This paper unfolds an analytical perspective on the evolution of property rights in Russia from Tsarist times until today, combining the theory on violence and institutions suggested by North, Wallis and Weingast with Foucault's analysis of power in society, especially his notions of biopolitics...

We usually consider it progress when a country begins to shift from an autocratic to a democratic form of government. However, the introduction of elections and other early trappings of democracy often has the perverse effect of exacerbating political instability. It also increases the...

The paper emphasizes the transition in Russia and the role institutions played before and during the process. In Russia, a big bang approach was applied. That is to say, transition was conducted all of a sudden, omitting important underlying reforms. This practice should function as a shock...

The article describes the peculiarities of transformational processes financing in the economy of the country, which is in the conditions of a modern war. Modern warfare is hybrid. It is carried out in all directions of the functioning of society, it affects on all aspects of every person’s...

An effective cooperation of a legitimate Ukrainian government in a country-wide demilitarization would be difficult for Russia to secure. A direct demilitarization by a Russian occupation or puppet regime would, in turn, be difficult to implement

The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country’s democratization has a long-lasting impact on former supporters or opponents of the bygone regime. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyze how...

Not only Moscow’s unapologetic military occupation of the peninsula, but also the following official course of Crimea’s separation from Ukraine and annexation to Russia grossly violated a number of fundamental international legal norms as well as certain provisions of the Constitutions of...

Political mobilization of business forces in the post-communist world has crucial implications for economic development and civil society. The emergence of strong cross-sectoral business associations during Putin's presidency challenges the prevailing view of Russia's political economy as an...

Socionomic theory proposes that social mood manifests across the spectrum of social behavior, from the movements of stock market indexes to the leaders we elect to the songs we choose to hear and even to changes in the social propensity toward peace or war. This case study tracks a real-time...

The Kremlin’s loudly announced disarmament of Ukraine has, like most of its other aims in Eastern Europe, little chance of ever materializing.Harvard International Review:...