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World Order after Leninism examines the origins and evolution of
world communism and explores how its legacies have shaped the
post-Cold War world order. The lessons of Leninism continue to
exert a strong influence in contemporary foreign affairs--most
visibly in Poland and other post-communist states of the former
Soviet Union, but also in China and other newly industrialized
states balancing authoritarian impulses against the pressures of
globalization, free markets, and democratic possibilities. World
Order after Leninism began as a conversation among former students
of Ken Jowitt, professor of political science at the University of
California at Berkeley from 1970-2002 and whose monumental career
transformed the fields of political science, Russian studies, and
post-communist studies. Using divergent case studies, the essays in
this volume document the ways in which Jowitt's exceptionally
original work on Leninism's evolution and consolidation remains
highly relevant in analyzing contemporary post-communist and
post-authoritarian political transformations.
While paradigm-bound research has generated powerful insights in
international relations, it has fostered a tunnel vision that
hinders progress and widens the chasm between theory and policy. In
this important new book, Sil and Katzenstein draw upon recent
scholarship to illustrate the benefits of a more pragmatic and
eclectic style of research.
In "Managing "Modernity,"" Rudra Sil examines how
institution-builders respond to the competing influences of
institutional models and inherited social legacies as they attempt
to generate and sustain authority in late-industrializing
societies. Through a historical and comparative study of
large-scale enterprises in Japan and Russia, the book examines the
impact of different institution-building strategies on managerial
authority, invoking the experience of postwar Japan to highlight
the benefits of a syncretic approach that selectively integrates
adaptable features of borrowed institutions with portable norms
inherited from preexisting communities.
"Managing "Modernity"" engages a variety of intellectual
perspectives in the social sciences. The theoretical approach
represents a conscious effort to overcome the contentious debates
in political science and sociology among proponents of historical
institutionalism, cultural analysis, and rational-choice theory.
The substantive argument draws on, and partially integrates,
concepts and findings from comparative politics, economic
sociology, industrial relations, organization theory, business
management, and the political economy of Japan and Russia.
In light of ongoing debates over the significance and impact of
"globalization," the eclectic and integrative approach in "Managing
"Modernity"" offers a fresh and provocative contribution that will
interest scholars and graduate students across a variety of
disciplines and subfields. It offers compelling insights to anyone
generally concerned with the social forces that facilitate or
hinder the diffusion of ideas and institutions across national
boundaries.
Rudra Sil is Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the
Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, University of
Pennsylvania.
The Politics of Labor in a Global Age analyses and compares changing patterns of labour relations in late-industrializing and post-socialist economies. The volume features original and timely essays on the distinctive responses to common economic pressures associated with globalization as late-developing economies engage in economic liberalization and post-socialist economies cope with the dismantling of command economies.
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