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Most books on the Caucasus and Central Asia are country-by-country
studies. This book, on the other hand, fills a gap in Central
Eurasian studies as one of the few comparative case study books on
Central Eurasia, covering both the Caucasus and Central Asia; it
considers key themes right across the two regions highlighting both
political change and continuity. Comparative case study chapters,
written by regional experts from a variety of methodological
backgrounds, provide historical context, and evaluate Soviet
political legacies and emerging policy outcomes. Key topics
include: the varied types and sources of authoritarianism;
political opposition and protest politics; predetermined outcomes
of post-Soviet economic choices; social and stability impacts of
natural resource wealth; variations in educational reform;
international norm influence on gender policy and the power of
human rights activists. Overall, the book provides a thorough,
up-to-date overview of what is increasingly becoming a significant
area of concern.
Most books on the Caucasus and Central Asia are country-by-country
studies. This book, on the other hand, fills a gap in Central
Eurasian studies as one of the few comparative case study books on
Central Eurasia, covering both the Caucasus and Central Asia; it
considers key themes right across the two regions highlighting both
political change and continuity. Comparative case study chapters,
written by regional experts from a variety of methodological
backgrounds, provide historical context, and evaluate Soviet
political legacies and emerging policy outcomes. Key topics
include: the varied types and sources of authoritarianism;
political opposition and protest politics; predetermined outcomes
of post-Soviet economic choices; social and stability impacts of
natural resource wealth; variations in educational reform;
international norm influence on gender policy and the power of
human rights activists. Overall, the book provides a thorough,
up-to-date overview of what is increasingly becoming a significant
area of concern.
This book brings together the findings of a multi-disciplinary and
international research project on environmental crime in Europe,
funded by the European Union (EU). "European Union Action to Fight
Environmental Crime" (EFFACE) was a 40-month research project that
included eleven European research institutions and think tanks and
was led by Ecologic Institute Berlin. EFFACE assessed the impacts
of environmental crime as well as effective and feasible policy
options for combating it from a multidisciplinary perspective, with
a focus on the EU. As part of this project, numerous instances of
environmental crime within and outside of the EU were studied and
are now presented in this volume. This edited collection is highly
innovative in showing not only the many facets of environmental
crime, but also how it should be conceptualised and the
consequences. An original and rigorous study, this book will be of
particular interest to policy makers and scholars of green
criminology and environmental studies.
This book brings together the findings of a multi-disciplinary and
international research project on environmental crime in Europe,
funded by the European Union (EU). "European Union Action to Fight
Environmental Crime" (EFFACE) was a 40-month research project that
included eleven European research institutions and think tanks and
was led by Ecologic Institute Berlin. EFFACE assessed the impacts
of environmental crime as well as effective and feasible policy
options for combating it from a multidisciplinary perspective, with
a focus on the EU. As part of this project, numerous instances of
environmental crime within and outside of the EU were studied and
are now presented in this volume. This edited collection is highly
innovative in showing not only the many facets of environmental
crime, but also how it should be conceptualised and the
consequences. An original and rigorous study, this book will be of
particular interest to policy makers and scholars of green
criminology and environmental studies.
Corruption, collusion and clientelism are pervasive legacies of
Soviet rule in most successor states of the Soviet Union. This
legacy has been a major obstacle to the development of viable
democratic and market institutions. Analyzing the political and
economic developments of Armenia and Georgia, this book
demonstrates how systemic corruption undermines the rule of law
which is crucial for democracy and a market economy. It argues that
the tumultuous political transition of Georgia has created an
anarchic system of corruption that is disastrous for economic
development and people's welfare. In contrast, the Armenian
government has maintained some control over the corrupt system,
ameliorating the consequences of systemic corruption.
This book provides an account of systemic corruption within the
context of post-Soviet economic and political transitions. Focusing
on Armenia and Georgia, it shows how systemic corruption has
developed since the fall of Soviet rule and how corruption has
shaped the emerging economic and political systems of these two
countries.
This book analyzes Germany's path-breaking Energiewende, the
country's transition from an energy system based on fossil and
nuclear fuels to a sustainable energy system based on renewables.
The authors explain Germany's commitment to a renewable energy
transition on multiple levels of governance, from the local to the
European, focusing on the sources of institutional change that made
the transition possible. They then place the German case in
international context through comparative case studies of energy
transitions in the USA, China, and Japan. These chapters highlight
the multifaceted challenges, and the enormous potential, in
different paths to a sustainable energy future. Taken together,
they tell the story of one of the most important political,
economic, and social undertakings of our time.
Das Buch deckt in Kurze die wesentlichen Themengebiete im Bereich
der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft/Vergleichenden
Regierungslehre ab."
What makes autocratic regimes vulnerable? Why, in times of crisis,
do some of these regimes break down while others weather the storm?
This is the puzzle addressed in Crisis in Autocratic Regimes.
Taking a long-term perspective, the authors focus not on sudden
shocks and ruptures, but instead on gradual processes of
disintegration as they unfold over time.
Since the early 1990s, the southern Caucasus and its larger
neighbourhood, the Black Sea region, have experienced deep and
sometimes painful transformations, including bloody conflicts. They
have also become an arena of geopolitical and geoeconomic
competition between great powers. This has attracted growing
attention from social scientists. In this volume, authors from
universities in Europe, the United States and the southern Caucasus
focus on several of the most topical problems of the region,
particularly how nascent states and societies grapple with the
results of unresolved ethno-territorial conflicts and how they try
to construct new civil societies from the cultural mosaic that they
inherited from their Soviet past. How do elements of democracy and
autocracy combine in the political regimes of the new states? Can
the West have an effect on their internal development and, if so,
how? How do the rich mineral resources of the Caspian region
influence the development of the region's economies and define the
geopolitical standing of these countries?
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