| Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower Contributor(s): Rosefielde, Steven (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521836786 ISBN-13: 9780521836784 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $75.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: This book demonstrates that Russia intends to re-emerge as a full-fledged superpower before 2010--challenging America and China and potentially threatening a new arms race. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this goal would appear to be easily within the Kremlin's grasp, but the cost to the Russian people and global security would be immense. Hence, Steven Rosefielde proposes a sophisticated strategy to dissuade President Vladimir Putin from pursuing the destabilizing course. His analysis conflicts with the post-cold-war image of the Soviet Union as a westernizing, mass consumption society committed to "peaceful coexistence." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - Comparative - Political Science | Security (national & International) - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy |
| Dewey: 338.473 |
| LCCN: 2004045110 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book demonstrates that Russia intends to re-emerge as a full-fledged superpower before 2010--challenging America and China and potentially threatening a new arms race. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this goal would appear to be easily within the Kremlin's grasp, but the cost to the Russian people and global security would be immense. Hence, Steven Rosefielde proposes a sophisticated strategy to dissuade President Vladimir Putin from pursuing the destabilizing course. His analysis conflicts with the post-cold-war image of the Soviet Union as a westernizing, mass consumption society committed to peaceful coexistence. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rosefielde, Steven: - Steven Rosefielde is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Adjunct Professor of Defense and Strategic Studies, Center for Defense and Strategic Studies, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield. The author or editor of eleven books on Russian and Soviet studies, he has also published more than 100 articles in journals such as the American Economic Review, European Economic Review, Economica, Soviet Studies, and Europe-Asia Studies. Professor Rosefielde is a Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Science and was a Fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of New York from 2001 to 2003. He has served as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense as well as advised several Directors of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. National Intelligence Council. Professor Rosefielde has also worked continuously with the Swedish Defense Agency and the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute (Moscow) for more than a quarter century, and with the Center for Defense and Foreign Policy (Moscow) for more than a decade. |