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Hegemony, International Political Economy and Post-Communist Russia
By Owen Worth
Copyright 2005
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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This illuminating book explores the neo-Gramscian school of international political economy and their conceptualization of global hegemony, and furthers these by looking at how the often fragmented society of post-Communist Russia can provide insight into the nature and workings of neo-liberal global hegemony. The volume illustrates how historically Russia has been a unique case in rejecting... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Russia's place in the global political economy; Hegemony and international political economy; Neoliberalism and globalisation; Hegemony in the Soviet Union; Russia under Yeltsin: neoliberalism and minimum hegemony; Russian social movements after the fall: Russian responses to neoliberal hegemony; Russia under Putin: passive revolution and Trasformismo; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Owen Worth is Lecturer of International Relations in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland.
