Russia Strategy, Policy and Administration [Hardcover]

This book examines how Russia, the worlds most complicated country, is governed. As it resumes its place at the centre of global affairs, the book explores Russias overarching strategies, and how it organizes itself (or not) in policy areas ranging from foreign policy and national security to health care, education, immigration, science, sport, agriculture, the environment and criminal justice. The book also discusses the structures and institutions on which Russia relies in order to deliver its goals in these areas of national life, as well as whats to be done, in policy terms, to improve the countrys performance in its first post-Soviet century. Edited by Irvin Studin, the book includes contributions from a tremendous list of Russias leading thinkers and specialists, including Alexei Kudrin, Vladimir Mau, Alexander Auzan, Simon Kordonsky, Fyodor Lukyanov, Natalia Zubarevich and Andrey Melville.Chapter 1: Introduction: Ten Theses on Russia in the 21st Century; Irvin Studin.- Part I: Russian Strategy and Statecraft.- Chapter 2: The Objectives and Principles of the Russian State in the 21st Century; Alexei Kudrin & Vladimir Mau.- Chapter 3: Russian Political Ideology and Philosophy; Andrei Melville.- Chapter 4. The Future of Russias Institutions; Alexander Auzan.- Chapter 5. Russian Federalism; Irina Busygina.- Chapter 6: The North Caucasus; Irina Starodubrovskaya.- Chapter 7: The Social Structure of Russia; Simon Kordonsky.- Chapter 8: Political Parties and Parliament; Alexander Kynev.- Chapter 9: Russian Media; Ilya Kiriya.- Chapter 10: Religion and the Russian Orthodox Church; Boris Knorre.- Chapter 11: Russial"