The article discusses the populist movements in the New Democracies of Eastern Europe and their relation to the “‘red-brown’ phenomenon”( i.e. the fusion of neo-Nazi and Communist ideas and practices into a new anti-democratic trend). Presenting some of the main features of the regimes of Milosevic and Putin, the author claims that totalitarianism in postmodern times may not necessarily exhibit...

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The period since the onset of perestroika is examined as a single process in which a number of fundamental metapolitical factors are identified. These processes transcend the specific personalities of Gorbachev,Yeltsin, and Putin, yet shape and constrain their leaderships. Path dependency is important, but cannot be entirely determining. Postcommunist restorationism shares some features with ea...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was met with condemnation from the European Union and United States as an "unprovoked unjustified military aggression" that undermines liberal international order. However, some relations scholars, such John Mearsheimer, argue Russia had genuine security concerns regard to a response threat NATO membership for Ukraine. Both realist perspectives on rely as...

This article examines what has changed in Russian law since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Among the accomplishments are the emergence of constitutional jurisprudence, the development of commercial law, and an increase in the basic transparency of the law. However, Russia is still not a rule-of-law country because the state is not subordinated to its own laws. T distinct stages of legal refo...

Esse artigo tem o objetivo de identificar os possíveis impactos políticos e econômicos da pandemia do COVID-19 para a Rússia as respostas governo Putin esses desafios. Para que isso seja realizado, é feita uma análise conjuntural problema sob perspectiva descritivo-analítica.