The end of neoliberalism — and the beginning of a new story?
Kean Birch & Vlad Mykhnenko (eds.) The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order? London & New York Zed Books 2010, 280 pages
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PhD in Economic History, 2007.
Ilja Viktorov
PhD in Economic History, 2007. Ilja Viktorov is a university lecturer in International Relations at Stockholm University. His main research interest is economic development of post-Soviet Russia, especially Russian financial markets and Russia’s informal economy.
Articles by Ilja Viktorov
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Russian politics and foreigns policy – driven by what? Emotions versus interests
Rationality versus irrationality, emotions versus calculations – these were the main issues to be discussed under a seminar in May, organized by the Aleksanteri Institute (Helsinki). Actually, the emotions theme became a starting point for the participants to approach the nature of Russian foreign policy and decision-making inside the post-Soviet bureaucracy.
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Alexandr Abromov on the financial markets in Russia. ”Promising but unstable”
Russian financial markets have been a completely new element in the Russian post-Soviet economy. The level of development and the character of the financial market institutions in this country can tell us much about whether Russia will succeed or fail in evolving towards a well-functioning market economy. Professor Alexandr Abramov from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow is one of Russia’s leading experts on Russian financial markets. Ilja Viktorov from CBEES met him in Moscow to pose some questions concerning developments in the field.
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The legacy of shock therapy. Russian liberalism in the political wilderness
+ Michail Kasianov, Bez Putina: Politicheskiye dialogi s Yevgenyem Kiselyovym, [Without Putin: Political Dialogues with Yevgeny Kiselyov] Moscow: Novaya gazeta 2009, 320 pages