This book challenges the common perception of authoritarian regimes as incompatible with federalism and decentralization. It examines how some leaders have managed to exploit federalism and decentralization as useful instruments to help them preserve control avoid poli... Lees meer.

In the last years of their existence the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia SFRY found themselves facing a similar and very grim state of affairs. After their disintegration the former Yugoslav republics spira... Lees meer.

The author endeavors to chart the historical and juridical evolution of the Soviet Republics as factors in Soviet foreign policy to analyze the motivations objectives and concrete diplomatic benefits of the Amendments of 1944 and to record and describe the juridical... Lees meer.

The failure of the old centralised command-economy Soviet state is now clear and universally recognised. This is both an appraisal of the legal and constitutional climate in which the crisis is being enacted and a cool undogmatic review of the economic costs and bene... Lees meer.

In the last years of their existence the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia SFRY found themselves facing a similar and very grim state of affairs. After their disintegration the former Yugoslav republics spira... Lees meer.

This volume explores the common trends and differences in the responses of the new post-Soviet states to the problems of state-building in ethnically and regionally divided societies. The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991 removed a decades-long system of successf... Lees meer.

This volume explores the common trends and differences in the responses of the new post-Soviet states to the problems of state-building in ethnically and regionally divided societies. The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991 removed a decades-long system of successf... Lees meer.

One defining feature of any federalist process is the pattern of intergovernmental fiscal flows. This work is an attempt to uncover the logic behind the pattern of fiscal flows in the Russian Federation soon after the break up of Soviet Union. The general consensus seem... Lees meer.

This book challenges the common perception of authoritarian regimes as incompatible with federalism and decentralization. It examines how the leaders of Russia Ukraine and Kazakhstan have managed to exploit federalism and decentralization as useful instruments to help... Lees meer.

In the last years of their existence the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia SFRY found themselves facing a similar and very grim state of affairs. After their disintegration the former Yugoslav republics spira... Lees meer.