Putin suppressed and tamed the Yeltsin-era oligarchsand has since suppressed civil liberties. Fortunately, some political freedom and freedom of speech was a by-product of oligarchical rivalry. Ukraine also has had its own dominance of oligarchs. Is the Russian invasion simply an empire-building mafioso Putin on the march? The Yeltsin era, though free in many ways, ushered in kleptocracy instead of the normal commercial society that might have followed the fall of Communism. It evolved from the oligarch-dominated state under Yeltsin. How did the war come to pass? Putin presides over a mafia state. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine brings up just-war theory, the past and future of classical liberalism in the region, the difficult issue of nationalities, contrasting political cultures, and a myriad of other issues. The books and articles listed in the bibliography do not take a uniform stance, but they do cluster around the themes of geopolitics, liberty, and state power. governments legislative and executive branches college students at the graduate and undergraduate levels and civically-minded members of the general public? Ive sought to provide such a guide in this annotated set of recommended readings. Where is there a guide through all this complexity for journalists policy staff in the U.S. The war between Russia and Ukraine is happening on the opposite side of the world and between countries that have different histories and political cultures from our own. Single Issues of The Independent Review.Podcast: Independent Outlook / Conversations.International Economics and Development.
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