Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism

ISBN-13: 9780367231088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str.

Boris Kagarlitsky; Radhika Desai; Alan Freeman

Opis

This book is a unique contribution to scholarship on the sources of the conflict in Ukraine, scrutinizing the events of the conflict and the motives of the agents.  This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal International Critical Thought.

Spis treści

1. The Conflict in Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism  2. Ukraine and Russia: Two States, One Crisis  3. The Donbass in 2014: Ultra-Right Threats, Working-Class Revolt, and Russian Policy Responses   4. Ukraine and the New Economic Cold War  5. Semi-Peripheral Russia and the Ukraine Crisis   6. Russia, the United States and Ukraine in the Long Economic Crisis: Assessments and Prospects for the Developmental State  7. Theses on Ukraine: Dialogue with an Emerging Leadership  8. The International Context: Russia, Ukraine and the Drift to East-West Confrontation   9. Russia: A New Imperialist Power?

O autorze

Boris Kagarlitsky is a professor at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences and Director of the Institute for Globalization Studies and Social and Economic Movements (IGSO) in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Radhika Desai is a professor at the Department of Political Studies and Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Alan Freeman was a principal economist with the Greater London Authority from 2000 to 2011. He is now retired and lives in Winnipeg where he is Co-director with Radhika Desai of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group.