1st Edition
The Decline of Regionalism in Putin's Russia Boundary Issues
By J. Paul Goode
Copyright 2011
240 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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;... Read more
1. The Puzzling Decline of Regionalism in Russia 2. Regions, Regionalism, and Regional Boundaries 3. A Brief History of Russia’s Regional Boundaries 4. Putin’s Federal Districts and Regional Identities 5. Constitutions, Charters, and Institutional Boundaries 6. The Push for Regional Enlargement 7. Assessing the Boundaries Approach to Regionalism
Biography
J. Paul Goode is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, USA.
"Overall, the book produces a well-measured assessment of the results of Putin’s federal reforms revealing the inherent limits to the Kremlin’s attempts to control regional responses and cautioning against overly optimistic assessments of recent centralization efforts. Noting the remaining outlets for regionalist revival in Russia, Goode presents Russia’s center-periphery relations as more flexible and fluid than is commonly perceived based on more rigid assessments of Putin’s alleged success in centralizing Russia." - Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Miami University of Ohio; Slavic Review, Spring 2013.
