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Russia in decline /

Russia currently faces three existential challenges that already point to its decline, decay and even disintegration in the coming decades. It has an economy oriented to the past rather than the future, one incapable of supporting a worthy standard of living for its people or even the plans of the K...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wimbush, S. Enders (Editor), Portale, Elizabeth M. (Editor), Goble, Paul, 1949- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Jamestown Foundation, [2017]
Subjects:
Russia (Federation) > Forecasting.
Russia (Federation) > Politics and government > 21st century.
Russia (Federation) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Russia (Federation) > Social conditions > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Paul A. Goble
  • Introduction / S. Enders Wimbush
  • A failing economy: Russia's decline: predictions and recommendations / Vladislav Inozemtsev
  • Spiraling demography and its consequences: Russia's fraught demographic future / Ilan I. Berman
  • Demography and human resources: unforgiving constraints for a Russia in decline / Nicholas Eberstadt
  • The disappearing knowledge economy: Russia's knowledge economy decline: views from inside / Harley D. Balzer
  • Russian innovation system on a decaying trajectory: a case study of the Novosibirsk Region / Evgeny Vodichev
  • The problematic military: Military force: a driver aggravating Russia's decline / Pavel K. Baev
  • Can Russia sustain its military capability? / Stephen J. Blank
  • Russia's future: a stability that will not last, a revolution that will not win / Pavel E. Felgenhauer
  • The unsolvable Islamic factor: How Islam will change Russia / Marlène Laruelle
  • The shaky federation: Russian writers on the decline of Russia in the Far East and the rise of China / Stephen J Blank
  • Life after decline / Andrei Piontkovsky
  • Avatar politics and degraded culture: Russia's decline as a 'brave re-Stalinized world' / Irina Pavlova
  • Russia of the mid-2020s: breakdown of the political order / Denis Volkov
  • Russians' views of Russia's future: What does Russia's decline look like? / Nikolay Petrov
  • Russia in decline: three possible scenarios for the future / Anton Barbashin
  • Russia today: three horsemen of the Russian apocalypse / Vladimir Pastukhov
  • Russia in decline: possible scenarios / Alexander Sungurov.