first-century socialism and, even more
audaciously, to rewrite global relations by directly challenging
U.S. hegemony. The dramatic ascendency of the country in
hemispheric and global international relations over the past decade
is the subject of Venezuela's Petro-Diplomacy.
"Because Chavez is breaking all of the rules, we are all struggling
to be better informed about what he is up to and how to interpret
his actions at home and abroad. Each of the essays sheds important
new light on Chavez and his activities in the Americas and
beyond."--Terry L. McCoy, University of Florida "This is the first
academic endeavor to research and understand the complex web of
Venezuela's recent mono-industrial over-dependence on oil/petroleum
to the detriment and neglect of other export industries developed
in the 1970s, and its implications for foreign policy and
hemispheric relations."--David E. Lewis, former assistant secretary
of state for Caribbean development, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Since coming to power in 1999, President Hugo Chavez has used the
windfall of high oil prices to remake Venezuela internally along
the model of twenty-first-century socialism and, even more
audaciously, to rewrite global relations by directly challenging
U.S. hegemony. The dramatic ascendency of the country in
hemispheric and global international relations over the past decade
is the subject of Venezuela's Petro-Diplomacy. The contributors
offer fresh, authoritative insights into a wide array of questions
hanging over Venezuelan foreign policy and the leadership of the
maverick president, Chavez. While revenue from petroleum exports
has swelled national coffers and allowed the expansion of public
programs and the extension of aid to foreign countries, bolstering
Chavez's popularity at home and abroad, the volatility of petroleum
prices and the neglect of other export industries have the
potential to render Chavez's--and Venezuela's--power tenuous.
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