Описание: Contrary to dominant narratives which portray East European politics as a pendulum swing between democracy and authoritarianism, conventionally defined in terms of an ahistorical cultural geography of East vs. West, this book analyzes post-socialist transformation as part of the long downturn of the post-WWII global capitalist cycle. Based on an empirical comparison of two countries with significantly different political regimes throughout the period, Hungary and Romania, this study shows how different constellations of successive late socialist and post-socialist regimes have managed internal and external class relations throughout the same global crisis process, from very similar positions of semi-peripheral, post-socialist systemic integration. Within this context, the book follows the role of social movements since the 1970s, paying attention both to the level of differences between local integration regimes and to the level of structural similarities of global integration. The analysis maintains a special focus on movements’ class composition and inter-class relationships and the specific position of middle-class politics in movements.
Автор: Morady Farhang Название: Contemporary Iran: Politics, Economy, Religion ISBN: 1529209560 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529209563 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 4948.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This introductory text explains the political, economic and religious developments since the formation of the Islamic Republic in 1979 and provides an analysis of the domestic politics of Iran. It is an ideal starting point for students and general readers looking for a thought-provoking introduction to contemporary Iran.
Автор: Johnson, Juliet Название: Priests of prosperity ISBN: 1501746820 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501746826 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4257.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers, policymakers, and private-sector finance professionals over the course of fifteen years. She argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist central bankers into its network, shaped their ideas about the role of central banks, and helped them develop modern tools of central banking.
Johnson’s detailed comparative studies of central bank development in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan take readers from the birth of the campaign in the late 1980s to the challenges faced by central bankers after the global financial crisis. As the comfortable certainties of the past collapse around them, today’s central bankers in the postcommunist world and beyond find themselves torn between allegiance to their transnational community and its principles on the one hand and their increasingly complex and politicized national roles on the other. Priests of Prosperity will appeal to a diverse audience of scholars in political science, finance, economics, geography, and sociology as well as to central bankers and other policymakers interested in the future of international finance, global governance, and economic development.
Описание: Saudi Arabia, with its US alliance and abundance of oil dollars, has a very different economic story to that of Iran, which despite enormous natural gas reserves, has been hit hard by economic, trade, scientific and military sanctions since its 1979 revolution.
Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers, policymakers, and private-sector finance professionals over the course of fifteen years. She argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist central bankers into its network, shaped their ideas about the role of central banks, and helped them develop modern tools of central banking.
Johnson’s detailed comparative studies of central bank development in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan take readers from the birth of the campaign in the late 1980s to the challenges faced by central bankers after the global financial crisis. As the comfortable certainties of the past collapse around them, today’s central bankers in the postcommunist world and beyond find themselves torn between allegiance to their transnational community and its principles on the one hand and their increasingly complex and politicized national roles on the other. Priests of Prosperity will appeal to a diverse audience of scholars in political science, finance, economics, geography, and sociology as well as to central bankers and other policymakers interested in the future of international finance, global governance, and economic development.
Автор: Mason Robert Название: Foreign Policy in Iran and Saudi Arabia ISBN: 1780767218 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780767215 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 19008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: *Saudi Arabia and Iran are 2 key states in the Middle East in terms of security considerations. *Examines the effects of sanctions in response to Iran`s nuclear programme: both topical and important
Описание: Preface (Hilary Wainwright and Daniel Chavez). - Chapter 1. Introduction: East European new left perspectives on postsocialist transformation (Бgnes Gagyi). - Chapter 2. A clear cut? The restoration of capitalism and the contradictions of socialism in Yugoslavia (Vladimir Simovic, Tanja Vuksa). - Chapter 3. Capitalist restoration and development in Slovenia and Croatia (Marko Krzan, Dimitrije Birač). - Chapter 4. Ukraine and the (dis)integrating empire of capital (Yuliya Yurchenko). - Chapter 5. Reconfiguring regimes of capitalist integration: Hungary between 1970-2020 (Бgnes Gagyi, Tamбs Gerőcs). - Chapter 6. Czechia 30 years on: The (im)perfect oligarchy and the misery of emancipatory alternative (Ondřej Slačбlek, Daniel Sitera). - Chapter 7. Bosnia and Herzegovina after the transition: forever postwar, postsocialist and peripheral? (Danijela Majstorovic, Zoran Vučkovac). - Chapter 8. Life in transition and in crisis. The political autobiography of a generation (Dana Dцmsцdi, Florin Poenaru). - Chapter 9. Anti-corruption as the "New language" of the neoliberal order in Albania (Leart Kola). - Chapter 10. The political economy of the moralization of politics in post-1989 Bulgaria and the challenges for the left (Madlen Nikolova, Georgi Medarov). - Chapter 11. Making Sense of Georgia's Thirty Years of Neoliberal Transformation: a Gramscian Analysis of a Civil Society Movement (Nino Khelaia, Tornike Chivadze). - Chapter 12. Protest legitimacy and struggle for hegemony: Russian mobilizations between 2011-2014 (Oleg Zhouravlev). - Chapter 13. The dissident tradition of antipolitics and the new right. Problems and potential of post-communist dissent in Slovakia and beyond (Joseph Grim Feinberg). - Chapter 14. Fear, Doubt and Money: War of ideas, production of ignorance and right-wing infrastructures of hegemony in Poland (Andrzej W. Nowak). - Chapter 15. Conclusion: Ideologies in postsocialist transition 30 years on (Ondřej Slačбlek)
This book seeks to identify the most important problems in post-World War II Polish-Italian relations. The fundamental reflections come in two parts, in chronological-problematic order, from 1945 to 1958 and 1959 to 1989. The key points are: Poland and the main problems of Italian foreign policy; Italian attitude to the main problems of Polish foreign policy; the effects of cultural exchange; the functioning of cultural institutions; cooperation in pure and applied sciences, and higher education; foreign trade and economic cooperation.
The key significance to the problems analysed in the book are documentary collections in the Modern Record Archive, Foreign Ministry Archive in Warsaw, the Historical Archive of the Italian Foreign Ministry, the Central State Archive in Rome.
Автор: Morady Farhang Название: Contemporary Iran: Politics, Economy, Religion ISBN: 1529209552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529209556 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 14850.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This introductory text explains the political, economic and religious developments since the formation of the Islamic Republic in 1979 and provides an analysis of the domestic politics of Iran. It is an ideal starting point for students and general readers looking for a thought-provoking introduction to contemporary Iran.
Описание: Turkish Intelligence and the Cold War examines the hitherto unexplored history of secret intelligence cooperation between three asymmetric partners – specifically the UK, US and Turkey – from the end of the Second World War until the Turkey’s first military coup d'etat on 27 May 1960. The book shows that our understanding of the Cold War as a binary rivalry between the two blocs is too simple an approach and obscures important characteristics of intelligence cooperation among allies. Egemen Bezci shows that a pragmatic approach offers states new opportunities to protect national interests, by conducting ‘’intelligence diplomacy’ to influence crucial areas such as nuclear weapons and to exploit cooperation in support of their own strategic imperatives. This study not only reveals previously-unexplored origins of secret intelligence cooperation between Turkey and West, but also contributes to wider academic debates on the nature of the Cold War by highlighting the potential agency of weaker states in the Western Alliance.
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