Collapse of an empire : lessons for modern Russia
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C:
Brookings Institution Press,
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Table of Contents:
- The grandeur and the fall of empires
- Modern economic growth and the era of empires
- Crisis and the dismantling of overseas empires
- Problems of dissolving territorially integrated empires
- The yugoslav tragedy
- Authoritarian regimes: the causes of instability
- Challenges in the early stages of modern economic growth and authoritarianism
- The instability of authoritarian regimes
- Mechanics of the collapse of authoritarianism
- The oil curse
- The Spanish prologue
- Resource wealth and economic development
- Specifics of the oil market
- Regulating the oil market in the twentieth century
- Challenges related to price fluctuations of commodities: Mexico and Venezuela
- In search of a way out: a response to the dangers of unstable commodity pricing
- Cracks in the foundation: the Soviet Union in the early 1980s
- Growing problems and bad decisions
- Food supply problems
- Food shortages-a strategic challenge
- The USSR as the largest importer of food
- Oil in Western Siberia: the illusion of salvation
- A drop in oil prices: the final blow
- The collapse of the USSR: the unexpected becomes the rule
- The political economy of external shocks
- Deteriorating conditions for foreign trade: political alternatives
- The ussr and the dr