For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the
surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did …

Why have the European Union and the Russian Federation encountered severe difficulties
in developing their relationship? Why haven't the parties lived up to the initial promise and …

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, was arrested on 25 October
2003. This event proved a turning point for post-communist Russia and for Vladimir Putin's …

This book examines how the International Monetary Fund engages in the politics of ideas to
shape domestic institutional change. Drawing on case studies from post-Soviet Central Asia …

In Douglass C. North's works on institutional change, his focus shifted from formal institutions
and highly rational actors to the links between culture, cognition, and the evolution of …

This book is about policy-making and change in the sphere of housing policy in Russia. The
change in this sphere over recent decades has been dramatic. The Soviet Union made a …

I n terms of Russia's relations with Europe and the “near abroad,” 2006 was a year of trade
wars. In early January at the height of an unusually cold winter, a “gas war” between Russia …

In the history of Russian economic ideas, a peculiar mix of anthropocentrism and holism
provided fertile breeding ground for patterns of thought that were in potential conflict with the …

An intense discussion is taking place in international political economy on the influence of
economic ideas on institutional change. Case studies so far have, however, mainly focused …

Neoliberalism was a global spectrum of ideas on how to create and preserve free markets in
an age of popular sovereignty. A notion of a powerful state to create the institutions and …