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Les systèmes politiques européens
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ISBN: 9782297010979 Year: 2009 Publisher: Paris : Lextenso,


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Koersen op kwaliteit: perspectief van de sociaal-democratie
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ISBN: 9053561145 Year: 1994 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

Russia's capitalist revolution : why market reform succeeded and democracy failed
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ISBN: 9780881324099 9781435616431 143561643X 9780881324839 0881324833 1281125156 9781281125156 9786611125158 6611125159 0881324094 Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington, DC : Peterson Institute for International Economics,

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The Russian revolution, collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia's ensuing transformation belong to the greatest dramas of our time. Revolutions are usually messy and emotional affairs, challenging much of the conventional wisdom, and Russia's experience is no exception. This book focuses on the transformation from Soviet Russia to Russia as a market economy, and explores why the country has failed to transform into a democracy. It examines the period from 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became the Soviet Union's Secretary General of the Communist Party, to the present Russia of Vladimir Putin. Åslund provides a broad overview of Russia's economic change, highlighting the most important issues and their subsequent resolutions, including Russia's inability to sort out the ruble zone during its revolution, several failed coups, and the financial crash of August 1998.

Les aventures de l'histoire : de quelques réformateurs, heureux ou malheureux
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ISBN: 225919558X Year: 2001 Publisher: Paris Plon


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Globalization and the politics of development in the Middle East
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ISBN: 9780521737449 0521737443 9780521519397 052151939X 9780511778162 1107207177 0511852509 9786612917431 0511931301 0511932650 0511929978 0511924925 0511778163 1282917439 0511927460 9780511927461 9780511932656 9781107207172 9780511852503 9781282917439 6612917431 9780511931307 9780511924927 9780511929977 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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In this 2010 edition of their book on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa, Clement Henry and Robert Springborg reflect on what has happened to the region's economy since 2001. How have the various countries in the Middle East responded to the challenges of globalization and to the rise of political Islam, and what changes, for better or for worse, have occurred? Utilizing the country categories they applied in the previous book and further elaborating the significance of the structural power of capital and Islamic finance, they demonstrate how over the past decade the monarchies (as exemplified by Jordan, Morocco and those of the Gulf Cooperation Council) and the conditional democracies (Israel, Turkey and Lebanon) continue to do better than the military dictatorships or 'bullies' (Egypt, Tunisia and now Iran) and 'the bunker states' (Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen).

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