At the Crossroads of Post-Communist Modernisation

This volume takes a comparative approach to understand general tendencies in post-Communist transition in Russia and China. Bringing together perspectives from Political Science, Sociology and IR, it analyses three arenas of social change: socio-economic systems, political systems, and foreign policies.

Autorentext
PROF. LI CHUNLING Professor of Sociology from the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), China LINDA JAKOBSON Program Director of East Asian studies at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, Australia PROF. MARKKU KIVINEN Director of the Aleksanteri Institute, Finnish Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland PROF. SERGEI MEDVEDEV Professor and Associate Dean at the State University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia PROF. MINXIN PEI Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and the Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College, California, USA

Inhalt
Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction; C.Pursiainen A Short History of 'Catching Up'; C.Pursiainen The Free-Market State or the Welfare State?; M.Kivinen & L.Chunling Authoritarianism or Democracy?; C.Pursiainen & M.Pei Sovereignty or Interdependency?; S.Medvedev & L.Jakobson Conclusions; C.Pursiainen Index Contributors